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  1. jsbg parent
    How many 9s does lyft guarantee?
  2. jsbg parent
    > Do you have a complete list because thats literally what trump is doing.

    https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/02/07/biden-gra...

  3. jsbg parent
    > Yeah, because he was guarding them against the current administration abusing the Justice Department to go after them. Same reason he pardoned Fauci and others.

    Are pre-emptive pardons a common thing for American presidents to do?

  5. jsbg parent
    that's why no one every buys TVs
  6. jsbg parent
    > Yet, it creates zero value.

    Then why do people give them money?

  7. jsbg parent
    edit: the funeral home published this

    previous comment: could have been programmed as `Time.now - 1.day` to be published if no action was taken on the day of

  8. jsbg parent
    according to chatgpt, 25% of people die of cancer in canada; presumably dying of cancer is a lot worse than MAID so one might expect this number to grow beyond 5% unless there are just that many people that object to it for themselves on philosophical grounds
  9. jsbg parent
    > which means almost all real numbers are transcendental

    Definable numbers like 2, pi, or Chaitin's constant [0] are countable. The reals are only uncountable because of numbers we can't even talk about.

    [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaitin%27s_constant

  10. jsbg parent
    wild to comment this
  11. jsbg parent
    > Gun game has been an official game mode is CS for a long time

    This official version differs quite a bit from the original gun game though and it is not as fun.

  12. jsbg parent
    > the theory of comparative advantage

    It's not a theory. Firms trade internationally because it's cheaper, not because they "believe" in free markets.

    > But government (society) can take a longer term view than a company that is influenced by pricing signals

    Private markets routinely make multi-decade bets; entire industries (mining, energy, infrastructure, biotech) work on 20–100 year horizons. Risk and time are already priced in.

    > Free market works in theory because you assume complete information

    Free markets don’t "assume" anything; they function through decentralized price signals. And even with imperfect information, dispersed actors still aggregate and react to knowledge far better than any central planner can.

  13. jsbg parent
    > I'm not really into celebrities

    I don't understand how that factors in. It said my score was 34/40 but really it was 34/35. The rest I didn't know and I selected that I didn't know them.

  14. jsbg parent
    Isn't this priced into the product? I don't see how this contradicts comparative advantage.
  15. jsbg parent
    > There are huge advantages

    What are they?

  16. jsbg parent
    Really. If obsessive zoning and building regulations didn't artificially restrict the supply then there would be no reason for anyone to "invest" in houses.
  17. jsbg parent
    Doesn't biological age normally go down with weight loss? Is it just a corollary of the off-label effects of the drug?
  18. jsbg parent
    > The long-term systemic effects of these drugs are still largely unknown.

    The long term effects of obesity are very well known though and unlikely to be better than any still unknown negative effect semaglutide might have.

  19. jsbg parent
    how does $500 (likely from your tax-free HSA) compare to the taxes you would pay in a monopsony system?
  20. jsbg parent
    > In the US you have to be worried about taking an ambulance or visiting the ER may cost you thousands for nothing.

    No you don't. For one, if you are insured that is not a possibility. And 100% of the people I know who are not insured save more money than insurance would cost them given their incomes are higher and taxes lower than Germany. They choose to accept the risk because they are relatively young and healthy. All of them could cut down on luxuries and pay for insurance if they wanted to.

    I once took an ambulance to the wrong ER, not understanding that I had to go to one that took my insurance. When the hospital found out my insurance wasn't going to pay, they lowered the bill by 90% and it was completely manageable.

    Meanwhile in Canada I have family members that have to wait nerve-racking months for life-saving procedures or even imaging. In the US, I've had a few MRIs the same week the nurse practitioner ordered them for things that were absolutely not urgent.

  21. jsbg parent
    > All things being equal, a single-payer system would likely solve many more problems than it would cause.

    That has not been the case at all in the countries that did go that route. The US system has serious issues but I would take it over Canada's any day.

  22. jsbg parent
    in the best case you'll invent a new drink but I doubt it'll be very good; start with a very small amount instead of using the same proportions as with chartreuse and you may get somewhere interesting, like a gin sazerac kind of drink
  23. jsbg parent
    my favorite cocktail these days is the bijou, which you can think of as a negroni with green chartreuse instead of campari, and with orange bitters—you wouldn't think chartreuse and italian vermouth would make a good drink but it's fantastic

    bonus if garnished with a green olive

  24. jsbg parent
    > The only new part is a different explanation for why resting makes it more juicy.

    Even that is not new. I've known this for long enough that I don't remember where I learned it.

  25. jsbg parent
    try reducing a sauce and you'll see how much energy it takes to actually evaporate "not a trivial amount"
  26. jsbg parent
    No it doesn't. According to chatgpt about 9x as many people have lived since 1825 as there were then and the world gdp is 157x as much as it was then.
  27. jsbg parent
    no they didn't
  28. jsbg parent
    > Value is limited to the total possible energy expenditure of the human population and

    says who?

  29. jsbg parent
    > (and proportional)

    again, no one is arguing that people who wear too much perfume are not obnoxious

    > a chemical attack

    what chemical?

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