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by phil21 9mo ago
For chronic diseases that tend to be caused by obesity, the expensive bits tend to be towards retirement aged people - or are so disabling that people drop out of the workforce early. In either case the vast majority of those costs will be
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by phil21 9mo ago
Eli Lilly will categorically state it is impossible for the compounders to be using the same API as they are due to being the sole source of manufacturing for it on the planet. From what I can tell they are technically correct. The FDA appr
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by phil21 9mo ago
Because “this” is about the biggest in-your-face blatant disregard for FDA rules that has quite literally ever existed in history. The scale is unprecedented. If there was a single thing an understaffed FDA would go after it would be the co
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by phil21 9mo ago
I was reading some stuff a while back about either the FAA or its Euro equivalent coming up with hazard lighting beacons being activated by plane transponders within the area but otherwise off if nothing was actively around. To solve this e
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by phil21 9mo ago
Eh, I think it’s a bullshit complaint too - but you can absolutely hear a commercial kitchen in operation a few buildings away if the doors or windows are open on a summer day. I personally find it quite pleasant - and if not I can just shu
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by phil21 9mo ago
It’s just hyper-local nimby vs regular nimby. Everyone where I live wants a corner store or corner bar 2 or 3 blocks away from them. Close enough to walk to conveniently but far enough they never have to know it exists unless they are perso
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by phil21 9mo ago
> This idea that there's some kind of difference between me watching you in public and Flock watching you in public is, quite frankly, bogus. If you followed me around all day taking photographs of my every move for no other reason
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by phil21 9mo ago
> A "cloud admin" bootcamp graduate can be a useful "cloud engineer", If by useful you mean "useful at generating revenue for AWS or GCP" then sure, I agree. These certificates and bootcamps are roughly equi
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by phil21 9mo ago
Yep, absolutely. I’ve come up with the term “man on the mountain” for such positions. It’s when one person is exceedingly talented at exactly one thing - but isn’t exactly a typical employee who is good or interested in doing much else othe
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by phil21 9mo ago
You could claim ignorance that you had no idea what the box in your bag was, and thought it was a radiotherapy device that had health benefits or something. If you could then prove that you bought it from a website advertising it as such an
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by phil21 9mo ago
It’s the legal definition of intentional. If you intentionally perform an act that reasonably can foresee an outcome, then it is by definition intentional. If you rob a liquor store while armed and accidentally discharge your weapon - it’s
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by phil21 9mo ago
If you’re having a correlated outage like that, then it’s likely you fix the prod issue before the cloud engineers at some giant cloud company even respond to an internal escalation much less fixes an issue. More than likely your prod issue
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by phil21 9mo ago
Yes, not available to the general public.
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by phil21 9mo ago
Not to the general public. Your neighbor very likely cannot just go to a website and look up your title and current salary, like I can for the guy who lives down the block who currently works for the city I live in.
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by phil21 9mo ago
The same way callable bonds command a higher interest rate than non-callable do. If the bond holder can just decide that tomorrow it’s cheaper for them to pay off the bond vs pay me the coupon on it, it’s worth less to me as a buyer. I lose
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by phil21 9mo ago
Most tech enthusiasts I know have a myriad of computers laying around. Spinning up a physical instance to try out some totally shady software is pretty standard stuff going back decades now.
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by phil21 9mo ago
For a 100MW scale facility the contract work is never over. Once you are done with one bit of work something else is in need of refreshing or changing. Components are breaking daily at that scale, and switch gear, UPS, generators, breakers,
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by phil21 9mo ago
Power is metered. If a facility is somehow getting subsidized by the rest of the ratepayers then it’s a pricing problem that needs fixing. The issue is that we collectively decided to stop investing in energy infrastructure for 50 years or
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by phil21 9mo ago
Not building energy production and distribution for the past 50 years is what is causing electricity prices to increase. Chickens coming home to roost. Eventually you run out of the previous generation’s infrastructure investments and cheap
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by phil21 9mo ago
Yeah, I rented a Corolla recently which was about as basic as it got - and within less than 90 seconds of entering the vehicle/driving I had everything I needed figured out. CarPlay was trivial to pair up. Screen resolution was meh, bu
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by phil21 9mo ago
GMO free is anti-scientific. At least a ton of overlap between those who pursue it and also have a whole lot of other woo-woo food related eccentricities. A rounding error of people against it when you talk to them will bring up "big a
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by phil21 9mo ago
By “freebies” I meant a chargeback with few questions asked. As in they trust my side of the story and immediately refund the money. I’ve done it maybe three times in my life for exceptional circumstances where vendors either made a billing
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by phil21 9mo ago
Timely. I’m about to turn off severe weather alerts from my local city because they insist on spamming - multiple times per day - cold weather alerts. And they start at pretty ridiculous temperatures in the double digits. The only way those
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by phil21 9mo ago
Love these! My wife gifted me a Chicago CTA map for a birthday gift a few years ago and it makes great wall art. I found an in-box rated USB-C hardwired power adapter, and ran an additional outlet above an existing one. Then used a couple s
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by phil21 9mo ago
Eh, using a credit union is really no less risky - from personal direct experience. It's luck of the draw. I have no experience with small commercial banks though.
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by phil21 9mo ago
> You can have a car without going into debt just like how you can have a credit card without debt. Technically this is actually impossible. You have debt the moment you swipe/dip/tap that card and make a transaction with it. T
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by phil21 9mo ago
Mom and Pop stores are basically the only places left that reliably give you a cash discount for not using a card. Sometimes advertised at checkout, sometimes you need to ask. Especially service companies. They tend to quote out "cash&
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by phil21 9mo ago
> the CC lobbyist were able to make it illegal to pass that charge onto the customer. This is no longer a thing, there was a settlement with Visa/MC that removed this provision from their merchant contracts. You are now allowed to p
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by phil21 9mo ago
> There seem to be a lot of people in this thread who have never actually been through this and are just apeing what other people say online. I've been through it personally and with friends. My experience was basically yours. I am
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by phil21 9mo ago
> In such transactions you're basically just inviting a company to take a cut for 0 added benefit Simply not true. Every transaction with a card carries some risk of those cards details being leaked or even an innocent error being m

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