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The $550 figure came from the first search result (www.cleanorigin.com) for lab grown diamonds. No clue if this is a reputable site.

It’s pretty clear how existential of a threat lab-grown diamonds have become to the traditional diamond industry. Today you can buy a lab-grown diamond for ~$550 that’s equivalent to the $4500 natural diamond or $400 moissanite mentioned in that article.

Eating local has a very small impact on the greenhouse gas emissions associated with food, because transportation makes up a small part (~10% on average) of the total. Most foods, avocados included, are sent via ship not airplane. The actual foods you choose to eat (e.g. more vegetables, less beef) has a significantly greater impact than where they are coming from.[0]

[0] https://ourworldindata.org/food-choice-vs-eating-local

If you click through to the Github homepage of the project, this is the description:

Cosmopolitan Libc makes C a build-once run-anywhere language, like Java, except it doesn't need an interpreter or virtual machine. Instead, it reconfigures stock GCC and Clang to output a POSIX-approved polyglot format that runs natively on Linux + Mac + Windows + FreeBSD + OpenBSD + NetBSD + BIOS with the best possible performance and the tiniest footprint imaginable.

You should consider a bike with dynamo lights. It’s more purely mechanical than any car made in the last century, and you can do all the maintenance yourself.

Cities will do anything to 'solve' the problem of homelessness except building enough housing for everyone.

Here's a recent report from the Congressional Research Service about this that provides a very detailed summary of how this works: https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IF/IF10960

That report is impressively vague about the cause and characteristic of these non-fatal injuries. The CPSC is obviously looking at this from a product safety lens, but that isn't necessarily the true picture from a holistic perspective. At least they're quite clear when it comes to the fatalities:

>Collisions with motor vehicles were the leading cause of death associated with e-bikes

>Motor vehicle accidents were the leading cause of death associated with e-scooters

So is the potentially unsafe product we should be concerned about e-bikes and scooters? Or is it actually motor vehicles?

The car from the inner lane swiping into the car in the outer lane is the exact issue I'm talking about. The problem is when drivers enter in the left/inner lane, fully intending to take the first exit. If they proceed to exit directly from the inner lane, without first changing lanes, signalling, or yielding to outer traffic, they would intersect with a car in the outer lane innocently heading to the second exit.

In practice, people are not able to navigate two-lane roundabouts in a compliant and safe manner. Any intersection of roads busy enough to have two lanes in each direction is too busy for a roundabout to be safe.

The number of drivers who think you can freely exit from the inner lane suggests otherwise.

The auto manufacturers don't want to sell 'affordable' EVs, when they can use their limited supply of batteries for higher-margin luxury vehicles instead. The affordable EV is an e-bike, as shown by sales numbers many times higher than that of electric automobiles.

Maybe states should decrease their amount of roads in conjunction with this decline in revenue. That would make an even greater contribution towards lowering emissions by reducing the number of all cars, EV or otherwise.

>moderators, call centers, etc

They're also not requiring their lowest-level employees to come into the office either, since they're obviously unwilling to pay a Bay-Area living wage for work like that.

This is not tax advice:

If your brokerage reports all of your trades to the IRS, which they likely are, then you can just enter a summary. You don't need to grant access to your outside accounts and import anything.

>Most people don't care.

Most people aren't given the choice. When they are actually presented an equally simple decision between more privacy and less privacy, nearly everyone chooses privacy.[0] Making privacy just as easy as not-privacy is exactly what needs to happen, and that is likely to only happen through regulation. We can already see how hard companies work to avoid complying with GDPR and the cookie law.

[0] https://www.flurry.com/blog/ios-14-5-opt-in-rate-att-restric...

A single serving of salmon fillet is only 3-4 ounces, not a pound.

The job market is still very strong right now. Don't be fooled by stories like this trying to convince you otherwise. The unemployment rate is back down to near-historic lows, under 4 percent.[0] Job openings are down slightly from the peak, but are still well higher than the two decades leading up to 2020.[1]

[0] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/UNRATE

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/JTSJOL

It’s no surprise that one of the places they’re doing this, Colorado Springs, is pursuing municipal fiber optic. There’s no better way to overcome the complacency of your local cable monopoly than to publish a plan to offer a competitive service. They’ll improve their service and prices before you can even deploy the first strand of fiber.

EU states can use some or all of this revenue for a direct dividend to citizens, like in Canada. That would make most people better off than before, in direct financial terms.

Do those remaining brands even sell any appreciable amount of EVs in the North American market? If they don’t get on board with NACS, they’re likely to be completely left behind.

It will be most interesting to see how the rising Chinese brands react to this.

Not sure how you wound up where you are, but it sounds like you're not in the right place. If you look around and don't see any of 'your people' around, it might make sense to go wherever 'your people' are instead.

A great example of this is how they merged the search box into the address bar, to create the "omnibar." Since then, they've aggressively promoted submitting a new Google search for whatever you're typing in, instead of returning results from your local browser bookmarks, history, etc that wouldn't generate more ad impressions.

Each room was rented individually from the landlord, so we were legally separate tenants, not just roommates all on the same lease.

The building itself was over a hundred years old, and had countless violations of modern building codes, health codes, and fire safety codes. It was pretty much a disaster waiting to happen, but it was affordable!

That doesn't seem likely. According to this source, Frey Meyer (18.4%) + Safeway (17.3%) would be the clear market leader with over 35%, but there's still robust competition from Costco, Walmart, and others.

https://www.axios.com/local/seattle/2023/04/24/seattle-favor...

I'm not sure if New York City specifically pays different prices than average, but according to this EIA report, power in NY is cheaper than every state in New England but Vermont. Alaska and California pay more as well.

https://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/epm_table_grapher.ph...

I've come up with a filter rule that removes the enormous amount of promoted (aka spam) items from job listings page.

  linkedin.com##li:has-text(Promoted)

The mythical General Motors EV1 also came out in 1997. It used lead acid batteries to achieve 55-78 miles of range. Some models with better NiMH batteries like in the Prius increased that range to 105-142 miles.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_EV1

Why "Vacant Homes" Won't Solve the Housing Crisis - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xZXdXxYBGU

The absolute floor is pretty low, and the market will provide these solutions if they're not regulated out of existence.

My first "apartment" was a 100 square foot bedroom rented in a 4 bed / 2 bath unit with 3 other residents. At the time I moved in, it was only $350/month plus utilities, in a market where the median rent for a studio was $1750/month. That room would have been affordable for a single person working full-time at minimum wage. Was it code compliant? Hell no! Was it better than living on the street or in a car? Unquestionably.

If you raise the floor to require every adult to have their own kitchen and bathroom, then you've consigned this segment of the market to homelessness. Someone who can pay $350/month certainly would need a massive subsidy to afford a $1750 studio, or you can just get out of the way and allow them to rent a room for $350.

Reading between the lines, building his Twitter and newsletter audience was key to growing these ‘businesses’. The real product he’s selling is hope to all the wantrepreneurs who yearn to escape their own corporate grind and find success selling their own useless nick-nacks. This is no different than real-estate investing, or drop-shipping, or any other get rich quick scheme from time immemorial.