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by phil21 2y ago
GI issues are almost always minor. Folks are used to zero discomfort in their lives so the social media reporting of such is wildly overdone. Tirzepatide is being investigated as a therapy for IBS. Within two weeks of being on the drug I
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by phil21 2y ago
Can you provide evidence that a statistically significant portion of the population have managed to maintain weight loss in the manner you describe? The evidence I see does not support your claim. Obesity rates have only gone up during my
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by phil21 2y ago
None of the GLP1s cause more muscle loss than simply losing the same amount of weight without it. It’s the rapid weight loss without resistance training that causes it. If you calorie restricted with the same exercise routine without the d
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by phil21 2y ago
For all intents and purposes entrapment basically doesn’t exist according to modern court interpretation. If you as a layman think it’s entrapment it’s probably not.
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by phil21 2y ago
Honestly not really. Some of the older facilities took great care on site selection and some hardened building features, but modern sites are more based on power grid availability and are simply standard amazon distribution warehouse style
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by phil21 2y ago
Definitely agreed. I would be pretty surprised if this was burst capacity though. I have no insight as to how Hetzner implemented their object storage, but in general terms it's pretty difficult to ratelimit burst without adverse ef
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by phil21 2y ago
Having implemented object storage at a service provider - it's extremely rare for any customer to have 1gbit/sec sustained throughput on an account, much less a bucket. Those that do likely will already have an actual sales rep an
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by phil21 2y ago
For the folks who downvoted this - why? I hire developers and this is the absolute truth of the matter. You can get away with hiring devs able to only debug their little micro empire so long as you can retain some super senior rockstar lev
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by phil21 2y ago
Because a healthcare plan isn’t insurance. You used the correct term. If you want a prepaid healthcare plan that’s fine, just stop calling it insurance since it’s not. Totally agree it should be available for cash pay.
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by phil21 2y ago
High deductible plans are great. They are designed to allow you to take pretax money out and use it to either invest like an IRA or spend it on healthcare. In other words they are actually insurance. Not a prepaid healthcare plan. No one
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by phil21 2y ago
In a word: Math.
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by phil21 2y ago
You can’t ignore the high prices when the wind doesn’t blow while saying the low prices when there is an excess of production is the true cost. This is called cherry picking. The cost of intermittent power sources includes the dirty fossil
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by phil21 2y ago
Programming and in general tech work has been extremely highly compensated compared to most other industries the past few decades. This means a lot of intelligent (and not so) folks who could do whatever they wanted chose tech to chase the
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by phil21 2y ago
Slight nitpick: I think you mean ports, not shipyards. Shipyards are where ships get constructed and repaired. Ports are where cargo is loaded and offloaded.
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by phil21 2y ago
> My theory about the high installer prices (in the US) is the market is distorted right now by tax credits enabling installers to charge more, knowing the customer likely will qualify for a larger credit come tax time. I can't spea
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by phil21 2y ago
> Unless, the investor is just trying to fund the most ruthless, least ethical, win-at-all-costs type of people This was probably the hardest realization I came to in business/startup world. That's precisely what most investors
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by phil21 2y ago
Pretend prestige. They have the connections and power but not pedigree. As someone without a college degree in tech, and who has attempted but failed to get a tradition “corporate” job based on skills and track record I can sort of underst
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by phil21 2y ago
Who is building and operating a plant (these need to be more or less 1:1 per MW to back your intermittent power sources) that sits idle 95% of the time? That would be a pretty interesting pitch deck. That’s a pretty damn low utilization ra
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by phil21 2y ago
Knowing how and being politically prevented from doing so are entirely different things. It’s nuclear or fossil fuels until an order of magnitude change in chemical storage. No one is going to be building enough gas peaker plants sitting id
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by phil21 2y ago
Based on contract ramp-ups from folks I know in sales having record years/quarters tied to the US DoD (while the rest of the sales divisions miss their numbers by huge margins) - I think that it's a foregone conclusion the powers
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by phil21 2y ago
This is precisely the academic theory bubble talk I was referring to. On balance no one cares that some Chinese peasants had a huge increase in quality of life. Their lives, and the lives of their children were significantly degraded so so
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by phil21 2y ago
> It's unclear even now whether the US has enough stockpiles and enough production of modern munitions to maintain an active war against a peer adversary like China with such massive production capacity and such a massive population
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by phil21 2y ago
On human lifetime timescales much of life is very much so a zero sum game. Only the exceedingly privileged cannot grasp this fact of life. Academic bubble theories don’t help a generation of rust belt manufacturing workers, but it sure as
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by phil21 2y ago
Can’t speak for OP - but yes, my wife drains hers almost twice a day due to 6+ hours of phone calls plus normal casual usage. Probably could be more diligent with planning and charging while using near a desk, but that adds mental overhead
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by phil21 2y ago
Yep. My experience as well. Once a place starts doing useless box checking stuff like SOC2 it’s time to find a new job or switch vendors. Positive indicators would be talking to employees and getting an idea of organizational clue level.
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by phil21 2y ago
It has nothing really to do with that. To this day I can get into pretty much any rack or room I feel like at datacenters everyone here has heard of. It just takes experience these days and a bit of charm. Plus having a million keys and s
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by phil21 2y ago
How about the doctors? Every single one knew oxycontin was addictive. That they have a convenient scapegoat does not absolve them. In fact I place far more culpability on them and their medical licenses than I do a pharmaceutical company
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by phil21 2y ago
It’s not even remotely close to 2/3rds if you at at all competent at nearshore/offshore hiring. 1/3 at best for top 20% talent. Once you get into rockstar quality it’s more or less parity since they have all the options anyo
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by phil21 2y ago
Right. So a useless number when it comes to energy storage discussions. It simply extends the duck curve an hour or three before you need use someone else’s power. Thanks for the correction on GW vs MW. Not a great typo.
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by phil21 2y ago
Indeed. A friend who is more plugged into such things me told me 4-5 years ago they laid off most of the senior Intel network driver team. Basically the only edge they had. I can’t imagine things are any better these days. Inertia is a h

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