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by overton 3y ago
> The submarine's captain, Robert Dunn, feels they have been largely written out of the Libyan campaign and is keen his crew get their due. Interesting, how did that turn out for Libya and North Africa in general?
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by overton 3y ago
Seeing a few canned tuna comments here. I love it as much as the next guy but PSA: it has more mercury than you would imagine -- in the range of ~60mcg per tin in some cases. Nobody needs that, and I've personally banned it from my d
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by overton 4y ago
Yeah, I doubt it's a viable long term strategy, but I think they're terrified of the crash being on their watch.
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by overton 4y ago
The Canadian government knows what they're doing. They're more afraid of a crash than they want to rein in prices.
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by overton 5y ago
Modern western society has not built the social capital necessary to cope with its material complexity. It's built on an ethic of grifting, in the large or in the small. See the part of the piece where people think you deserve what&#
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by overton 5y ago
Sue me, I have whatever concept of efficiency that means that people eating and having housing and having a habitable environment is more important than NFT's or space tourism or car collections. That's my ladder of importance.
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by overton 5y ago
Heck, even private businesses often do a kind of ad-hoc rationing for essential goods when there's a rush on them, because they know that the kind of arbitrage free-for-all described in the article has extremely poor social outcomes in
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by overton 5y ago
The argument starts that people who need gas more are going to buy it in the shortage (suggesting efficient distribution), and then acknowledges that it's just as likely wealthier people or price gougers who don't need it. In actu
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by overton 5y ago
Rails is unquestionably better now than when it was new and cool. Before, the ecosystem and core framework were evolving at a rapid pace, leading to some suboptimal patterns and sometimes making maintenance a bit of a nightmare. Now there
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by overton 5y ago
I have to wonder what other unintended side effects of modern tech/modes of behaviour we'll find.
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by overton 5y ago
Same story pretty much everywhere -- wealthy property owners can't be bothered to allow the minimum amount of development that would let the workers they depend on find decent housing.
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by overton 5y ago
A valuable perspective that alludes to a troubling phenomenon: discourses around disability often cater to the comfort of the abled. Abled people don't want to accept that disabled people might require care beyond exercise and a change
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by overton 5y ago
Why should it take 20 years to own a home?
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by overton 5y ago
the OS landscape is pretty grim in 2021 in general: - Some Linux distros are getting pretty usable, but there are also still plenty of rough edges and limited support for certain apps. It's understandable because the community is unde
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by overton 5y ago
The first case linked above was in a gym where patrons were supposed to be masked and two meters apart, and the second case had a CDC investigation which would have mentioned that as a factor if it were present.
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by overton 5y ago
That's certainly the dominant narrative, but it flies in the face of superspreader events where it appears that one or a few people infected hundreds. Did they directly breathe on everybody they infected? https://montreal.c
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by overton 5y ago
Early on in the pandemic, the Canadian IPAC (Infection Control and Prevention) establishment came down hard against theories of airborne COVID transmission, at first even going so far as to not recommend masking. Even now that the science
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by overton 5y ago
The primary usecase (which happens to me fairly frequently in Javascript) is when you need to operate on a native or library data structure with some function other than its built-in methods. Some people also find it easier to program in an
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by overton 5y ago
I would add that it's misleading to generalize the experience of tech workers to workers at large. We're in a weird and fortunate spot because we work as in a well capitalized industry as highly specialized skilled artisans. So o
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by overton 5y ago
> Most people work but most dont necessarily have to, at least as much as we do. People enter the "rat race" because it gives them something, not just a source of money but other achievement and identity stuff. What? In 2020,
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by overton 5y ago
sure I do. as another comment pointed out, the trend roughly tracks the decoupling of wages from productivity in North America. seems as good of a reason for disillusionment as one could find.
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by overton 5y ago
Exactly. This article comes with the typical psychiatrist bias that depression is indication of some personal deficit (cognitive distortions or faulty brain chemistry) when in my personal view, given the state of the world there are many go
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by overton 5y ago
Chiming to say that I too have burned out as a result of forced pairing. Will never do it again except on an ad-hoc, limited basis.
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by overton 5y ago
Did I say for free? No, I didn't. The idea is that you allow anybody to build more supply, and the price comes down. Did I make any mention of spending to solve the problem? No, I didn't so quit putting words in my mouth. Makin
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by overton 5y ago
Maybe if the city of Toronto isn't happy with tiny shelters, maybe they should allow new 'proper' houses to be built. Toronto is the sixth most expensive housing market (by income) in the world, yet they still mostly use a 1
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by overton 5y ago
Not sure why this is so controversial. Man got rich off of strong IP protections & market concentration and is now pushing the same in his "philanthropic" work.
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by overton 5y ago
The Kaiser piece is pretty clear -- AZ got an exclusive deal. Here's Bill Gates on his reasoning for pushing the exclusivity deal. Basically he claims to be the authority on which factories/companies are "capable" and wh
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by overton 5y ago
Cry me a river. Oxford was going to open-source the vaccine until Bill Gates convinced them to give an exclusive contract to AZ, to lean on their supposed capacity to manage clinical trials and related administrative issues (even though th
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by overton 5y ago
There's nothing natural about housing markets. Across the developed world bougie homeowners have been using zoning regulations to restrict supply with immensely lucrative results. I would also like to see you tell someone experiencin
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by overton 6y ago
Toronto needs to build more housing, period. It doesn't need to be "smart", it doesn't need to be "iconic", there just needs to be a lot of it and it needs to be close to amenities and jobs. As far as I can t

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