quadrangle

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by quadrangle 2y ago
typo, you likely meant "Markets are NOT predicated on capitalism." right?
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by quadrangle 3y ago
sounds like post-hoc justification to me, you could have been confused other way But here's a real solution (though I don't think it was a problem needing to be solved): "FOSSY: the Free and Open Source Software Yearly confer
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by quadrangle 3y ago
Despite some validity to what you are saying, it has always been the case that the convention center is unusually crappy in terms of food options. It's surprising given where it is. So many other areas have better and more awesome
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by quadrangle 3y ago
unpopular opinion (which I hold, so I wish it were more popular): anything that makes driving awful is good because the worse it is to drive the more pressure there is for people to move to any other form of transportation, and everything e
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by quadrangle 3y ago
When WWII ended, the changes it made to the world never reverted to the prior status. Also, the rest of history since then has been completely dominated by the effects of WWII and its continuity including the very next wars such as confli
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by quadrangle 3y ago
I'm sure there's some subreddit or something where people appreciate knee-jerk defensive reactions to the entire idea of free/libre/open anything. There are people out there who actually hate public libraries… Supposedly
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by quadrangle 3y ago
The comment you are replying to seems to be pointing out that Ed Sheeran himself , i.e. his own brain, is trained on the past work of Ed Sheeran. That's how I read it anyway.
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by quadrangle 3y ago
The same status quo that has lousy public transit is the status quo that gets us a lot of "those who vandalize, defecate, and litter". There's no reason we are stuck with that stuff being rampant. There's a strong case t
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by quadrangle 3y ago
I haven't read the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Made_by_Hand series but my impression is that Kunstler would agree with you except with the caveat that there won't be cars or trains or buses overall, m
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by quadrangle 3y ago
If only everyone were as gracious and thoughtful… thanks for demonstrating responsible engagement online! Yes, Poe's Law and all for sure… Also: https://mimiandeunice.com/2011/06/08/status-quo/
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by quadrangle 3y ago
Naw, due to climate chaos, we'll have widespread civilizational collapse and the plain breakdown of the car-supporting infrastructure within less than 50 years.
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by quadrangle 3y ago
Yes indeed, but there's no reason even in the U.S. that we need to stick with private car ownership. We could easily get by and accomplish everything we need, even with the current awful car-dependent situation by actually sharing cars
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by quadrangle 3y ago
I think HN is generally a community that celebrates learning and changing-our-minds rather than resist any suggestions in those directions. You don't live in isolation as is, your car and roads and the rest of your context didn't
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by quadrangle 3y ago
Yeah, but the other poster was probably being sarcastic and just frustrated in a tone that is hard to describe in plain text.
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by quadrangle 3y ago
The title is precisely correct, but it is easy to infer wrongly "and you can't enable it".
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by quadrangle 3y ago
Just Intonation and everything from https://en.xen.wiki/ and related, maybe some of the YouTube stuff from "Hear Between the Lines" is a good start for new accessible stuff. Music cognition such as Sweet Anticipat
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by quadrangle 3y ago
There's also the more widespread phenomenon of profitable-enough local businesses blaming Walmart for putting them out of business. How do we evaluate which analogy is appropriate?
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by quadrangle 3y ago
Maybe you misread or misunderstood (although maybe it makes no difference to you), but the specific issue is: the FSF won't link to the bug tracker (not can't) because of proprietary Javascript. The FSF has no absolute rejecti
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by quadrangle 3y ago
> Most Americans actually like things that way and can't really imagine living any other way. If people cannot imagine anything but one way of living, then it isn't really reasonable to describe whether they like it or at least
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by quadrangle 3y ago
What makes Overcast better than AntennaPod?
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by quadrangle 4y ago
I understand that there's a weird critical mass issue with adblocking. If everyone blocked ads, they'd do more to either paywall everything or fight harder against the blockers. That said, in a harmful world, we should be taking d
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by quadrangle 4y ago
Of course it would never happen to you. You grew up in OR, so you never tried to pump your own gas. That situation only happens to people from out of state who come to OR and start pumping their own gas, not knowing the law against it.
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by quadrangle 4y ago
I agree almost entirely. I am open-minded to the idea that there's some amount of transition-to-electric that is positive, but it's entirely in terms of the counterfactual question. Are we switching gas to electric (which itself
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by quadrangle 4y ago
As someone focused on sticking to FLO software, I've been using Skrooge for accounting. It's just local, but it works well. How does Actual compare?
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by quadrangle 4y ago
I love nutritional yeast! Have never tried marmite though. Is it similar at all besides being yeast-based?
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by quadrangle 4y ago
As the video I posted mentions https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTV-wwszGw8 The Dutch city of Delft in particular is just intentionally designed to care about noise. Both design and regulations. Turns out that when you simpl
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by quadrangle 4y ago
Well, given that the whole suburban sprawl style is also financially reckless and unsustainable, the answer is to get rid of car-dependent style of development and life entirely, not just tweak it by going for electric cars.
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by quadrangle 4y ago
Cities aren't loud, cars (and trucks) are loud https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTV-wwszGw8 Video discusses this thoroughly. There ARE quiet cities amazingly enough. And suburbs are a HUGE source of the noise IN the cit
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by quadrangle 4y ago
That's the OPPOSITE of what I'm saying. I'm affected by ads. I think EVERYONE is somewhat affected by SOME ads. I've built up such a defensive posture to ads (thanks maybe to MAD magazine in my youth and use of Adblockin
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by quadrangle 4y ago
Wow! Fits my suspicions perfectly. Like, starts as creative good product (though I have misgivings about maybe they purposely make kits that discourage second-hand redistribution and thus add excessive waste to the world? Dunno, just a worr

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