Zarath

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by Zarath 7y ago
I've found that it is as much about when I sleep as how much sleep I get. For example, sleeping from 12-8 I feel far far more rested than when sleeping from 3-11.
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by Zarath 7y ago
What are some examples you'd give? Not trying to refute you, I just can't think of any off the top of my head.
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by Zarath 7y ago
Bit of a contrarian take here, but this is the first step towards capitalism getting its grip on a transformative and disruptive thing and coopting it for its purposes. I'm all for decriminalization, but I get nervous when something su
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by Zarath 7y ago
"(funny how privacy advocates are more upset about Amazon knowing your secrets than the government, who have an actual incentive to use it against you)" Actually going to disagree with this one. AFAIK, the government has not used
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by Zarath 7y ago
Wow, that's quite sad to read. Imagine believing a place you spend 10 hours a day at has no effect on your mental health.
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by Zarath 7y ago
At least in the case of corporate defense, most of them are the "free market solves everything" types who believe that if completely left alone, business will turn the world into some utopia.
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by Zarath 7y ago
I think the Trump tweet from the other day confirms that this speculation is not at all unfounded. I think 20cm resolution from satellite images is even better than most people speculated.
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by Zarath 7y ago
Duh. I'd also be willing to bet it's correlated with screen time.
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by Zarath 7y ago
I'd put money on the fact that it is smartphones and the internet over student debt.
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by Zarath 7y ago
Eliminate or reduce mandatory parking minimums. It's pretty clearly implied from the article given that's basically what's talked about.
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by Zarath 7y ago
It's a cycle. Build the city around cars? Then the city becomes spread out due to poor land usage and cars become a requirement. Since the city is more spread out, public transit is both more expensive (since you need to cover more dis
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by Zarath 7y ago
Markets aren't "free" in the sense that you mean if they are externalizing their costs. They are, in fact, distorted markets in which the cost of goods is pushed into the future.
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by Zarath 7y ago
The money itself doesn't vanish obviously, but the work does magically vanish, in the form of human consumption. The sheer amount of useful energy and resources required to feed those people, power their computers, etc. is being "
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by Zarath 7y ago
You're forgetting that pursuit of facts and truth is not necessarily orthogonal to "activism". Can I be a climate activist journalist while still uncovering facts about people trying to suppress knowledge of global warming a
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by Zarath 7y ago
This happens on espn.com as well
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by Zarath 7y ago
You're correct, but in the same way you'd trust the person to tell you about the symptoms of the bridge swaying, you can trust a person to tell you about the symptoms of everyday life. E.g. it's hard to find a job, minimum wa
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by Zarath 7y ago
I wrote a long response to this and deleted it, so I'll just say this. Politics and philosophy are one of the few things where everyone feels qualified no matter how pedestrian or unqualified they are. So you'll have to forgive pe
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by Zarath 7y ago
Spotify is the worst offender for me. Random won't play any song outside of the top 100-200 in my song library, but depending on how it is sorted. So if it is sorted from A-Z, I will hear only songs that start with A or B. If it is sor
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by Zarath 7y ago
We could just pay them to sweep the streets or do very simple tasks that make things nicer for all of us. Not sure why it is so difficult.
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by Zarath 7y ago
Cause they're a meanie!
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by Zarath 7y ago
Advertising redistributes demand.
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by Zarath 7y ago
Can't it be both? Late Stage Capitalism & Neoliberalism are responsible for the dissolution of traditional family values and other meaningful relationships?
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by Zarath 7y ago
Eh, it's one industry where consumers have a trump card. It's not like people haven't been creating free media content since the beginning of media anyway.
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by Zarath 7y ago
I don't think you're wrong but it is a very controversial topic
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by Zarath 7y ago
IMO it isn't that it strips people of human rights per se, it is that it removes opportunity to disrupt the status quo. Whether you believe this is a good thing is up to you. Terrorists are trying to disrupt the status quo, but so are
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by Zarath 7y ago
Who wants to slave away at a desk all day under fluorescent lights breathing stale air while you try to optimize some metrics that will probably get people addicted to some app or website or fool them for paying more for a product they don&
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by Zarath 7y ago
Police state and mass surveillance are top of my list. Higher than global warming, higher than wealth inequality, higher than incompetent and corrupt governments.
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by Zarath 7y ago
> " Here's this dude making money by putting videos on the internet, and when his videos go away, he's outraged." Ok? And everyone working at Youtube is making money off of the videos he makes and puts on the intern
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by Zarath 7y ago
Their syntax and grammar is very similar. Korean and Japanese are both among the most difficult languages for an English speaker to learn, so I would imagine the reverse is true for Japanese and Korean speakers as well. Consider the differe
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by Zarath 7y ago
Is there any evidence that Hanlon's razor is actually even a thing? Or do people just tell this to themselves to feel better about humanity as a whole. IMO giving them the benefit of the doubt isn't doing us any favors.

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