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by phil21 3mo ago
Doesn’t the rollout of more efficient lighting also coincide with the shale gas boom? This also happened at right around the time coal plants were starting to be retired for good as well, which short-circuited some expected generation cost
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by phil21 3mo ago
Sounds probably about right in scale. 5-10x more employees per sqft for common industrial or manufacturing businesses. But local negative impact on community is not remotely comparable to most industrial development. Everything from traffic
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by phil21 3mo ago
The fact datacenters are standing up extremely expensive on-site natural gas turbines due to the immense delays for interconnect. Pretty much no facility operator wants to also pay for and operate their own power plant. They are small and e
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by phil21 3mo ago
At the moment usually just a nag popup on power on. Annoying but not a huge deal. I imagine this will slowly get worse as more people learn to not connect it to WiFi. Also of course all the smart tv features don’t work, and a lot more folks
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by phil21 3mo ago
This sort of footage is only useful after you have an arrest and need to build a case for prosecution. It's rarely useful to actually effect an arrest. Getting the chain of footage you need - even with enthusiastic cooperation - takes
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by phil21 3mo ago
Yeah. Anyone who has worked with government agencies (federal or state, doesn't matter) knows how much waste and grift there is. Not All Agencies(tm) of course, but many. The issue is figuring out how to actually fix that. It's Ch
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by phil21 3mo ago
> My leases always point out that the landlord's insurance does not cover the tenant's personal property or liability, and recommend renter's insurance. But it's not required. I generally agree, obviously for a "
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by phil21 3mo ago
> "Restaurant Electricity Bill Surcharge" Unfortunately you’ve spoken too soon on this one. I recently had an energy surcharge added due to the “Iran war” (as explained by the server) added to every check.
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by phil21 3mo ago
It’s the same thing with any “menu” vs actual price. Airline baggage fees are probably the prototypical case for this. Airlines that did not display the lowest price during flight searches got outcompeted by those that did. This led the ent
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by phil21 3mo ago
It was required in all my boilerplate leases going back to the late 90s. Just rarely if ever enforced or even asked about. You’d just end up with some giant uncollectable judgement against you if you ended up burning down the apartment comp
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by phil21 3mo ago
> The key advantage to an ambulance ride is bypassing the Triage Nurse. This is going to depend on where you live/the particular hospital. A lot of "frequent fliers" figured out this loophole and started abusing it where I
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by phil21 3mo ago
Yep. When I need to get back into reading again I usually start with some easy to read pulp. My go-to is “trash” military sci-fi. Usually from authors who pump out a book or two a year in the genre. Honor Harrington (Honorverse) is my gener
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by phil21 3mo ago
Yeah, reading for me is hot and cold streaks. I’ll read for 3-9mo straight, then go about the same not reading at all. Tends to coincide with life stress and work schedule for the most part, but also just picking up other interests that soa
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by phil21 3mo ago
Fair, work was the wrong word to use. I meant - create useful work product. For most companies software is a means to an end. The programmer writing code isn’t useful, it’s the end result. A lot of small to midsize companies employ a couple
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by phil21 3mo ago
> So what do you / your team do? This is so funny to me, because I know it's asked in earnest but seems so obvious to me: They get actual work done. Programming isn't work. That's just a means to an end. A tool to get
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by phil21 3mo ago
Walmart and Target also do the marketplace stuff. Costco is great for curation, but only for the items they carry. A combo of Amazon for the random junk I don’t care much about and Costco for consumer staples works out well. And no online v
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by phil21 4mo ago
Costco can only fill maybe half my pantry because they don’t carry everything I like to eat or use regularly. They do a form of cherry picking the easy high volume stuff, and let other retailers deal with the harder more expensive low volum
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by phil21 4mo ago
You know how Costco constantly moves some of the usual “staples” they have around the store randomly? And how Costco can never be relied on having the same item outside of those core products every time you go to the store? Better buy it no
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by phil21 4mo ago
What’s weird is the big market is pegged to the small market? What is the point of signing a direct supply contract if you are just gonna be paying spot prices anyways? I suppose guaranteed supply priority?
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by phil21 4mo ago
Tune out of the useless meeting and do something useful with your time. Read the 5 bullet point summary afterwards. If it gets things wrong, oh well. Not much of value was lost. This describes the vast majority of meetings held in the corpo
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by phil21 4mo ago
It's way less about the time of doing the thing, and much more about the mental overhead of having to remember to do the thing. And needing to do the thing at very inconvenient times because I forgot to do the thing or lacked motivatio
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by phil21 4mo ago
I'd pay $8k tomorrow for a bot that would 100% do my laundry. That means collecting it from the various dirty clothes hampers throughout the house, bringing it to the washer and dryer, operating the washer/dryer, folding and putti
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by phil21 4mo ago
Residential energy reduction is one small piece of it. The de-industrializing of the US is a much larger reason we have been able to use cheap parlor tricks vs. actually building things for the past 40ish years. Those cheap tricks are now r
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by phil21 4mo ago
YMMV on the annual x-ray thing. I used to mostly think the same as you. Expensive and unnecessary risk for no real benefit. I skipped my x-rays for 3-4 years due to dropping my long term dentist for unrelated reasons. I recently went to a n
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by phil21 4mo ago
The sony earbuds are about the best I’ve had for sound quality and noise cancellation. Much better than AirPods, but not nearly as nice integration with the Apple ecosystem. I find AirPods Pro 2 to be “good enough” where I gave away my set
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by phil21 4mo ago
> I can't be the only one out there that's happy to pay a little extra if they know they're not getting garbage. Not the only one, but there is just not a large market for it. And it likely would not be a “little” extra ei
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by phil21 4mo ago
> one downside is obvious from the comments here - some people will stop exercising. Is there any source on this? The precise opposite has happened in my experience. I was an early evangelist for these drugs, and have many dozens of peop
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by phil21 4mo ago
Like all weight loss, you will lose lean muscle mass and bone density as part of it if you do not take corrective measures. And even with such measures, you will likely lose some either way for the medium term. It's very difficult to l
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by phil21 4mo ago
That would be black market, almost assuredly if you are talking about "injury repair" peptides. Exceedingly few prescribers in the US are writing for those. Grey market references stuff like HIMS where you are getting a real docto
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by phil21 4mo ago
> These things are on par with statins in terms of potential societal impacts. I put them just under antibiotics. In terms of quality of life years given back at a population scale.

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