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I believe they'd be able to sell their vehicles in the US if they were willing to build it here (or Mexico/Canada due to USMA).

If that were the case they wouldn't have the cheap Chinese labor and I doubt the Chinese government would continue to subsidize US build vehicles for the US market.

It'd still be a compelling vehicle but it wouldn't be starting at $33k.

Comment · 1 year ago

Important to note as part of the issues with Nike is their focus on direct to consumer [1] that left space open at physical retailers for other brands to get distribution and exposure.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/12/nike-ceo-acknowledges-it-wen...

Comment · 2 years ago

How do you know he tanked twitter? It wasn't profitable when he took over and now that it's a private company you don't have insight into the financials.

Whether you like or don't like the politics/policies of the company since he's taken over, it's not clear whether he's made Twitter more or less viable as a company going forward.

Comment · 2 years ago

This is a really elementary misunderstanding of free market principles. That theory only holds if the market is actually free.

As an extreme example, if they regulated minimum $1000 per ride. No logical person, free market oriented or not, would expect "alternatives" to take their place.

Comment · 3 years ago

In Amazon-speak, "disagree and commit" means even if you disagree with the decision, you still commit to following the decision whole heartedly. You can't just debate endlessly or put in less effort because your preferred option was not chosen.

See "Have Backbone; Disagree and Commit": https://www.amazon.jobs/content/en/our-workplace/leadership-...

Comment · 3 years ago

I think you can change a setting so it doesn’t take over your phone.

I have access to everything while connected to CarPlay.

Comment · 3 years ago

2015 for me as well. The episode they did on Hilary Clinton where they tried so hard to make her sound like she's just another friendly normal everyday Jane running for president turned me off NPR. I didn't even mind Hilary as a presidential candidate, just the way NPR did it was so obvious.

Comment · 3 years ago

And before the gutting of Twitter and management change, this problem wasn't even on the radar to be investigated.

Looks to me like the ability to investigate and respond to problems has improved if you ask me.

Comment · 3 years ago

That's a totally fair point.

What if instead of posting a link to a blog of a "random person" that summarizes a number of studies, I post the study directly: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30611908/

Title: Daily oral dosing of vitamin D3 using 5000 TO 50,000 international units a day in long-term hospitalized patients: Insights from a seven year experience

> During this time, we have admitted over 4700 patients, the vast majority of whom agreed to supplementation with either 5000 or 10,000 IUs/day. Due to disease concerns, a few agreed to larger amounts, ranging from 20,000 to 50,000 IUs/day. There have been no cases of vitamin D3 induced hypercalcemia or any adverse events attributable to vitamin D3 supplementation in any patient.

What would you say to this here?

Comment · 3 years ago

Thanks for the additional info!

Comment · 3 years ago

Do you know where you heard of this link between high Vitamin D levels and improved mental health? If you do, can you share it?

Comment · 3 years ago

This says 30,000 to 50,000 IU is fine: https://vers.substack.com/p/doctors-are-idiots-vitamin-d-meg...

Comment · 3 years ago

https://vers.substack.com/p/doctors-are-idiots-vitamin-d-meg...

According to the evidence provided here, 20000 IU/day is safe.

Comment · 3 years ago

I recently came across this: https://vers.substack.com/p/doctors-are-idiots-vitamin-d-meg...

He recommends anywhere from 10,000 to 50,000 IU per day which he backs up with studies. N of 1 here but I have a friend who started taking 30,000 IU per day and feels great.