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by phil21 8mo ago
I don't share the Amazon hate everyone has, I've had very good experiences with Amazon retail. But I do sometimes try to spread out my purchases to other vendors due to monopoly concerns. It's amazing how many times you buy d
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by phil21 8mo ago
I've seen plenty of stuff from google and meta datacenters on the market. Had some weirdo AMD GPUs that were GCP-only that were offered to folks if you bought in bulk quantity. A whole ton of whitebox Ethernet switches from Facebook we
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by phil21 8mo ago
I have found there is really no practical way to predict the bathtub curve for hard drive failures. The solution is just a lot of redundancy for larger disk arrays whenever practical. I currently have a 15x1TB 7200 RPM zpool in raidz2 I u
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by phil21 8mo ago
> because they don't really do as much peak draw anymore This is the same for more or less all major industrial users of electricity. Typically it's a boon for a power grid and overall lowers prices due to the stable consumer t
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by phil21 8mo ago
I am not a power user of either, and I absolutely detest when someone insists on using Excel. Sharing and collaboration is such a giant pain, and it's like going backwards in time to the 90's with e-mailed versions of files back a
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by phil21 8mo ago
> I read about the fear and complaints of high taxes to pay for the lazy, but the actual tax load on countries with strong socialist policies is not really all that much higher than in the U.S. Many of these countries are going through t
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by phil21 8mo ago
I'm not sure it's a really great experiment though? Outside of the hyper-crazies, no one is really stating that a 6-12 inches of conductor is going to make a giant difference in audio quality. Yes, I'm aware of the super-prem
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by phil21 8mo ago
> Take even the most unskilled labor that people can think about such as flipping a burger at a restaurant like McDonald's. In reality that job is multiple different roles mixed into one that are constantly changing. Multiple compan
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by phil21 8mo ago
I think it's hard for certain people with certain backgrounds to understand. What I see as someone who grew up in a very working class family surrounded by those on benefits: I see the janitor who busts their ass day in and day out to
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by phil21 9mo ago
> (this is equivalent to speed cameras when the induction loop in the ground says that a car passed faster than the speed limit) This isn't how many speed cameras work in Europe. They work by having a speed camera at location Y on t
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by phil21 9mo ago
A large Mylar party balloon with helium? Yeah probably about that depending on where you are and the balloon type and size.
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by phil21 9mo ago
> But the fraud protection is the same, even if procedures and timelines might differ. I wrote about outright fraud taking weeks (in one case, months) to resolve. From my own personal direct experience. > I had a friend who doesn’t e
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by phil21 9mo ago
> have been trying to find a glove-solution that is still warm. Good luck! Let me know if you find anything, I certainly tried for a few years and now have an absurdly large glove collection to last me a lifetime. I've found when I
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by phil21 9mo ago
Yes, because the primary externality is an unreliable power grid. That externality is being priced into the unreliable sources of production. Any other externality is a rounding error against an unreliable electric grid.
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by phil21 9mo ago
> But in a normally functioning market, production at 5 will rapidly ramp up to capture the excess profits to be made by selling at 8. Not if your production is effectively random. If your factory produces a product at $5 this week, but
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by phil21 9mo ago
> The gas plants could be 1% of given moment, yet still set price Makes sense. Since no one would build that last 1% (or then, last 10%) of needed capacity due to it being wildly unprofitable. Then you are dealing with rolling blackouts
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by phil21 9mo ago
> thick gloves Gloves are not for severe cold. They are for dexterity during limited exposure time - as no gloves can keep your fingers warm for very long no matter how well-made they are. Look for mittens or "choppers" as we c
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by phil21 9mo ago
Underground power lines are weirdly vulnerable to lightning strikes. I lived through two >24hr power outages at my previous place that had buried power lines into the subdivision. Both due to lightning strikes on trees that happened to b
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by phil21 9mo ago
Others have said it but I will pile on as this is dangerous misinformation. It’s sort of true in a legal sense, but not a practical one. If you find yourself in a dispute (even outright fraud sometimes) you might end up stuck for weeks or m
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by phil21 9mo ago
These are historically called “charge cards” in the US and are common for corporations who give employees “credit cards” for travel and the like. American Express is big in this market - what looks like a normal Amex Business Platinum card
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by phil21 9mo ago
The richer a country gets the more individualist you can become, is my basic theory. Raising a kid as an atomic couple apart from extended family and community is a horrible experience for the parents. It takes a village and all that. Paren
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by phil21 9mo ago
The way of teaching and testing has changed so much in just the 25 years since I’ve been in school it’s almost not recognizable for some subjects. At least for the public schools my friends and family’s kids attend. The standards have also
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by phil21 9mo ago
From my lived experience you are an outlier. Potentially an extreme one at that. Where I grew up the people who didn’t work almost universally turned into consumers of everything and creators of basically nothing. The exceptions were retire
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by phil21 9mo ago
It’s not a submarine attack at all. If anything I bet you these compounders are surprised they haven’t been shut down already for blatantly violating the law. It’s a case of trying to get so many consumers buying that regulators are scared
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by phil21 9mo ago
Personally I feel the hims etc of this world need to go away. They give a false sense of security and they mask an incredibly shady industry. I also think people should be able to source from the grey market if they can figure it out. This
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by phil21 9mo ago
GLP-1s are already under immense pricing pressure due to competition, direct to consumer sales outside of the insurance system (to the point of forging entire new markets for drug companies never possible before - what other drugs have mill
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by phil21 9mo ago
I wouldn’t put vapes in the same category as patented pharmaceuticals. They are already an unhealthy vice for one thing. They do not require a prescription and are sold over the counter to anyone who presents an ID showing they are of age.
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by phil21 9mo ago
It’s regulated quite tightly. But if you can’t shut down the illicit street drug market you aren’t going to be able to shut down the illicit make-your-life-better black market either. I think what’s happening now is about right. FDA approva
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by phil21 9mo ago
There is no way for a compounder to acquire “legit” semaglutide or Tirzepatide as novo and Lilly are the sole manufacturers of it using the FDA approved process. Every other source is acquiring the APIs from China and effectively buying fro
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by phil21 9mo ago
There is zero need to “pirate” ozempic (semaglutide) as there are already US alternatives on the market (Tirzepatide) and about to be more (Retatrutide) that outperform all other medications in the class. Just have insurers stop insuring oz

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