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by addicted 2y ago
Most of our ancestors lived a fraction of the lifespans we do. So any argument based on “it worked for our ancestors” is flawed. “It worked for our ancestors” could be the beginning of an idea for research, but certainly does not take you m
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100 years. But the entire issue was held back politically. The construction itself took less than a decade. However, even that showed the issues with America building so sporadically. The construction was really expensive. And a lot of thos
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by addicted 2y ago
[3] shows increasing satisfaction across the board as the system recovers since the issues caused due to the pandemic. Further, most of the concerns lie around perceptions and fears of safety, which is a broader citywide (and nationwide) is
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by addicted 2y ago
It’s also weird to use the 2nd Avenue extension as an example of achieving nothing when the 2nd Avenue subway extension failed for nearly a 100 years and was successfully built a decade ago after that 100 year history of failure.
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by addicted 2y ago
> The MTA has more than doubled fares in recent years[1][2], yet has nothing to show for it. The current MTA fare is $2.90. For it to be more than doubled it needs to have been lower than $1.45. The last time the fare was lower than $1.4
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by addicted 2y ago
60% of people commuting to Manhattan use public transport. And the percentage driving into this slice of Manhattan, which is probably among the most transit dense in the world, is likely even tinier. For context, the highest congestion pric
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by addicted 2y ago
Why would they need to listen continuously? Most people don’t speak, and aren’t around people talking to them, for more than a few minutes to hours in a day. You just need to awake every few secs or mins to see if someone is speaking and go
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by addicted 2y ago
This comment completely misunderstands why Apple software is important. To be clear, as an f’ing Linux user, the things that make Apple software good, which is consistency, lots of hand holding, and making it really hard to break things bad
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by addicted 2y ago
The people who whine about shorts are ridiculous IMO. Yes, shorts have some negative incentives that we need to be careful about. But they’re the only ones in the entire market who don’t have incentives to lie about how well a company is do
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by addicted 2y ago
Or, it’s the voters. Even without the argument that ultimately voters are responsible for the government they get in a country with free and fair elections like the U.S., health insurance is a very direct example of voters explicitly opting
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by addicted 2y ago
The most one can say is all versions of Linux cannot ever be a successful desktop OS. However, it’s very possible for a company to build an Apple like company by creating their own Linux distro that is well tested and guaranteed to run at l
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by addicted 2y ago
I think the flat earth model they use allows for a 24hr sun near the North Pole. Although even their model should not allow for a 24hr sun during the Northern Hemisphere winter, in December. The big deal about a 24hr sun is that almost ever
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by addicted 2y ago
H1Bs don’t displace local jobs. They displace offshoring. If the companies looking to H1B workers are only doing so to cut their costs irrespective of the quality of talent why wouldn’t they outsource the work to someone in India for 1&#x2F
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by addicted 2y ago
Greece showed the flaws with the EU. The good thing is that the EU has improved since then. On the flip side, Greece is also a great example of how powerful the EU can be. Greece would have absolutely collapsed outside the EU. So even with
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by addicted 2y ago
You’re quite literally exemplifying the issue described in the article which is homes being used for short term rentals rather than people who are there for the long term and form communities.
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by addicted 2y ago
Honestly, it doesn’t matter whether the rules are clear or not. FIDE isn’t a rule enforcement agency. FIDE is an agency that exists to promote and develop chess. Magnus Carlsen is the biggest draw in the chess world by far. A minor dress co
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by addicted 2y ago
The normalization of eating dead animal flesh and using other animal products is one of the greatest threats to humanity. It’s the greatest source and risk for pandemics. The horrible conditions in which the animals are raised means they’re
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by addicted 2y ago
So many people have and are making so much money just doing mundane business things. It’s quite a change from the fast moving world of tech startups.
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by addicted 2y ago
I wish people who cheerlead for nuclear would stop straw manning others. The problem with nuclear for a long time has been the cost. And the negative learning curve which makes nuclear more expensive with time and not less. I’m also suspici
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by addicted 2y ago
It’s a Tyler Cowen article. The guy has always led with his conclusion before even looking at the evidence, since a long time, right through his Marginal Revolution blog years.
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by addicted 2y ago
The problem with alcohol is that it’s a drug that isn’t just legal and tolerated, it’s a drug that’s celebrated and encouraged.
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by addicted 2y ago
1. People were clearly wrong about music. Audio only is clearly not as addictive as video + audio. 2. People did say that about TV and TV maybe had the potential to be like this. However, TV failed in many ways to be a hyper addictive devic
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by addicted 2y ago
I’ve said this story before but I quit Facebook about 10 years ago, at a time when it was essentially the only social media game in town, so I was essentially quitting social media, and the quitting process felt exactly like when I had quit
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by addicted 2y ago
A good comparable is Russia’s attack on Grozny. 5000-8000 dead in a city with a population of about 200,000.
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by addicted 2y ago
Well, it’s natural! Unlike the other nasty stuff that’s made up of chemicals!
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It’s not an article solely about health. Headlines are rarely about the article and more about getting you to read the article. People think of a headline as a summary but in reality it’s best looked upon as the most striking line in an art
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> Some people get upset that someone on a 'non-immigrant' 'temporary employment' visa can apply for permanent residency, although that is allowed by the H1-B program. The H1B visa is explicitly a dual intent visa. ht
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by addicted 2y ago
Looks like that’s going through the legal system so is already illegal? You can’t make a rule that says “hey don’t break the rules”. That seems logically fallacious.
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by addicted 2y ago
Where can I call to get the Yubikey locksmith in the middle of the night to show up and let me into all my accounts if I lose my Yubikey?
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by addicted 2y ago
I haven’t dug into this but I must be missing something with passkeys. It’s the same issue I had with getting a Yubikey. The odds that I lose a piece of hardware that I’m carrying on me seems orders of magnitude greater than the odds of hav

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