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by phil21 1y ago
This is just another way to say you are in favor of western hemisphere degrowth. Without industry you don’t have an economy in the long run. Replace hyperscaler with aluminum smelter or manufacturing line if you prefer. If you can’t operat
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by phil21 1y ago
I always wished for AR glasses. I described it like playing a MMO with player names overlaid above their heads. I have an incredibly hard time remembering faces and names. Close to disability level. People I have known for 20 years and in
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by phil21 1y ago
Residential energy use is the least interesting thing to think about at a grid scale. The grid actually will get more brittle and/or expensive if everyone wealthy enough to get batteries and solar gets them. What about the manufacturi
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by phil21 1y ago
The easiest money I ever made was investing in natural gas infrastructure during the COVID insanity of everyone calling it dead due to renewables. I really don’t understand the disconnect otherwise very intelligent people have on this subje
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by phil21 1y ago
Fair. I am definitely speaking of US consumers.
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by phil21 1y ago
I stop when the immediate business need is fulfilled. I see it a lot like tools in your toolbox. You start buy buying the cheapest of whatever it is you need. If you end up either using a particular tool a lot and a nicer/more expensiv
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by phil21 1y ago
Cake mixes almost always come ahead in blind taste tests. Very few bakers short of folks with a lot of volume are doing stuff from scratch. It may or may not be healthier, but the subjective taste preferences of the masses is pretty much se
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by phil21 1y ago
2 people to fund retirements for as separate people for many adult kids who have solid careers and irresponsible parents. Ignoring healthcare it’s about twice as expensive both in time and money. HN folks I assume are expected to handle the
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by phil21 1y ago
Not all landlords min/max for peak financial outcome. My landlord for 15 years raised rent exactly once when property taxes had a large jump one year, and was already under market when I started the first lease. His mortgage was long p
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by phil21 1y ago
Sure, but this is not universal. I could have bought 15 years before I did. But because rent was less than half a mortgage (not even including maintenance), I was able to put that extra money into the market and save enough for more than a
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by phil21 1y ago
Nothing keeps the condo owner from realizing how underfunded the association is and saving that amount each month for the inevitable emergency. Most home owners don’t do this either, but it’s pretty much the same thing short of an associati
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by phil21 1y ago
I’d say it’s probably more common they use mixes than they create from scratch from the limited experience and talks I’ve had with bakers on the subject. The professional part are the modifications, frosting, and decoration. Hard to beat t
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by phil21 1y ago
It's exceedingly overblown. I agree administration (not teachers) are the issue here, they are the ones who are terrified of the liability fairy and refuse to actually support anyone who is actually attempting education. They don'
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by phil21 1y ago
At least around me, it's pretty easy to get into one due to enrollment not being very full in most if not all. They will of course give automatic enrollment for anyone in the parish, but I can't really argue with that since these
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by phil21 1y ago
Educators in general seem especially scared of the liability fairy. The correct thing to do here is your teachers position is to laugh at the idiot kid telling them about their legal liability. The school may be taking some on, but if it’s
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by phil21 1y ago
Education spending by all metrics has only gone up - beating inflation nearly every single year since I've been alive. It might not make it down to teacher salaries or more educators, but the money is absolutely being spent at massive
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by phil21 1y ago
The vast majority to all Catholic schools in the US have no requirement of you being Catholic.
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by phil21 1y ago
The only reason I became anything today is because my parents who were poor but cared very much were able to "opt out" of the shit-tier local public school that pandered to the kids who would rather not learn before it was too lat
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by phil21 1y ago
Grew up in Minneapolis and spent most of my life in the twin cities. You really can’t compare it to a tech hub, or even a major city like NYC or Chicago. It’s just a different league. I miss the twin cities quite a lot and will likely even
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by phil21 1y ago
I don't understand why companies don't "get" this bit of it. I'm fairly amenable to the idea of RTO. Office work with a team is just different, and I've worked almost exclusively remote my entire career. If I
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by phil21 1y ago
> 3) How easily people lose weight on GLP-1 agonists shows that obesity isn't just lack of willpower What? I’m about as pro-GLP1 as it gets - see past comments on the subject. But if anything it absolutely slams the door shut on obe
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by phil21 1y ago
Murder may be down, but every other “minor” visible crime is up. Reporting it is useless. Just this week about a dozen contractor vans in the neighborhood were broken into (windows smashed) by a professional crew caught on camera looking f
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by phil21 1y ago
Caps aren’t super interesting overall. It’s the low bar it takes to sue and how expensive it is to litigate bullshit to marginal cases vs. settlements.
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by phil21 1y ago
Banking works as a store of money and money mover until they decide what you are doing is outside the normal course for their average account holder. After that you very rapidly get educated on the fact that money within a bank is not your
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by phil21 1y ago
> The exception is doctors. The shortage there is completely driven by their guild (AMA) successfully lobbying for a restriction on the number of medical schools. It's not just this. It's also that the career is starting to su
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by phil21 1y ago
The tradeoff here is “pay the middleman markup tax” for the most part. Instead of getting cheap Chinese made clothing for $5, you now get to pay Walmart $17 for the same thing. If we are going to outsource production in order to save on con
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by phil21 1y ago
The final few percentage points of reserves are almost all that matters to reliable grid operation. This can mean many things including load shedding even. If you decided fuel costs were exactly zero for emergency reserves you would still h
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by phil21 1y ago
Home storage works, but gatekeeps reliable power to the relatively wealthy. You need days of it at minimum for any reasonable long term plan. Seasonal storage is the problem, nightly storage is pointless to discuss. Just dumping external
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by phil21 1y ago
Depends on what exactly you mean by pair programming. Two people sharing the same keyboard and screen and watching the other type is horror movie level stuff to me. I go from a competent typist at 140wpm or so, remembering at least some b
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by phil21 1y ago
Looks. Primarily at least, until you get into ultra-performance vehicles not really built for driving on public roads. I recently upgraded to my "dream" daily driver car that came with 22" rims from the factory. It's de

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