anonporridge

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by anonporridge 3y ago
Oh yeah. The truth is obviously way more complicated and nuanced. I was just being snippy at the parent comment giving the really tired complaint that it's all about not having enough money (obviously false).
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by anonporridge 3y ago
Ah. I misread that a bit. I TOTALLY agree. We have a system now where childfree people disproportionately benefit from the socialized state. Not only do they not have to engage in any of the sacrifice (both monetary, time, and personal inte
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by anonporridge 3y ago
Income is inversely correlated to fertility. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1328574/fertility-rate-w... Having said that, Hungary is trying something interesting. Waiving income tax for life for women who hav
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by anonporridge 3y ago
You're right. We've gotten too rich. Every bit of data seems to show that the wealthier we get, the fewer babies we have. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1328574/fertility-rate-w...
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by anonporridge 3y ago
Depending on your politics, spreading this understanding might have negative implications for the upcoming US election. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEHOINUSA672N
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by anonporridge 3y ago
The Constitution of the United States is only upheld by the constitution of the body of people that believe in it. A people of weak constitution will lead to collapse of the Constitution.
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by anonporridge 3y ago
This is a case where average might be more useful the median. If the richest real estate owners (top 1% own 13% of all US real estate) have a longer average ownership period, then that will have a disproportionate effect on the local market
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by anonporridge 3y ago
Because all infrastructure in California is crumbling with a population in decline (currently at 2015/16 levels) with the prop 13 landed class parasitically sucking the productive class dry with increasingly burdensome rents, taxes, an
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by anonporridge 3y ago
I wanted to love Framework, but it just doesn't compete at all with my X1 Carbon. Then again, I've failed to find any laptop that I like more than the X1 Carbon. It's damn near perfect.
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by anonporridge 3y ago
Jenkins is a worthwhile follow. https://twitter.com/jessejenkins https://bsky.app/profile/jessejenkins.bsky.social
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by anonporridge 3y ago
It depends entirely on how well you've managed your follows, likes, and comments to train the algorithm. Only NPCs expect good, uplifting content to be handed to them without work. This applies to both X and Threads.
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by anonporridge 3y ago
When I look at this chart, I'm still pretty worried about peak fossil fuel happening too soon. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/global-energy-substitutio...
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by anonporridge 3y ago
Iceland has the highest median wealth per adult in the world today. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_wealth_pe... It's not wealthy in an absolute sense, but it's incredibly wealthy per capit
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by anonporridge 3y ago
> Today it's still relatively "medium" with few people very wealthy... This doesn't appear to be true. Iceland is one of the wealthiest nations on the planet per capita. Iceland also has the highest median wealth of a
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by anonporridge 3y ago
Fully swappable batteries seems untenable for a number of reasons. a) It seems unlikely that you can standardize the battery form factor between different models. You'll still have a handful of different standards between small, full s
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by anonporridge 3y ago
And yet, they overdeliver compared to everyone else. Tesla continues to trounce every other car manufacturer because despite the fact that us fanboys (and bitterboys) are regularly disappointed at underdelivering on the hype, they still pro
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by anonporridge 3y ago
Wow. That's actually a great idea. Perhaps Tesla maintains ownership of it so that you never have to worry about whether someone you're swapping with is unloading a bad battery on you. At a certain degradation, they just give you
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by anonporridge 3y ago
Probably just public relations. The public hyper focuses blame for carbon emissions on huge electricity consumers (e.g. datacenters, manufacturing, bitcoin miners, etc) rather than on electricity producers who actually physically emit the c
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by anonporridge 3y ago
Additionally, Mastodon working well at the current low scale doesn't tell us much. We don't actually know how reliable it will be if it ever reaches X scale.
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by anonporridge 3y ago
Found this recommended by Alan Couzens, currently testing it. https://twitter.com/Alan_Couzens/status/1741831602932498518
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Calibre: Unlock the Data in Your Breath(calibrebio.com)
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by anonporridge 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gluconeogenesis
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by anonporridge 3y ago
Exactly this. The Chouinard family still completely controls the company. They may not technically be billionaires in the sense that they can liquidate the capital for their personal benefit, but they remain billionaires in the possibly mor
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by anonporridge 3y ago
Holy shit this is hilarious! I wonder how much it costs to get a "masterclass" headline in Inc.
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by anonporridge 3y ago
Very rarely, but yes. Generally only fiction. I have a specific category on Goodreads for reread books. Only a couple in that list, including The Stars My Destination and Manna. There's a handful that I might reread. The Player of Game
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by anonporridge 3y ago
It still seems like a useful metaphor when talking about the interactions of higher level entities like corporations.
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by anonporridge 3y ago
Still very expensive you don't have geography that gives you elevated storage containers for free.
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by anonporridge 3y ago
Cool!
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by anonporridge 3y ago
> And why isn't there far more solar in Florida One reason might be that Florida likely experiences much more destructive storms on a regular basis. Germany doesn't. Texas and California (the US leaders) also have more protecte
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by anonporridge 3y ago
There's not. Tunnels probably only make sense in cities, not wide open rural spaces.

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