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Why don't manufacturers just increase prices temporarily to neutralize supply and demand?

Why not just import 10 million Taiwanese into America?

Electric pressure cookers are the key to encouraging home cooking.

I just throw in Chicken Thighs, Rice, Frozen Vegetables. Add water. Set for 7 minutes. Come back to several servings of perfectly cooked food. Add things like peanut sauce and seasoning to taste before or after pressurization.

Total human involvement time to prep, monitor, and serve: about 5 minutes, ingredients are available at any Walmart. Electric pressure cookers are regularly on sale for $40 at Best Buy.

Cooking the same meal using pots and pans would take 60 minutes of human time and require many more pieces of equipment to buy, use and wash.

Give every poor household in the USA an electric pressure cooker, and the instructions on how to use them. Poor households wouldn't even need cooktops or ovens anymore.

We should not surrender language to political forces. What started with 'Blacklist' is now 'Recession' 'Vaccine' 'Woman'. Read Orwell.

A filter for Pressure Cookers, adjustable by size, would be great.

Since buying a non-stick electric pressure cooker, I've gone from 95% takeout 5% cooking to the reverse. So incredibly easy to throw ingredients in and come back to multiple perfectly cooked meals.

Banning Proof of Work cryptocurrencies from being traded on licensed exchanges would achieve the same improvement of chip availability, as well as saving a huge amount of electricity, for $0.

I guess sensible measures like this don't boost the share portfolios of politicians' spouses though.

Easiest way to increase labor supply is to immediately increase the retirement age to 70. Welfare and retirement systems across the West are insolvent at current settings anyway.

Better that excess demand is captured by the manufacturer, which can be reinvested into manufacturing, than the dealer.

I far prefer the transparent pricing of Tesla, and its now the only manufacturer I'd consider buying from in the USA.

Bulgaria is overall best in Europe, but the language is difficult (Cyrillic) and international English schools are very expensive.

50% of healthcare resources are used in the final 5 years of life. As Western populations age, expect healthcare to be increasingly squeezed.

Australia seems to have the best approach - everyone has access to basic services, but those who can afford to pay for Private Insurance get access to better hospitals, more comprehensive diagnostics and treatment, and much shorter waiting times.

Deport all illegal immigrants across the West, and increase standards for legal immigration. Aim for steady-state population levels, and immigration exchange only with similarly-developed nations.

Right now we are trading housing (and food, water, government services) for cheap labor in many countries.

Fortunately all of this is eliminated with EVs: much less brake dust (regenerative braking), no combustion, no catalytic converters, no oil leaks.

All that's left is tire wear, potentially a little higher due to increased typical weight of EVs and faster acceleration.

A lot of homes and apartments already have AC. They are heat pumps. Just use them in heat mode.

Base Model 3: 57.5 kWh battery.

In California, charging at 40c/kWh during the day and discharging at 85c/kWh (for evening peak) would yield about $23 daily - or $8,400 annually.

Most Tesla's retain above 90% battery capacity after 100,000 miles [1]

Completely charging and discharging daily for one year is equivalent to 99,280 miles. A new Model 3 battery pack costs $15,800 [1] currently. 10% degradation is equivalent to $1,580.

Doing this currently would provide a ~7-year payback period on a Model 3.

[1] https://evannex.com/blogs/news/tesla-model-3-battery-degrada...

[2] https://www.slashgear.com/857917/replacing-the-battery-pack-...

We're already building millions of Electric Vehicles with giant battery packs. We need vehicle-2-grid, and the manufacturer, regulator, and grid operator alignment to support that.

Millions of EVs charging at night and the in the middle of the day, and discharging in the morning and evening, goes a long way to balancing demand and generates a tidy profit for EV buyers, further encouraging adoption.

What US rail decline? Rail has a higher freight modal share in the US than any major European countries:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_rail_usag...

Switch has 30% with a 5% rebate to consumers.

Steam has a regressive 20%/25%/30% tiered commission structure.

There are sweetheart deals we have no knowledge of, like Apple's deal with Amazon to get Prime Video onto their devices.

