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by xyzzyz 4y ago
It does not cost nearly as much as the price premium. A regular household fridge costs something like $100/year to run. My fridge has 20 cubic feet of volume, which is something like 500 liters. This suggests we can fit at least 100
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
I am not offended that regular people would foot the bill for ICUs if state decides to pay for those. My point is that I do not see why it would be an improvement in any way over the status quo. It will not make them cheaper or more availab
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
Most hospitals in the US actually are non-profits, but that’s really beside the point. Just because something is for profit or non profit does not allow you to immediately conclude anything about its cost. For example, the government in my
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
Where do you think state money comes from? Even if it’s the government that foots the bill for ICUs, in the end it will still be paid collectively by all of us regular people.
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
I think those figures are wrong. Here's another source, suggesting the spending is $250 per capita, and 90% of that spending is out of home. This necessarily implies that people who spend more than a few hundred dollars per year on co
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
I don't doubt that some people will spend as much, that's not hard. My point is that most definitely don't. Most people don't buy $15 bags every week. Hell, instant coffee is something like 20% of the whole market
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I seriously doubt most people spend $1000/year on coffee. Many, maybe, but definitely not most .
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They lay people off, because companies always want to lay some people off, and doing so in normal times is even less palatable. Employees are not fungible, and some employees are worth to companies less than the company wants. This is
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
Yes, we are better adapted to some conditions than to others. This is a result of a process known as biological evolution.
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I see, this makes sense. Probably gets easier when one gets used to it.
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For the meaning, you just have to retrace back to where the things were defined, just like in programming. I am a mathematician, and I do not understand anything in the linked screenshot either (other than big O notation, which many people
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
> Politicians who never wanted state-owned enterprises came into power And pray tell, how did that happen? How do people come into power in Sweden? I thought that it has a system where people propose what they will do, and the population
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> The first amendment isn't even particularly strong protection - it only forbids Congress from restricting freedom of speech, but doesn't set out any specific rights, or preclude states from setting their own laws restricting
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
Doesn’t your argument only highlight how appalling it is to consider something as crude as the race of the applicant? Even if you disregard how crude the official government racial classifications are (black Americans have much more in co
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> People once wanted slavery and explicit segregation, that doesn't mean it's evil to force them to stop. Sure, but if it was the slave themselves who preferred slavery to what your courts were forcing on them, one should rea
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
Did you really express opinion about how forced busing worked without knowing such basic facts? Here is, for example, a NYT article from 1973, describing result of a Gallup poll: https://www.nytimes.com/1973/09/09&
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
I agree, it is childish thing to tell the truth, when lying and obfuscating is more conducive to gain and preserve power.
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> Parents just weren't ready for interracial marriage, and were terrified their kids would date 'other'. Do you think this is why black parents were mostly against forced busing?
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Well, I hope you’re right about this, but if experience is any guide, I bet that new obstacles will be invented, and in a decade you will still believe that the building boom is just around the corner.
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> In fact, really all California has to do is (…) I guarantee they when Charlie actually does that, Lucy will nevertheless pull away the ball again.
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
Google approached this issue by simply creating and maintaining their own fork of OpenSSL, called BoringSSL. Has it been affected by this most recent issue?
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ML is where the significant future growth is very likely to be, so cutting it now is basically eating the seed corn.
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It is not general purpose quantum computer, so it will not run Shor algorithm.
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
Babylon Bee was not first to “target” Levine. Washington Post, for example, has run an article on Levine before Bee, also for the sole purpose of Levine being trans: https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/10&#x
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> At the end of the day you still drank 1 milk for the same effective price. Why don't then people just buy 1 milk today at today price instead of buying 2 and throwing one away? They'd still have drunk 1 milk, but for half eff
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Only barely more than half of the European countries are in EU, and 20 years ago, less than a third was.
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
Then it depends on what portion of the electricity mix is CCG instead of simple gas turbines or coal, what’s the actual efficiency of heat pump (you won’t get 300% when it’s subzero temperature) etc. Point is, air source heat pumps are real
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
Yes, but if the electricity is made from gas, then 300% efficiency of heat pump is better than 98% efficient heat furnace only if generation efficiency is at least 33%. Heat pumps are pretty great, but as of today, they are by no means nece
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> Almost since the beginning of agriculture, agrarian societies have experienced food surpluses, and that's what made the cities appear (as in a pre-industrial society the urban population feeds from the surplus of the countryside).
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Thank you for recommendations. It’s been a while since I last skipped sleep to read on these topics, so maybe it is in fact time to catch up with recent ideas. My priors are still strong on humans being ultimately responsible, especially as

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