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People need medical care more than once in their life. A great many medical care providers won't continue to treat patients who don't pay their bills [ER visits are an exception--but that is very high priced care and patients should be encouraged to use cheaper alternatives].

A better solution would be a secure mailbox for parcels.

This sounds weird. The obvious solution is to simply cancel contracts.

Free version at:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/how-on-earth-did-nas...

Another question is how are kids supposed to get around in that environment? Particularly crossing stroads to visit their friends.

No: "as at a counter service place where you pay as you get the food. They would be in their rights to refuse to hand over the food and ask you to leave."

This is exactly the same situation as at Target: you bring a bunch of goods to the cash register. You offer a check. The cashier is going to say "sorry we don't take checks anymore: do you have another way to pay [a Target card, a debit card, a credit card, cash...]. Either you present the alternative method of payment or leave without the goods.

"a new material made from modified starch that can completely decompose in nature – and do so within only two months."

Lots of stuff is kept by the retailer or consumer longer than two months; no one wants the container to decompose while sitting there.

The author should read HN. Then he would learn that AI is going to eliminate massive numbers of jobs.

Look up the prices on eBay sold listings [do a search for the computer and there is a checkbox on the left side to show the sold listings].

China's South-to-North Water Diversion Project

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South%E2%80%93North_Water_Tran...

The title actually says: "FedEx explores divestment of Freight business"--in other words no decision has been made yet.

"the effective tax rate can climb to as high as 34% when factoring in state sales tax and local taxes. That’s made California’s legal pot extremely expensive compared with other West Coast states — and made the illicit products, which are sold tax free, a cheap alternative."

Across retailing, stores sell branded products at a substantial premium to generic products(Coke vs the generic pop in the local grocery store), yet most people still prefer the branded products. In the pot industry one would expect the preference to be even stronger because the legal branded product is going to be a consistent quality--while the illegal stuff make be fake or adulterated. So I don't understand the California preference for the illegal pot.

A lot of us think he should leave both Tesla and SpaceX.

The question is what percent is this of the total number of fast food jobs in California? It looks like it is about 500,000--so this is a 2% decline--which is pretty small.

The headline is misleading. They aren't buying simply because they don't have the money to pay the incredibly high prices.

He could park it on a street or move.

A big problem is that most states also have an income tax--and most of us want a solution which will calculate both federal and state taxes.

It's only going to be a real business when they approach profitability--now they have massive losses.

This is in the Chinese language.

How many co-founders are there? Is the CEO a co-founder?

An interesting question is how many distinct voices are there? I think there is a good possibility there may be thousands of people who sound like this.

@dang, this was published in 2020.

Jan Leike just quit:

OpenAI Dissolves High-Profile Safety Team After Chief Scientist Sutskever’s Exit

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-17/openai-di...

I don't see how going to a fast food place saves you time: it takes significant time going to the fast food place, waiting in line, driving home. And at home you can multi-task--while waiting for the food to cook you can put the laundry in the washing machine, sweep the floor...large numbers of household tasks.

A very important issue is how much this costs: there are a massive number of ways to rescue stuff from landfills--but only a very few are economically viable.

Garbage trucks average 130 miles a day and are not used at night.Thus an EV should be adequate--so I don't see the value of a hydrogen fuel cell vehicle.

Virtually all drugs harm some people. But for all approved drugs they help substantially more people than they harm.

Virtually everyone makes ignorant comments from time to time--even the most brilliant people. The issue is vicious comments--and the solution is to terminate their ability to post after the first vicious comment.

Nonsense. Only the Democrats have any interest in dealing with climate change.

As to "the game", the fossil fuel industry is vastly bigger and makes vastly more political contributions--so the Republicans are going to do what the fossil fuel industry wants. Thus bye-bye EV credits and EV charging station expansions.

"Quiet quitting is really hard to tackle, largely because the employees concerned are doing their jobs; they are just not willing to go above and beyond."

Employees are generally willing to go above and beyond if employers are willing to go above and beyond--extra pay for the extra effort.