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by digital-cygnet 4mo ago
Self-driving cars decrease the internal costs of driving (allowing you to do it without having to pay attention) while keeping the external costs (congestion, danger, pollution, noise, etc) basically the same. So we'll end up with more
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by digital-cygnet 5mo ago
I'm not exactly sure the point you're making about each country pointing at another as a positive example. The chain you've listed (US->UK->Germany->Spain->China) is a pretty good list of countries in descending o
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by digital-cygnet 5mo ago
Different people have very different relationships to art (in this case, music). For me, the aspects of communication and empathy are key: I think of a song as a message from a particular person at a particular time trying to get across
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by digital-cygnet 7mo ago
I like the thought behind the piece, but what I think the criticisms are reacting to is the profusion of short, bursty sentences (just like the ones in the parent post), which can be great when used sparingly, but start to feel repetitive a
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by digital-cygnet 9mo ago
This is normal for the Economist. I don't really understand why -- they clearly have an American edition (I get their print version in the US and its headlines and organization is totally different than the same edition in the UK), yet
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by digital-cygnet 9mo ago
Can you explain more why you think this? As I see it, cars in general remain very highly negative-externality, and self-driving doesn't change it much. Regular ICE cars: - air pollution from tire wear and brake dust - air pollution fro
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by digital-cygnet 9mo ago
I don't think this is a crazy take, but it is missing two big factors that self driving maximalists often ignore. First is the cost of driving. A reasonable rule of thumb is $0.50/mile all in (i.e. including depreciation, repairs,
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by digital-cygnet 9mo ago
The bright line distinction is Pepsi watching Food Lion's end-consumer pricing and trying to force it up in order to mollify Walmart. I actually doubt this is remarkable in the world of major producers and retailers (e.g. I've hea
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by digital-cygnet 9mo ago
It's not the discounting that's a problem -- it's the intentionally watching other stores and preventing them from closing the "price gap" with Walmart > As a result of Food Lion threatening Walmart’s price gap,
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by digital-cygnet 1y ago
I cannot understand this sentiment. If you commit a crime in a country and don't pay the fine, why would you be surprised if they made you pay the fine next time you crossed the border? Even if it were a parking ticket I wouldn't
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The $50k Burrito: how small financial decisions add up(digital-cygnet.medium.com)
1 points by digital-cygnet 2y ago|0 comments
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by digital-cygnet 2y ago
In the USA, unemployment is based on a periodic, 60k household survey. You may not have ever been contacted but that's just the nature of sampling. It's true that some countries report unemployment as those who are actually regist
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by digital-cygnet 2y ago
A couple of points: - Headline unemployment _is_ "people who want jobs [enough to be looking for them] but can't find one". The metric you linked to is including people outside the labor force and then weighting in a fairly o
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How much of a role does ad-tech play in "bad economic vibes"(digital-cygnet.medium.com)
1 points by digital-cygnet 2y ago|0 comments
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by digital-cygnet 2y ago
I respectfully disagree. Once you open up the possibility of physical force the guarantees of cryptocurrency look pretty thin. Obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/538/
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by digital-cygnet 2y ago
It's always interesting when I see this take because I was raised the opposite way and was really surprised to learn a few years back from articles like [1] that some people consider this an etiquette breach. From what I can tell there
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by digital-cygnet 2y ago
Sorry, what's your position here - that any renting of a property is an "economic rent" and thus immoral? That makes little sense to me. I am a renter and glad to be so because I'm not confident I want to live in my curr
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by digital-cygnet 2y ago
Perhaps I'm misunderstanding, or approaching this wrong as someone who doesn't tend to have bad reactions to altitude if I am careful with it. But doesn't this kind of defeat the purpose? Won't your acclimation take a lo
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by digital-cygnet 2y ago
Title is a little misleading, as attested to by several comments here. It's more a standardization (which, yes, does include "banning" the non-standard labels) Relevant quote: > The law is set to take effect in July 2026,
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by digital-cygnet 2y ago
Can you explain why you'd characterize it as hyperbole? Larger vehicles are demonstrably more dangerous[1], especially to children, and do put out more CO2 emissions. In what other context is it socially acceptable for people to put e
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by digital-cygnet 2y ago
I don't see the argument here. Importing less leads to selling less USD (yes), somehow leading to devaluation of USD? Is the implication that the dollar is strong because the US government "forces others" (foreign manufactur
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by digital-cygnet 2y ago
I was going for sources that could be cited -- for instance, I could only find reliable data on the Big Mac because of the Economist's famous index thereof. If you have a good source for historical McDonald's prices I'd love
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by digital-cygnet 2y ago
I see this view a lot, but every time I look at the actual data it isn't borne out. BLS official inflation: $100 in Jan 2010 had the purchasing power of $144.94 today. That works out to 2.6%/yr by my math. So that's the &quot
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by digital-cygnet 3y ago
My point is that it's a spectrum, not a bright line. We do, in fact, have roads that go into parks. Some parks even have trails; some even provide bathrooms and campsites, with varying degrees of amenities. All of these things increase
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by digital-cygnet 3y ago
I've come to believe that there's a place for the more accessible enjoyment of the outdoors that the via ferrata seems to represent. Every park represents a different place on the spectrum of accessibility vs true wilderness -- fr
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by digital-cygnet 3y ago
While Scott does make errors, I've found he works hard to avoid making them and forthright when he does (e.g., not everyone has a Mistakes page in the main navigation bar of their site[1]) What you're missing in your example is th
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by digital-cygnet 3y ago
Like I mentioned in my comment, the goal wasn't to morality-police, but to point out how the externalities of truck ownership in a dense area fall on others. And I disagree that it's inane or trivial. Motor vehicle crashes kill ~4
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by digital-cygnet 3y ago
How do you feel about your impact on others on the roads? Driving such a vehicle through populated areas means you're putting pedestrians and cyclists at significantly higher risk due to lessened visibility and hood height[1], blocking
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by digital-cygnet 3y ago
I know multiple people who cited iMessage compatibility as their top reason for switching and even have considered it myself -- the chilling effect that "green text" has on including non-iMessage users in group messages is real an
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by digital-cygnet 3y ago
"Recruiter" usually refers to a person whose role is sourcing talent. Their responsibilities are more like identifying candidates, salesmanship toward the candidate, and minor filtering that doesn't require too much subject m

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