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I've had people make the Duff argument about real beers. Putting bad batches in a different can is a great way to do quality control on your main brand though.

Helping them not go insane from always getting what they want is useful.

It's like $45-$50 for an 'unlimited' plan that is only capped if you are on a busy tower.

A decent percentage more, not a lot of dollars more.

One of the requirements for Real ID is that the issuer confirmed legal status (either citizenship or immigration status).

There's 50 governments responsible for implementing this law. A few more I guess. Not 2 branches.

Birth injuries are insured by the ob/gyn, which is part of the very high cost of delivering a baby in the US (because such injuries often lead to a lot of care).

The premiums aren't particularly out of line with typical costs.

https://www.kff.org/affordable-care-act/annual-family-premiu...

The context I'm pulling in is by the caps in the comment I initially replied to, would tolerate someone declining EVERY MEETING. Note the caps.

As far as the GP, what I'm getting at is that they are tediously nitpicking my phrasing rather than addressing my point. If there are some meetings that make sense to spend your time on, (in the context of my comment) what the fuck does it matter if there are also some that it doesn't.

If they think they have never spent their time well on a meeting, an explication of that would be more interesting than saying that they can find better things to do than attend some meetings.

I mean, I can probably rephrase things to somehow eventually pin you down to admitting that maybe some meetings are worthwhile or otherwise necessary.

In a functional organization, it's almost certainly going to be absurd to argue that you can't provide value to any of the meetings that you are invited to.

Putting more water on the fields is the issue. It's not clear what portion of the water Amazon is contributing or how the concentration of that water compares to other users.

Presumably untreated irrigation water is the primary use in the county, but it's pretty hard to find numbers on it.

People have wells at their homes, their water isn't being purified by someone else. Centralized supplies in the area are going to treat and monitor their water to ensure that it is below the applicable limits.

It's reasonable to treat the aquifer home wells draw from as a public good and prevent contamination of it. Whether Amazon has particular responsibility in this case is a different question than that.

For most people, it's all irrelevant.

I'm surprised how many people think that keeping a low profile will matter in a society that attacks people for things you could discover from vehicle position data. In that society, you'll get attacked if someone wants to do it and they'll manufacture the pretext.

How much do you think the EV1 cost just to build?

I don't know, but I'd bet it wasn't "cheap second car" low.

Seems like "you like to write and expect to enjoy it" should be high on the list.

The other thing is that the cleared right of way on highways is larger. Both because highways are larger and because it reduces things like animal strikes.

It can be that social order is partly maintained by conformance and a bunch of people found out that there aren't consequences for choosing not to conform.

In the local facebook rants group, any time someone posts about someone doing something that is mildly antisocial (a reasonable thing to rant about), there's always several comments saying "So what, who cares".

Like sure, it isn't the end of the world to park like an asshole, but it would suck if everybody did it, so it's better if no one does it. And it's the same for dozens of other minor little things you might encounter in a given week.

Is it clear that they are decommissioning them when they are done depreciating them?

The discussion of toddlers more or less code switching is quite interesting.

Once they have a sense of self, even little kids will be very careful about revealing their home life to their school friends, and the same about school to their parents.

No 3rd party arbitrage, much reduced pressure to accept fares they don't want (there's probably still some).

There's only 1 electron.

It's gonna be California (but I'm guessing, not sure). Other states just defer to federal regulation.

That they don't put the state on blast sort of points to the big cost not being entirely real (where they either think they can induce regulatory change or the number of tests that is needed to sell the systems is quite a lot less than the number of tests that would be needed to allow 100% of the market to use their system).

I imagine that the variation is in the internal combustion engines the system is being paired with. In that scenario, it can be that the regulator is treating the combined units as a new drivetrain and requiring certification of each combination as if it were a new engine.

It would be interesting to see a breakdown of what larger operators have in their fleets. It could be that a few certifications go a long ways. They are going to be at least somewhat inclined to avoid variation.

A bit rich to start off by conceding that the policies are coherent.

Why are they removing the tariffs on beef?

In the long run it seems likely enough that it will become mainstream that people don't have the right to enforce borders against others.

Like the real long run, try to use your imagination.

It's expensive but it isn't particularly bad to get.

I had a pretty low risk exposure to a bat this summer and decided to get it because it's so hard to be sure they didn't bite you. Wasn't a big deal, and I got quite a lot of the antibody injections in my finger...

They also mostly can't afford $25,000 cars.

Most of the US Midwest sees -20 C for at least a brief period each winter. Having reduced functionality at those temps would be pretty inconvenient for the many car dependent people that live in the region.

It seems that it tells the charge controller to reset the battery history?

I would want to see a bit of data before concluding that it is useless to do that.