bpt3

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by bpt3 5d ago
Right. The you (and I, elsewhere) are responding to about this obviously doesn't have any kids or meaningful interaction with their community. There's nothing wrong with living that way, but their lack of perspective or understand
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by bpt3 9d ago
While time-series forecasting models aren't well suited for this, I would argue that humans aren't either. Obviously the best humans are better than average, but this isn't all that surprising to me?
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by bpt3 9d ago
> When there is a road closure it gets pushed to the systems that hook into google maps to reroute navigation. Sure it does, everywhere. (/s in case that isn't clear, this doesn't always happen in my area which has several
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by bpt3 11d ago
Road closures, youth sports/school schedule changes due to things like weather, etc. Is it possible to live without this knowledge? Of course. But it's not unreasonable to me that people would want to receive this sort of informat
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by bpt3 12d ago
> Your utility will post a highly localized service outage that might only affect 1 block of a city or less to their world facing twitter feed? And not simply alert customers via their phone on file as they've done for me forever? I
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by bpt3 12d ago
More money generally equals more freedom, even if you don't know what you want specifically, but you're ultimately talking about a bigger, unrelated issue.
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by bpt3 12d ago
> Who'd imagine squeezing the middle class would backfire epically? Compensation hasn't reflected the GDP per capital increases for the majority of the workforce. I don't think even the productivity increases from personal
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by bpt3 12d ago
Pay and money are why people work, so yeah they're pretty important.
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by bpt3 1mo ago
Americans have the most disposable income on earth and a very high quality of life. Trump's obvious graft, corruption, and general behavior disgust me, but why exactly would a meaningful number of people risk throwing their lives away
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by bpt3 1mo ago
> many of whom do more to establish the community you are touting than yourself Citation needed
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by bpt3 1mo ago
It looks like this is a poor attempt to argue for deregulation in the housing sector? I agree that this is needed, but regulation would be required to compel neighborhoods to allow increased density as well...
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by bpt3 1mo ago
If all the things you describe came to fruition, the current residents will have to live with the consequences of their decisions and suffer a lower quality of life (which they don't want to do), and the problem would resolve itself. O
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by bpt3 1mo ago
Why does it matter? The data sources are cited and are publicly available. It's basically just documenting the utter stupidity of a trade war with a close ally with whom we are tightly coupled economically.
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by bpt3 1mo ago
I assume the data source citations are referencing Census Department API endpoints, I would make the data sources explicit by adding links. You also might want to consider archiving the data if you aren't already given this administrat
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by bpt3 1mo ago
Good lord. At what point do we need to just wipe the slate clean and start over?
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by bpt3 1mo ago
> US healthcare system is inaccessible to close to 50% of your population So you have no idea what you're talking about. What is the point of making comments like this that are both verifiably false with about 2 seconds of online re
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by bpt3 1mo ago
No, the problem socialists have is that most people are smart enough to realize they won't be better off under a socialist regime, to the chagrin of the self-selected vanguard.
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by bpt3 1mo ago
Yes it's anecdotal for specific statements, but I'm roughly basing my statement on surveys like this one: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/poll-are-sati... I find it hard to believe that pe
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by bpt3 1mo ago
The people who avoid care they need because they can't afford it are a very small portion of the population that gets an outsized share of attention on the issue. Until public healthcare advocates understand this and make actual attemp
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by bpt3 1mo ago
There are many studies from reputable sources (one being the CBO) that say it would result in almost no savings or potentially even higher costs, just like there are many studies like this one that say there will be massive savings with no
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by bpt3 2mo ago
No, that’s the rationalization used by basically every collectivist state to compel individual sacrifice when convenient or desirable.
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by bpt3 2mo ago
Of course. Did you mean to reply to the person who blamed capitalism for all of society’s woes without any conditions or qualifiers?
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by bpt3 2mo ago
It's odd that you've spent so much time in the US and have no idea what life is like here, but feel free to hold whatever opinion you like.
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by bpt3 2mo ago
I have no idea why people blame capitalism for things like a lack of socialized medicine (which I support for the record). It's the American emphasis on individual freedom that results in a lack of government mandates for healthcare. N
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by bpt3 2mo ago
Your "argument" is extremely simplistic, and again has virtually nothing to do with capitalism. Also, many homeless people are content, along with those in jails and small children (whether they are well cared for or not in many c
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by bpt3 2mo ago
Right, because socialist and communist states were shining beacons of morality, compassion, and abundance.
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by bpt3 2mo ago
It wouldn't, because the vast majority of people whining about how terrible the US is and how great it is elsewhere aren't welcome elsewhere because they aren't a net benefit to their community.
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by bpt3 2mo ago
> Where is our humanity when people lie homeless and lifeless in stupor on the streets as Waymos glide by? We've decided that those people have agency, and are not willing to force them into a facility against their will. You can di
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by bpt3 2mo ago
Where are you from, and where are you visiting? Nearly everything you said is inaccurate for the vast majority of the US, and it's obvious you have projected a lot of vaguely accurate online news reports across the nation as a whole.
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by bpt3 2mo ago
You see what you're looking for, and that's about it. Because of that, most people see what they feel internally.

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