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by parineum 4mo ago
As a not libertarian, it's pretty simple. Look at Patagonia[1] for how the free market addresses this issue. If people care, markets will cater to them. [1] https://www.patagonia.com/our-footprint/pfas.html
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by parineum 4mo ago
It's been good for everyone. Quality of life in the US has risen with GDP.
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by parineum 4mo ago
The point is that this method of grift isn't new or partisan. The magnitude is what is new. Government contracts have been awarded to people with connections since forever. It's absolutely nothing new. There's just no fog lea
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by parineum 4mo ago
You must have missed the Chevron doctrine case where the supreme court took much of the ability for Congress to give away their power to the executive in the guise of creating agencies.
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by parineum 4mo ago
> Or the public could accept a reduction in their standard of living, but that’s likely not happening without a civil war. I suspect what we'll actually do is what we always do. Innovate our way into a higher standard of living whil
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by parineum 4mo ago
The intuitive part comes when comparing two options. If you use 20 instead of 10, you'll be exposed to half as much UV even though it's only an additional 5% of protection. The number could just be the percentage of exposure (5 v
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by parineum 4mo ago
A country like the USA?
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by parineum 4mo ago
It's contextual depending on which end of the probability is the desired outcome. SPF is like this. SPF 30 allows 1/30th (3%) of the UV through it, blocking 29/30ths (97%). SPF 50 (2%) allows 1/50th, blocking 49/50t
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by parineum 4mo ago
And Democrats are fighting against it, right? https://calmatters.org/economy/technology/2025/10/newsom-vet...
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by parineum 4mo ago
So, by this logic, it wouldn't make sense if programs like this hadn't been _started_ under administrations of both parties, right? I'm looking for what evidence it would take to convince you that this isn't a partisan i
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by parineum 4mo ago
A more complicated design costs more money to build/test and introduces more modes of failure in the final product.
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by parineum 4mo ago
> Because republicans continue to fight each other over how much they can lick authority boot Because Americans think everything is a partisan issue, despite things like this happening under multiple federal administrations of differing
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by parineum 4mo ago
> So there was nothing "limiting" them from making it already with user-replaceable batteries, they just didn't care enough until EU forced them (like all the smartphone brands). Love EU. At the very least, the design will
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by parineum 4mo ago
The closest thing to a downside I can come up with is that, at least in CA, there's more than enough solar already. Adding solar to the grid without batteries included isn't really productive.
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It has substantially more benefit than that risk. Physical exertion also has the added benefit of lowering rest hr and bp.
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by parineum 4mo ago
I suspect that has a lot to do with still needing a ground station in the same hex as the signal. Presumably, there's limited bandwidth at wherever that ground station is. Once the satellites are linked, I bet that improves.
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by parineum 4mo ago
I keep telling you not to eat the crayons...
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by parineum 4mo ago
Both Chevron and Roe could be fixed by very simple legislation and should have been in the first place. You seem a lot more concerned with the outcome of the decisions rather than if they were correct.
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by parineum 4mo ago
Explain Canadian Tire https://retail-insider.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/image-...
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by parineum 4mo ago
We have private streets in California.
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by parineum 4mo ago
> Its the exact cancer of an ideology that made US and European infrastructure a joke. The cancer isn't deregulation or regulation but rather regulatory capture. Making the barrier of entry to the market so high that nobody can comp
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by parineum 4mo ago
"made in" is completely different. A higher price is justified by supporting Americans in some way, rather than somewhere offshore. This is more like McDonald's putting a maple leaf in their logo in Canada. It changes nothing
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by parineum 4mo ago
> If LLMs can boost their productivity even by an average of 5% (studies from ~2024 put it in the ~30% range depending on task) that is ~1.5 - 2.5T in value Minus the cost of inference, that might not be the boon you're making it ou
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by parineum 4mo ago
> The Biden administration both asked nicely for actual, factually incorrect information to be corrected by sites and pressured sites. Like the definitely known and uncontested factual information on the origin of the virus?
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> And this hypocritical bench has had a pattern of ruling sensibly on minor issues like this just before ruling with torturous rationalizations to strip rights from people on larger issues. Care to cite some examples? In my experience, t
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by parineum 4mo ago
> The grid is a shared resource, used by enterprise and individuals. If some class of consumers demand an outsized share of that resource, they should pay an outsized share of its maintenance and development. I don't see that happen
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by parineum 4mo ago
> The difference is watches and corvettes typically appreciate in value Both of those things' value drops like a rock as soon as you buy them and, at least for cars, they don't all appreciate. Most don't. Even so, they app
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by parineum 4mo ago
> I have seen this pattern over and over again. Anytime someone is an actual expert at anything, AI output appears insufficient or incomplete or outright misleading. AI isn't even the first instance of this phenomenon, news articles
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> Peace for who? Like just look at the last 50-70 years of US intervention in LatAm. Backing a series of coups and extremely violent right wing dictatorships. For the world. Compare the those 70 years to the previous 70 years. Regime cha
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by parineum 4mo ago
> They don't develop them because they don't collaborate publicly anymore. How do you know they aren't doing this stuff? Something has to account for them leading the industry.

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