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by roxolotl 1y ago
If you take "fair" to mean, less imbalanced, that would give three possible solutions: increase exports, decrease imports, or a bit of both. Tariffs only make goods produced within the tariffing country more competitive within tha
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by roxolotl 1y ago
Again further stating the obvious here but this is the _desired_ effect. Not saying if that’s good one way or the other but it’s clear the goal is to reduce inbound volume from the world.
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by roxolotl 1y ago
These in particular are calculated based on time of departure. I don’t believe that’s the common case though.
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by roxolotl 1y ago
Discussion from earlier this week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43927321 Pretty sure the substack and main site are the same. First paragraph is at least.
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by roxolotl 1y ago
I’ve spent multiple separate weeks without electricity in my life and never really had that hard of a time. You accept that you lose your frozen foods that you don’t eat in the first day, go to your friends that are on city water, I was alw
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by roxolotl 1y ago
I really wish I could know if they are earnestly cosplaying Lex Luther or if they are just deluded. Of course a good Lex Luther cosplay would involve misdirection so it’s basically impossible to know. It doesn’t really matter which one it i
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by roxolotl 1y ago
Feels fair to me. Some people need different things from their appliances than efficiency. Those people can choose such appliances. I’ve never even noticed how long it take my dishwasher to run because overnight is my requirement. If you th
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by roxolotl 1y ago
The problem is manufacturers also have no incentives to display the information EnergyStar provides if not forced to do so. And sure Americans care about energy costs but looking at the car market you can see Americans don’t actually care t
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by roxolotl 1y ago
My point though is that simulated suffering, if simulated effectively, is as real as nonsimulated suffering. The important part of suffering is that it’s experienced. The inverse of fake people experiencing real suffering is that if you put
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by roxolotl 1y ago
Love that you can see Mt Washington NH on this map. There’s nothing quite like the weather around it.
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by roxolotl 1y ago
Suffering is bad because people experience the suffering. There is no fake suffering.
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by roxolotl 1y ago
Awesome thanks for the response. Maybe this is what finally gets me to use org mode haha.
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by roxolotl 1y ago
This looks amazing and fills a niche that I’d love to have filled. Also totally willing to pay the cost. I appreciate that good software is worth money. One question I do have though is how freely available is your data? The post makes it s
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by roxolotl 1y ago
This is why it’s unlikely these systems will effectively replace software development. By the time you’ve specified the novel system you want to build well enough in English such that you get exactly the system you want you might as well ha
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by roxolotl 1y ago
One thing that’s difficult about this is knowing if accepting a differing strategy than orthodoxy will actually be successful. Absolutely effort should be put into breaking out of the Cannae Problem but it’s easy to fall into a reverse trap
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by roxolotl 1y ago
This article reminds me about how much I hate bottled water, in places where potable water is cheap and plentiful. It’s such an incredibly cynical thing that many American families, again those who have cheap potable water, go through cases
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by roxolotl 1y ago
Containers are also manufactured… in China. Container, sea and others, are products in and of themselves so importing them for use even just to transport goods domestically will cost more.
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by roxolotl 1y ago
What about things which are only beneficial, or extra beneficial, at a population level? I don’t know if that’s true about fluoride but other comments talk about vaccines and it’s true there. Both disease eradication and herd immunity requi
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by roxolotl 1y ago
Ok fair. Let’s turn it around then. Why wouldn’t you want something which drastically reduces allergies and is provably safe to humans and the environment? Is there any level of proof you’d be willing to accept? Do you just fundamentally be
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by roxolotl 1y ago
Sure why wouldn’t I? We do it already with things that aren’t healthy all the time. If we could, let’s say alleviate all allergies, with only very minor impacts to the environment or human health why wouldn’t we. That being said it’s a fals
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by roxolotl 1y ago
Yea the funny thing about oil prices is that if they go too low there's no longer a reason to pump. The US was the world's largest oil producer in 2024 but prices below about $60 a barrel mean most of that pumping isn't worth
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by roxolotl 1y ago
It's not about thinking the government knows best it's about thinking the research knows best. Fluoride in water is widely considered one of the largest public health victories and study after study finds it largely safe and worth
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by roxolotl 1y ago
You can buy bottled water, or a filter and many people have wells.
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by roxolotl 1y ago
Over the weekend I was looking up NCAA softball rankings and there was an acronym I couldn’t figure out, CPCT. Asking Claude and Gemini it was pure random generation. You can refresh google and get a different explanation every time. They a
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by roxolotl 1y ago
This has always been my takeaway. Our cosmic insignificance reminds us just how significant what we have is.
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by roxolotl 1y ago
Don't want to deny that your question, is it responsible for all of it, is sill undecided, however this issue is _likely_ due to similar changes in societal factors. The Mental Health Parity Act passed in '96, and another passed i
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by roxolotl 1y ago
Very long article which largely amounts to the “prevalence of left-handedness chart”[0]. If you don’t believe that, or you’d like to understand how that phenomenon works it’s a great read. [0]: https://www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F
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by roxolotl 1y ago
It’s pretty wild to me that if a US political party were to genuinely try to and implement a degrowth policy this would be a very good start. Increased uncertainty to cause pullback in corporate investment. Large tariffs to reduce consumpti
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by roxolotl 1y ago
So I actually tend to prefer couch gaming and I stream to a MacBook pretty often with Steam. Got an Xbox controller and the latency is basically 0. If you really want max quality, or you’re playing competitive fps games it’s not going to wo
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by roxolotl 1y ago
I recently finished the latest iteration of a gaming PC and haven’t even bothered installing windows on it. Not Mac but it seems that Linux gaming is also basically Windows gaming at this point. It could probably play games on Ultra vs High

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