mritterhoff

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by mritterhoff 29d ago
That might be a side effect, but I'm doubtful it's the cause. The main cause as I understand it is that the govt prints money to offset the gap between what it collects in taxes and what it spends.
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by mritterhoff 3mo ago
I suspect OP mean declining fertility rate. USA population is still increasing, but is slowing down, and will sharply drop if the fertility rate remains below replacement of ~2 children per woman.
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by mritterhoff 6mo ago
You're moving the goalposts. There's tons we can do to improve US healthcare outcomes (we overspend compared to what we get [1]) by emulating what has succeeded in other countries. But that conversation and solution is different t
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by mritterhoff 6mo ago
Most Americans have some form of health insurance [1]. I'd argue that my country is worth defending, despite its many flaws. 1. https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2025/demo/p60-28...
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by mritterhoff 7mo ago
No one is stopping you, and maybe it's worth trying out!
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by mritterhoff 8mo ago
It seems to be, given how many people voted for "mass deportations". It also makes it easier for employers to get away with poor working conditions for those workers.
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by mritterhoff 8mo ago
Moving electrons around isn't inherently immoral like slavery is. It's odd to compare the two!
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by mritterhoff 8mo ago
Housing is expensive because homeowners have weaponized zoning laws to make it illegal to build housing the city needs.
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by mritterhoff 9mo ago
A small section of it is. > “Bowtie” bounded by Broadway and Seventh Avenue between 42nd and 47th Streets.
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by mritterhoff 9mo ago
My understanding is that picked fruits and veg are still alive [1], and often respirating [2]. This is a big component in figuring out how to refrigerate them at the optimal temperatures and atmospheric makeup. 1. https://healthl
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by mritterhoff 9mo ago
Big agree. Times Square would be a great place to start.
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by mritterhoff 10mo ago
Agree. Also I don't think any adults were forcibly vaccinated again their will, they just lost out on certain societal privileges.
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by mritterhoff 10mo ago
Seems 48.6% of US employees had employer-provided health care in 2023. Lower than I would have thought. https://www.kff.org/state-health-policy-data/state-indicator...
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by mritterhoff 10mo ago
> because healthcare demand is unlimited. How's that? Beyond some level of care I suspect demand drops of a cliff. No one goes to the doctor for the fun of it.
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by mritterhoff 10mo ago
Ignoring the pandemic, the percentage has been north of 45% since 2014 or so, according to Moody's: https://archive.is/AW6rW
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by mritterhoff 10mo ago
Why would that be better? I think you'd miss out on economies of scale and end up paying more.
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by mritterhoff 1y ago
I'm mostly cheering for more competition in the field. No reason for advances in life-changing technical progress to belong solely to that one company.
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by mritterhoff 1y ago
I agree methane leaks (and monitoring programs cuts) are a problem. But even with them, methane burns much more cleanly than coal. The former primarily emits CO2 and H2O, while the latter emits SO2, NOx, heavy metals and more.
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by mritterhoff 1y ago
While Meta has a non-binding promise to build more renewable energy, the Louisiana Legislature passed a new law that adds natural gas to the definition of green energy, allowing Zuckerberg and others to count Entergy’s gas turbines as “gre
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by mritterhoff 1y ago
Wikipedia says it would need to be 75x more massive in order to start fusing hydrogen. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter#Size_and_mass
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by mritterhoff 1y ago
Thanks for sharing info about MIPS, it looks great. Short animation of how it works for anyone else who's unfamiliar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvyoSzAPIBE
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by mritterhoff 1y ago
I'm no rug expert, heritage or otherwise, but it looks like there are some really expensive rugs out there: this[1] site lists 9 worth over $1M USD. So I'd assume there's a big spread between that and rugs you get at Ikea. So
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by mritterhoff 1y ago
Prioritizing pedestrian right of way sounds like a perk to me.
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by mritterhoff 1y ago
It's an odd choice of words since 1. Most people know it's the largest and heaviest planet 2. They didn't specify planet but are still ignoring the sun, which is 1000x Jupiter's mass.
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by mritterhoff 1y ago
When I first landed on this page I didn't see any call to action so I left. Adding animation or a label to the button might help.
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by mritterhoff 1y ago
Agree. Though I imagine the cost to run robot taxis in low density areas would be much higher than in high density areas, as there'd be a higher distance between rides, and so more wasted time and gas. I suspect that would slow adoptio
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by mritterhoff 1y ago
Well said. Moralizing energy consumption is inefficient and no way to run a market. It'd be better to pass regulation that internalized the externalities in the price of electricity so that it captured the societal costs of emissions.
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by mritterhoff 1y ago
Not in terms of throughput though. Buses and trains still have em beat.
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by mritterhoff 1y ago
Seems to me we need a better pricing system for water so the market can sort out if the application is valuable enough.
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by mritterhoff 1y ago
All human life, sure. Maybe even all mammalian life. But ecosystems around hydrothermal vents won't care about nuclear winter, if that's your scenario.

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