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by 0xBDB 4y ago
"And on average those local NPRs get 8% of their funding from government." NPR itself [1] says that figure is 13 percent, counting state governments. In either case, I am comfortable that NPR is editorially independent but also co
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by 0xBDB 4y ago
If what went for a house back then is the standard then the problem for Gen Z is solved. You can afford a 1950s house, a car built to 1950s standards, and to send 2 of your 3 kids (probably not the girl) to college one one income, with plen
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by 0xBDB 4y ago
Kind of my point though. If you can find someplace they'll let you build a prefab house, and you cut the amenities and size to what was expected on a 1950s house, you should absolutely be able to buy a new house that's cheaper tha
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by 0xBDB 4y ago
"Now try buying a house with that average job. You can't, not even with years of work... People who had a huge leg up after the war seem to believe it was all them and everyone should should just work harder." I sometimes won
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by 0xBDB 4y ago
"Ukraine as a neutral, sovereign country" Based on what Ukraine at least appears to want, especially now, if it is sovereign it won't be neutral, and if forced to be neutral it isn't really sovereign.
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by 0xBDB 4y ago
Yes, I used to get a lot of my general news from NPR podcasts. I can't speak for their general news in other formats, but for podcasts I've gradually cut NPR for FT, the Economist, BBC (selectively), and even CNBC. Among other thi
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by 0xBDB 4y ago
"Even in don't-tread-on-me Texas you aren't free to just do anything just anywhere." Texas has "normal" zoning laws everywhere but the city of Houston. You will often see people say that Houston has de facto zo
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by 0xBDB 4y ago
It seems pretty well established to me that congenital conditions, non-congenital mental illness, or traumatic brain injury [1] can rob human beings of almost any of the characteristics (self-awareness, empathy, any stage of morality above
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by 0xBDB 4y ago
Because "Department of Energy" is a friendly name for what should really be the Department of Nuclear Weapons, a subsidiary of the Defense Department. DoE does a lot of civilian stuff now (electrical grid, cybersecurity, etc.) but
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by 0xBDB 4y ago
"I wonder if the author writes this content for free or if they expect to be paid. " I would think that the fact they make the filter list available to use for free in uBlock Origin answers this question. They may hope and expect
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by 0xBDB 4y ago
As a consumer, this is great. As a guy who used to have to take a zipper bag full of cash to the office safe every night, the convenience of the customer part may be laughable but the safety of the staff part isn't. Offhand I can'
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by 0xBDB 4y ago
It wouldn't matter if they were requiring citizenship. The protected category is national origin. Companies can't normally require native-born citizenship but any company can refuse to hire non-citizens. Citizenship is a pretty
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by 0xBDB 4y ago
Yeah, that's an important point. Anyone who doesn't like this can write to Sundar and he will probably pay no attention, which is a bit less attention than he pays to TCI, but not much.
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by 0xBDB 4y ago
It refers to this (not an endorsement or otherwise on my part): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elite_overproduction
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by 0xBDB 4y ago
Protonmail will let you point a custom domain at them and deliver to the same mailbox as your protonmail e-mail, starting with their lowest subscription tier (which I personally would have signed up for anyway to support them). Product expe
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by 0xBDB 4y ago
There is the 110mph Acela between Washington and Boston (with stops in Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, etc.) I assume that the infrastructure required to put in a real bullet train, i.e., double the speed or more, is cost prohibitive. Th
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by 0xBDB 4y ago
Oh, I know. But we got him now so we get all his prior accomplishments. (I kid, I don't actually think Linux can be reasonably described as American, but I guess that is the argument for it.)
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by 0xBDB 4y ago
Linus Torvalds is a U.S. citizen and Americans (or at least American companies) appear to contribute disproportionately to their population and even national GDP to at least the kernel (I realize the kernel isn't the OS, but I can&#x27
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by 0xBDB 4y ago
German speech policies are absolutely not without critics in the United States. I take no position on whether these criticisms are correct; just supplying information. https://reason.com/2022/09/23/germanys-cr
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by 0xBDB 4y ago
They don't seem to pay competitively with banks, let alone FAANGs, though the benefits and culture are (or were) reputedly fantastic. Source: Am a local who's been headhunted by them a few times but never got beyond the initial di
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by 0xBDB 4y ago
"What is the US going to offer in return." Well, not our biometric data, certainly. You could get that on eBay. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/27/technology/for-sale-on-eb...
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by 0xBDB 4y ago
That got repealed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_Service_Reform_Act_of_2...
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by 0xBDB 4y ago
"Out of pocket" means what you pay versus what your insurance company pays. By law, the most that can be per year is $18,200 per family in 2023 [1], though it is much lower for almost any employer health plan. My family is very he
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by 0xBDB 4y ago
The majority are. I pay taxes to a hospital district which operates public hospitals, in Texas no less. Parkland, where JFK died, is a public hospital. Sort of an aside: my experience is that most people who have no experience of the Americ
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by 0xBDB 4y ago
Not so much disproven as unproven. Kahneman has acknowledged that the book has issues. https://retractionwatch.com/2017/02/20/placed-much-faith-und...
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by 0xBDB 4y ago
Thinking, Fast and Slow is still worth it, but anyone thinking of reading it should probably be aware that it's taken a pretty hard hit in the psychology replication crisis. A lot (the majority, at least at one point) of its cited stud
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by 0xBDB 4y ago
This is the answer. You go to prison when you're convicted, which in this case, if it happens, could easily be 5 years out. But assuming OP really meant jail, if you go to jail you get bailed out unless you're a flight risk. SBF i
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It happens all over the country, which is why Texas is one of a handful of states that has an (apparently ineffective) law against it. Quite literally 30 seconds of Googling turned up egregious cases in Florida, Massachusetts, California, a
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by 0xBDB 4y ago
Other U.S. laws regulate both safety and environmental issues, but you seem to be assuming that foreign vessels are more likely to break them than the Jones Act. As far as I can tell, though, the Jones Act doesn't regulate country of m
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by 0xBDB 4y ago
"If it was just automation, it would still be here - only automated. It's not." It is though. The U.S. steel industry which everyone thinks is dead, for example, is producing at about 70% of its all-time peak. It's just

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