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I find the article short on details necessary to make any judgement. The cost of coffee beans themselves were typically not a major cost of providing a coffee at a cafe, so double the cost naturally doesn't mean double the price.

This sounds like anti-anxiety over correction to me.

We don't know how much future planning anxiety is warranted without knowing the future. We certainly know that past societies have a strong survivor bias for people who worried about the most significant life decisions they had.

A very flexible person and a turnip may both be well tuned to the economy at the moment but a less flexible person should be anxious as much for the behavioral effects of making decisions lightly on making future decisions in different circumstances.

This sounds like healthy psychology, incorrectly medicalized to me.. Who didn't question their big decisions like a major transportation decision before 1940?

I think there were a few exceptional places/people that lacked both normal scarcity and social norm pressure, but even the wealthiest people worried like these things mattered in most towns.

You can't just erase the entire cultural context of people and expect them to have no worries because there's a few more years to various peaks. They are experiencing the stresses of developing decision skills for a life that probably spans after peak petroleum, etc.

You can get over-medicated by shopping around for a bad doctor, and with kick backs, you often don't have to shop very hard.

After the recent CPAP recall, and keeping in mind that many problems don't result in a proper recall, I would suggest avoiding a CPAP if your reasons are trivial.

If you make them create a new account each time you remove a package, how does that help you find or remove pollution going forward? It seems to work in the moment, but if you have no plan to change the system the resulting equilibrium is worse than if you can identify a connection between packages from the same spammer.

Isn't it better to leave accounts that correlate spam than to force spammers to obscure the connection by creating a new account for each piece of spam?

Sure, I don't really see generations of people as different.. But the extent that government relates to ideological ideas as priorities.

At any rate a modern Americans would be very interesting in terms of how the mother could be portrayed.

I find it interesting that the parents in the generation shown by the Americans could have a real political philosophy that (for a believer) would justify warping their childrens lives as some kind of global freedom fighter.. This generation is being taken home by petty nationalists at best, to a nation they have no attachment to.

There is the risk that unblinding coincides with the end of experimental value.

That's not really true, it sounds like she skipped a lot of accounting where inconsistencies would have cropped up possibly detecting a conflict of interest if accomplices weren't added to keep her at a distance from signature access and payments.

It seems pretty ridiculous to me that if she didn't flaunt expensive items they apparently never would have noticed a company didn't exist, didn't provide anything of value, didn't cause any positive or negative feedback..

So an embezzler who is motivated by hoarding, by lavishing on a family member or to redirect to another cause is apparently undetectable.

The cost of all sorts of energy extraction methods have steadily dropped over time. Oil would have to be politically stranded forever, which doesn't fit the 1984 like political flows of the current world.

I had to read through your whole comment to realize it didn't confirm something I already know, what a waste.

There's a lot wrong with it. The reserves that will be burned include all Saudi reserves and all Norwegian reserves. The hand wringing BS doesn't change anything about prices being high enough to fund the politics of forcing us to extract and burn all reserves until they are gone. Only refusing to burn your reserves changes whether we are screwed.