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by bequanna 3y ago
If you can, start to lay off all sweets. Your taste will change, but you need to be patient. The end result is less desire for sweets. Totally worth it. Pea protein with no flavor takes some getting used to but is quite healthy and filling.
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by bequanna 3y ago
This is a good way to think about it. My parents were able to buy a 4br mostly modern rambler home when they were in their early 20s with one blue collar income.
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by bequanna 3y ago
“Be happy with what you have” is typically not a good strategy to suggest to those who wish to work hard and improve their lives.
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by bequanna 3y ago
Much “common sense” advice contains things are universal truths about living life and have long-term payoffs. These are quite clear looking backwards but not as obvious at the time. In other words, about half of your life will be lived aft
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by bequanna 3y ago
If homogenenation comes with generally lower costs and higher quality goods that increases the standard of living for the masses, I’m all for that. People who appreciate and can afford custom craftsmanship will still be patrons.
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by bequanna 3y ago
Maybe instead of arguing about land use we can just agree to build generation where it makes the most sense (the empty and consistently sun soaked desert) and just focus on building transmission.
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by bequanna 3y ago
From your first link: > The true scale of social costs is rarely considered… Yep, that is pretty much what I was expecting. Some hand waving and lecturing about qualitative, subjective externalities. This is social commentary and opinion
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by bequanna 3y ago
I guess I always thought the two challenges in the city were entering/leaving and parking. There doesn’t seem to consistently be TOO much traffic when you’re just trying to get around Manhattan.
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by bequanna 3y ago
> The Pro-Soviet western marxists of the past often became today's western pro-Russian "populists" Please expand on that. The only thing that backing the Soviet Union and current day Russia seem to have in common is that t
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by bequanna 3y ago
Would it have been that difficult for the lawyers to actually check the case law ChatGPT cited? Seems like pure laziness.
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by bequanna 3y ago
Serious question: how do you unit test variable text output from an LLM model?
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by bequanna 3y ago
Articles like this are incredibly disingenuous. Tying fossil fuel use to every weather event that deviates from the mean only causes people to tune out. If the goal is to have the words “climate change” to retain any meeting, they need to b
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by bequanna 3y ago
Tesla took enormous risk building out a charging network and designing hardware. They aren’t entitled to gouge but please explain why they shouldn’t be allowed to profit from being a huge first mover?
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by bequanna 3y ago
I’m sorry, I don’t follow what you’re saying. What percentage of people do what you’re describing?
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by bequanna 3y ago
“Subsidized by tax write offs” Umm, are you referring to the being able to write off mortgage interest on your personal residence? What exactly does this have to do with suburbs?
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by bequanna 3y ago
So, because someone is manipulated with sex means they aren’t worth pity? Wanting sex or being lonely isn’t wrong, it’s a human need.
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by bequanna 3y ago
Wow, not a single ounce of pity in what you wrote. These people are being manipulated because of their loneliness and you’re OK with reducing the situation to: “stupid sex starved simp got what they deserve”.
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by bequanna 3y ago
Who are these greedy people exactly? “Being greedy” is having food on the table, a roof over my head, and a few nice things?
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by bequanna 3y ago
I hear you. I live in the Midwest and see endless monoculture fields dedicated to mostly corn and soybeans. It’s very disappointing. I think the tough part is finding crops fit for human consumption that actually grow in these areas and can
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by bequanna 3y ago
The objectives have changed. Previously, large tech companies were interested in hoarding employees to slow competition. Now, that is no longer a necessary strategy as the environment has changed and smaller startups have many other headwin
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by bequanna 3y ago
Right, but it seems it is constant enough in the near term for practical purposes.
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by bequanna 3y ago
> Does anyone believe that 7% YoY number? I’ve never dug into the methodology but it makes no intuitive sense and seems far too low. Almost everything I buy is 40-50% more expensive than pre pandemic.
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by bequanna 3y ago
Animals likely don’t know they are making the other animal that they are eating suffer. Humans absolutely know. There is no excuse for that kind of cruelty.
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by bequanna 3y ago
Sounds to me like you get your knowledge of rural life from movies/TV. What you mentioned doesn’t at all match the reality I’ve experienced growing up and living in a small town. My rural county has a balanced budget, property tax incr
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by bequanna 3y ago
> After a few thousand years untouched, all forests became "rainforests". Yea… I’m pretty sure this isn’t true. There are many remote forests in Canada for example that haven’t been logged maybe ever and those areas still exper
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by bequanna 3y ago
Apples and oranges. I believe this area in Ukraine is considerably wetter vs. many Western US forests that typically see large scale wildfires.
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by bequanna 3y ago
Man, I for one sure hope this isn’t the future. But maybe it is. Just another step away from one another, further into isolation.
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by bequanna 3y ago
I follow you but I still am not sure I buy that India/Vietnam are too poor to afford general, organized trash service. Are you maybe saying it a cultural thing? As in, it would be too difficult to convince people to pay somewhat higher
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by bequanna 3y ago
The current variants seem to be much less severe. Depending on age and health, it really makes it difficult to say if getting vaxxed was the “smart” move when weighing the risk of contraction vs the unknowns of any potential side effects.
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by bequanna 3y ago
I’ve always thought it was a good rule that if you don’t want your employer to know about it, don’t do it on a company machine. Assume they can see everything.

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