HEmanZ

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by HEmanZ 2mo ago
Or just don’t buy shitty mass produced chain products? The non-chain restaurants in my area are significantly better than 30 years ago. So are the breweries. Dive bars have gotten more sparse but the ones still around are better than ever.
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by HEmanZ 3mo ago
This works with some people and not with others. I’ve found once you have no epistemological common ground or rigor it becomes pointless and not worth having. Like what do you do if every source that contradicts them about any aspect of the
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by HEmanZ 3mo ago
Motte and Bailey. That again presupposes no one is or has done that. It’s like “I declare we need to check the batteries and maintenance!” because the previous maintenance reports didn’t show as many busted alarms as you want, because your
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by HEmanZ 3mo ago
Did you not read the point? We. Have. Checked. Over. And . Over. We have multiple layers of checks. We have cross checks. We already invest a ton into this. You are proving my example by presupposing there are no checks and that investigati
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by HEmanZ 3mo ago
So much of this noise tho bakes in the assumption that we weren’t already doing voter fraud detection. If my parents are a decent gauge, this is the entire lie the right wing is trying to push: that there has never been rails against voter
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by HEmanZ 3mo ago
$9 Billion was not created, just exchanged, with some intermediary institutions and people making money for facilitating the transactions. It's actually more like 1 trillion of value was "lost" when the stock dropped, and $9
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by HEmanZ 3mo ago
Absolutely. It’s just the very anti city people never ever seem to use excuses that are actually valid. Like if “the things that brings me most joy in life require owning lots of land” or “I don’t like people and every day I have to be near
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by HEmanZ 3mo ago
Most people who live in dense cities don’t live in high rises… It is very clear you have never lived in a well functioning city before, and just have no idea what you are talking about. Take the L and admit you just don’t have experience wi
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by HEmanZ 3mo ago
Houston is not a free market for housing at all. They don’t have “zoning” because they call it “land use covenants” and “parking requirements” instead, and it ends up amounting to the same thing as “zoning” in other cities. And the market d
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by HEmanZ 3mo ago
I am liking the term “car brained” more and more for this type of attitude. Have you ever heard of trains, busses, bikes? The options for transportation are not binary car or no car. Maybe in North America where they refuse to provide even
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by HEmanZ 3mo ago
Literally not a single one of those numbers is above the 25th percentile. 18 < 20.
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by HEmanZ 3mo ago
Median income in the US is much higher than $12-18/hr, it is about $30/hr. 25th percentile make $20/hr. 10th percentile make $15.58. https://www.bls.gov/news.release/wkyeng.htm So, the people you are men
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by HEmanZ 3mo ago
Statistically parents spend more time with their kids now than in the 1900s, and the trend seems towards more and more time, especially among fathers. There’s some “well we have no idea how much is quality time” argument, but just looking a
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by HEmanZ 4mo ago
Robots? I agree in some sense, I think the runway on human physical labor is measured in decades. But it’s likely not infinite, and likely not 100 years. I expect my children will at least see “the end” in their lifetimes. Human physical la
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by HEmanZ 4mo ago
This requires an assumption that humans have some capacity that LLMs/machines can not fundamentally match (or match cheaply, or we’ll make matching it illegal). That’s fine, but one of those assumptions has to be the case for your stat
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by HEmanZ 4mo ago
The window of uncertainty is absolutely massive. I could also equally see a world that looks mostly like ours today because it becomes illegal to use sufficiently intelligent AI (Mythos is already generating guardedness, and it’s not smart
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by HEmanZ 4mo ago
I think you have no idea what Jevons Paradox is if you think it is a retort to what I just said.
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by HEmanZ 4mo ago
I don’t think the claim is that people will be less productive, the world will be far more productive. The claim is that the value of most human labor will be at or near enough to 0 compared to deploying capital (robots, ai) to product the
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by HEmanZ 4mo ago
Have you not met Americans? The very first thing 95% of Americans will say if you propose public transport closer to their house is that you are bringing crime. Also if the transit comes close then someone might build condos or apartments n
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by HEmanZ 4mo ago
Really? The modern ones I’ve run into lately are like 100x better than the old flows. “Press 1 for sales. Press 2 to know our hours. Press 3 if you have a ticket. Press 4 to hear our website address…”. Of course nothing beats a human with r
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by HEmanZ 4mo ago
So 164,339,764 made it happen? I don’t like any direction this administration has taken, but acting like it’s not the completely legitimate will of the people is BS.
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by HEmanZ 5mo ago
And no one is saying eat the homeless. My city is deadlocked on doing anything about the literal crimes I’ve described because acting against violent offenders is seen as oppressing the downtrodden. Building new shelter capacity is insanely
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by HEmanZ 5mo ago
What cities? You’re right that I never saw anything like this when I lived in Oslo, nor did I see anything like it living in Sydney. I’m reacting to a specific environment in two major west coast cities, Seattle which I now live, and San Fr
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by HEmanZ 5mo ago
Yes the guy who screamed “I’m going to f*ing kill you!” Out of nowhere at my daughter and then chased us, or set fire to random trees in my neighborhood for fun, or cut the copper wiring off the side of my house, or took sledge hammers to l
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by HEmanZ 6mo ago
The everything crisis is somewhat apt, but if I look at my cohort (older gen z/very young millennial) it’s really mostly a cost of housing crisis. And if I look at the squeeze I feel as a very high income young person, it’s still just
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by HEmanZ 6mo ago
This is disinformation. Blackrock and Vanguard manage the accounts of people who own these. They themselves do not own the shares. It would be like you saying you don’t own your 401k, Fidelity does. There are still control concerns, if blac
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by HEmanZ 7mo ago
Yes. Kind of. Anything involving home invasion I’ve usually seen them go in like an occupying force. Including the time i called them because a small group was going around the neighborhood trying to break into houses. They show up with bul
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by HEmanZ 7mo ago
There is huge variation in what the US trend looks like from the ground that varies by region, age, income level, industry, and demographic. EI think if you’re a professional class baby boomer the trajectory has looked fantastic through you
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by HEmanZ 7mo ago
I agree, difference between explosive growth and “consistent draw” is large employers setting up in the region. Another interesting anecdote is that I know many people who work remote for companies all over the world who moved to the Seattl
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by HEmanZ 7mo ago
“ Most of the attraction of living there historically was its extremely business-friendly environment.” How old are you? What propaganda told you this? In my generation (young millennial/genz) the attraction of living in Seattle, which

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