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by asoneth 5y ago
"Induced demand" doesn't just mean increasing the number of drivers, it means increasing the number of miles driven. In a metro area housing prices are generally correlated with how many minutes it takes to get to a city cent
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by asoneth 5y ago
Increasing public transit capacity does induce demand. In areas with excellent public transit people choose to live further away from work, take more discretionary trips by transit, etc. (That's one reason I would be wary of making tra
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by asoneth 5y ago
The more I learn about web developers, the more I like Gemini.
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by asoneth 5y ago
> If I'm in my late 20s or early 30s and in great shape and eat healthy, a vaccine is not going to make a difference in personal risk. Assuming that's true then I'd expect your health insurance premiums to remain similar r
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by asoneth 5y ago
As a counterpoint, when I worked for a private university (unrelated to healthcare) I was required to have up-to-date vaccinations. I was also not allowed to smoke on campus. These kinds of workplace safety rules may be more common than you
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by asoneth 5y ago
I would not be in favor of denying health insurance claims but I would be less averse to allowing health insurance companies to factor in certain chronically risky behaviors when calculating health insurance premiums. For example, a smoker
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by asoneth 5y ago
I'm definitely pro-vaccine, but I'm also concerned about the long-term impact of alienating whole swaths of the country with policies like these. Perhaps there are less onerous policies that would be similarly effective? To addres
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by asoneth 5y ago
The stakes could be drastically lower or drastically higher depending on what the software is used for. For example, we might want to make sure software used in avionics, aerospace, weapons systems, voting machines, medical devices, cryptog
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by asoneth 5y ago
In my opinion, what has been most harmful for evolution of the software engineering profession is the tendency to blame individual developers for not being infallible instead of fixing chronic failures in tooling, processes, and funding. Th
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by asoneth 5y ago
If many people misinterpret a piece of writing or miss its point then that seems like it is empirically "ambiguously worded", regardless of how clear it seemed to you. (You are of course free to think and write how you please, but
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by asoneth 5y ago
> everyone here is either misreading my comments I suspect I misread your comment in that case, so I apologize. Though if everyone else did as well, perhaps the comment was ambiguous? > or misremembering the end of the game. Exactly,
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by asoneth 5y ago
I think everyone here is trying to avoid spoilers while conveying that there is more to the game than you think initially. (You may already know that from reading the article or playing the game, but it's not clear from your comment.)
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by asoneth 5y ago
> how is it going for those criticizing CRT-ification of education? From what I can tell in our local area it seems to be going about as well as they hoped. First they rail against about some weird graduate-level field most people have n
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by asoneth 5y ago
This is a great point. I have a few pieces of furniture hand-made by skilled craftspeople and they're lovely. But most of my furniture still comes from Ikea and the like because it costs at least an order of magnitude less to build and
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by asoneth 5y ago
They're a business so the question is not whether they technically have the cash available to do a thing, the question is whether doing that thing will yield the best return on investment compared to all the other things they could do.
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by asoneth 5y ago
> As a user, I don't care how easy it was for a developer to write the software. Users care transitively since there is a correlation between the amount of effort it takes to write a piece of software and the price required to susta
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by asoneth 5y ago
> Not only do those developers abandon Firefox, so do all their users. Noted. The underlying question stands: what is the size of this (combined) community and is it large enough to make a meaningful impact on Firefox's market share
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by asoneth 5y ago
I'm in a similar predicament for a business application. We've resorted to the "scream test". When there are features that are expensive to maintain that we suspect aren't being used (based on surveys, interviews, a
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by asoneth 5y ago
If they're going to be paying developers to do it they'd need an expectation of a stronger ROI than their other efforts. I wonder if the size of the macOS automation community is large enough to make much of an impact on their mar
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by asoneth 5y ago
When James Truslow Adams coined the term "American Dream" in 1931 he defined it as: "life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement". Social mobili
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by asoneth 5y ago
I have used Monolingual[1] on past laptops to remove unnecessary architectures from installed OS X applications when disk space was running low. Having said that, I never bothered installing it on my current laptop which sort of reinforces
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by asoneth 5y ago
A good illustration of why easy wins every time. In my experience, Flatpack and their ilk make it easier for end-users to install applications and for developers to distribute them. Alternatives may be orders of magnitude better from a perf
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by asoneth 5y ago
Is there any good way to craft a message like this? If they outlined specific issues then it would invariably devolve into armchair quarterbacking of those issues rather than the the underlying question of what kinds of checks-and-balances
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by asoneth 5y ago
The skill required to create a thing is not the sole arbiter of its value, whether in art, physics, or business. After all, it would be foolish to claim that the most useful discoveries in physics were the ones that required the most diffic
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by asoneth 5y ago
That was indeed interesting, that "for every bad contribution prevented, seven good ones never happened". However, while it is easy to measure, I'm not convinced that "number of good contributions" is a valid proxy
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by asoneth 5y ago
I was slightly concerned about the meat itself such as accurate labeling (especially fish) and additives/hormones/antibiotics/plastics/metals. But my bigger concern was the negative externalities. For example, the overus
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by asoneth 5y ago
I agree. The deliberate weakening of the "organic" label in the US has been more damaging to its value than the occasional fraud. More broadly, the more I learn about the practices and laws governing the US food system, the more I
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by asoneth 5y ago
> The general public is desperate to trust something; anything. I will agree with that. My lack of trust in the US food industry is why I largely stopped eating meat in this country.
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by asoneth 5y ago
Agreed. One of the things we like about our town is the number of small-scale family farms. Most are happy to let regulars/CSA-shareholders walk around the fields on the weekends, with the caveat that if they catch you they may talk yo
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by asoneth 5y ago
At least in the US there are ~75 USDA accredited certifying agents [1] and my understanding is that some of them are perceived as being more stringent about cracking down on fraud. For example, I've got friends who will only pay extra

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