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Ironic OECD countries actually REDUCED their emissions based on a peak in 2007 and continue to do so

Any idea what percentage of this reduction is due to offshoring manufacturing?

Interesting that he basically called for a more idealistic version of the Green New Deal back then.

To add to this: I bought a Steermouse license well over a decade ago. I paid once. I’ve been using it ever since and it’s maintained and updated. No subscription. Isn’t charging for updates. This is what software should be.

Telegram bots API works well for this FYI, unless there’s a reason you need it in Messages.app

How much can he bench?

I'd love to use this but is there any risk that this will get Google to flag me as a bot/malicious? I wanna make sure I can still pass captchas and don't screw anything up for testing on my dev machine.

I also don't understand the take that altruism/philanthropy has to be zero sum

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/altruism

By the first definition it requires “unselfish regard”. If MrBeast is pulling 54 million a year (along with lots of fame and clout) he’s not exactly qualifying for the first definition.

Definition 2 is the one I’m most familiar with from the animal kingdom, and it actually requires that the giver either gain nothing or lose something. So that may be where people are coming from who take exception to his behavior being described as “altruistic”. By definition, it is not.

My grandmother was quite the baker, and was known in particular for her pies. For apple she swore by the Pippin. She was very upset when they became uncommon in supermarkets.

I’ve carried on her tradition, and as a substitute I do half Fuji and half Granny Smith. I think it provides a nice balance. But, I’m always on the lookout for Pippins.

https://www.ee.columbia.edu/~dpwe/papers/Wang03-shazam.pdf

One point not mentioned (and I’m just paraphrasing Levine from Money Stuff here):

It’s crazy because it would probably be BETTER if you had more bots. Then you could say that your revenue per user was higher and you could argue that you had more room for growth. So, if anything, lying and OVERestimating the bot count would help your valuation more.

You are clearly not a Comcast customer.

If they had a hard salary cap + floor like the NFL that would help some. But otherwise agree 100%.

Can’t all these things also be explained by our increasingly sedentary lifestyle?

Agree. To this day I open all xibs in a new window.

Perhaps the other companies don’t mandate usage of a single machine?

Gmail shifts almost every time I click on the Promotions tab. I go to click my top unread email and instead end up clicking an ad.

This is not a new phenomenon:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXQ2lO3ieBA

I don’t know about your reduced capacity argument. The reason Buffett sold his airline shares so low is he foresees supply outstripping demand for quite some time in the industry. Presumably that would apply to other travel/experience stuff as well. And for gasoline I think the Saudis et al can ramp up preeetttyyy quickly.

Care to elaborate on some of your points/concerns here? I’m not an expert, but it sounds like short interest is still so high that if a coordinated group can hold the line they’ll squeeze the shorts. But you and other posters make it sound like that isn’t possible. Can you or anyone else explain why not?

Simplifying things to PGE’s current plight I do agree with you.

The larger problem is as the GP mentions the misaligned incentives. Here in Sacramento we have SMUD, which is a publicly owned utility. No shut offs here. I have a friend who’s an arborist for SMUD. Before that he was an arborist for PGE.

For years at PGE he was trying to jump to SMUD. Why? Because they place a higher value on his services. PGE, being beholden to shareholders, treated him as 1099 and paid significantly less.

PGE shuts off power in part because they don’t keep their lines clear. Because they didn’t employ enough people like my friend. And those they do employ don’t stay longer than they need to.

Short-term shareholder incentives don’t align with long-term incentives of the public in this case. It’s a problem. Pointing out that California’s government has flaws doesn’t negate that point.

What if the cost of the monthly interest on your mortgage for that $500k house was less than your rent?

1. The ability to install skins outside of the V-bucks store.

Isn’t this like allowing mods, custom maps etc? So CounterStrike, DoTA, etc shouldn’t exist?

Honestly I started off on the fence but now I’m 100% against Apple here, and I’m an iOS dev. This is kinda crazy.

Theoretically, since "housing" is part of CPI prices could fall. But, real estate is difficult to predict:

- low interest rates boost home prices, as lower monthly payments increase "how much" house a buyer can afford

- as the post states, the Fed's actions are increasing income inequality. If rich people are getting richer, and they don't want to put their money in treasuries because the yield is zero, that money has to go somewhere. So stocks, bonds, real estate. So that may increase demand for real estate among the wealthy.

But, nobody knows.

Maybe I need to rewatch it, but what I got from it was that he's not arguing against the right to free speech, he's arguing against allowing the right to free speech to impinge on other rights - specifically in his words, the rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Yeah I’d neglected to mention that we’d tried some of that as well... but the only available probiotics matching the “correct” lactobacilli strains were in Europe... so we tried a few weeks of them but between their cost and not being certain they’d even survive the long journey to California we didn’t get many doses and as mentioned weren’t confident they’d be active on arrival.

Yeah we’ve tried that and unfortunately it didn’t work... but we definitely didn’t do 12 weeks of it. Thank you for that info!

Was this something you actually did and had success with? If so, did you have chronic BV or just acute BV?

Things we’ve tried: - boric acid suppositories (this helps but the BV always comes back) - hydrogen peroxide douche (no results) - a couple essential oil mixtures (no results) - antibiotics (BV comes back)

Through research it seems the problem may be biofilms. You kill all the bacteria except those hiding in the biofilms and so they just repopulate.

A cursory google shows iodine may bust biofilms, so this May be worth a try.

Your complaints sound like they're coming from someone who went on a cruise to almost any third world island - though maybe other destinations are better controlled by the cruise companies to take you to specific (clean) tourist ports.

Cuba is not without its problems, but much of what you describe is not unique to a third world country.

The one area you're just completely wrong about is the flavors. I was only able to stay for 10 days, but on my short trip there I stayed in locals' houses (which is quite common there - google "casas particulares") and the vast majority of the meals we had - especially the ones cooked by the people we stayed with - were extremely flavorful.

I'm not claiming socialism is great or anything - there was a potato shortage while I was there - but I'd just hope no one reads your post and thinks Cubans are eating terrible bland food...

Assuming it's like the last version on iOS (which I was lucky enough to download before it got yanked) you can just plug in your device and throw whatever videos you want into VLC's documents folder. Transfers really quickly over USB.

iPhone doesn't come with bloatware? Why couldn't Ubuntu pull that off as Apple has? Less bargaining leverage, I guess...