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by randerson 11mo ago
I suffered chronic insomnia most of my life and seen my fair share of experts and read a few books about it. There are definitely treatments for the majority of insomniacs. Sleep deprivation is often caused by alcohol, inconsistent sleep&#x
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by randerson 1y ago
A capital investment is predicated on there being future profits. I don't understand why they can't be profitable already. If 800M AU is not a critical mass for flipping on the revenue switch, I can't imagine what is. So what
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by randerson 1y ago
Manufacturers should fit all-weather tires by default (not all-seasons) - they are decent in both summer and snow (3PMSF). The average car owner seems oblivious to the different types of tires. Most high performance cars come with summer ti
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by randerson 1y ago
Also better performance, since solid state batteries are lighter. More flexible car layouts and longer range since they're more compact. Faster charging due to reduced resistance. More stable in extreme cold or hot temperatures. It tru
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by randerson 1y ago
I’d actually prefer spending a few pennies to read an article vs. the status quo of being inundated with ads and trackers.
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by randerson 1y ago
> No. I’m arguing that people who say “people change their personalities to suit mine” are hypocrites. Assimilating doesn't mean changing one's personality. I'm still the same person I was before I came to the USA, but I r
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by randerson 1y ago
This thread is about illegal immigrants. If your friends paid for visas, that would imply they are in a different immigrant category than what we're discussing.
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by randerson 1y ago
Major difference between visiting a place and emigrating there. How many cultures actually learn another language just to go on their annual vacation? You seem to be arguing simultaneously that the Brits are worse than average when it comes
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by randerson 1y ago
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by randerson 1y ago
You must have excellent coordination. Others, like me, are clumsy. Its certainly not wanton disregard that results in me dropping my phone. It just feels like it slides out of my hands sometimes.
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by randerson 1y ago
Borrowing productivity from the future is how I feel about my career as a whole. I spent 30 years working stressful 70-80 hour weeks, only to burn out completely in my late 40s. From high achiever to practically zero executive function. Lik
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by randerson 1y ago
These are all good points. But that just seems like it adds cost to the car. A manufacturer could have an entry-level offering with just a camera and a high-end offering with LIDAR that costs extra for those who want the safest car they can
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by randerson 1y ago
Even then, it is rarely a good economic decision. Its hard to predict which cars will rise in value that much (unless you're spending $800K+ on some invite-only limited-run hypercar). The storage and insurance add up. It'll invari
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by randerson 1y ago
Even if they could: Why settle for a car that is only as good as a human when the competitors are making cars that are better than a human?
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by randerson 1y ago
If I wanted notices about fundraisers it should be because I signed up for them. If I want to know about concerts I would've subscribed to a feed. If I wanted to help my cousin find a used car I'd actively go searching for one. If
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by randerson 1y ago
My experience is that the base price for a car hasn't increased as much as all the mandatory dealer add-ons they force on you. I'm currently trying to buy a new car and the dealer refuses to sell me one without a Pulse brake light
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by randerson 1y ago
Even more impressive is racking up that mileage on the original engine: https://www.corvettemuseum.org/high-mileage-c5-corvette-dona... (It's owner probably also had a little more fun doing that mileage.) There are al
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by randerson 1y ago
At least back then, the hit to your reputation was confined to that small town. You could move to one town over and start fresh.
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by randerson 1y ago
Considering this is reversing their own mistake, after damage has been done, it is still a net fuckup in aggregate.
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by randerson 1y ago
Ambien drastically reduces the restorative deep sleep and REM phases of sleep, so you are correct in your assessment. Your brain needs those phases. Long-term use can cause cognitive issues and cancer.
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by randerson 1y ago
I dined at a fine dining restaurant in the Bay area that had obviously Googled my name in advance, and found a semi-famous person who shares my name. As I arrived the maitre'd said some things that made no sense, like she hoped the con
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by randerson 1y ago
It's always a matter of time before a facility explodes for preventable reasons and costs the company billions in property damage and lawsuits. This decision to stop learning from mistakes and spreading awareness will hurt profits in t
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by randerson 1y ago
Coming soon to status.golden-dome.mil: "Our AI provider is having an outage and we are unable to identify which flying objects look like enemies."
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by randerson 1y ago
It's easy to have multiple chat apps in parallel though, each with their own network. Ads will make more people Signal-curious, or even drive people back to text messages. The average person who switches will convince a non-zero number
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by randerson 1y ago
It could be good business for AI cars to start doing this too. You can't put an algorithm in prison, and the programmers can just say its a black box and nobody could possibly understand how it trained itself to do it. The company make
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by randerson 1y ago
And not just alcohol. America is highly medicated. Someone who takes sleeping pills for example is unlikely to be subconsciously aware of their surroundings.
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by randerson 1y ago
As an amateur bird photographer I love this app, but I wish there was some way to pinpoint the direction the sound is coming from. I have wondered if perhaps with 3 microphones positioned a specific distance apart from one another, an app c
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by randerson 1y ago
And if you're successful, imagine how well you'd sleep that night.
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by randerson 1y ago
My understanding is that other countries who end up with those dollars from our trade deficit tend to invest those dollars in US financial institutions: treasuries being one form, but also US stocks and corporate bonds and so on. So the def
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by randerson 1y ago
Maybe I'm missing something, but the budget deficit and trade deficit are two separate issues. We can have a budget surplus (as we had under the Clinton administration) while still having a trade deficit.

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