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by buzzert 4y ago
You don't have to move across the country. Considering SF, you can just move to Modesto, which is 1.5hrs away and has a third of the cost of living.
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by buzzert 4y ago
There are varying levels of tolerance of homelessness across the country. On the other side of the equation of tolerance are several factors, including politics but most especially rent prices. People in cities with low rent prices are far
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by buzzert 4y ago
This article portrays Silicon Valley as some kind of deranged opposite-world. Success is failure, liberal is conservative, a city having money is a bad thing.
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by buzzert 4y ago
I love how every response sounds like an advertisement.
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by buzzert 4y ago
Literal lawlessness on public transit. I gave up on Muni in SF and started driving my car a lot more after the n-th encounter with drug addicts ruining public transportation for everyone.
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by buzzert 4y ago
> And if it is, are you implying that we cannot one day have driverless cars without imposing life-threatening externalities on citizens who did not give informed consent to participate in the testing of driverless cars? I'd much ra
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by buzzert 4y ago
> they aren't solving any real problem, and they will increase problems of congestion and also climate change, since they will continue to bolster cars and thus roads needed to support cars. Again, this is zero sum thinking. We can
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by buzzert 4y ago
> cars and thus more roads and highways, which are primary contributors to greenhouse gas emissions No… they are _not_ the primary contributors to greenhouse gas emissions. Road transport accounts for less than 12% of emissions[0]. What
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by buzzert 4y ago
That £10 trip is "artificially" cheap. Uber/Lyft are effectively tricking drivers into thinking it's a good deal to use their own cars (and thus their own fuel and pay for their own maintenance), and are partially subsid
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by buzzert 4y ago
I really believe that with that attitude, we'll never be "ready" for driverless cars. > We are not curing cancer or feeding the world here, we are trying to make people get rich by eliminating the cost of labour for a huma
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by buzzert 4y ago
I bet this won’t get answered.
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by buzzert 4y ago
We have universal healthcare too (at least in California): https://www.medi-cal.ca.gov
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by buzzert 4y ago
You know we do have welfare/unemployment/rental assistance too, right?
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by buzzert 4y ago
> bringing the production and distribution into a moderately well regulated market would likely cause a net reduction of usage and overall harm I don't understand how adding a profit incentive somehow _reduces_ the usage. Because th
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by buzzert 4y ago
A better way to frame the drug legalization issue is, "should pharmaceutical companies be allowed to profit from incredibly addictive drugs?" Does that framing change your mind at all? Sure, small-time drug dealers are currently a
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by buzzert 4y ago
Apologies, I meant inflationary (since the USD is inflationary).
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by buzzert 4y ago
Since no one is actually investing in Tether (since it’s a deflationary asset), I presume the only purpose of labeling it a “security” is to just make it illegal. Given the fact that the trucker protesters were using Tether/cryptocur
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by buzzert 4y ago
This doesn't seem like a fair characterization at all. Any other path towards borrowing money could potentially lead to getting buried even further in debt, and if an exhorbitant amount of interest is charged, could lead to a debt spir
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by buzzert 4y ago
I'm pretty sure he meant the Texas accent, given the number of "y'all"s I've seen.
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by buzzert 4y ago
Oh wow, I wasn’t but this perfectly sums it up! Learned it the hard way. “Fact-value” is another good way of putting it.
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by buzzert 4y ago
For me, it was the difference between “is” and “ought”. It sounds obvious when you first think about it, but I spent a vast majority of my 20’s with a view of the world filled with “oughts” instead of “is’s”, especially when it comes to thi
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by buzzert 4y ago
Can you give one example? How was something like ENS (Ethereum Name Service) solved already, in a truly decentralized way?
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by buzzert 4y ago
They still exist, and are really fun! I'm part of a community that has a webring and a Mastodon instance: https://webring.xxiivv.com/
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by buzzert 4y ago
The war must not be going well in Ukraine.
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by buzzert 4y ago
What makes you think TSMC can’t continue to operate under Chinese control?
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by buzzert 4y ago
Do you consider Japan to be a civilized country? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabis_Control_Law
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by buzzert 4y ago
> lack of services In San Francisco, where I live, all of the “services” (i.e., food banks, check cashing services, shelters, soup kitchens, even the DMV) are in the poor neighborhoods (the Mission). You can’t find any of those service
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by buzzert 4y ago
How much human editing was done on the output from GPT3?
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by buzzert 4y ago
By far the most common litter in my neighborhood is face masks. Maybe we ban non-reusable face masks first, which contain elastic (petrochemical)?
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by buzzert 4y ago
As if there’s no “medical” marijuana lobby, too?

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