Apple's greed (in maintaining the egregious 30% commission for so long) is going to undermine their entire ecosystem.

If Apple moved voluntarily to 10% or 15% for all, there never would have been the industry pressure for this sort of regulation.

The EU would have been better to just mandate a maximum % commission for all digital marketplaces above a certain level of revenue. This new solution will get poked full of holes by Apple and lead to an inferior experience for consumers.

The UK is already pushing this:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/online-safety-bil...

"Requiring Category 1 services to ensure adult users are given the option to verify their identity, and tools to have more control over the legal content that they see and who they interact with — this would include providing adults with the option not to interact with unverified users."

What starts as 'an option to verify their identity' will soon become 'must verify their identity'.

Authorities in Australia have already arrested people for online opposition to COVID lockdowns:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-54007824

The EU is just following the WEF agenda:

https://sociable.co/government-and-policy/wef-wto-global-dig...

Next step will be Digital Identity required to post online, and police action against wrongthink.

We've already seen Digital Identities used to unperson anyone who doesn't accept (arguably dangerous and experimental) medical treatments.

New game developers don't make any money. The gaming industry, both free and paid titles, is overwhelmingly hit-driven, and bigger professional teams can more consistently deliver high quality content.

The median title on Steam earns only $3,000 in sales over the first year: https://www.gamedeveloper.com/blogs/analyst-your-first-week-...

Considering cost of development and time, the average title most likely loses money. People were basically LARPing as game developers, and throwing money at Unity for the privilege. As economic conditions deteriorate, its reasonable to expect people to stop doing that.

This can be fixed with carbon tariffs. Calculate theoretical carbon tax impacts on their exports, and then levy tariffs of the same value.

Indoor CO2 scrubbers (even just to separate CO2 from inside air and exhaust it outside) would be a great technology right now, since it would allow us to reduce ventilation requirements and thus save on heating/cooling costs.

What's the cheapest Carbon Capture system we can imagine - $100 per tonne? Most are running at about $500/tonne right now.

At just $15/tonne of Carbon Tax, we halve CO2 output, mainly by destroying the economics of coal:

https://www.pgpf.org/budget-basics/what-is-a-carbon-tax-how-...

All the effort and funding currently spent on carbon capture should instead go towards lobbying for carbon taxes. The impact will be significantly greater.

The best use of Carbon Capture technology would be in building ventilation systems. If we can capture and exhaust CO2 from inside air, we can reduce ventilation requirements, and potentially reach lower-than-atmospheric CO2 levels (which could have extraordinary benefits for cognition and sleep quality).

Excess CO2, and the impacts on human cognition from it, are the great threat to civilization. We need geoengineering to strip CO2 out of the atmosphere. Iron seeding* and global Carbon Taxes seem like the best options.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_fertilization

I think the author misunderstood Epic's use of 'Creator': It means Content Creator, as in Youtubers and Streamers. This 5% is basically a referral or affiliate bonus.

By contrast, Amazon only offers 1% for video games: https://www.smartpassiveincome.com/guide/amazon-affiliate-pr...

The USA doesn't even have ingredients listed out per 100g. Comparing packaged goods is very difficult. The solution is not to tax and spend more money on socialized medicine, its to cut sugar out of packaged food products to reduce diabesity in the first place.

Sugar tax of 1c per 1g added sugar is another easy solution. Use the proceeds to reduce sales taxes on food and drink generally.

Apple has already reduced MNOs to 'big dumb pipes' [1]. Hard to see the motivation to take over a low-margin and mature business.

Their motivation seems to be to gradually reduce in size, and eventually eliminate SIM cards - presumably just to free up internal volume. But they've been successful in forcing MNOs to do that anyway.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumb_pipe

You can build housing that doesn't get mouldy and is well insulated by having proper insulation and a modern ERV. It seems like Japan's policy of 'disposable housing' doesn't stand up to expensive electricity.

"The dry conditions come after years of falling oats acreage as U.S. grain growers swapped it out for more profitable crops such as corn."

40% of US corn goes to Ethanol production. If we're serious about reducing food prices, we need to abandon Ethanol mandate and subsidies.