Konnstann

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by Konnstann 7y ago
That's not normal, and pointing out that "just the way it is" is terrible reasoning doesn't make you an aspie. Maybe if more people had these conversations we'd have fewer terrible industries.
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by Konnstann 7y ago
My favorite sets are the Un-series specifically because the art and flavor texts are so quirky.
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by Konnstann 7y ago
I disagree with the notion that we should give additional advantages to people who are bad at things, at least genetically. Math is not a vital part of life, so I wouldn't equate it with accessibility measures like ramps or braille, et
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by Konnstann 7y ago
That's why I put a disclaimer in parentheses. I was responding to the claim that a wealth tax would result in unchanged or higher income, which is patently false. My answer to getting some sort of "benefit" is programs like c
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by Konnstann 7y ago
You don't get reduced taxes though, so your net income does decrease. The wealth tax isn't going to take the place of any other tax, it is in addition to the taxes already in place. Whether you believe in the legitimacy of the wea
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by Konnstann 7y ago
Diablo 3 took a few hours to get to max level on the first character, an hour max on the second, even less if you had friends. Items are already level-gated in the game anyway, so you'd need to come up with a convoluted gear-score syst
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by Konnstann 7y ago
The maintenance cost of 1000 cars owned by one company are most likely going to be less than those of 1000 cars owned by 1000 owners, just through negotiation and bulk maintenance pricing. Uber is banking on people not switching to whatever
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by Konnstann 7y ago
Nukes are legal as long as you have enough of them. Isn't that how the game is played?
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by Konnstann 7y ago
Wait what do you do when someone breaks into your house? Grab a bat and go fight them? That's an easy way to get stabbed or shot.
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by Konnstann 7y ago
I was with you until the hyperloop package delivery system. In what world would constructing that be cheaper than just raising prices on shipping or shifting more of that burden onto the private sector?
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by Konnstann 7y ago
At least in Biology, productivity depends a lot on junior lab techs, since there's a lot of "busy work" to generate results. Not really a peer-reviewed study, just common sense stuff from my own experience. Since I'm wai
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by Konnstann 7y ago
This is the kind of thing you need subject matter experts for, not Data scientists. Working in biomedical sciences and seeing ML applied to medicine is scary, considering the lack of understanding of biases in the information used to train
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by Konnstann 7y ago
Are you suggesting that the grind is not, in fact, 24/7/365? Maybe you don't hustle hard enough.
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by Konnstann 7y ago
If the "smooth" option is feeding into people's biases, that doesn't seem like a good thing. For stuff like dogs or pizzas curating content based on AI is harmless, but once you get into racial and gender biases, with th
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by Konnstann 7y ago
Money, most likely. Removing or obfuscating user choice allows them to push you towards content that they curate themselves, presumably to pay fewer royalties or something similar. I kind of ignored it until they started removing dislike op
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by Konnstann 7y ago
You can find a crap helmet for $0, doesn't mean getting a known good product isn't worth paying for.
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by Konnstann 7y ago
Although the impact is incredibly minor, I'm sure consistently removing features also helps with build times.
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by Konnstann 7y ago
The final conclusion of the article is that we can use science to look at planets but not people because people are complicated. This coming from a doctor, who in my experience has little to no idea how much science goes into tools they tak
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by Konnstann 7y ago
The limitations of that approach don't line up with the example. Someone running a fever is running a fever because of an immune response to illness a lot of the time, which is an aggregate response. The body has trillions of cells, in
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by Konnstann 7y ago
I've biked for most of my life in the US, and while I agree cars are a bigger problem for cyclists than anything else, describing helmet use as "armor" against cars is ridiculous. I wear a helmet when on a bike because I&#x27
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by Konnstann 7y ago
The Epic store doesn't need to make money, they have Fortnite for that. A barebones store missing features that even the worst online marketplaces have, is just their attempt to become the new "monopoly" if they can get enoug
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by Konnstann 7y ago
As long as it's limited to school devices and school email/chat, I don't see the problem. Maybe it's just me, but my dad instilled in me early on that anything I do on the internet is there permanently for anyone who car
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by Konnstann 7y ago
There's a degree of state influence on the US media, but turn on any news site and you'll see criticism of the current regime. I'm speaking as a Ukrainian immigrant who sometimes tunes into Russian news, where they call me a
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by Konnstann 7y ago
Russian media is mostly state-owned, and independent journalists are jailed for speaking out against the current regime. The government is in the process of trying to emulate China's Great Firewall. The country is in a state of disarra
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by Konnstann 7y ago
The problem with GPA is that the number differs based on school. GPA inflation isn't constant across schools, and how they are weighted is unknown to colleges. Even then, rich people with time to do volunteer work probably have more ti
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by Konnstann 7y ago
Assuming I retire at 65, which is pretty much guaranteed not to happen based on economic factors as well as rising retirement age it will be around 2060, 30 years after people are projected to lose 25% of their benefits.
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by Konnstann 7y ago
There's a plethora of tax breaks and deductions related to children that you can claim. Besides that, the people who don't have kids are subsidizing the education of yours through their taxes. Regarding social security, I'm f
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Every company is going to have crunch times periodically, but that isn't touted as "standard" like with startups. She's saying that if you care about work-life balance you're not the person they are looking for, whi
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by Konnstann 7y ago
The only super-influential one I remember was when moot was named Time person of the year. That was /b/ though, not /pol/.
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by Konnstann 7y ago
If I want to go do something else other people find useful, maybe even more useful, I can't, because of lapses in tuition payments, health insurance, etc. Contrast that to either a system where the government takes care of that, and I

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