adamcstephens

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by adamcstephens 5y ago
Every car is a decision to pollute and use excess resources, it’s just a matter of scale. Even if you are lucky enough to have a clean source of electricity, you’re still contributing to the problem. Asphalt is made from oil and concrete re
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by adamcstephens 5y ago
My 2018 Q5 is extremely quiet. When I drove an etron loaner, I noticed the artificial sound it makes, but it was otherwise quiet as well.
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by adamcstephens 5y ago
To be clear, I hope Tesla fails in everything they do. That wasn’t really the point I was making though.
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by adamcstephens 5y ago
Obviously 7 million people didn’t move there over the course of this year. If that’s what you thought I was getting at, I’m not surprised you were confused. Conditions have changed, but are people reconsidering their own decisions?
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by adamcstephens 5y ago
And where does your water come from?
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by adamcstephens 5y ago
Given the size of Phoenix, people don’t give a fuck about their resource use.
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by adamcstephens 5y ago
Just because lots of people made the same decision doesn’t make it smart or reasonable.
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by adamcstephens 5y ago
I feel like this being in the open is par for course nowadays. Sponsors, and indirectly through the broadcasters, hold enormous power over modern sports. Coca-Cola is spending some millions of dollars on this campaign, and it’s a bad look w
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by adamcstephens 5y ago
One of the huge advantages to the US/Saudi collaboration is the pricing of oil in dollars. The supply helped for a time, and we've weaned off it a bit through fracking, but that's a game of diminishing returns. The worry for
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by adamcstephens 5y ago
The people who can fix things are the same people who benefit from the existing system. Why would we expect them to act against their interests?
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by adamcstephens 5y ago
Unless the incentives for Amazon are changed, I don’t see AI making a difference.
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by adamcstephens 5y ago
Republicans are a problem, but so are Democrats. We need more than two parties.
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by adamcstephens 5y ago
Corporatism in practice is an oligarchy. The people at the top decide the fate of everyone lower than them. In some companies it is effectively a monarchy, as a sole person is driving the decisions.
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by adamcstephens 5y ago
I have a good number of years in my career, and even still think remote work is an uphill battle. It’s not so bad if you started in an office, or visit frequently, but starting remote is challenging. I think there are a percentage of people
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by adamcstephens 5y ago
Except the quote isn’t about legal ownership it all. It’s about who has skin in the game, and who actually makes the company function. The vast majority of shareholders have very little skin in the game, while the employees of the company a
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by adamcstephens 5y ago
How does what you describe not apply to non-college towns as well? There are slumlords in large cities too, that corrupt the local politicians too.
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by adamcstephens 5y ago
Much of the economic wealth of the last 40 years has gone to the coastal states, while draining from the middle of the country. The loss of manufacturing in the path towards financialization of the economy really hollowed out opportunities
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by adamcstephens 5y ago
Here, I’ll help in case you don’t want to click on one of the two links in this post that bypass the paywall. > At least two colleges — Purdue University and West Virginia University — are supporting programs for these remote workers
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by adamcstephens 5y ago
I suspect remote education is only enticing to a small percentage of students.
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by adamcstephens 5y ago
I’d even say go one step better and join a credit union. Less to worry about when you’re a member-owner of an organization that is focused on its members and community over corporate shareholders.
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by adamcstephens 5y ago
Both these groups have “facts” that they can point to support their claims. Facts aren’t some divine truth. They can and are used to support the narratives people tell in their stories. Sometimes the same facts are used to support different
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by adamcstephens 5y ago
Win10 Enterprise updates just fine for me against the public update servers.
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by adamcstephens 5y ago
Warehouses have a solution for that, which doesn’t require drug testing everyone. If you get injured, you’re required to immediately get a drug test. If you fail, you’re fired and they don’t have to cover anything.
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by adamcstephens 5y ago
Sure, AWD is great for some conditions. It’s not necessary for most, and with good tires a FWD can be just as safe. The problem is that full time AWD is less fuel efficient.
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by adamcstephens 5y ago
I drove one of the e-tron’s as a loaner while my car was being serviced. It felt heavy, and slow, but didn’t offer anything like the amount of space I’d expect from a wagon. More like a hatchback.
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by adamcstephens 5y ago
Until Subaru offers 2WD cars, they will be inefficient options. Why can’t we also have station wagons that are designed solely for the road?
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by adamcstephens 5y ago
Given the time it takes to build a nuclear reactor, this is a path we should have started 15 years ago.
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by adamcstephens 5y ago
Part of the beauty of the states having power is to be innovators. Federal laws will be the lowest bar possible, since it has to pass Congress and apply to all of the states.
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by adamcstephens 5y ago
Cars are loud even if the owner hasn’t made the exhaust louder. Just the sound of tires on pavement, when multiplied across a dozen or more cars, can be quite loud.
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by adamcstephens 5y ago
Uber and Lyft tackled local monopolies, sure, but not national or international ones. They also took a strategy of actively flaunting and breaking of laws in their growth. Not sure that’s a good form of disruption. What monopoly did AirBnB

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