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Nonprofits in the USA are basically failings in government.

Non profits at their best provide services that any half decent government should provide but do it at a fraction of the efficiency that the government could.

At their worst they are private individuals spending tax payers money (that’s what tax breaks actually are) on personal causes and self enrichment.

That’s why it’s interesting seeing a right wing publication advocating for fewer non profits, I’m all for it. Cut tax breaks for non profits, reduce funding of non profits and fund government to provide the services.

Delivery is what happens if it’s not spam or abuse.

I’m using the terms correctly it’s just that while red lobster is owned by the PE firm, the PE firm is more than red lobster.

I do understand

No I don’t mean the strategy, I mean selling the real estate for 7.5 years of rent. Usually the multiple is closer to 20x

That’s what I’m wondering, or if they got some other compensation that isn’t mentioned.

They sold their real estate for 1.5 billion and then red lobster paid 200 million a year in rent. That’s insane. In 7.5 years they would pay back the purchase price.

That just seems like a massively bad deal for red lobster, I wonder was there another way the private equity firm made out on that deal ?

Hilarious to think that everyone is worried about AI becoming sentient and murdering us all - it's more likely it will just give bad advice to enough humans that we all lazily murder ourselves attempting something stupid like a real life version of idiocracy.

Are you working for Big Sprout? I seem to remember seeing that exact phrase on here in the last couple of months.

"Not your parents sprouts anymore"

For the record I loved them 30 years ago and still love em.

My recipe is very different to the modern fashion, boiled until mushy with a slice of smokey bacon, drain and eat with butter. They literally melt like butter - delicious.

Still took 9 years to get to 7 chargers. So this article is complaining about a 450% increase in rate of charger building.

That’s why it takes time to build the infrastructure, that’s my point.

It’s taken time to build all the other infrastructure, why do we think that a whole new transport infrastructure across all the states should just magically appear in 2 years.

Tesla was founded in 2003.

Obviously they didn’t start building charging stations straight away but this doesn’t really feel like we are all having an honest discussion :/

That said they’ve had a long time to plan those chargers.

Tesla was founded in 2003.

So only 9 years.

In fact, many building projects take years to just purchase the real estate to build on.

Petrol pumps also have insanely high energy requirements and take a long time to permit and build. And for good reason. They just get their energy via tanker.

The fact that something needs energy doesn't mean we shouldn't build it.

You keep talking about diesel generators. So what if these chargers have diesel generators for backup. People in EVs are probably ok with a fall back to diesel generators - they probably all used to drive petrol cars. It's not this smoking gun you think it is.

The point is that we are moving from oil to not-oil and EVs make this a reality even if occasionally they fall back to the way things are done at the moment (i.e. using oil)

It just takes time to build physical buildings. Tesla doesn't have any secret sauce they just started years ago.

Are they permitted, funded and planned and built in less time than years? Not very many are. This a good thing, we don't want people cutting corners and building wherever they want. The downside is that we need to wait a little before we get what we want. I'm actually impressed that 7 have been fully constructed and opened in 2 years.

But “goals” is doing an insane amount of heavy lifting here.

In order to have goals you need to have a model of the world. LLMs do not have a model of the world.

Your goal then is changing this world somehow so you need actuators.

So you need a model and actuators.

All we have is a stream of words appended in a probabilistic manner.

This. Llms aren’t very good and are just predictive text. And I say that as someone who has a lot of experience using them. We don’t have anything to fear from AI for quite some time.

As an aside, the AI generated search snippets in google are messing me up. They seem good for random things I don’t know about but are awful for programming things where I’m looking for a specific solution to a specific problem. They always just give me the “right” way no matter how much it doesn’t really work like that.

An example would be trying to figure out how to solve a weird edge case or error, something that stack overflow is amazing at and it just feeds me generic instructions - which honestly fooled me for a while before I learned to ignore.

Building physical things in the real world takes more than a couple of years. Think how long it takes to plan and build a regular building and these are buildings with insanely high energy requirements.

This seems to be just partisan point scoring.

Besides half the Republican Party is still advocating for coal and oil extraction, it’s a bit hypocritical to be complaining that EVs aren’t happening fast enough.

There are very few rigorous measurements and a lot of people just saying whatever they feel like :)

With regards to acid and GERD which is when doctors normally talk about coffee acidity, what they usually say makes no sense at all and they should know better.

The idea that a very weak acid like coffee would increase the acidity of your stomach which contains a very very strong acid (1.5 to 3.5) is ridiculous. I think what they should just say is that hot coffee can relax the muscles keeping your stomach contents in.

I've found that lighter roasts don't degas/bloom anywhere near as much as coffees that are taken even a little more darker (like talking about the difference between super light and light). I think this continues up to second crack. I'd guess that the breaking down of the cell walls in the bean has something to do with it, more roast more breakdown = more C02. I actually think the C02 is just probably not even created in lighter roasts.

Are you sure when you are brewing that the concentrations/extractions are the same ? If you brew an aeropress and then dilute it, it will probably be less acidic.

Here is more info on hot/cold https://www.researchgate.net/figure/pH-values-of-six-coffee-...

Hot water is fine.

Huge difference between burr and blade.

There should be no grassy taste, that’s a roast defect and comes from inconsistent roasting. You should find a better roaster. You can roast really light and not get that taste, but you need to be consistent.

All coffees tend to be in the same ph range regardless of brewing technique.

The reasoning is a bit reductive, it makes sense if you think of success as binary (you become a billionaire or you don’t, which in fairness is what yc and many VC firms push).

Obviously you can fail to become a billionaire and make some non life changing amount of money and even make what to a lot of people is life changing, but for this outcome (which is still uncommon) you would be better off not trying to become a billionaire.

You asked me why I insisted on responding, I told you why I responded. To not allow exaggerated nonsense to just exist unchallenged.

I used humor in my response. My use of a joke highlighted the absurdity and overblown nature of the original commenters statement and made a reader think exactly what does someone mean by "path to having a family". In actual fact, other people on this page are claiming it's too easy to have a family in Ireland what with all the free housing and welfare. So I'm pointing out the absurdity of the position, especially when it's just blasted out as fact without anything to back it up.

Comedy in the service of a strong argument is twice as funny.