tomcar288

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by tomcar288 3y ago
absolutely on the Magnesium. Due to our diets being primary processed wheat, sugar, oil, and animals, (and partially due to soil mineral depletion) our diet is persistently low on Magnesium by quite a large margin. the impact of this on t
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by tomcar288 3y ago
the key is to balance the number of jobs in an area with the amount of housing and to have mixed use land policy so housing and commercial and industrial can be much closer.
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by tomcar288 3y ago
but it's a lot more than that. Blue cities are by far the worst offenders at anti-housing regulations. part of it must be that people are funadamentally extremely conservative when it comes to housing.
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by tomcar288 3y ago
eating out at panda express or other fast food restaurants is quite the luxury and not achievable every day for most of society. I'm always perplexed that a poorer person would ask for something so costly. At costco I can get whole w
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by tomcar288 3y ago
we had no problem building houses for people in the 50s and 60s. Why all the sudden we can't do it in the last 20 years? There's plenty of land out there. Even in the CA, the most densley populated state, there are more acres i
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by tomcar288 3y ago
>>> Why surprised? How is the average consumer supposed to know that Shanghai/chinese labor laws are this incredibly abusive. and isn't that the fault of the legal system over there? I don't think any profit seekin
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by tomcar288 3y ago
strawberries are especially filled with pesticides: that one really tops the list for pesticides, etc. personally i have like 4 beds of strawberries at home from which I get most of them from.
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by tomcar288 3y ago
and these are just the chemicals you hear about. what about all the nonsense that never even makes the front pages? I don't trust industrialized agriculture, especially not here in the US. personally, I grow as much of my food as I ca
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by tomcar288 3y ago
>>> "Through this mass data collection they’re able to build advertising profiles, and spam you with ads they think match your demographic. By tracking your online activity, Google is able to make extremely accurate prediction
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by tomcar288 3y ago
I think what's going on is, we're having period of high inflation. Here's my theorey: this high inflation is effectively lowering the minimum wage level because minimum wage isn't keeping pace with the real rate of infl
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by tomcar288 3y ago
the management techniques mentioned in the article are all valid but i'm going to play devils advocate here and say that not getting that promotion isn't necessarily a failure, rather the goal was not realistic. Don't assume
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by tomcar288 3y ago
AFter 15 years, what could they possibly that would actually add to the bottom line? I mean, craigslist never seemed to add a single feature and yet they dominated for well over a decade and then some. For some products, at some point it m
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by tomcar288 3y ago
I can't imagine how heavily their product line was subsizidized. I mean, about 1 year ago I bought pretty decent shoes for, literally 4$ for a pair and no shipping charge!! Naturally I bought like 5 pairs, seizing the opportunity. O
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by tomcar288 3y ago
I like the fact that the author gives so many valuable tips on how to play this situation. There's an even bigger over supply of labor now more than ever. So, META is using this to their advantage. The author states that this strateg
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by tomcar288 3y ago
which is basically incetivizing even more electricity usage by subsidizing large electricity users and punishing electricity savers. there's nothing more evil than forcing people to pay flat rate for services (electricity) that we shou
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by tomcar288 3y ago
i can relate to this. sometimes coming across new philosophies can change your life's priorties and values quite a bit: for instancing learning about taoism.
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by tomcar288 3y ago
it's important to remember that a lot of the "progress" that compounds is just digital progress which is quite different from material/atom based progress. atom based progress comes much more slowly and is often accompa
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by tomcar288 3y ago
well, it's not like they're not trying to branch out. the list of failed project at google is incredibly long. i sometimes wonder if they would have more success with atoms based innovation rather than bits (reference to avc arti
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by tomcar288 3y ago
the problem is there's not enough high value projects to do. to much labor, too many employees and too much funding relative to the number of projects that actually bring value. Because all the high value stuff(high ROI stuff) is alre
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by tomcar288 3y ago
you don't necessarily need to urbanize. just make things more walkable. Instead of having 1 large library or grocery store the size of a theme park, have 10 smaller ones in walking distance instead.
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by tomcar288 3y ago
I think he really hit the nail on head here: "Part of this is a result of poor planning and ordinance-making that long ago overcompensated for the wide use of automobiles. Henry Grabar, a staff writer at Slate, mentions this in a book
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by tomcar288 3y ago
I guess a significant number of employees are just working really hard on things that don't matter. When every single thing that needs working on is already being worked on, a lot of people are going to be doing busy work. There was
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by tomcar288 3y ago
I've been using them for a couple of years for now and I think they're awesome!
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by tomcar288 3y ago
my solution to this is to not have any subscriptions except for property taxes, garbage, utilities, insurance and phone plan. and I absolutely avoid 30 day free trials (if they ask for credit card info) like the plague. the moment I see a
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by tomcar288 3y ago
travesty of justice doesn't begin to describe it. there must be something else wrong besides just the software? how could the justice department just blindly trust the software accounting without any other evidence.
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by tomcar288 3y ago
can't you just forget you ever saw the hardcoded credentials? that seems like the safest course of action to me.
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by tomcar288 3y ago
all the real problems of the world are atom problems, not bit problems. and so, software companies without real problems to solve, continue to flounder.
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by tomcar288 3y ago
96% of the web already is not indexed. Clearly there is something wrong with the algorithm they use to determine what should be indexed and what shouldn't. All that AI doesn't seem to help them much
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by tomcar288 3y ago
azurestandard or other wholesale companies sell large bags of orangic beans for just 50$ for 25 lbs (even in CA!). That's nearly 25 days worth of food for just 50$, much much cheaper than going to McFatBurger everyday.
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by tomcar288 3y ago
A single fruit tree can yield 100-200 lbs of fruit (apples, pears, oranges, etc), conservatively. All you need is 40$ for a fruit tree and some water, and some space, and 5-10 years. Plant 5 of those and now you've got 500 to 1000 lb

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