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1hr ago
There's also FDR, for that matter
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1hr ago
How likely is that really though? Very often, it's the capital investments that are the primary cost drivers of utility prices, and the larger customers usually pay a larger share of the capital investments that are needed to support their usage, which would normally lead to lower marginal prices for everyone else. I've seen this play out multiple times in municipalities when it comes to water: large industrial customers support large municipal capital investments, which through economy of scale drive down the unit cost of water to residential customers. The large customers go away, the capacity now far exceeds the demand, and the per-unit cost of water goes way up to pay for the infrastructure despite the huge reduction of demand.
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5d ago
yes that's in stock, not cash, if that makes a difference
Yes, that's a huge difference, mostly because the stock is only worth anything if the CEO does a good job of running the company. This can cause problems as well, such as CEO taking measures to juice short term sugars process at the expense of long term corporate health, but is a standard way to align incentives.
Tesla is also a special case because the CEO is also the principal founder and largest shareholder by a considerable margin, so it is to be expected that his interests and the company's will align.
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6d ago
They don't want a monoculture so much as they don't want to be forced to look at posts by Ted Cruz
Was Singal Cruz-posting? I don't get the connection.
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6d ago
The time wasn't right because there were too many useless coins.
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7d ago
There's already a perfectly good dollar coin, the Presidental Dollar. I say keep that along with the quarter, eliminate the $1 bill and move Washington permanently to the dollar coin, and cycle through all the presidents on the quarter. Replace the half-dollar coin with a $5 coin, and put Lincoln on it. That would leave us with three useful coins. (Note the current iteration of the quarter, in 1932, was worth over $5 in inflation-adjusted dollars, so this is not a ridiculous value for a coin). Keep the $5 bill but add a $500 bill, and put JP Morgan on it.
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7d ago
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8d ago
America is really down bad if that's where people's standard is
It is indeed, no lol. This is what it now takes just to see that the law is enforced. For decades, we've waited for another option, and tried many, and nothing has worked. Things will continue to get more extreme until either the law is actually enforced or America rips itself apart.
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8d ago
That just completely cedes the media ground to opposition agitprop.
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8d ago
The gravity of the incident was not about the twitter comments but the media coverage, which was both defamatory and inflamatory.
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8d ago
I disagree, it's simply looking at the tradeoffs of enforcement within certain contexts. If the harm of enforcement within a certain context would be greater than the benefits, that doesn't invalidate enforcement everywhere.
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8d ago
Yes - there is supermajority support essentially everywhere for curtailing abuse of the humanitarian and family-based routes to immigrate to first-world countries, based on the accurate belief that the people who get in that way are, on average, bad neighbours. We should do so.
And yet, it doesn't happen. Curious!
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8d ago
They could win me over by actually delivering the public works improvements they campaign on and use to justify tax increases. When they can't or won't, the choice between simply not getting the improvements and getting taxed a bunch of money and still not getting improvements seems obvious. If Democrats in California had actually delivered a well-performing high-speed railroad by now, on time and on budget, I would probably be pretty stoked about voting for that on a national level. But they failed, and in a way that made it seem like they didn't even care whether they succeeded or not.
Refusing to follow court orders to desegregate a school or stop administering poll tests was also a civil issue. Failing to show up for Court is a civil matter.
At the end of the day, the relevant issue is not the category of violation but its social importance. It is not necessary or desirable to criminally charge most immigration violators. It is more than sufficient to support them. But it is necessary and important that this enforcement occur. We got to this point by permitting far too little enforcement of the law. Imagine a society where it was rare to arrest people for failure to appear. Consider how little respect for the courts there world be and how this might affect the orderly administration of society.
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12d ago
It's not a circle beard, because you keep the sideburns (but trimmed, to keep the cheeks clean shaven). It's closer I think to a normal full beard, but with clean cheeks, shorter length, and shaving the left and right spots under the mouth but leaving the middle to create an "anchor" shape.
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12d ago
"Safety razor" is the double-sided type that Harry's uses. The other stuff is just cartridge razors. I got a Merkur safety razor a while back after getting fed up with the cartridge ripoff pricing and inherited a couple of vintage Gillette butterfly safety razors from my grandfather. I use the Derby blades which are cheap and good. Shortly after I switched to the Commander Riker beard with shaved cheeks and sides below mouth. I then got a Weller trimmer to keep the length at about half to 3/4 inch.
I don't use soap, and have found that just soaking my face in hot water for 30 seconds provides a good shave with minimal irritation.
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15d ago
It's way more than half. I think they only recently had the first one that wasn't.
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15d ago
I recently picked up a Longer Ray5 5-watt laser engraver for $170 on an Amazon special on a lark. It required a bit of assembly but was fairly straightforward. So far I am impressed with its capability. It has a large, roughly 2x2 ft work area. Using Inkscape and the free LaserGRBL program, I have been able to generate a variety of engraving and cutting patterns. I have successfully engraved wood, stone, painted metal, and successfully cut cardstock and thin pieces of wood. It doesn't really make a dent in any polished metal and I have yet to test many plastics, although it should be able to cut 3mm cast acrylic. The best thing I've made so far is an A4-sized cardstock stencil of the Paris Metropolitain logo. I also haven't tried engraving any grayscale images, though it should be possible with paper and certain types of wood. One thing I hope to be able to use it for is to make my own serial tags or controls panel layouts, by engraving a black painted metal blank and then rubbing in white paint.
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15d ago
You should be able to get Dell or HP micro-desktops off a five-year lifecycle pretty cheaply at this point, which is more than sufficient for running Debian + Home Assistant. Upgrade the RAM to 32 GB and Proxmox might even be practical. Or, get a laptop with a broken screen or keyboard. You should be able to find one for very cheap or free, you can configure it with peripherals attached to work around broken bits, and then it has its own built-in UPS.
I agree with pigeon this seems like overkill for this particular application, but this is the kind of project that can start to snowball, particularly if you are going to need Internet access anyways to trigger the preheat cycle. If so, the latter option might be better to dip your toes in. You can always set up a Wireguard tunnel to Home Assistant running someplace more convenient in that case.
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17d ago
It seems to me that occasional (over years or decades) medical expenses between the ages of 21 and 60 is a pretty realistic projection. In which case, why not have the money somewhere where it can both generate wealth and be spent tax-free?
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18d ago
Same origin as the word "prince" for first son, I would assume.
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18d ago
You can pay your medical expenses tax free out of the hsa but not the Roth.
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18d ago
Yes! I wish he had more influence on his party.
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21d ago
That would be unconstitutional. Local police can't be used for feral law enforcement.
How does a soldier morally justify shooting the enemy instead of his squadmates? Traditionally, it was by begging forgiveness from God, though I have no idea what the modern recommendation is. The point is, it's in almost every case a secondary concern to victory.
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