Ntrails

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by Ntrails 2y ago
> Tax wealth, not work. There should be no billionaires. NB. This does not mean that Inheritance should be a taxable event! There would be less need to have inheritance tax if we had a consistent wealth tax. It remains obvious to me tha
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by Ntrails 2y ago
> Better a guilty person go free than an innocent person sent to their long, slow, undignified death. This is a scale thing though right? You'll have some false convictions if you want a justice system. Nothing is perfect, breakag
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by Ntrails 2y ago
I mean, I only read the abstract of the study but the implication is clear: > This trend has been driven by studies conducted in the United States. Consideration of participant and study characteristics revealed that in the United State
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by Ntrails 2y ago
> At what point does blame the plants become blame all alien life including human? I don't think that's what people are saying. The question is why is the cost of growing such water intensive crops in such an arid land cheap
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Every night I can hear ubers reversing up the road with their obnoxiously loud lorry-style reversing warning beep. If I'm not already asleep, it keeps me up (and for some reason it takes them forever to park or whatever they're d
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by Ntrails 2y ago
If I haven't used discord in a while I will get stuck in a voice chat and cannot for the life of me figure out how to exit. I clicked on the channel name to enter, but I can't exit from there. Clicking on other channels doesn&#x
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by Ntrails 2y ago
Absolutely could! However, management felt kinda burned because that was a bunch of time and unsurprisingly nobody was measurably more productive afterwards (it turns out those are just shitty code tidbits, but not highly correlated with ar
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I remember a project to get us down from like 1500 build warnings to sub 100. It took a long time, generated plenty of bikeshedding, and was impossible to demonstrate value. I, personally, was mostly just pissed we didn't get it to ze
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by Ntrails 2y ago
It remains infuriating to be repeatedly lied to by politicians who say they can "hit net zero" etc without any lifestyle changes. It is utter nonsense and simply ensures every conversation on the topic is grounded largely in fanta
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That's useful context because as a complete laymen I thought his message was largely reasonable (albeit I am not unsympathetic to the frustration of being on the other side)!
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> The goal would be to make things asynchronous (so you could read at your own pace) without getting hit with spoilers. I don't, personally, think that works super well? I don't want to join in at the tail of a thorough discuss
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by Ntrails 2y ago
> It's still democratic, as a minister can choose to ignore this advice, at their own peril, and issue orders Whilst this is true, the civil service has been alleged to leak/ brief against such orders, not to mention be obstruc
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Don't forget the revelation 2 weeks later when you realise immediate past you should've trusted deep past you instead of assuming he'd somehow got wiser in the intervening months. Instead intermediate past you broke things pr
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A bunch of fun articles around these areas in the UK (free to read, think you might need an account though - apologies). Two food and one toy: https://www.ft.com/content/5af5b182-349a-4a25-b4fb-4551908f2... https:&#x
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by Ntrails 2y ago
> I mentioned 1967 borders, because as best as I can gather, that is the current Palestinian position. The Hamas position (as best I can figure it) is the dissolution of the Israeli state entirely and Palestine restored. Whether you con
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I have an old iphone somewhere and I also experienced this frustration. I appreciate you're not compatible with my ios - so give me the one that was. I don't care about whatever features you've added However, I do suspect
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> Read what you want for whatever reason you want, would be my recommendation. My minor counter here is "don't let the reason you read [something] be because someone has made you feel like you should "? I (personally) obs
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I dislike apps and avoid installing them in general terms. They're bloated and frankly I have better things to store on my phone (mostly music, but also photos, conversation histories etc). I do not need an "app" for submit
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> On the other hand it can be more fun to be the Half-Ork Wizard with 7 INT trying to role play a big dumb guy who's only love is setting things on fire with his mind and getting paid for it. At 7 int are you smart enough to even ha
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by Ntrails 2y ago
> Changing race to species has not been a concern for myself, my players, or those I know. Largely the same, I acknowledge it's not being done for me and definitely doesn't impact me. Shrug (or eyeroll if so inclined) and mo
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A few years back I arrived at a venue sans phone* waiting for a date to arrive. I was early and she was late. It was actually incredible to get the visceral reminder of just how ingrained having my phone for distraction was to me. I didn&
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by Ntrails 2y ago
I think my parents owned order magnitude 500 cds. Something like 150mb per album in mp3 format gets you to, what, ~75gig? I doubt they were outliers? Nobody I know filled their players with itunes bought music, almost everyone was importi
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by Ntrails 2y ago
> And the benefits accrue largely to the cardholders of premium cards, which are wealthy people. To have competition you do need a way to differentiate, and it's going to be funded by some combination of those fees, interest/ch
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I've never drunk and find pubs awkward and generally un-fun. Some of that is I maybe want one small soft drink a day at most anyway, and I'm quickly just standing/sitting without a drink, worrying I've got nothing to sa
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by Ntrails 2y ago
If Bezos declared he was selling all his amazon stock - the market would react badly. Both due to the scale of inventory and the implications of his alignment and investment. Dimon sold some stock and it was front page news, and it wasn&
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Selling a billion dollars of amazon via blocks etc with limited market impact? Probably doable if not super cheap. 3-400b? No way. There isn't capacity, you would cause a massive dip in prices. The timelines you would have to exit
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by Ntrails 2y ago
> The problem it solved would take a septillion years to do on a conventional computer And more importantly, the solution is not actually verified in any way. It might be wrong. I don't understand (as a complete laymen) why the mil
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by Ntrails 2y ago
> Meanwhile PFOF actually does have proven benefits in that it reduces spread for retail investors. To be fair, some of that is because its existence changes the pool of people trading on lit and thus increases spreads there. There ar
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If we all stand around and wait for the collective action to start, it never will. imo start by making informed choices and sharing your reasons when asked. Shrugging at brainworms being inserted into your child and shrugging with a "
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I disagree that the tax isn't onerous, but mostly from an administrative overhead perspective. Like many people I'm taxed at source with minimal options to change my tax bill. I pay the going rate, as per the rules. Putting the

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