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by lsc 4y ago
We have a super-robust set of tools for this for fiction; I'm still chewing through the list generated by 'all Pulitzer prizes for fiction written during my lifetime' - and all of them have been quite good. ('the Or
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by lsc 6y ago
Eh, I don't really care about 'edgy' but it bothers me that so many projects, especially when those projects are computer commands, are hard to search on. Like, ss or ip. I mean, in those cases, they're central enoug
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by lsc 6y ago
I think a lot of it is politics and labor leverage and education. after the new deal and the second world war and the GI bill, a lot of our workers had free education. We had a serious safety net for the time and a very progressive tax
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by lsc 6y ago
for me, devices of different sizes do different things; I carry a lot of specialized devices, from a small laptop to a giant e reader to a regular sized ereader to a cellphone to a watch, and for me? the thing that is currently missing is
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by lsc 6y ago
> The continued gains in productivity we have seen since that time have come by way of mechanization/automation. but that has been true since the first chimp figured out how to shove a stick into an anthill and get more tasty bugs
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by lsc 6y ago
My understanding is that a lot of those young people end up needing to go to the hospital, and only survive because of treatment. If the hospitals are overwhelmed, the death rate is going to go way up.
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by lsc 6y ago
dunno, I kinda think that the right actions at the right time can [could have] make a huge difference. I think that if the rest of the country shut down the way CA and NY did... we'd have a real chance at this thing being a month-lon
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by lsc 6y ago
I agree with you... last week. I mean, sure, we should lock down now, but my feeling is that it's mostly too late for the urban areas. The rural areas might have a chance... they need to lock down hard right now. But... from talking to
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by lsc 6y ago
I'm not questioning the need. I'm just saying that it seems to me a lot more realistic that we'll be able to short-term ramp-up production of 1 and 2 than it is to think we'll be able to adequately ramp up 3. The storie
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by lsc 7y ago
the disrespect for sleep the medical profession has is insane. If someone is gonna be cutting on me, I want them to have a good night's rest. They tell me to sleep consistently and well quite often. seems like if it's good fo
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by lsc 7y ago
Yeah, remove the limiter, and how long does it take to make a doctor? I mean, sure, some people are saying that this thing is still gonna be here in four years (I am not a medical person, but that's what some of them say. something
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by lsc 7y ago
Yeah, I'm personally not too concerned with the "stuff" end of things. This is America; in spite of rhetoric to the contrary, we remain a manufacturing powerhouse. Apply enough money and we'll get whatever "stuf
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by lsc 7y ago
This was the day before the shelter in place order was announced. The guy was going on under his breath about how people don't know how this thing was transmitted, that you aren't supposed to wear them if you aren't sick.
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by lsc 7y ago
so wait, is it OK to use masks now? last time I went out with a mask I got chewed out by a clerk. It was... deeply weird. (I mean, I understand the guy had probably had a hellish day and that probably had more to do with it than anythi
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by lsc 7y ago
I'm one of those people who lacks the discipline. I live with someone who works remote full time, and they have that discipline, and are in fact way more productive working from home. But me? I have no problem doing well in the off
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by lsc 7y ago
Property values will fall after the next recession. It looks very likely that this set off what will become the next recession. (I mean, a recession is two quarters, so it hasn't happened yet... but it seems really unlikely to me
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by lsc 7y ago
It's an interesting question. Urban areas, it would seem, are likely to get the spread a lot faster, but they also have way better medical infrastructure. It will spread slower in rural areas, but you have way fewer hospital beds,
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by lsc 7y ago
I... don't believe that? I mean, I've used public bathrooms... and I've used tech worker bathrooms. Yes, maintenance is required. that's part of provisioning a restroom. I... do not believe that the homeless are s
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by lsc 7y ago
do you have a lot of homelessness in the thinly-populated desert?
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by lsc 7y ago
eh, it seems like the obvious solution to these problems is to provision some public bathrooms, you know, Netherlands-style.
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by lsc 7y ago
I personally trust all of amazon fresh enough to feed me? but yeah, it's probably good advice to not put things that come from the rest of amazon in your mouth. It's so weird to me, though 'cause here I am, totally willin
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by lsc 7y ago
eh, but if this problem gets bad enough, it will kill amazon. If I order a certain brand of stuff off of amazon and I get something I can't use often enough, I'm going to order from another store. Right now, I'm paying a pr
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by lsc 7y ago
>Hypothetically speaking, would you rather read about the recent US impeachment proceedings in Korean or in English? You know, the language most widely spoken in the US? So, I mean, I agree with your point. but as an aside, I think it w
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by lsc 7y ago
>because public transit tends to increase nearby property values Do you have references? my impression is the opposite. Do you think having a bus stop out front would make the average suburbanite want to pay more or less for their house
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by lsc 7y ago
This model does depend on the idea that most homeowners think that public transit will bring poor people and/or crime and thus would lower property values. There are lots of examples of homeowners blocking transit and then complaini
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by lsc 7y ago
>The bay area is such an outlier that I almost feel like it should be exempt from broader 'housing cost' discussions. Fixing the bay area housing crisis is a whole other set of concerns. I think it's pretty similar to most
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by lsc 7y ago
>* more traffic Homeowners generally don't fight nearly as hard against new office buildings. The bay area, for example, wouldn't have a housing problem if we built apartments like we build offices, and our traffic problem wou
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by lsc 7y ago
more to the point, for "full self driving" even with infrastructure, the "don't hit unexpected pedestrians" technology needs to get way better. You probably can regulate transponders in cars. You probably can&#x
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by lsc 7y ago
but note, we're paying most of that already in the form of people who are killed and under-compensated by under-insured drivers. Increasing liability insurance minimums would roll that cost that is currently born entirely by the vict
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by lsc 7y ago
If we're talking about social ties, you should probably be looking at the number of people who attend church weekly. I don't think there's a big social ties difference between going to church twice a year and not going at a

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