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“Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!” Statue of Liberty

Money can buy you things that a war or climate change intensified weather can destroy in seconds as seen in modern Ukraine. The pleasures and joys of money are a peacetime merriment.

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What to know as new real estate commission rules go into effect

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www.theatlantic.com 2y ago

I Know the secret to the quiet mind. I wish I'd never learned it (2021)

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www.cnbc.com 2y ago

Highest-paying college majors, 5 years after graduation

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www.tomshardware.com 2y ago

AMD confirms Ryzen 8000G APUs don't support ECC RAM, despite initial claims

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scholar.harvard.edu 2y ago

The Effects of Interest Rates on Commodity Prices

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www.fastcompany.com 2y ago

Housing economist expects the 'lock-in effect' to ease up in 2024

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futuretimeline.net 2y ago

Future Timeline

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www.debevoise.com 2y ago

Private Equity Report Fall 2023, Vol 23, No 3 November 2023

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Rosalynn Carter has died

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Chapter 14: Incentives – Labor Economics

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www.space.com 2y ago

Between Venus' atmospheric currents, a layer of reactive oxygen

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Psychedelics researcher approached his death with calm and curiosity

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www-stage.theatlantic.com 2y ago

The Secretive Industry Devouring the U.S. Economy

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A Humanist Manifesto

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onlysky.media 2y ago

How Russia is waging war on me

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www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov 2y ago

Effect of Breakfast Skipping and Late Night Eating on BMI with Type 2 Diabetes

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First Results and Experiments Testing LK-99 Superconductor: Real or Not? [video]

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www.unep.org 3y ago

Restoring nature is good for farmers, fisheries and food security

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www.economist.com 3y ago

Economists draw swords over how to fix inflation

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e360.yale.edu 3y ago

U.S. Wind and Solar Overtake Coal for the First Time

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Finding a Needle in the Ocean-Avi Loeb

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Asteroid the size of 28 sheep to RAM past the Earth

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Jobs that are set to disappear in a decade, and ones that will take over

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U.S. Electric Vehicle Market Set for Sustained Growth Despite Stricter Rules

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Post-WW2 Anti-Fascist Educational Film – Don't Be a Sucker – 1947

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Acceleration of U.S. Southeast and Gulf sea-level rise amplified climate variab

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‘the end of capitalism’: investment banks warns ‘Greedflation’ has gone too far

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The salary you need to live comfortably in 15 major U.S. cities

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America’s Other Great Migration

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www.theatlantic.com 3y ago

Smart People Can Stop Being Miserable

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Millennial Pause 2 years ago

Quiet is the black paint in the pallet of the musician and film maker. It’s central to things like stoicism, zen buddhism, existentialism, meditation, and mysticism. Taoism iirc, too.

GPT-4o 2 years ago

Be glib, but that is one way for society to bring privacy back-and with it shared respect. I think of it as the “oh everyone has an anus” moment. We all know everyone has one and it doesn’t need to be dragged out in polite company.

Makes me wonder. What would it take for Mac the tech to have this sort of feel/appeal again?

Would a full wintel+nvidia gpu daughterboard move any needles? Or something oddball and hardware like the lamp imac, idk.

Basically, computing nowadays feels very well baked and staid at times. Stuff like a unixy subsystem feels experimental in ways computing hasn't in decades.

Uhh how about a desktop tower case that takes in some number of their laptop logic boards and provides networking? Think like the “turingpi” motherboard but with an eye towards repurposing old logic boards.

I could see purposes being local storage HA arrays (small scale media firms), perhaps some computational applications (local testing), k8s. Could be a boon for academics who otherwise might be priced out. Like 2k for the tower, less than 1k (old refurb) to 2k per blade. Might be doing something interesting for around 10k.

I could see that affecting the trapezius muscle or nerve endings somehow. That seems to play a large role in many of my migraines. It probably does for others as it’s part of where the botox for migraine shots go.

