anemoiac

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by anemoiac 4y ago
I enjoy reading posts like this, which delve into personal setups and the intentions behind them. However, I found this a bit puzzling: > While not an absolute requirement, integrated speakers would be a nice option on the monitor so I
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by anemoiac 4y ago
Does the laptop cooler actually work?
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by anemoiac 4y ago
That's definitely strange. I order stuff to the US from AliExpress probably every other month and haven't had any real issues.
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by anemoiac 4y ago
I'm not sure I understand your point. Are you saying that influence doesn't influence? That human behavior is an incomprehensible black box?
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by anemoiac 4y ago
I wasn't implying that more redistribution would create more altruistic citizens, but that a more redistributive society (or any departure from the status quo, really) might alter the behavioral incentives that exist today. The desire
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by anemoiac 4y ago
> A more redistrutive society would have the exact same number of greedy assholes as we do today Are you sure? Doesn't culture impact human behavior? Won't a society that encourages getting ahead at all costs produce a differen
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by anemoiac 4y ago
Malcolm Gladwell oversimplifies things. There's nothing magical about spending 10,000 hours practicing a skill, but you'll obviously get better at anything you spend a lot of time on. To answer your question: it depends on your s
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by anemoiac 4y ago
A little aggressive, no? No one's "deciding" anything for anyone in my comment. You don't get to decide how much work/social engagement/widget purchasing makes you content any more than you can "decide&q
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by anemoiac 4y ago
Decreasing consumption doesn't necessarily imply a decrease in quality of life. In the West, at least, we generally work too much, have too little social engagement, and spend lots of money and resources on things that don't reall
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by anemoiac 4y ago
As a young-er person in the West, I'm well aware of the term's general meaning. The linked article you provide fails to define it in any way that would be empirically meaningful with regard to the study of birth rates. You haven&#
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by anemoiac 4y ago
To begin with, you haven't even defined "hookup culture," much less demonstrated that its prevalence is significant enough to influence birth rates or, further, proven that its influence on birth rates would be negative in th
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by anemoiac 4y ago
You think that “hookup culture” is the reason for the “West’s” low birthrates? This is a well-studied topic and I haven’t heard anyone else making that claim…
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by anemoiac 4y ago
Your link doesn't seem to establish a connection between DUI enforcement and reduction in deaths FYI (unless I somehow missed it...). Driving deaths from DUI may have decreased while states were enforcing DUI laws, but the causality is
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by anemoiac 4y ago
The current system has existed for long enough that we can observe the results of its incentive structures. We can see that people continue to suffer from heavy student loan burdens which limit their ability to fully (and productively) part
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by anemoiac 4y ago
FYI, hosted Nextcloud is offered by a variety of providers and is hardly more expensive than self-hosting on a cheap VPS somewhere. I've used Hetzner's "Storage Share" service in the past with no issues, but I don't
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by anemoiac 4y ago
As a counterpoint, at least for the WFH crowd, it's far easier to afford a space that accommodates 1-2 comfortable home offices in the suburbs than it is in a walkable urban environment. Not to mention the other conveniences rarely aff
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by anemoiac 4y ago
Although you may not hear about it on the news, plenty of American conservatives hate Donald Trump. He's a narcissistic philanderer who's spent his entire life schmoozing around elite liberal enclaves while demonstrating no partic
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by anemoiac 4y ago
Where do you see politics in this story? There's no discussion of Maynard's political views in the article, nor any indication that they may have influenced his behavior.
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by anemoiac 4y ago
> the primary reason for punishment is that if you don't punish the perpetrator, the victim, their family, and their loved ones will consider the matter unresolved, and attempt to carry out what they think would be an adequate punis
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by anemoiac 4y ago
Please refresh my memory - why is the World Cup being held in Qatar???
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by anemoiac 4y ago
My reply was a little ambiguous - I simply meant that many anarchists would find the minarchist and libertarian positions you lay out to be self-contradictory. Namely, they both claim to (mostly) oppose state involvement in the economy, yet
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by anemoiac 4y ago
> Can you really be free from the state if the state needs to tell you how to structure your commerce? Wouldn't many anarchists take issue with the minarchist & libertarian critique you list above, claiming that the state is nec
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by anemoiac 4y ago
What??? I have never meant anyone who's concerned about Earth's ability to perpetuate its ecosystems in 800 million years. People are concerned about its ability to (comfortably) support human life 20, 200, or (maybe) 2000 years f
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by anemoiac 4y ago
Why is that relevant? The cost of maintaining a reasonable standard of living is what matters, not the amount listed on your paycheck (as long as the latter is >= the former).
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by anemoiac 5y ago
The value of old-growth forests (at least in the secular world) is ecological, not spiritual.
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by anemoiac 5y ago
That's not a bad trend, but such data has to be interpreted carefully. Throughout much of the (so-called) developed world, the past several hundred years of growth have seen large amounts of old-growth forests cleared. Replacing thos
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by anemoiac 5y ago
There will always be enough until one day there isn't...
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by anemoiac 5y ago
Well college grads typically make significantly more than those without college degrees, so if there's enough of an educational attainment gap between men and women in a given city, it shouldn't really matter what anyone majored i
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by anemoiac 5y ago
I don't have a particular source on hand, but I think it's pretty widely accepted that women outperform men, in terms of attending and graduating college, in the US today. That may not be true within certain STEM specialties, but
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by anemoiac 5y ago
I don't think it is (or should be) viewed as a problem in itself, but my guess would be that this phenomenon, where it exists, reflects the disparity in educational attainment between men and women. That disparity may warrant some conc

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