It would be nice if that was the process. Instead it's the extraction of ever increasing profit that drives this. The big factory farms didn't occur out of not knowing how to farm. They were created as the well established way to decrease costs per unit produced, at least initially. Then large factory farms allow consolidation of production, since they can only be built and operated by large capital, and small farmers don't have it. Then the few owners of these farms are free to set the prices of whatever they produce as high as the market will bear. The owners now also have the leverage to get less regulation, since regulations generally increase costs.
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I think Harper sold it to the Saudis. I wouldn't be surprised if there's some provisions that bind Canada to not create a new board. With that said we should absolutely create a new board. Use the crisis. I guess we'll see how much of a Keynesian Carney is. Assuming we elect him of course.
It's worth noting that supply management is a type of central planning where we centrally determine how much we'll produce and what the price of production will be.
Individual, often small, farmers then produce those eggs and get paid this price. The price and quantities are set so that it's sustainable for farmers to produce. Farmers have the certainty they'll sell their product at a decent price. They aren't at the mercy of the market putting them underwater after they've spent large amounts of capital to produce.
Consumers pay a generally higher price for eggs than the absolute minimum possible, but we also avoid paying much higher prices during shocks and shortages. Our farming sector isn't consolidated by necessity of achieving the lowest price.
We do this with more than eggs.
By that logic the US is responsible for Israel's actions. Am I doing this right?
Pretty sure BYD uses LFP. There's little reason to use NMC unless you're trying to reach the absolute maximum possible range. I think that's only really an important factor in North America.
Good move doing a public victory lap among friends while ignoring the orange thumb.
Just a thought, perhaps instead of considering the mental and educational state of the people without power to significantly affect this state, we should focus on the people who have power.
For example, why don't LLM providers explicitly and loudly state, or require acknowledgement, that their products are just imitating human thought and make significant mistakes regularly, and therefore should be used with plenty of caution?
It's a rhetorical question, we know why, and I think we should focus on that, not on its effects. It's also much cheaper and easier to do than refill years of quality education in individuals heads.
When the dirty commies do the reforms we all know we need in our countries...
We're so fucked. ⚰️
It doesn't matter whether this is used against dissidents or not. Their speech is censured either way. It shouldn't affect the much larger positive effect this will have on the majority of people.
For anyone with existing Home Assistant setup, the Home Assistant Voice Preview is pretty good alternative, when it comes to voice control of HA. The setup is very easy. If you want conversational functionality, you could even hook it up to an LLM, cloud or local. It can also be used for media playback and it's got an aux out port.
I used to use Google Home Mini for voice control of Home Assistant. The Voice Preview replaced that rather nicely.
Not necessarily. The long-term / short-term focus is a red herring. Without intervention, the system drives people to focus on ever shorter term in order to compete. Because firms can fail due to competition in the short run, before any negative effects of the short term thinking of the competitor have materialized. It's even possible to consolidate the market before "the chickens come home to roost." And then you have the mitigating factors - once you consolidate a critical market, your problems are the society's problem and the society will pay to resolve the issues from your short-term thinking. And then you have the ability to get out of the market before the big problems start showing up. Put all of this together and you can see that the completion for profit in a competitive market can easily drive shorter and shorter term planning without the winning players facing consequences. If it's not profitable to focus on long term planning and the system uses profit to determine success from failure... I think we can't expect individuals or even firms to focus on the long term.