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by aplummer 7y ago
> What does it mean for inequality to "tear a community apart"? A decent enough summary: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_economic_inequality _British researchers Richard G. Wilkinson and Kate Pick
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by aplummer 7y ago
Progressive income tax reduces wealth inequality. People start in a very unfair game and it prevents the rich getting richer, and the poor getting poorer. Wealth inequality tears communities apart.
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> You don't need to hire/maintain separate frontend/backend teams who need to figure out how to coordinate with each other. In my experience the language is very little of what makes a frontend / backend developer, an
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> liberal New York politics I would: a) imagine something called the NY times to be somewhat skewed to NY. b) It’s only liberal in America. In any other first world country, it’s right wing.
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It's to track crimes associated with burner sims. * Not trying to justify it either direction.
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I like the car but it seems really dangerous to pedestrians in a crash.
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Please see the citations at the bottom: https://climate.nasa.gov/scientific-consensus/
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Completely irrelevant on the timescale of all human history, and delusional on the 100 year time scale of clear anthropogenic climate change.
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by aplummer 7y ago
I think very clearly, I’m not a Tesla fan but the solar roof and car are both unique and the core fan base is very strong.
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That’s actually a confirming anecdote FYI, the occurrence of more extreme weather events in both directions
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Sorry I should have said, it’s called Rec Room
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This is actually a clone of a really popular app that’s already out, so seems to be what people want!
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There is one at least! www.vapor.codes, it’s really great.
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I’ve always assumed people were seeing vehicles like this one https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avro_Canada_VZ-9_Avrocar
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I’m an optimist that it’s possible. There are systems that are private but for legitimate government requirements with sensible public oversight. Maybe not in your jurisdiction, that would vary more than just about anything.
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I’m saying it would need to be private, but still able to prevent money laundering, payments for sex trafficking, drug trade, weapons trade. I’m aware such a thing doesn’t exist and may never, but this would be the ideal state IMO.
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The problem here is that there isn’t a non-private-enterprise privacy sensitive (although accessible with appropriate warrants etc) cashless money system IMO. Cash enables so many problems in the world I’ll be happy to see the end of it.
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Particularly with the nationwide school test scoring, there should be statistically significant score differences in QLD (only recently fluoridated).
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I actually found this https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-06-26/great-barrier-reef-va... very compelling as a logical person. I think it helps to quantify the issue to people who are dealing with their pressing issue
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by aplummer 7y ago
It’s not up to us to prove you (the conspiracy theorist) wrong. I look forward to your peer reviewed new science that will easily win you a Nobel prize, global fame, a million dollars.
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That’s not the most realistic alternative to fossil energy. The most realistic option would be the cheapest, renewables and storage.
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> Foreign businesses providing entirely digital services in France aren't actually receiving any kind of service back from the French government. In other words, this specific tax is just a mechanism for collecting money arbitrarily
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I think it would improve the density though creating new applications in or on constrained surfaces (for example, more useful on an expensive car).
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“Borderline” immoral? Unemployed people doing gofundme’s for insulin...
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by aplummer 7y ago
On the anecdote train I studied fine arts and work as a dev in a FAANG. 5 years practical experience and a few months optimizing for leetcode. Nobody seemed to care about my degree and getting final rounds was easy enough.
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A red light camera doesn’t watch you everywhere, it watches you at a traffic intersection where you are already watched by highway cameras, other people. It only retains a photo (of a car, usually the back) if you run a red light too.
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by aplummer 7y ago
Digging new mines was part of debate, there was a path with minor party balance of power where it might have been stopped - but that looks dead now.
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40% of the worlds coal and new mining in a place called the Galilee basin and shipping it to India. I think if they mine the whole thing it can create 1deg of warming just by itself.
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“This is inconvenient and expensive which gives me the unilateral right to steal your intellectual property”. It’s an interesting take, that you get to steal anything you like if it isn’t priced and sold how you want.
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seriously do the legwork and publish, then you won’t be a conspiracy theorist

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