postmortembees

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by postmortembees 3y ago
That's a sociopathic way to think about someone who has made one mistake and developed a lifelong chemical dependence.
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by postmortembees 3y ago
Punishing the people who are suffering from addiction with a tax isn't ideal. I think we might be better off with a national tax that goes towards funding the healthcare necessary to support people moving off. Want to stop smoking? Her
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by postmortembees 3y ago
What if your PC did not need cooling, because it generated no heat? How much more potent could computers be?
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by postmortembees 3y ago
Capitalism was always headed here, computers or not. Computers just stepped on the accelerator.
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by postmortembees 3y ago
Interestingly it's not the only growth out of Feudalism. Miskin argues, for instance, that France and England had very different post-feudal trajectories, but England's move into Capitalism was so successful in the short term it r
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by postmortembees 3y ago
Yeah, it seems like (to me, a naive layperson) to be similar to how a prince rupert's drop exerts strong forces thanks to the mechanism of its cooling/shape. The copper somehow forcing other structures to form in an atypical way w
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by postmortembees 3y ago
You've misunderstood the source. While temperatures locally will drop by 5C, the global average will not. That chart shows global averages, ie, the whole world was 5C colder. NY might have been much, much colder than that.
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by postmortembees 3y ago
The instructions they provide in the paper seem fairly straightforward and reproducible, I'd expect that if this is in fact legit, there will be many attempts to replicate the result quite quickly.
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by postmortembees 3y ago
Does "double click anywhere" mean "double click anywhere within these N cities"? I couldn't initially tell if they were examples or limits.
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by postmortembees 3y ago
Having a critique of a thing is orthogonal to being interested in the thing. There are plenty of topics I find fun to engage in dialog about, despite having no interest in the topic itself. We, as humans, seem to generally enjoy being a par
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by postmortembees 3y ago
> It was my opinion but it is also correct You are clearly unable to have a discussion in any sort of good faith. You cannot just assert things are true and then say, "Well, they were just my opinion, but also they are axiomatically
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by postmortembees 3y ago
> 99.9% of humanity is on my side on this. Citation very much needed. > I told you how things are You very much did not. You shared your opinion, just like you did with the 99.9% "statistic". Get over yourself.
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by postmortembees 3y ago
It's not lying. Am I lying to my kid when I say I "work with computers"? No, it's an abstraction. My 8 year old doesn't need to understand what a datacenter is, but just because I elide details doesn't mean I&#
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by postmortembees 3y ago
>If that doesn't make sense to you, I suggest taking off the ideological glasses. You might want to check and see who is wearing the ideological glasses. You are the one who has the hangup here. Sex is. People enjoy sex. People can
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by postmortembees 3y ago
You can abstract it. My mommy is a dancer, or my mommy is an actor and she does shows for one grownup at a time. It's really not difficult to find a true statement that is also not the whole truth. It's not like my kid understands
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by postmortembees 3y ago
Someday I had to tell my kid that people have two mommies and some people have two daddies, and you know what? It was fine. You can abstract it for a kid until they are old enough to understand.
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by postmortembees 3y ago
Why, why would you say that? Parent leaves for work, parent comes home from work with income. Is it because sex work is dangerous? So is fishing, and pizza delivery, and construction. Is it because sex work wears down your body? Plenty of g
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by postmortembees 3y ago
I've got an ebike that takes me anywhere within ~10 miles easily, including picking up/drop off kids), and I'm a remote worker (though I could bike to the office easily.)
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by postmortembees 3y ago
Property tax is not land value tax. Property tax is a tax on both the improvements and the base value of the land. Land value taxes are only taxes on the value of the land. A land value tax would tax a giant residential building and the par
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by postmortembees 3y ago
Of course. Most thieves break in use the time honored "brick + window" method. But I was refuting the specific idea that house locks are a tamper evident seal. They are trivially easy to bypass in a tamper evident manner.
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by postmortembees 3y ago
Agreed. It's surprising how often we are great at post mortem analysis in engineering contexts (asking "why" five times), but we find it uncomfortable to do the same in social contexts. We jump straight to "How" rat
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by postmortembees 3y ago
Raking house locks is a) not difficult and b) not expensive. You don't need to be a professional to do that. But also, bricks through windows are equally not difficult and not expensive, though they do leave a bit more evidence. When m
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by postmortembees 3y ago
Neat! I definitely read the name as "Peeing" and was confused. (Most people parse words using the first few letters and last few letters when they scan.) The blurb on the site was difficult for me to parse, mentally. It's wor
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by postmortembees 3y ago
I wonder how many instacart/uber orders I would need to have to offset the cost of a car, assuming I can bike to most of my needs. The only reason I have a car is because there are some specialized transportation needs (towing) that I
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by postmortembees 3y ago
I guarantee you I, or anyone else with ~30m of training can get into 95% of homes without leaving much evidence that the locks were tampered with. House locks are very easy to pick open.
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by postmortembees 3y ago
Twitter has lost a ton of revenue, has dropped significantly in web ranking, recently had a gargantuan outage (which they are still recovering from), and they've made a number of extremely questionable decisions regarding privacy and s
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by postmortembees 3y ago
This is a very engineering solution to a very not-engineering problem. Would this deter thieves? Possibly! Would thieves eventually be able to work around it? Also probably! Would it increase the friction of getting in and driving? Definite
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by postmortembees 3y ago
It's a realization we all have at one point. We all come to different conclusions about it. For me, I heard someone say something to the effect of "Plant trees you will never rest in the shade of" and like, that hit a weak sp