dionidium

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by dionidium 1mo ago
> Whatever argument they make should be simply ignored and dismissed. This makes very little sense. People sometimes appeal to the safety of children cynically, but it's very often sincere, since parents genuinely do worry a lo
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by dionidium 4mo ago
We almost certainly have opposing ideological views, but something I said a lot during this era (that I'm happy to see you hinting at) was that if you come into office as a progressive prosecutor without any plan to deal with the peopl
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by dionidium 6mo ago
> How did Uber somewhat break even? They lost $34b before making a profit. It took them ~14 years to lose that $34 billion. Some projections suggest that OpenAI has lost a third of that in a single quarter. Even the most optimistic proje
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by dionidium 6mo ago
> We can produce enough food for everyone on earth to eat, Who is this "we?" There's a kind of circular complaint built into all such endeavors that goes like, "we can do this, but unfortunately we as a group don&#x
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by dionidium 6mo ago
> That’s a rare case where I support NIMBY. It's kind of darkly funny that NIMBY ever came to refer to housing in the first place. The term was originally meant to apply to stuff exactly like this -- i.e. genuinely noxious uses th
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by dionidium 11mo ago
Yeah, that's how I knew that he was born 13 years after the establishment of the city's modern borders and that your original claim is incorrect (and, incidentally, not corroborated by the result of your quick google search, whi
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by dionidium 1y ago
> A good starting point for reading about this is "Harland Bartholomew". He's the architect of what turned out to be St. Louis's ring suburb design Bartholomew was born 13 years after the Great Divorce between St. L
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by dionidium 1y ago
I am of two minds about this. As a matter of human disappointment, I totally get it. They liked working there. Now they don't. It's not their choice. And it sucks. This is extremely relatable. But the naïveté and confusion on disp
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by dionidium 1y ago
In the United States we have a long, foundational legal tradition in support of Free Speech and free enterprise for this very reason. The bar is set very high precisely because we know where things go when it's not. This specific c
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by dionidium 1y ago
> Blue checkmarks "used to mean trustworthy sources of information," Commissioner for Internal Market Thierry Breton said. Obviously you can write a law that says anything you want, but as an aesthetic matter, this strikes me a
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by dionidium 1y ago
> "In our information-saturated world, ads manipulate, but they don't inform" is an evidence-free assertion. It's worse than that in that it's just plainly wrong. I learn about useful products via advertising all
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by dionidium 1y ago
My primary computer, the one I'm typing on right now, is a 13-year old 2012 Mac Mini. It couldn't be more fine. It does everything I need it to do.
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by dionidium 1y ago
> I genuinely can't understand the thought process of a Yankees fan. There is very little free agency in American sports fandom. People are (for the most part) fans of the team local to where they grew up. (This kind of bums me ou
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by dionidium 1y ago
> We have the advantage that we can take good ideas from each other, because people can travel easily and observe that certain things work well. True, but, interestingly, we can travel thousands of miles within the United States and in
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by dionidium 1y ago
In order to rethink Bachelor Degrees, one must first rethink high school. It is routine in the US to see schools where 1) <=5% of the student body is proficient in math; but also 2) the school has a 90% graduation rate. If that's hi
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by dionidium 1y ago
> Your solution to crime isn’t working very well That's correct. We should have a lot more people in prison than we do. We are far too soft on repeat offenders and we've allowed courts to deem unconstitutional practices tha
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by dionidium 1y ago
What this back-and-forth, and this thread more generally, demonstrates is that these words are not very useful. They almost never clarify. What they do is produce silly arguments like this one.
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by dionidium 1y ago
You'll save yourself a lot of time and confusion by accepting that neither side is jealous of the other. I don't want the lifestyle Europe is selling.
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by dionidium 1y ago
What you're describing is called "agreement." I'm very plainly arguing that if the distinction between "city" and "suburb" is to mean anything at all, then it can't just be about what's with
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by dionidium 1y ago
Speaking only for myself, I think Europeans, in general (and most people in this thread) have no real sense for how violent the US really is, how much more crime we have than Europe, how many of our violent offenders serve no serious time,
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by dionidium 1y ago
Some US cities incorporated their lower-density "streetcar suburbs" over the years and other US cities didn't. This is why "Kansas City" proper has literal farmland [0] within its city limits, while "St. Louis&
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by dionidium 1y ago
You're right that people in practice use the word "suburb" to talk about all these different things, but that just reinforces that the word isn't very useful. Oak Park and Naperville are both "suburbs," but thi
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by dionidium 1y ago
> This emphasis on single-family homes in their data sources affects the generalizability of their conclusions about the impact of supply constraints across different types of housing markets, especially in dense urban areas where multi
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by dionidium 1y ago
> Got any evidence for that? Is Google in the habit of paying out giant HR-related settlements for something other than protecting good ol' boys like Andy Rubin? The state of US case law -- IANAL, this is a layman's understan
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by dionidium 2y ago
What I think is hard for a lot of tech people to understand is that people don't care about privacy in the abstract . "Your data is being read and stored" isn't interesting to most people unless they know what it&#x27
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by dionidium 2y ago
The way we increase the chances that everybody reading this will behave appropriately if they're ever in this situation is by strongly condemning those who did not.
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by dionidium 2y ago
> "The blocker or the person who behaved in such a way that they got blocked?" People get blocked for all kinds of reasons, most of them relatively innocent.
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by dionidium 2y ago
Birth rates fall when societies get richer , not when they get poorer. Additionally, rates are falling all the same in the states with the most generous welfare policies.
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by dionidium 2y ago
> It also doesn't suggest anything we should be doing instead We should just simply allow a free market in housing and housing construction. That's the obvious solution on the table and the one we should try before we bother
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by dionidium 2y ago
Rents are "unearned" in the same way all appreciation is unearned. You spend your money on something, anybody else could also have spent that money on it, but the person who does spend the money on it enjoys the appreciation, if a

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