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IEA’s chart for “final electricity price for large industrial customers in energy-intensive industries” [1] shows the US cheaper than China, but this is using data from Texas as re…

The US does not lag behind in energy. Industrial electricity prices in most places in the US are competitive with China, or even cheaper.

My eye went to the labeled floppy disk, since no floppy regularly used for more than a week ever had that pristine of a label on it, and there’s no practical reason you’d use flopp…

Kubernetes can be a sign that are you making things more complicated than they should be, too early. But if you actually have made things complicated enough (whether through essent…

It’s really, really not. Crop land per capita has been going down for decades despite richer diets, and all the biofuels and livestock feed [1]. Let’s not forget that advanced drug…

Please consider extending the game at least by a couple weeks! I’m very curious what percent of all California payphones could be captured with an extended game. I know the game’s …

I’ve heard this called “technical deflation” and it works similarly to how economic deflation can play out, causing you to forego actions in the present because you think they’ll b…

One of those specific issues is that California electricity prices include what amounts to a redistributive tax, in the form of programs like CARE and FERA - probably about a third…

Something no one else mentioned so far is that, depending on your state, some IRA funds can be subject to judgments or non-exempt from bankruptcy, whereas 401k accounts are untouch…

It seems like you've been referring to "Hospital Services", which was 31% of all healthcare spending in 2023, and "Physician and Clinical Services", which was 20% of all healthcare…

I once interviewed a very good candidate - good skills, interest in the business, a few years of experience, could definitely do the job I thought I was interviewing him for - only…

This is false for H-1B - there is no "labor market test". Such a test is required for the PERM process in which an H-1B visa holder would seek a green card through their employer, …

I sincerely doubt the Namibian government is giving out thousands of dollars per household in solar subsidies, like the US does up until the end of this year. I doubt Pakistan does…

QSBS has to be issued directly from the qualifying company. Stock sold on a secondary basis does not qualify.

The ADP payroll report is noise . It is based on the payroll data from ADP only . The assumption of this report is that companies that use ADP to process their payroll are complete…

Can’t really speak to the business side of things - or if HP and WebOS really could’ve gained market share in mobile - but this reminded me I had a WebOS LG TV in 2015-2017, and in…

The "theory" of a program is supposed to be majority embedded in its identifiers, tests, and type definitions. The same line of reasoning in this article could be used to argue tha…

100 chargers is not an enormous amount. That’s two normal sized boxes and when each one gets you high for 20 seconds it’s not hard to understand how you can rip through a box. Not …

>While Hadland says it would take a lot of repeated heavy use of nitrous oxide to see these effects, over time such use could also cause permanent neurological issues. This is not …

The thing that “doesn’t work” about converting an existing full-time employee to a contractor, and why there wouldn’t be a process for doing so, is that it can make it look like th…

If you have a clean, well-documented API that can be understood in under 30 minutes by a decent software engineer, congrats: you are MCP ready. I wonder how many discussions there …

You could say the same thing about almost any protocol, e.g. HTTP, which runs on arbitrary streams of bytes over TCP; and the headers, methods and status codes are just illusions o…

Even for the first person described in the story, her search for a doctor is not primarily described a search for medical care, but a search for someone who can create a paper trai…