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by peterbecich 10mo ago
Terrible. COBRA would have been best option in this situation, I think. By law, (for a steep COBRA fee) no one is supposed to lose their insurance on such short notice.
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by peterbecich 10mo ago
Great point. We need parental controls for throttling non-critical notifications. Study: Average teen received more than 200 app notifications a day https://www.michiganmedicine.org/health-lab/study-average-te...
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by peterbecich 10mo ago
Alibaba, maybe
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by peterbecich 11mo ago
Relevant https://www.co-buildings.com/
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by peterbecich 11mo ago
I think what this "smart tank" does is mix the super-hot with cold. If the automatic mixing feature malfunctions to super-hot, then it could be risky...
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by peterbecich 11mo ago
This would never be implemented I realize but here is a possible solution: New law: driver's phone must be in semi-disabled mode The phone can already infer it is inside moving vehicle. The bigger challenge is, how to determine the pho
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by peterbecich 1y ago
I would imagine this is how it works for the President and Cabinet
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by peterbecich 1y ago
Clever to have the folded laptop make the Roman numeral "V"
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by peterbecich 1y ago
Minus the last line, there was a great article in the WSJ last summer about why "doom prepping" is actually impossible: https://www.wsj.com/opinion/sorry-billionairestheres-no-esca...
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by peterbecich 1y ago
The total profit of Google would probably drop if the company was radically "re-organized" like that.
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by peterbecich 1y ago
Is "ant" antiquated? Zoning is a good thing. If you abolished all zoning, construction would be completely disorganized as it was in the California Gold Rush.
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by peterbecich 1y ago
Agreed, the meme of private equity buying up enough houses to make houses scarce is overblown. However, PE is an easy target for populist politics.
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by peterbecich 1y ago
Wiki says it is a "secondary" name as only Congress can legally change the name of the department
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by peterbecich 1y ago
must have meant Prop 13
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by peterbecich 1y ago
I don't know that epoxy coating is used at the municipal level. Pipe bursting with high-density polyethylene is the typical solution to avoid re-trenching municipal sewer pipes. Epoxy liners, epoxy coatings and polyurethane coatings ar
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by peterbecich 1y ago
I would have my kids get the vaccine in two seconds. I write-off all these EU concerns as capitulation to public pressure, which has no scientific basis. The same thing happened with the COVID vaccine requirement in California public school
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by peterbecich 1y ago
The economic excuse seems like a fig leaf over the true motivation to deny the vaccine to children, which is baseless fear of side effects.
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by peterbecich 1y ago
Divergence from the CDC guidelines could also enable (scientifically meritless) lawsuits from patients against their doctors, no? What a sorry state of affairs.
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by peterbecich 1y ago
There are at least two techniques: sewer rooting (low velocity and high torque) and sewer de-scaling (opposite).
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by peterbecich 1y ago
See https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers#Debian_13_.22T... for proprietary Nvidia drivers on Trixie
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by peterbecich 1y ago
Related to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compression_release_engine_bra...
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by peterbecich 1y ago
A.f.a.i.k. this tragedy was preventable because the flood risk was already known: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/07/09/us/camp-mysti... Apparently this was disregarded.
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by peterbecich 1y ago
What ever happened to the JEDI contract?
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by peterbecich 1y ago
A lab such as https://aihlabs.com/ may be able to test food
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by peterbecich 1y ago
More about this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixon_shock
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by peterbecich 1y ago
The rationale for a low or zero corporate tax is that corporate profits eventually become personal income of the shareholders and employees, and can be taxed there. Nobody builds a for-profit corporation for zero salary or personal profit.
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by peterbecich 1y ago
Why is a corporate tax necessary? It would be simpler to increase the income tax. EU has low corporate taxes and higher income taxes i.i.r.c.
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by peterbecich 1y ago
The tail of gasoline cars will be long. "Beater" gas cars will be around for decades. I will opine just on the USA: it has to be solved from the top-down with 0 inconvenience to average people. If you synthesize gasoline with abun
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by peterbecich 1y ago
I would be content to settle for carbon-neutral synthetic gasoline. It is politically viable. But the price needs to be lower. The startup Prometheus is working on this.
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by peterbecich 1y ago
Safety arms race of vehicle size. We would all be better off collectively with smaller vehicles, imo.

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