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by phil21 7mo ago
and some places charge a higher annual fee for EVs due to roads being largely funded by gas taxes. Seems totally fair to me so long as the averages largely line up for both vehicle types.
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by phil21 7mo ago
Yep. No need to subsidize what end up being luxury priced vehicles. The technology is there and if the already spent billions of dollars on subsidies haven’t incentivized enough of a bootstrapping of the supply chain tossing more billions a
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by phil21 7mo ago
I've ordered from Dell and Supermicro (and others, but not in volume or often enough to have much data) for a couple decades now. Supermicro you consistently get a good/best price. It's already pretty low, so going from a 10
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by phil21 7mo ago
Lilly Direct sells zepbound in “single use” vials you make draws from. Very trivial to add bacteriostatic water to them and do some simple math to divide the dose. I have a few friends who do this. You can also take apart the pens and do th
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by phil21 7mo ago
I don’t think there is remotely enough data on the subject to make any confident statements either way yet. I think the only very confident thing I can say after watching and helping dozens of folks get started on these drugs is that everyo
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by phil21 7mo ago
Yeah the whole tech world did a weird side quest over the past 20 or so years huffing its own farts due to how the internet/adtech/etc sucked all the air out of everything else tech related. And the economy as a whole. It also coi
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by phil21 7mo ago
Yep. Once people experience true hardship like having to keep their house just above freezing in the winter due to the cost of energy - all of a sudden impossible things become quite possible. The only potential issue here would be if the w
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by phil21 7mo ago
That is all email addresses, it’s part of the spec. Aside from broken implementations of course. Periods are optional. Edit: Woops yeah, meant pluses. Dots are somewhat common as optional these days but not universal.
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by phil21 7mo ago
Yeah this is just describing providing amenity for common areas in a shared building. Not much different from the doorman and free water bottles in the lobby or the rooftop swimming pool being baked into the rent of the units.
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by phil21 7mo ago
Pretty much. But at one point you could buy 2 to 3 units to every equivalent Dell or HP unit unless you had enough scale to get volume discounts. At $30M I expect the price to be a lot closer though. Then it’s a matter of how well your engi
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by phil21 7mo ago
> Stuff we don't even bother to build in progressive parts of the world because the combination of environmental regulations and concerns about climate change mean it's possible they'll never pay off their massive construc
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by phil21 7mo ago
The west coast also has some of the highest priced electricity in the nation, with apparently projections on it getting even worse somehow. It’s amazing how much grift and subsidy leveraging the US renewables market has engaged in compared
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by phil21 7mo ago
PHEVs when bought by informed consumers making a financial decision still pencil out just fine here. It’s the silly regulatory games played by manufacturers and regulators that cause stuff like a hybrid cayenne or 6000lb BMW M5 Touring to e
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by phil21 7mo ago
Depreciation, sure. If you’re buying new of course. Fuel is very much use dependent. I drive very little so having one large nicer (3 years old off a lease return) made the most sense to me when I had to watch the bottom line. Both financia
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by phil21 7mo ago
I think there is a sweet spot for the training(?) on these LLMs where there is basically only "professional" level documentation and chatter, without the layman stuff being picked up from reddit and github/etc. I was looking
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by phil21 7mo ago
Lines of credit against assets are typically interest only, interest rate pegged to however many basis points above the current fed fund rate. There is no balloon payment ever due if you simply pay off the interest indefinitely. Of course t
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by phil21 7mo ago
This seems trivial? Just like any other asset when you are alive, if you cannot establish a cost basis it’s assumed at $0. Easy stuff. If your benefactors care about taxes on their estate they will properly document capital assets. If not?
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by phil21 7mo ago
> You can also look at the onerousness of permitting processes (etc) as a result of a regime whereby once something is built, if it causes problems then nobody can do anything about it. This is an interesting point I have not considered
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by phil21 7mo ago
The point OP was making is that due to off-site power generation like it should be - there are no gas turbines built co-located with the datacenter they live near. As such, a datacenter is roughly as obnoxious (likely less so due to less tr
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by phil21 7mo ago
> It makes me want to fucking cry, what's happening to my country. Same. We used to be a country that could get things done. Stuff like power generation and transmission lines were built out well ahead of expected demand, with resil
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by phil21 7mo ago
It's due to lack of investment in the power grid on a generational timeline. We used up every bit of slack and extra capacity in the name of efficiency and not needing to spend the money on building stuff. It's also nearly impossi
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by phil21 7mo ago
Yes, we should definitely increase NIMBY regulation by retroactively changing the rules on industrial development. The US is doing such a great job at building such projects already. No thanks. Instead lets fix our inability to build a thin
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by phil21 7mo ago
Pretty sure Northern VA (datacenter alley) is doing pretty great? Doubt they had to bend over backwards. This is one of dozens (hundreds now?) datacenters in the area. The difference these days is that they now come with power plants in the
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by phil21 7mo ago
My city tried to force a public toilets ordinance on local businesses. Those businesses either ignored it or converted to take out only or other business models where they were not bound by the law. It got rolled back pretty quick. Plenty o
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by phil21 7mo ago
Gas stations with toilets are absolutely not normal and standard in these sorts of areas. Including where I live. Yes, they are normal in most places - but there are areas public restrooms effectively do not exist due to the amount of abuse
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by phil21 7mo ago
A personal assistant of some sort that is actually useful at some stuff and not just a toy? It’s not some huge life changing thing for me, but I also only dabble with it - certainly it has no access to anything very important to my life. I
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by phil21 7mo ago
It’s really not that cheap at all in major city cores. Gas stations around me do not generally have a public restroom due to the sheer amount of abuse they are subject to. The very few that do are the “get a key from the attendant after pur
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by phil21 7mo ago
Mounjaro and the next generation of soon-to-be best in class GLP-1 (Retatrutide) are Ely Lilly based out of the US. Novo makes Ozempic, and is out of Denmark. The mRNA stuff is a bit more murky, depends on how you squint. Best assignment th
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by phil21 7mo ago
I find it completely unbelievable that residencies are not a profit center for most teaching hospitals. The residents do almost all the day to day work with a half dozen of them reporting to a single attending physician. It’s not like you g
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by phil21 7mo ago
I’m well aware of the vertically integrated systems. But that’s not the entire market - just getting to slowly be more and more common. Insurance as standalone entities are not much better or worse for total cost than these giant vertical m

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