ravitation

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by ravitation 3y ago
One other problem is that whenever these conversations come up in "extremely public spaces" (i.e. the internet), you inevitably have a small group that strongly identifies with the textbook definitions of introvert/extrover
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by ravitation 3y ago
You do realize that I'm responding to someone that made the assertion, also implied in the NYT article, that this "donation" was "done in a way that intentionally incurred a large tax bill." Right? What you're
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by ravitation 3y ago
Chouinard is probably marginally better than your average billionaire, but it was almost certainly not done in a way that didn't also very clearly benefit him, and, more importantly, his family. https://qz.com/patagon
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by ravitation 3y ago
A majority of the use cases for self-driving cars are either solvable, or already solved, by some combination of better urban planning (i.e. zoning and probably large-scale regulatory reform), public transit (specifically useful public tr
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by ravitation 3y ago
As someone who grew up in Austin, it was never walkable at any meaningful scale.
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by ravitation 4y ago
It's far from the biggest source of disappointment I'm subjected to on a daily basis. I also frequently choose not to engage with ill-informed comment threads; I'm regretting my lapse in judgement today.
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by ravitation 4y ago
These are at least often informed by (overly specific) personal anecdotes.
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by ravitation 4y ago
This is also not limited to just COVID discussion either. Most things that aren't somehow related to day-to-day software development devolve into unsubstantiated, or ill-informed, "ranting." It's a source of constant dis
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by ravitation 4y ago
> Bus was awful. Exactly. Similar to the problem many adults have trying to get to work by bus, it often doubles or triples a commute time.
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by ravitation 4y ago
Finally. There are these long comment threads talking about high school students taking public transit/school buses, but that just isn't how most high school students get to school. It is unfortunate that mid/late teenagers a
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by ravitation 4y ago
Most of America is a serious street safety/transit problem which should be solved. A plurality ~35% of high school students are driven to school, though not necessarily by a parent. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi&#x2F
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by ravitation 4y ago
My point about good faith was assuming people that claim to simply be in favor of devolution of authority to legislatures or states are being truthful; and not just also saying that because its a useful and expedient defense.
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by ravitation 4y ago
This is one of those cases, where, people like the original commenter, if we assume they are arguing in good faith, will then be "surprised" when it turns out those they are electing actually aren't committed to it being a &q
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by ravitation 4y ago
I would caution people from putting words in the authors' mouths. The correlation can be meaningful in and of itself.
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by ravitation 4y ago
> Why do people all need to live in SF? No, the serious question is why aren't more people living in SF, instead of the sprawl of low-density suburbs and pseudo-suburbs that surround the Bay Area? The tiny area that makes up the Cit
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by ravitation 4y ago
I found it essentially impossible to read. Great note/outline format, if I already know the key ideas/takeaways and where they are relative to each other, but really awful to follow reading it for the first time.
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by ravitation 4y ago
I mean left on the political spectrum, and certainly far more left-wing than mainstream Democrats or "center" left (even in a British or European context). Additionally, I use the term skepticism here similarly to how the term eu
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by ravitation 4y ago
You've vastly oversimplified the politics of the American left and right, which are themselves varied. Just because Trump criticized NATO member states and potentially weakened NATO with his rhetoric, does not mean it was ever actual p
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by ravitation 4y ago
As a younger millennial on the left, I am routinely frustrated by "anti-imperialist" attitudes (especially among my generation, and younger). I think "anti-imperialist" is one of the least useful labels for a political w
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by ravitation 4y ago
There is this contemporary absurd narrative that businesses, business owners, and/or corporations only recently became greedy, and that this development (of greed), not the system itself, is the root of essentially all the problems wit
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by ravitation 5y ago
No offense, but I think you are looking at "culture" through a pretty narrow lens (or just not talking about "culture" at all)... Regardless of if you are "[hiring] way too fast" or "finally [getting] rid
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by ravitation 5y ago
I've been through numerous rounds of layoffs, both of entire teams and of select individuals or roles, and it has never had a net positive effect on culture. Large-scale layoffs very rarely (i.e. never) simply cut people that are &quot
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by ravitation 5y ago
That's also fair. I think my initial reading of the top comment, and some of the replies, was overly assumptive; and my take on the nature of the cause was a direct result of my already pessimistic view of contemporary American politic
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by ravitation 5y ago
I guess for me, the fact that the political reality makes infrastructure "hard" is profoundly obvious... And, while the specific details may change with the city, that reality is quite common throughout the US (even the relatively
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by ravitation 5y ago
I'm amused that people are willing to contextualize this bridge failure within what is essentially the entire 20th century economic history of Pittsburgh; and then act like that history somehow excuses the complete failure of local gov
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by ravitation 5y ago
You've missed the point. Very obviously working in an Amazon warehouse isn't a trade. The point isn't that working at an Amazon warehouse is a trade, nor the job's actual wage... The point is that two jobs with superfici
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by ravitation 5y ago
> 1. Many trades also pay like crap and have a very limited window in which you can do it. In addition many are not welcoming to women at all, regardless even if you take the highest paying trades, do they pay more than the highest payin
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by ravitation 5y ago
I mean... I think there's a couple things here... First, as I said in my comment, the man in your example is likely not working in order to "stretch [his] abilities" as was the context of my comment... Second, I'm not su
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by ravitation 5y ago
> Just different definitions of "work". I'm going to disagree on this simplification. There is a common definition of work, e.g. the definition used in the context of work/life balance (i.e. the context of the origina
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by ravitation 5y ago
You're right. This is clear had I actually noted that disclaimer, and was simply an oversight on my part. With that in mind, I'll just agree with your analysis, redefining "work" to include "non-employment" is

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