Ie when the pain shoots up through/along the side of the traps, along the backside of the ear, to the forehead and back of the eye.

Reminds me of pinching the ear lobes during a migraine. That seemed to sort of help but not terribly.

Nowadays nurtec/the cgrp protein inhibitors work wonders. But I’ll consider the piercings too.

One of the tragedies to me: nuclear and renewable power could absolutely fulfill and surpass our current energy needs. Pick a per annum growth rate of energy production and go.

At some point power becomes so cheap and plentiful that battery size and tech is essentially solved. Industry eventually gets converted to use electricity as the price would drive emissive processes out. And generally allows the economy to produce and do more.

Like at some point you can live essentially anywhere and thus leave the precious wild places undisturbed. Want water in the desert? Build an aqueduct in and do desalination. Similar for places that are too cold/hot/etc to be habitable or productive.

She and her family were hit by a wrong way truck probably going 70 mph. It completely shattered their bodies, lives and shows how precious our moments are.

This almost feels personal to me because of how well written her account is. I’ve had terrible chronic migraines for as long as i can remember. Apparently they can be associated with brain lesions, too. I’ll clearly never know how they’ve impacted my personality.

They remediate certain superfund sites with spinach leaves iirc. And I think it’s bacteria that make nutrients from inorganic sources available for the rest of us (ie rocks).

As for budget, 10M seems pretty great for what reads as a “proof of concept” level effort. You can buy a farm for ~1M and 9M left over. (They won’t do that I imagine but just to illustrate.)

They could really only do that as long as zero interest rates and relative wages permitted. Frankly I think they made luxury EVs to justify the battery costs early in the production.

The automotive industry is known for bad margins. Interest rates go up, willingness to pay for large ticket items goes down. We won’t see anything like 0 percent rates for possibly 100 years.

One interesting outcome: near shoring of production drives local labor wages up for the long, permanent term. Maybe more in India/Mexico than the US, but still significant. And better for all than the past.

Because that question is more of an economics research paper or policy brief than a mass media article. And in that arena data are currency, ie largely not public.

Generally, there’s a lot of economics principles at play. Economies of scale mean as more is produced, often, still further increases in production are possible more cheaply than previously obtained. First semi chip produced might cost billions. The billionth chip might be pennies. There’s also a concept in the environmental economics that pulling finite resources out of the ground responds to increasing demand similar to pulling more money out of a bank via loans. Ie the most easy to obtain resources are mined first and the cost increases from there. In practice, too, producer relationships matter. A company buying batteries for EVs (ie at that scale) for their 5th year in a row is going to have demonstrated to their suppliers that, indeed, they can write a check for all the materials they’ve ordered much more than in year 0. So their suppliers have better information about how reliable their needs are, and so on.

Lots of complicated things not generally in the public knowledge nor easy to explain quick enough to not get scooped by another organization.

Yes, and so much could be addressed and fixed if the US Congress could commit to some acts of representative democracy. Laws could be written, laws could be changed, and many or all the seeming impasses could be legislated away-through acts of representative democracy. Something, something, people should politely write their representatives and otherwise fulfill their civic duties.

I’m getting the sense they can be too close to form life, but can form further out with the right planetary characteristics. How often favorable atmospheres form would be interesting.

Taken another way: Venus’ atmosphere would get more “tame” further out. That might make it more conducive to life. But would its atmosphere still form at those distances? (Clearly it’s not impossible.)

Don’t be afraid to wear sunglasses indoors with the lights down/off. Screens actually get darker past turning the brightness to zero by decreasing the sharpness. And be firm about getting up every twenty minutes and looking away from the screen for at least 20 seconds. I still wind up wearing an eye mask on the couch after work many nights.

"Overall, credit unions’ balance sheet positions seemed to be more resilient to unrealized interest rate risk than banks"

There's a way to measure the (mathematical economic) optimal size of a bank. Turns out, CUs are usually pretty close - much closer than your 'too big to fail' banks.