naming_the_user

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by naming_the_user 1y ago
I don’t think about it at all. When they cost money we’ll care more about it. Until then, the choice is being made by the entities funding all of this.
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by naming_the_user 1y ago
Anything else is literally impossible, though. If you send your neighbour nudes then they have your nudes. You can put in as many contracts as you want, maybe they never digitised it but their friend is over for a drink and walks out of the
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by naming_the_user 1y ago
That’s kind of my point. There is a difference between not being interested or disliking something, and wanting it to literally be illegal.
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by naming_the_user 1y ago
I suggest not having laws that 50% of people disagree with, e.g. if 49% of people like raspberry jam then the 51% who like strawberry shouldn’t ban it regardless of whether they are in control. Basically, generally, live and let live.
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by naming_the_user 1y ago
Pretty much, yeah. If almost half of the population disagree with something then it’s probably a stupid restriction to begin with.
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by naming_the_user 1y ago
People tend to care when they feel that they are being given a good deal. In my experience (UK), people are usually more pleasant in smaller towns, and I ascribe that to, well, the cost of living is lower relative to their wage, they probab
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by naming_the_user 1y ago
I am obviously not talking about failed states, market crashes in developed countries are usually at max a 25-50% setback.
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by naming_the_user 1y ago
Solidly agree with this. I think that most people, especially above the age of say, 30, should be aiming to spend a percentage of their income, lowering over time. At the end of the day, the cars get you where you want to go, the roof gives
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by naming_the_user 1y ago
People generally ascribe far too much importance to general market conditions when it comes to their individual success. A good market helps you become a bog standard boring wage slave, maybe get a mortgage, etc. The outsized success folks
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by naming_the_user 1y ago
I don't think this is limited to the US, I have exactly the same viewpoint as a Brit and so do many people I know. People like walking to work and like taking the tube after a night out, but ultimately, the car is just vastly more conv
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by naming_the_user 1y ago
100% this - make it more comfortable and handle the rush. I live in London, we have tons of public transport. In the middle of the day, outside of rush hour, I use it a lot and it can be really pleasant, particularly suburban rail, you can
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by naming_the_user 1y ago
In the absolute sense, from my perspective as someone who was born with not much (I often have a sense that this discussion is driven by people who were always fairly well off and see "the poor" as a different species) the primary
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by naming_the_user 1y ago
From a personal perspective - I don't care that much about "labour issues" because it seems like a logically flawed avenue to explore to begin with. To be financially successful under any market system I can think of requires
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by naming_the_user 1y ago
It’s more like bullshitting which is inbetween the two. Basically, like that guy who always has some story to tell. He’s not lying as such, he’s just waffling.
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by naming_the_user 1y ago
In my town, UK, you go to the local landfill and there is a tank to pour it in. I just leave it in the shed in the bottle until I have enough other stuff to get rid of and do it all at once.
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by naming_the_user 1y ago
Same but I was in my 30s. Two years and I was bigger than anyone I knew unless they also trained hard.
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by naming_the_user 1y ago
Cleanroom implementation comes to mind. If I just remember the source code of a 100 line program and then reproduce it verbatim a week later that doesn’t suddenly make it a new work.
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by naming_the_user 1y ago
Every country does this, the US south, midwest etc are nonsense geographically.
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by naming_the_user 2y ago
As someone who grew up in a poor area (not in US, but not really relevant, I think), the main lesson that something like home economics/financial literacy classes need to teach is basically the role model / "this is actually
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by naming_the_user 2y ago
The issue with your assessment is that everyone includes the individuals. The externalities associated with driving are probably -1 utility points for me whereas driving is +20 or even more. I think that basically what you are saying only m
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by naming_the_user 2y ago
To me this sort of thing just seems like a weird financialization brain disease of sorts. At the end of the day if your house burns down you can go and get some wood / stone / whatever and build one somewhere else and this will ba
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by naming_the_user 2y ago
This is pretty much just describing the bimodal nature of most markets. Extracting $100 in surplus profit from someone who's not on the poverty line is easier than extracting $10 from someone who is.
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by naming_the_user 2y ago
If you have a diet, say each week you eat X grams of meat, Y of vegetables, Z of cereals, and then next week (or for a number of weeks) you eat {X,Y,Z} 1.1 or {X,Y,Z} 0.9, that will have a net effect all else being equal. There is nothing c
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by naming_the_user 2y ago
Wouldn't a higher speed turn up more dust and make things worse in general if your aim is to prevent the effects of radiation, given that inhaling alpha/beta is worse than the effects of gamma?
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by naming_the_user 2y ago
My interpretation is something like: Step 1 - recognising an advantage e.g. "I am straight/white/Asian/tall/short/whatever". Step 2 - recognising that it's unearned "I didn't choose it, I wa
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by naming_the_user 2y ago
Er, yeah, about that. Prior to Facebook and pals getting really big and the money rolling in, pretty much every software developer I knew was someone who got into computing as an early teen. My parents got an old hand me down computer and I
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by naming_the_user 2y ago
Elon is a clear counterpoint to this.
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by naming_the_user 2y ago
It's impossible to define merit in a way that excludes things like social background. If you're looking for someone to work in, say, yacht sales to wealthy X-ese clients then you might just find that a native X-ese person of a dec
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by naming_the_user 2y ago
You're right, but in practice I don't really consider it as being too fundamentally different because it's the logical conclusion from strong enough predictive power.
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by naming_the_user 2y ago
It's the contradiction that I'm describing in my post, I think. Obviously black and white skin colours exist as do things like physical features. The social construct is that people tie those to identity. Both within and without t

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