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Payers are bound by law to spend at least 80% of premiums on healthcare. So if they can drive up healthcare costs across the board, they can profit more (by taking the same 20% of a bigger pie).

The land should be expensive, the housing doesn’t need to be.

With different policy, there could be more housing built on the same land. The most scarce land there is shouldn’t be predominantly zoned for only low density single family homes.

You only need 5 minutes at midday in the summer. At 7am, you get essentially no vitamin D.

> In reality fossil fuel is crap and we don't need it.

I agree, which is why I was advocating for clean electricity to do the dredging.

The end of this article advocates for going back hand labor, which is what I was pushing back on as an unpractical return to a shitty past.

Electricity generated from wind and solar with some wires to the dredge would be way easier than dredging by hand.

Why do many environmental activists seem to want to go back to a shitty past rather than move forward to bright future.

The historical aspects of this article are a good read though. Very interesting technology.

It’s a direct quote taken out of context.

The article explains that the helicopter pilot was flying within the poorly defined helicopter route and within expected altitude on the altimeter. Her instructor was the one who made the critical mistake of saying he had visual on the airplane, when he in fact didn’t not.

I don’t know how you could have read the article and come to the conclusion that that was the takeaway. My only guess is that you ctrl-F searched for something that confirmed your priors.

This is a very bad tl;dr and is definitely not the main takeaway of the article.

Edit: to add details, the article explains that the helicopter pilot was flying within the poorly defined helicopter route and within expected altitude on the altimeter. Her instructor was the one who made the critical mistake of saying he had visual on the airplane, when he in fact didn’t not.

All I see is a paywall

Until someone fine-tunes a capable model to have the behavior of "wanting to live" and "wanting to propagate itself to other compute hardware".

I think he completely misunderstood 15 minute cities as a concept.

15 min cities mean cities that are mixed use enough that you can get all your needs within 15 mins without a car. Cities like this can be large and typically are extremely well connected, not isolated into enclaves like this person suggests.

CEQA in California is very often used to block apartments in existing urban areas.

So, instead, California continues to mostly build single family housing sprawl into natural habitats.

A clear example of environmental regulation hurting the environment and the climate. And of course the affordability of housing.

If you can afford a car in NYC then you can afford the toll. Cars are very expensive to own.

In sports betting you are betting against the house. If the sportsbook sets a bad line, you can lock it in and make money off of it.

Horse racing is what you describe, parimutuel, where the house just takes a commission. But the odds shift even after you place your bet. Very different for traditional sports betting.

When I looked a few years ago the Await element was best consumer grade one on the market at a good price. I’ve been happy with it so far.