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The level of luxury people get acclimated to is pretty amazing. I'm trying to imagine the response I'd have received if as a child I had demanded ribeye regularly, or what my grandparents would have said if they heard it discussed in such a manner today, as a product deserved at a cheap price (I gather your family can still afford it.)

You've stated the point well: there are substitute beef products that haven't seen the same price increases. This is not the same as me general inflation, or nearly as concerning.

ribeye is not the cut that most people are buying. In a supply chain challenged environment with rising wages, premium cuts of beef are seeing price increases, but this is not evidence of outsized inflation. Also, if you want delicious beef, there are lots of other options both in cuts and preparations.

You live in a different part of the country than almost anyone else. The goods you buy, even in your area, can vary significantly. If you're trying to buy a gallon of milk, things aren't so different. A car, yeah that's gotten pricey. But your anecdotal experience is no reason to doubt the statistics on what is happening broadly.

This is a privacy nightmare.

and much better, to justify switching costs.

The hybrid F-150 with an onboard generator and all electric F-150 are being positioned for people who need to do serious work, like arc welding, or for whom a mobile power plant is useful.

No - but this comment is abhorrent.

With your 1980's ford, you outsource all off the complexity to a local shop. You're enjoying 100+ years of investment in internal combustion engines. In the future, with wide-scale adoption of EV's, local shops will respond to market demand. We're in early phases. The Model T was launched in 1908. In 2121, I think it's a strong possibility you'll be able to get your 2080's Ford serviced at a local shop.

According even to Wikileaks, no, they were not redacted

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/aug/10/afghanistan-wa...

Before the cables, there were the leaks on Afghanistan and Iraq that were unredacted.

It always blows my mind when people breathlessly tell me why RCV is so clearly the answer, and they've never heard of Arrow's Impossibility Theorem.

In a reality where people have limited time and mental energy to properly rank order all candidates for all positions, the jungle (non-partisan) primary practiced in Louisiana and some other states is a wonderful alternative. The unfortunate reality of RCV is that it provides a disproportionate amount of voting power to those who have more resources to spend time on assessment of their true preferences.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonpartisan_blanket_primary

This is poor rereporting of good reporting: Cook did not "call Pelosi" - it's pretty clear that the call was arranged, and her staffers were able to listen in, and probably Cook's PR people too. In any case, the link should be to the original article: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/22/technology/amazon-apple-g...

The filtering, testing requirements, and frankly unpleasantness involved in medicine (in the United States) not only drives the curve to the right, but also lops off a good portion of the left side of the curve of all of those who want to become physicians.

This is a well understood concept in medicine, and a central part of the drug approval process.

This is not a communications system.

> Wen didn’t have any money of his own. (This past January, he had a balance of negative sixteen dollars in his Royal Bank of Canada savings account.) But his mom had some bitcoin, which she’d bought a few months earlier after hearing about it from a friend on WeChat. She lent all of it to her son, and he then converted a hundred and fifty dollars’ worth of it to bitclout. His first move on the platform was to persuade some of his friends to join, and the group proceeded to buy shares in one another. Next, Wen invested in the TikTok stars Dom Brack and Jeremy Hutchins. Three days later, he had made around six thousand dollars. He started planning to buy a new MacBook and a pair of AirPods Pro. “Back then, it was a lot, right?” he told me, a month later, over Zoom. Wen has an undercut topped with a mop of floppy hair, which he constantly runs his fingers through. He smiles often, the left corner of his mouth slightly higher than the other, producing an impish effect. We spoke on April 30th. At that point, he owned multiple BitClout profiles, which he told me had reached a combined estimated value of half a million dollars. Today, he’s grown that figure to approximately $1.7 million, or nine thousand and four bitclout, or sixty-eight hundred pairs of AirPods Pro. “To me, it’s just numbers,” Wen said.

It's unfortunate that anecdotes like these will cause so many more people to lose their money, who don't understand that they're gambling, and with more than they can afford to lose.

> These days it seems like investors don't really care about the ownership conferred by stock. I mean, they do for a small startup or LLC, but for blue chip stocks with no dividend, the "ownership" part is kind of vestigial; they're just vehicles for speculation.

This is exactly the kind of thing you read before a bubble pops.

This is fantastic. Thank you dang.

Probably all of the violence, vandalism, looting, and coming in with tools to take hostages. And bombs with timers placed elsewhere.

"Google Maps" is just a piece of software- following it blindly, especially in remote places is insane. ~15 years a ago, Google Maps gave me same insane route up a ridge of a mountain side. I took a double check and revised my route.

"liars in practice" is uncharitable at best. A headline has some maximum number of words, and there is only so much that can be conveyed. "Technically true" is strong standard to meet in under a sentence. Is this purposefully misleading? I would say no.

This is the sort of thing you read right before the bubble pops.

This comment is full of wisdom

Maybe more than you think ;)

I like this, too:

> “It’s clearly a landmark,” said Chris Pickard, a materials scientist at the University of Cambridge. “That’s a chilly room, maybe a British Victorian cottage,” he said of the 59-degree temperature.

I agree with this sentiment... But I wonder if Apple considers iPhones to be general purpose computing devices, or even wants them to be. They're not marketed that way, likely most users are uninterested in using an iPhone this way.

A separate concern is around anticompetitive behavior. There is no way to sideload an app, or even use a competing app store, and Apple is charging rent. This is pretty clearly anticompetitive behavior that harms consumers.

This is clearly not an exclusive license though, right?

This is explicitly NASA's strategy, and it is the correct one. NASA wants to be pushing the bleeding edge of possibility in space, and prefers to contract out the "everyday" stuff or orbital flight, in order focus on deep space missions.