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by quasse 15d ago
> the more we did to help students (as a cohort) with their mental health, the worse it became An equally plausible explanation is that when the school had zero resources to help kids with depression or other mental health problems they
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by quasse 3mo ago
This is already the case in Seattle. It's hard to tell if the law was originally created with any good intention or if it was just NIMBYism from the start. Regardless, the net result has been 100% NIMBY warriors using it to block as mu
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by quasse 3mo ago
I really recommend the book "Being Mortal" by Atul Gawande. It helped me process the drawn out and unpleasant death of my grandfather and look at end of life care in a different light. There's an important difference between
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by quasse 3mo ago
The US actually has a legal structure for employees to have beneficial (+ tax advantaged) ownership of their companies, the ESOP (employee stock ownership plan). It's a legal structure where a trust buys the company from the original o
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by quasse 6mo ago
> How much of China's military command is a crony boys club full of people who never had to militarily prove anything? Have you even glanced at the current leadership of the US military?
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by quasse 8mo ago
Seattle actually happens to have some absolutely great examples of local journalism as well as some extremely bad examples of corporate owned "news" factories. https://westseattleblog.com/ is run by a single perso
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by quasse 8mo ago
... you don't think the highway construction firms are continually keeping the wheels greased to make sure the funding keeps flowing to them? "Big light rail" must really be putting in some huge donations considering the ligh
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by quasse 9mo ago
> Every time I think about EVs, I become filled with dread thinking about what will happen if an area loses power for an extended period of time A mid-size EV battery can easily store 60kWh of energy. That's enough to power a domest
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by quasse 9mo ago
Can you source that? Diesel is only 13% more energy dense than gasoline [1] so the difference between the two fuels isn't huge. I suspect that modern (last five years) turbocharged gasoline engines are probably approaching diesel therm
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by quasse 10mo ago
The Toyota community has been far down that road with the DCM module in the new gen cars and found that the car still managed to get updates out to Toyota even with 50 ohm terminating resistors in the antenna connectors: https:/&#x2
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by quasse 10mo ago
> So we had to derive from them derived streams that didn't show temporal dependencies any longer, at least not as strongly Could you expand on that (or at least point me towards some keywords to read up on)? I think I understand co
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by quasse 10mo ago
Not always: https://www.live5news.com/2025/01/23/pastor-charged-with-vio... Wouldn't want to endanger the homeless by letting them sleep under a church roof without the the state's approval, much sa
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by quasse 1y ago
Given that steam turbine efficiency depends on the temperature delta between steam input and condenser, unlikely unless you're somehow going to adapt Nvidia GPUs to run with cooling loop water at 250C+.
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by quasse 1y ago
> Something or someone really, really wants you to be comfortable with violence. Instagram started serving me violent content out of the blue recently. My reels feed went from mostly hiking and skiing videos to POV videos from Ukrainian
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by quasse 1y ago
> Yes, but the economic rationale of immigration is to have younger workers who can pay into the system to buffer the growing older population Is it though? Not passing judgement either way, but the most common economic rationale for imm
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by quasse 1y ago
> Something very strange happened in the last 20 years. Tech companies discovered that the most profitable position to be in was global middleman , at a scale previously impossible before everything was connected by the internet. They u
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by quasse 1y ago
As someone who works in US manufacturing, the situation is much more dire and I think the "low quality / high quality" back-and-forth is burying the lede. It's not just that China has reached some kind of quality parity
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by quasse 1y ago
> It would take years to make a single new bus route in any city, I don't think I've ever even seen that happen. This is simply not true. Madison, WI just finished a massive revamp of their entire bus system where many existing
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by quasse 1y ago
If literally a single person in this entire comment section had read the linked article they would have seen that the parent comment's (bad faith) point is directly addressed. > Of course, if TikTok is removed, many children will ju
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by quasse 1y ago
> The American right wing simply just doesn't have the cultural cachet in major institutions such as academia, Hollywood, publishing houses, and generally in major US cities to enforce their cancellation attempts. The part of this y
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by quasse 1y ago
Universal tariffs with no exception don't even incentivize domestic manufacturing when it cuts local manufacturers off from an outside market that's bigger than the domestic one. My company manufactures equipment in North America,
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by quasse 1y ago
Can you point to a single public school in the US that does this? Not being snarky, I would love to have one to show as an example. My public school had a kitchen ... that it used to heat up pre-packaged deep fried chicken and pizza from Sy
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by quasse 1y ago
Wow, what a cool piece of Madison history. I spent a lot of afternoons at Boulders in the mid-2010s but never knew that it had a predecessor like that.
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by quasse 2y ago
What is the general view on Enver Hoxha by today's Albanian population?
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by quasse 2y ago
> voters are not individual agents but rather a mob subject to manipulation by propaganda Who is even saying this is not true? The United States government is more aware than maybe anyone else that influencing human opinion and action
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by quasse 2y ago
This is basically how every discussion around building more transit in Seattle goes. The town hall meetings feel like an episode of Parks and Rec.
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by quasse 2y ago
> we may see a socioeconomic pressure towards remaining pivot-ready by constantly broadening one's capabilities... If this isn't already a line out of a dystopic speculative fiction short story someone should crib it for that p
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by quasse 2y ago
> For your example about single payer, with that scheme costs will likely be much lower but on the flip side, we also would not get immediate access to care (that is you can't attend a doctors appt within 72 hrs of scheduling) I am
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by quasse 2y ago
I don't think you're off base by saying that people have a level of social responsibility to the people they live around. I think that can be argued perfectly logically. What I'm not sure I agree with is that it translates to
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by quasse 2y ago
> Not the op but I guess the idea is that questions of life and death should not primarily be economical questions. Sure, but as an American life and death is already an economical question *above all else*. The quality of medical care

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