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by phil21 7mo ago
Depends on if the investments were in the right stuff or not. Overbuilt sounds great, so long as it’s overbuilt in capacity and reliability. If those were malinvestments instead it’s simply throwing money away for not even a theoretical “so
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by phil21 7mo ago
Hospitals and clinics can only take so many Medicare patients as a ratio to private pay because it’s very well known that Medicare and Medicaid is often provided at below cost. It’s of course area and demographic dependent but as a rule any
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by phil21 7mo ago
Insurance is really not the issue, it’s provider cost. And just the total cost entirely of the system of insanity. If you look closely into it there is no single (or few even) knobs you can tweak to fix the system. Not even Medicaid for all
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by phil21 7mo ago
In a vacuum sure. But insurance companies operate the only part of the healthcare system that is moderately competitive. In the end employers are the ones largely paying and they are professional negotiators enough to put price pressure on
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by phil21 7mo ago
Hey, OP might be an infant and their skull might still be growing!
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by phil21 7mo ago
They must have been utterly unusable on release then. I have latest firmware and if I forget to place my Max's in their case they are at half power or less within a few days. As such they get used a lot less than I would otherwise. One
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by phil21 7mo ago
That and back in my WoW days it was "competitive" raiding with "creative use of game mechanics" - although those bans usually lasted for a few weeks or so most of the time. I only remember coming across one of these myse
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by phil21 7mo ago
You don’t. Not with current lifestyles and general way of life people alive today would recognize at least. I lived through Walmart systemically walking through the Midwest and destroying every bit of competition in its path. People loooooo
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by phil21 7mo ago
Yep. This is the human condition for the vast majority of humans. I grew up in a place where education and hard work wasn’t valued much by the community. Those that could scam some sort of government benefits did so, and they certainly were
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by phil21 7mo ago
All this would do is raise prices in the marginally cheaper places to live, in order of desirability. Sure it might reduce some prices in the core "superstar" cities, but not by a whole lot - since by definition those receiving a
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by phil21 7mo ago
> Why don't you just do that now and work half the amount of hours you're currently working? Show me the job like mine where this is an option, and I'll take it in a second. Hire another me and we'll split duties. The
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by phil21 7mo ago
I used to think Bluetooth was nearly unusable both in audio quality and annoyingness. Then I moved to the Apple ecosystem including iPhone, Airpods, and MacOS. It Just Works(tm) 99% of the time. The last 1% is a little annoying, and almost
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by phil21 7mo ago
It's a growing trend in the "alternative" health scene. I have a few friends who should absolutely know better do silly stuff like use wired headphones due to RF, and even as much as turning Wifi off at night for health reaso
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by phil21 8mo ago
> I think SpaceX's success is mostly down to throwing money at the problem I'm not sure this holds true. SpaceX accomplished more with very little compared to the entire NASA budget, Boeing, etc. I think it's much more to
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by phil21 8mo ago
The engine isn't in the trailer. That is in the tractor, which pulls a trailer. If OP meant "fueled by unrefined oil" then sure, but I didn't even consider that to be an option. The heavier crude grades cannot be (realis
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by phil21 8mo ago
You run it as a school, since that's what a school is for. Otherwise you fail at both being a school and a poor replacement for the social programs you're trying to do on the side. For example - a school is not a correction faci
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by phil21 8mo ago
I've thought about doing this, but ironically you'd be sued into oblivion where I'm from. Likely prosecuted by the both the state and city attorney for violating privacy laws already on the books. Yet somehow Flock is deployi
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by phil21 8mo ago
US shipbuilding basically doesn't exist as it is. Jones Act was the only thing (other than Navy contracts) keeping it on pathetic life support. The only possible (poor) case you could make is that it kept enough facilities and workers
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by phil21 8mo ago
I think ships make a lot of sense - particularly much cheaper ships built in larger quantities. Think WWII era destroyers and frigates that can be mass-deployed by the dozens for air and sea coverage. Obviously updated quite a lot with che
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by phil21 8mo ago
Trailers work with unrefined oil. There isn’t much difference between a truck trailer and an oil tanker car on the railway. Difference is size and cost per unit to move it. We are talking about Middle East light sweet crude oil here, not Al
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by phil21 8mo ago
Share of the total grid is meaningless comparing solar to nuclear. It’s the wrong metric to optimize for - the metric that actually matters and is the expensive one is reliability. What matters is “share of the grid when solar literally can
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by phil21 8mo ago
Newer does not mean better, or even imply it. Money spent on facilities has almost no correlation to educational outcomes. What matters are the peers you go to school with, supported by decent curriculum and moderately competent teachers. N
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by phil21 8mo ago
US Naval power has been drastically hollowed out - other than for strategic force projection for low intensity conflicts involving air strikes. Even for that, it's a shadow of what it once was. This isn't the 1980's where we
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by phil21 8mo ago
Where I grew up it was "technically" whichever parent had primary custody, which back then was usually very clear - especially during the school year. So much like taxes are "6 months and a day" for residency, it was sim
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by phil21 8mo ago
> I don‘t know where this observation comes from, but here in Austria a majority of people in lower income sectors than IT do all of this? The observation comes from myself, from a medium to low income background. Think mechanics, janito
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by phil21 8mo ago
Who else is building more nuclear or coal, regardless of the reason?
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by phil21 8mo ago
The answer is you don't scale nuclear up or down, it's a silly waste of time and effort to even think about it. The fuel costs are effectively a rounding error, so running at 100% 24x7 is the only way to ever think about how nucle
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by phil21 8mo ago
They also are building more coal, gas, and nuclear than anyone else at epic yearly increases. That they have the internal political means to get large infrastructure projects done is laudible - they can actually build transmission lines tha
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by phil21 8mo ago
> It's using the swarm as your own dev team. reply Managing high performance dev/ops teams is it's own form of a state of flow. In fact for me, it's much more addicting than any other as the outcomes are usually many
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by phil21 8mo ago
Back in around 2012 or so, some friends and I decided to book a canal house in Amsterdam to all pitch in together and live there for about 2 months. Celebrating a few coinciding life achievements before moving onto the next phase of adult l

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