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by r00fus 2y ago
You can't honestly quote prices from Grubhub or DoorDash as real pricing.
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by r00fus 2y ago
This is a joke comment. Most LBOs result in eventual shuttering of the company. The LBO itself is a strip-mine of the assets and value.
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by r00fus 2y ago
"Taxed similarly" means a standard progressive tax, but "tips income" and "capital gains" are not given preferential tax treatment. All income becomes fungible and eligible for taxation normally. You can sti
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by r00fus 2y ago
How about, all income is taxed similarly and a livable minimum wage? Tip culture is a vestige of a feudal and racist past. https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/07/17/william-b...
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by r00fus 2y ago
Not unlike the "massive muscle tone reduction" scare about GLP1 meds - you lose that muscle because you're also losing the fat you needed the extra muscle for...
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by r00fus 2y ago
I could never give up those corner complications. Round looks better if you're only interested in the clock aspect, but for text display, a rectangle is incredibly more functional and with rounded rect shape, it's good enough for
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by r00fus 2y ago
New nuclear is most certainly not dead - Both China and Russia are busy building more nuke plants for baseload. China has even greenlit (2023) the buildout of a thorium power plant [1]. If successful, this would reduce proliferation risk
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by r00fus 2y ago
The environmentalist hate for nuclear was definitely ginned up by the petroleum industry.
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by r00fus 2y ago
I recently visited Beijing for a few weeks and was worried about AQI (I have a kid with situational asthma) . Most of the time AQI was around 50, and sometimes it got to 100. Not bad at all for us. Just a point of reference: back in 2009
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by r00fus 2y ago
This regulation is only because specific lithium battery chemistries like NMC or Li-Polymer. Once proven safer chemistries like LFP or sodium-ion are used more commonly in laptops (including SSBs like this Samsung one) then regulation shoul
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by r00fus 2y ago
I took finasteride for about 2 years then stopped as it did lower my libido. Which returned over time. After another 2 years of stopping I haven’t noticed my hair loss starting again. At least in my case it’s like a miracle drug with minima
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by r00fus 2y ago
> One tip I noticed, if Roger should comment on what I'm about to say then say "hey roger" at the start of the piece not " what do you think roger" at the end. :) I do this without thinking. I even add some fluf
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by r00fus 2y ago
So this is semantic sugar for selecting text then pasting into chatGPT interface? What real advantage does it offer other than saving a click or two?
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by r00fus 2y ago
China is outpacing the rest of the world (combined) in renewables deployment, and you're here doing whataboutism re: coal? We can talk about percentages but China uses more power than all of Europe or the USA by far.
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by r00fus 2y ago
What are credible rumors? With all the evidence it seems the “threat of Chinese invasion” may also just be the US imperial coalition trying to increase defense spending again. Just like Ukraine and Israel.
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by r00fus 2y ago
This is an insult to the whistleblowers. Especially the ones who died.
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by r00fus 2y ago
This is exactly what I meant, and is described in this pdf: https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/R/R44967
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by r00fus 2y ago
Little known fact: Congress can actually legislate around that by removing the possibility of judicial review from the law itself.
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by r00fus 2y ago
Replacing batteries doesn't happen often at all - it's like replacing an engine on an ICE - I haven't had to do anything like that in decades (and I keep my cars for 10+ years). I will give you that parts-availability for EVs
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by r00fus 2y ago
Maps/directions are much better than Tesla's. You have voice interface. Music (Apple/Spotify/etc) is much nicer - though they do have Apple Music and Spotify apps, it's easier to just control through my phone. Mos
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by r00fus 2y ago
I've owned an EV for 7 years, ignored the recommendations (I charge to 100%, use fast chargers, etc) and the degradation is like 5-10% over those 7 years. I think most EVs are more likely to be totaled by a crash than have their batter
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by r00fus 2y ago
Same energy when I did a test drive for a Nissan Ariya. Was surprised (last time I test drove a car was 12 years ago when we bought our Sienna) - was a totally different experience. We even took the car home and ensured it could park in ou
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by r00fus 2y ago
Exactly - ceasefire and Ansarallah will stop. But Israel has to do its war.
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by r00fus 2y ago
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/17/russia-forecast-to-grow-fast... .
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by r00fus 2y ago
https://www.boeing.com/defense/weapons
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by r00fus 2y ago
I read that book and it get so much wrong. Its views on Russia for example have been completely flattened by the Ukraine invasion and response. Russia has successfully switched to a war economy, US companies that pulled out are co-opted by
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by r00fus 2y ago
Not to mention, Ansarallah are essentially backed by 80% of the population (including the capital city of Sanaa). The "recognized" Yemeni government are Saudi-backed shills that own the ports in the south.
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by r00fus 2y ago
I went back to Wunderground after Darksky went … dark. I loved Darksky and I hoped Apple would use some of its genius ideas in Weather.app but so far it’s a miss. A shame on Apple.
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by r00fus 2y ago
You might never get it. Essentially Apple is saying they will need to negotiate with the EU to confirm they can add functionality without being found liable later on. That negotiation could end up in an impasse.
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by r00fus 2y ago
If you have a family of 5 or more, hotel rooms suck - either someone sleeps on the floor or you have to find a "suite" that accommodates that. Or multiple rooms. The major travel sites all push you to multiple rooms - but lots of

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