celtain

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by celtain 3y ago
Just give people money to buy food.
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by celtain 3y ago
>They moving there because they want to be in a big city - with friends, jobs, museums, and nightlife. Sure >So I don’t understand why Matt believes that building a few new apartments in some city - a very small move along that spectr
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by celtain 3y ago
With qualified immunity the only people allowed to enforce that are prosecutors, but they often can't afford to jeopardize their relationship with police. Federal prosecutors are further removed from local cops and have better incentiv
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by celtain 4y ago
I didn't see any ads on their chocolate article, and according to wikipedia they don't accept any advertising.
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by celtain 4y ago
I still don't understand the connection. I assume the term "company store" is being used to invoke the exploitative nature of living in a company town and being paid in scrip. How does "a major local employer wants the l
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by celtain 4y ago
Ok, but not everyone can afford it. When there's a dearth of apartments and you can't afford your own detached house, you're forced to share a house with other people. People do not prefer sharing a house with roommates to ha
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by celtain 4y ago
What would you prefer that they say instead? "I made no wrong decisions, I have no regrets leaving all of you unemployed."?
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by celtain 4y ago
Wow, I had no idea that there's currently a nuclear powered cargo ship in service: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sevmorput I'd love to see it, but I'm a bit pessimistic about the political viability of
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by celtain 4y ago
I expect that they are getting lower output per acre, but in places where land is cheap and as solar panels continue to get cheaper, the money saved on building the support structures could be worth those losses.
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by celtain 4y ago
Right, a more reasonable argument would be just that the risks outweigh the benefits for some users, especially if they aren't currently using notifications on any legitimate sites.
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by celtain 4y ago
Thanks to USB-C I just keep my Ethernet cable plugged into my monitor (via a USB dongle), and now when I plug in my external display I not only get power but also wired networking.
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by celtain 4y ago
I don't see how this is a relevant argument. Police can already use deadly force when someone poses an immediate threat to themselves or others. Using deadly force via a remote controlled robot when a suspect poses an immediate threat
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by celtain 4y ago
I always understood speed to be the main problem, not acceleration. If you're going to lock something behind regulation, shouldn't it be speed?
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by celtain 4y ago
That would explain a difference in price per square foot, but it doesn't explain why there are fewer small homes built further from busy roads. If anything you'd expect the opposite if it were just a reflection of people's pr
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by celtain 4y ago
3 more family members are about to move into my house. No matter how much I tell myself that having a larger household and more social time will be "good for me", and of course having help with childcare will be hugely convenient,
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by celtain 4y ago
I've talked to one of my senators, three of my congressman, and my mom's congresswoman. I'm not that rich and I certainly don't make political donations large enough for them to notice. Your cynicism might be warranted i
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by celtain 4y ago
But classwork is what you'll have to do in college anyway. It's not the admissions criteria that's the problem, it's the format of undergraduate higher education itself. A pull-up competition is a perfectly valid test if
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by celtain 4y ago
> I went back to the community college, got perfect grades Presumably they had a separate GPA, or at least term-specific GPAs, from their second round of community college.
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by celtain 4y ago
A member of congress voting for $10B of useless defense spending because they're heavily invested in the relevant aerospace company isn't committing insider trading. Perhaps this is unnecessarily pedantic, but what you're des
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by celtain 4y ago
>This should be a much bigger issue, IMO. We the People need to make them understand this blatant self dealing will not be tolerated. Compared to the impact they can have at their job (positive or negative), this just doesn't seem l
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by celtain 4y ago
https://qz.com/2156463/why-elon-musk-wants-tesla-to-start-mi... >the average electric vehicle battery requires around 10 kg of [lithium]. In turn, 5.3 tons of lithium carbonate ore yield one ton of lithium This woul
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by celtain 4y ago
Yes, people should absolutely feel a social obligation to make at least some concessions to the greater good. While this isn't a complete substitute for regulations that systematically fix issues causes by negative externalities, I&#x2
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by celtain 4y ago
While those activists are being stupid, this argument is even worse. A heavier car is intrinsically more dangerous to those around it, as the article we're commenting on explains. People can also choose how large of a personal vehicle
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by celtain 4y ago
>You can thank the government for little oversight in the carbon offset process that they developed. Carbon offsetting is a government program? I thought this was pretty much all the work of private companies, with buyers doing so volunt
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by celtain 4y ago
Housing density becomes a problem above a certain level if everyone expects to use a car. Parking and traffic become annoying if not crippling, so communities widely support and enact bans on denser residential development. Restricting supp
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by celtain 4y ago
How does a patriarchal culture contribute to lower fertility rates? If anything I would expect the opposite effect.
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by celtain 4y ago
I often see drivers arguing that not only is it ok to speed, but that drivers who obey the speed limit are actually doing something wrong! I don't think I've ever heard of a cyclist getting mad at another cyclist for stopping at a
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by celtain 4y ago
>A helmet requirement is wholly incompatible with the role of cycling in NL. You hop on a bike anywhere, regardless of what you're wearing. I don't really understand this. I keep my helmet clipped to my handlebars, so if I have
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by celtain 4y ago
I don't know about policy consequences, but one political hurdle is that this would be attacked as "welfare for the rich" or something along those lines, since new construction is generally more expensive than existing units.
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by celtain 4y ago
There was never a scientific consensus that there was a coming ice age. There were already more papers being published about global warming than about global cooling throughout the 1970s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G

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