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Supply-Side Healthcare?(phenomenalworld.org)
2 points by viburnum 2y ago|0 comments
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The Triumph of Counting and Scripting(slate.com)
46 points by viburnum 2y ago|10 comments
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by viburnum 2y ago
Here’s an excellent history of american economics and the role the railroads played in it: https://nyupress.org/9781583671351/railroading-economics
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by viburnum 2y ago
I don’t know the science of it but for me at least walking suppresses my appetite. My hunch is that by not walking the body goes into “must be sick, should probably eat some more” mode.
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by viburnum 2y ago
The brine doesn’t spread out automatically, it sinks, and it’s deadly to aquatic life.
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by viburnum 2y ago
It already has too much toxic salt dust blowing around.
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by viburnum 2y ago
Leftover brine is really a problem though https://www.wired.com/story/desalination-is-booming-but-what...
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Supply-Side Healthcare?(phenomenalworld.org)
2 points by viburnum 2y ago|0 comments
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by viburnum 2y ago
“The government also adopted cost-cutting measures while inflation rates increased, allowing nearly 300 per cent annual inflation to erode real public spending on wages and pensions.” That’s one way to do it.
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by viburnum 3y ago
Well, yeah, they’re books for children, of course they sound like fairy tales. Maybe Moorcock doesn’t understand his genre.
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by viburnum 3y ago
It helped me a lot when I realized everything in git could’ve been named better.
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by viburnum 3y ago
It sounds like none of this advice is working for the author.
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by viburnum 3y ago
Apparently in Tesla cars the common cause of motor failure is coolant leaking in.
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by viburnum 3y ago
These cars have way more acceleration than any car should.
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by viburnum 3y ago
The bummer is how much of it driven by fossil fuels: greenhouses heated with gas, air pumped with CO2 to speed up ripening, fertilizer made from fossil fuels.
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by viburnum 3y ago
Kids nowadays are drowning in plastic stuffies, which I assume are made of toxic waste. No joke, iirc they off gas enough to pick up on household air quality sensors.
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by viburnum 3y ago
Now they do but they didn’t used to.
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by viburnum 3y ago
Price controls are bad in textbook economics but they can actually work well in certain circumstances. See Weber’s “How China Escaped Shock Therapy” and Galbraith’s “The Theory of Price Control.” This is the problem with supply and demand a
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How the wrong side won at Boeing(backofmind.substack.com)
77 points by viburnum 3y ago|71 comments
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by viburnum 3y ago
Some of these schools didn’t have enough housing. It’s not surprising that students don’t want to sleep in cars anymore.
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by viburnum 3y ago
Thanks, that article is much clearer.
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by viburnum 3y ago
Here’s a good article on the subject https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/trauma-bessel-van-de...
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by viburnum 3y ago
I was surprised that the once-only principle wasn't mentioned: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Once-only_principle#Estonia
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by viburnum 3y ago
The top schools see themselves as educating the next generation of the elite, whoever that is at the time.
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by viburnum 3y ago
After getting fed up with Duolingo I came across “comprehensible input” videos on YouTube. It seems weird at first but it really does work.
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by viburnum 3y ago
Those threads were great
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by viburnum 3y ago
I cancelled my subscription last year because the quality had gone down, and the UI changes kept getting worse.
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by viburnum 3y ago
I read that Taleb book when it came out and was inspired to build up a library. I mostly regret it. I used to be motivated to finish books because then I would allow myself to buy more. Now I read less and have a ton of books about things I
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by viburnum 3y ago
The thing about small scale societies is that there is very little solitary work. Not everybody needs an abundance of executive function. The body doubling technique that some ADHDers use is just everyday life in small scale societies.
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by viburnum 3y ago
Scientists were aware of this way back in the 1970s: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00652...

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