InclinedPlane

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by InclinedPlane 7y ago
"Some reason." Could be, and now I'm just spitballing here, but it could be the use of government backed currencies, the heavy degree of government oversight and regulation, and the federally insured deposits.
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by InclinedPlane 7y ago
The idea that electric vehicles will completely replace ICE vehicles is a hopeful one but faces a lot of roadblocks to get to 100% (or even 80%) and may ultimately be unrealistic. As such, it is dangerous to bank utterly on that goal in eff
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by InclinedPlane 7y ago
There's a learning curve, but it's not that bad. The biggest constraint is that you are in a very limited "world" in Arduino land, it's very systems programm-y. You don't have a proper OS, you don't have a
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by InclinedPlane 7y ago
And even if, for some reason, you have no withholding, and aren't expecting a refund, you may still be required to file just because your income is above the threshold (which is about 12k I think).
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by InclinedPlane 7y ago
Quick question, do you know the difference between paying taxes and filing taxes? Also, do you understand how withholding works and how you pay taxes with every pay check not just every year? And that if you have too low of an annual inco
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by InclinedPlane 7y ago
Yeah, this isn't just a dark pattern, this is a black hole pattern, this is a scam. With a dark pattern there is a way, if you're careful, to navigate through things and get to the desired outcome. Here there was no such route, yo
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by InclinedPlane 7y ago
> "The idea that the value and utility of the automobile is diminished because everybody has one is absurd." You missed it entirely. The argument is that it is unreasonable and unsustainable to expect that everybody should
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by InclinedPlane 7y ago
Not really. In this case the commodity is transportation. What are modes of transportation? Walking, bikes, trains, buses, and personal automobiles (among some others). In New York City the automobile industry doesn't have a monopoly o
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by InclinedPlane 7y ago
Additionally, a low stress non-crunch environment is better at retaining talent, which is significant on the short term but even more so on the long term (in a whole host of ways). Keeping people around longer means more retention of experi
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by InclinedPlane 7y ago
No, it's not. A pyramid scheme works with net zero productivity. It's just a rearrangement of resources, that's it. Life is a resource network. There is production, and consumption. Economically people contribute to the econo
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by InclinedPlane 7y ago
There's plenty I could say in answer to this but most of it is unnecessary. There is no excuse for a company such as Boeing, working under the regulation of the FAA, to produce any version of any model of plane which is fundamentally u
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by InclinedPlane 7y ago
They do. But there's nothing special about the gravity of a black hole versus the gravity of "ordinary matter". The vast majority of the matter in a galaxy is in orbit and won't get anywhere near close enough to the cent
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by InclinedPlane 7y ago
This is bonkers. Nobody anywhere in the world should expect that one buys an airplane which is unsafe by design. Also, the idea that there are two versions of a plane, one that kills people and one that doesn't, and if you buy the wron
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by InclinedPlane 7y ago
Capitalism as it exists today in the US (and other parts of the world) is a paperclip optimizer. The pressure is for those with power to leverage that power toward their maximum short term financial benefit. One consequence of this is that
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by InclinedPlane 7y ago
It's important to remember that it was their job to be mindful of the risks. These weren't folks working at a bake sale or something, these were trained professionals who had been entrusted with significant and weighty responsib
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by InclinedPlane 7y ago
They are not 3rd party review sites, they are 3rd party sites for algorithmically analyzing the reviews on amazon for a given product.
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by InclinedPlane 7y ago
Not only that, it caused people to die. Diesel emissions are one of the most dangerous kinds of emissions from a public health perspective, especially in populated areas. Because of this emissions testing fraud diesel emissions pollution wa
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by InclinedPlane 7y ago
Absolutely. And note that in other areas (such as payment fraud) they put in a lot more legwork because the consequences actually hit them directly instead of just their customers.
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by InclinedPlane 7y ago
There are many 3rd party sites (like fakespot.com) which do a better job than Amazon does and are not incredibly sophisticated. Amazon just doesn't care, that is the only conclusion that is possible to draw from the available data. The
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by InclinedPlane 7y ago
Right, I'm sure that works often given the massive power imbalances at play. Why not just write in double your own salary while you're at it? Aim high.
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by InclinedPlane 7y ago
Yup. It's just... shitty. I subscribe to a lot of channels and well more than half of the videos on the recommendations list are just recent videos from my subscription feed. I recognize that they are trying to create some sort of dumb
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by InclinedPlane 7y ago
It's worse than that. YouTube tries to maximize engagement, so it will preferentially recommend videos watched by highly engaged viewers. Guess what category of viewers are highly engaged? Indeed, conspiracists, polemecists, etc. Imagi
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by InclinedPlane 7y ago
YouTube is not trying to provide a service to you, it's trying to sell you the ad consumer, to their actual customers: advertisers. And they have it in their head that the best way to do that is to increase engagement. And the algori
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by InclinedPlane 7y ago
Our ancestors at the time were small shrew-like creatures. The extinction event occurred in several phases. The immediate impact directly devastated the local region and created a mega-tsunami that spread yet more destruction. It also kicke
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by InclinedPlane 7y ago
This is an opportunity to look at the problem from a different perspective. Currently, in all mechanical designs bearing losses are small, because if they were not the design would probably be unworkable or unfeasible. But consider, maybe t
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by InclinedPlane 7y ago
It's a super expensive jet that was touted to be a good idea because cramming three roles into "one design" would lead to efficiencies and cost reductions. Instead the end result is that there's barely 30% commonality be
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by InclinedPlane 7y ago
Not robust at all. It assumes that the person who set up the cameras and the network is basically just an amateur. Anyone with even a basic level of expertise in networking could architect their network so that cameras would be completely h
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by InclinedPlane 7y ago
Socialism. Taxes are used to pay for things like housing assistance, welfare, health care, and so forth. Also, "minimum wages" are higher.
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by InclinedPlane 7y ago
I think there's somewhat of a leap of logic in there. The idea that the transition to the present era is due to the end of artificial scarcity is questionable considering how many confounding variables there are. Look at the graph of r
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by InclinedPlane 8y ago
Standardized testing is horribly broken in multiple ways and relying on it heavily also destroys the quality of education. Moreover, if you'd read anything about this latest scandal you'd understand how much it's possible to

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