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by sleton38234234 4y ago
I already got a heat pump water heater and I love it! I'm totally in the market for a heat pump heater to replace our Heater/AC. the primary concern are three things: up front cost, and electricity costs for heating and 3) perf
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by sleton38234234 4y ago
i think it has to do with the vast oversupply of labor (at least for white collar jobs). employers generally pick people with degrees of people without because there's just too many candidates.
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by sleton38234234 4y ago
but he's back to where he started in the beginning. I didn't sound like there was any more self actualization, after he went back.
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by sleton38234234 4y ago
I ran the numbers average wages/big mac index. And it was showing a decrease in cost untill about 2000 but ever since then the cost of the big mac index has increased in the US, relative to average wages. Not that we should be eating
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by sleton38234234 4y ago
I don't think food has gotten that much cheaper in the last 50 years. Don't believe the fake CPI. Just take the average hourly earnings and divide it by something like the big mac index or a basket of food commodities.
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by sleton38234234 4y ago
And yet, over 80% of the cost of food is the bringing it to market cost: everything from transportation, to permitting to marketing, etc. what you pay the farmer is just a small fraction. I think what's needed is a revolution in where
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by sleton38234234 4y ago
cost controls are a form of rationing and a good one, at least for the field of healthcare.
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by sleton38234234 4y ago
i'm just wondering how Meta will fair IF the metaverse doesn't take off the way they expect. I mean it's such a big bet. Google has made many bets in the past and some worked but most did not.
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by sleton38234234 4y ago
well, it's not the root cause. there's many reasons why healthcare is way too expensive in america. the fact is that employers pay a huge sum for healthcare in the US and this makes up a sizable portion of your compensation. if
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by sleton38234234 4y ago
I would say consumers should organize, and target a few of the biggest companies supporting this bill and boycott their products until the bill gets changed. If nobody buys another iphone for 6 months, I don't think they'll have
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by sleton38234234 4y ago
i for one, hope that the AI will mostly stick to analyzing the content, rather than search intent because Google has had a history of misreading my search intent, quite frequently.
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by sleton38234234 4y ago
It's not useless at all. There are countries where the average workers earn 5 times less (even PPP adjusted) than our minimum wage and they don't rack up vast amounts of credit card debt, car loans, etc. We first need to start c
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by sleton38234234 4y ago
Failure of financial literacy is not because eduction has a lack of funding. The subject isn't even being taught, at least not when I was in school.
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by sleton38234234 4y ago
Crop diversity is great. And you also need lots of organic matter to go on top of the soil: to build life in the soil. that's much better than trying to duct tape the matter with fertilizer.
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by sleton38234234 4y ago
Well, that explains why our water is so high in nitrates. I've been looking into our local water supply. Out of the over 200 contaminants, the one that exceeds the EWG's limit by the most margin is nitrates which is said to come
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by sleton38234234 4y ago
Excellent point. Humanity has made all of our basic needs (shelter, food, water, land) inaccessible without lots of money. And, so we're forced into being slaves of govt and capitalism for most of our lives to earn a living. It'
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by sleton38234234 4y ago
If AI can create the perfect executive summary, then why not? A good executive summary is better than just lead sentences.
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by sleton38234234 4y ago
I hate the fact that i'm forced to buy appliances with these circuits and nonsense apps in them. I dont need my appliance to be "smart". I just need it to do what I want it to do. a washer should just wash, and it should w
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by sleton38234234 4y ago
There seems to be a knee jerk reaction to react negatively to anyone who doesn't read the article or doesn't read it in depth. i don't think the comment about TL;DR OR asking chatgpt is completely out of line. I could see bu
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by sleton38234234 4y ago
As the over supply of labor increases more and more, you're going to see more and more incompetent highering practices. This is a natural outcome of just too much talent chasing too few jobs. I would focus on companies that actually n
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by sleton38234234 4y ago
I mean sure: the fundamentals all point to deflation: the aging population, the increasing debt and technology are all deflationary. But, in this day and age where the fed has sooo much power, it doesn't matter. see below. >> I
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by sleton38234234 4y ago
>> you can choose to go bankrupt or you can choose to pay it. There's another option. One that's far more politically favorable: You simply take out more and more debt, until finally the whole world sells US treasuries. at
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by sleton38234234 4y ago
His point is, the material standard of living is low as ever or even lower. This surprises people, but the bare necesities of the lowest level of maslow's heirarchy of needs are now more expensive than they have been in a long time.
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by sleton38234234 4y ago
the point is everyone wants more govt spending, not necessarily handouts. Voters want larger government spending.
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by sleton38234234 4y ago
I have a theory. The last 100 years has seen govt spending as percent of gdp increase to ever greater levels. People are expecting more and more handouts and no one wants to pay for it. Without the ability to pay for it via taxes, the go
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by sleton38234234 4y ago
just be very careful with how you respond to questions from a therapist. they're "legally" required to report certain things. You have to know, what you're allowed to say and what you're not, if you don't wan
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by sleton38234234 4y ago
i suspect a lot of the super high PEs we're seeing has to do with the tendency to prefer capital gains over dividends, due to regulations incentivizing this.
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by sleton38234234 4y ago
Sooner or later, every investor learns it's so much better to not try to beat the market. Trying to beat the market results in failure for the vast majority of investors: even some of the most informed ones. I would go with the SPY o
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by sleton38234234 4y ago
Nature's food is the thing our bodies adapted to for millions of years. It is the gold standard of what is considered food, it is the grading rubric. when I first started learning about, I was not aware of all the intricacies of food:
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by sleton38234234 4y ago
There are more acres than people, even in CA. But, you're certainly not free to build on it. By all means, where is it?

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