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Why Is There a Bucatini Shortage in America?
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#312Whenever any company seemingly supports "regulation" of any sort, it is usually to put a competitor at a disadvantage. This is especially true in zero-sum markets, where any dollar a competitor earns is one dollar less that you earn.
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#313Earlier quoted context omitted.
Which would make sense in general, wouldn't it? The thing with the rear lights being on.
Depends. Might make sense in countries with polar nights, not so much in the Mediterranean where it just sucks up energy, especially with EVs.
I wouldn't imagine the power draw from always-on rear lights to be especially high compared to, you know, actually moving the vehicle, especially if those lights are LEDs. And the studies I'm finding measuring this exact concern don't seem to show particularly significant impacts on fuel efficiency / emissions for ICE vehicles (a couple percent, tops, and that's assuming small cars w/ tiny engines and some pretty comically inefficient DRL implementations - hardly relevant for creating a new standard that can mandate e.g. dedicated LED-based DRL systems).
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#314Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's a good point though. Why/how is something unsafe for an American, but safe for an Italian or Spaniard? Differing regulations and standards between countries usually makes no sense and just harms the consumer. How is a Volvo made for the Swedish market unsafe on Canadian roads? EU and Canada recently signed a trade agreement so that they won't tariff eachothers' cars, but consumers still can't buy a car from a Eu…
How is Boeing Max safe for Americans but it crashes elsewhere?
This was just luck. An aircraft with a special randomly-initiate-death-plunge function will crash somewhere first and somewhere else second. If the public is stupid enough to keep flying in it, eventually it will crash all over the place. In this case, the flying public decided that two horrible crashes was enough.
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#315Was interested until the author included their pitch in the wordcount.
Is there a TL;DR;BCOMGWTF?
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#316Imagine a world where the FDA’s Oxycontin response was as decisive and timely as their pasta nutrition enforcement.
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#317Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's a good point though. Why/how is something unsafe for an American, but safe for an Italian or Spaniard? Differing regulations and standards between countries usually makes no sense and just harms the consumer. How is a Volvo made for the Swedish market unsafe on Canadian roads? EU and Canada recently signed a trade agreement so that they won't tariff eachothers' cars, but consumers still can't buy a car from a Eu…
How is Boeing Max safe for Americans but it crashes elsewhere?
Look up the blancolirio channel on YouTube, specifically the Max episodes and you'll how close we came to crashing them here.
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#318Earlier quoted context omitted.
This food regulation is not really based on health or nutrients or anything like that, nor is it pointless. It stems from an effort to define what can be marketed as a pasta noodle vs. other similar yet different products, like ramen noodles. There are similar regulations that define, for example, what is a whiskey and what isn't. Sure X amount of Y substance vs. X-epsilon amount will always look ridiculous on the fa…
I don't find this argument particularly convincing. Am I drinking "sparkling wine" or "champagne"? Honestly, why should I care, I just care about how much I like the product and how much it costs. I'm for regulation around areas about product safety, but this seems to not be what's going on here.
Am I drinking "sparkling wine" or "champagne"?
Honestly, why should I care, I just care about
how much I like the product and how much it costs.
Packaged food is an extremely cost-sensitive product category to put it mildly. There is tremendous pressure on these companies to shave off every penny they can when it comes to production costs.
I strongly suggest that we do not want to see what might happen if the FDA didn't enforce some kind of minimum definitions for various categories.
For a sneak peek of the probable outcome, you can learn about the history of adulterated food products: https://www.google.com/search?q=history+of+adulterated+food
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#319Earlier quoted context omitted.
Reading that transcript actually left me thinking the system worked okay in this particular case, even though it led to a bad (in my opinion) policy outcome. The money bought access, not results: in the end, the legislators who voted against largely it did so because of personal belief the policy was bad or because of political pressure from an important campaign group (+), not because of money from Intuit (and it di…
Nobody likes taxes, and Norquist just makes it more painful. Ideologues are jerks.
>Nobody likes taxes, and Norquist just makes it more painful. Ideologues are jerks.
Not nobody. I'm one of the ones who agrees with (purportedly) Oliver Wendell Holmes[0].
[0] "I like to pay taxes. With them I buy civilization." Source: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/04/13/taxes-civilize/
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#320Earlier quoted context omitted.
I actually think most of the governmental functions in this article worked quite well. Told another way, a firm in the marketplace for pasta found that a competitor was out of regulation with their product, and they found a person in congress who could press a slow-moving and ineffective agency to do better at doing their job: enforcing said regulations. That's exactly what you want your elected representatives to do…
> I find that a law specifying in exact numbers what a product should contain in order to qualify for a label to be a very good law. Good in theory. But it's also likely to slow down innovation or even kill it in its tracks. Maybe a producer wants to mix up the ingredients because they're making a substandard product. But maybe they discovered a way to deliver higher quality or lower price with an iteration on the or…
It’s a notebook computer, duh