celtain

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by celtain 4y ago
You need someone with vision who enforces strict adherence to that vision. I'm not convinced you have to be a jerk to do that though.
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by celtain 4y ago
Well, that's part of the solution. The other part of the solution is on the supply side: finding ways to reduce prices through improved productivity, trade, removing unnecessary regulations, fostering competitive markets, etc.
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by celtain 4y ago
Putting people in prison is a means to an end, not a goal itself. If anything, preventing violence without locking anyone up is even better than preventing it by keeping potential perpetrators under armed guard. Maybe on a longer time horiz
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by celtain 4y ago
Most of the usecases mentioned in this thread wouldn't suffer if the in-app browser had to be invoked with a whitelist of approved domains/urls. Perhaps apps could request permission to run an unrestricted in-app browser, and that
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by celtain 4y ago
We have seen unemployment fall slightly below 2019 levels, but the more significant result of greater demand stimulation would have been reaching those levels of unemployment much faster, rather than taking a decade to recover from the grea
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by celtain 4y ago
I'm far from a frequent user of either, but Instagram and especially WhatsApp don't seem to have suffered terribly under Facebook. Instagram has obviously changed, but it would have changed as an independent app too. What's p
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by celtain 4y ago
"Break the ice" was coined by Shakespeare, but the vast majority of people who use the phrase probably didn't read that play. I'm sure there are plenty of people who have used the "press F" meme without knowing
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by celtain 4y ago
Isn't this exactly why you should use stacked PRs? That's what it looks like when I break a big piece of work into smaller pieces. What's the alternative anyway? If you don't want me writing 2500 lines of code in one are
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by celtain 4y ago
>Unless you have zero access to point sources, point source capture will always be more "Environmentally Friendly" than atmospheric carbon capture. Ideally we'll get to a point where every CO2 point source either stops bei
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by celtain 4y ago
The government should tax/regulate things that have negative externalities, and the greater the externality, the harsher the restrictions should be. Subsidizing smaller cars is a bad idea because they still have negative externalities,
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by celtain 4y ago
I know some libertarians are more extreme than others, but I thought it was generally still agreed that the government has a role to play in stopping people from killing other people.
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by celtain 4y ago
I don't disagree that schools are completely artificial environments. However what matters is that they're able to teach skills that are necessary in most real-world environments.
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by celtain 4y ago
It's unsurprising that a teacher-student ratio around 1:1 could yield incredible academic results. If that so often comes at the cost of skills necessary to operate in the vast majority of real world environments though, it's kind
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by celtain 4y ago
I don't understand why we need to specifically sanction tax havens. Unless rich people are making money in the tax havens themselves (in which case they're not just tax havens), we can just levy all the taxes we want before the mo
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by celtain 4y ago
I'm not trying to criticize you, car dependence isn't your fault, but it would be nice if somebody with "incredibly bad eyes" wasn't forced to operate a piece of heavy machinery just to get around in the first place
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by celtain 5y ago
If regular people are allowed to share media with the world, and some kinds of content remain illegal, content moderation will need to exist. Unless you're suggesting that we return to an era in which the only way to publish content is
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by celtain 5y ago
It's definitely not as common as deja vu .
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by celtain 5y ago
The first of my friends to switch companies recently may have had another reason, but the rest switched when they heard how much he was making at his new job.
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by celtain 5y ago
It's pretty easy for a childless adult who works downtown and can afford to live in one of the more central neighborhoods of Seattle, and still workable in certain neighborhoods further out that have walkable amenities and good transit
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by celtain 5y ago
You can upload your own music to YouTube music, and the music I had previously uploaded to Google music was migrated over at some point (but I think there were manual steps involved, which may no longer be available).
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by celtain 5y ago
That's certainly an interesting perspective. To help me understand your viewpoint, do you think unimproved land should be free in general? If a parking spot is paved, does it become more reasonable to charge for it?
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by celtain 5y ago
Parking isn't "naturally free". You're using a scarce resource, land, which typically isn't given away for free in a capitalist system. Parking spots are often small enough, used for short enough periods of time, or
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by celtain 5y ago
I think you overestimate the share of Americans who live in rural communities. If the only people driving into developed areas were coming from that far afield, managing traffic and parking would be trivial problems.
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by celtain 5y ago
I generally prefer to walk by a lane of parked cars than walk so close to a lane of moving car traffic. An extra-wide sidewalk with trees and other decoration or a well-protected bike lane can provide a similar benefit, but parking isn&#x27
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by celtain 5y ago
I don't understand how "replacing a manual process with an automated one provides positive value" is a controversial opinion on hacker news.
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by celtain 5y ago
Doing work incorrectly is still doing work. The presence or absence of a failure state doesn't matter, what matters is the time and mental effort you have to expend. It's not a lot of effort, but $1 also isn't a lot of money.
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by celtain 5y ago
I was halfway through your comment and getting ready to tell you about this great solution call PayByPhone that's used for parking all around my city. Thanks for that :) However I would argue that charging sufficiently high prices for
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by celtain 5y ago
Assuming you need to tip (and given that 97% of riders tip, it seems like you do), not having to calculate the amount is clearly a benefit. The author didn't just make up that $1 value, it's derived from the situations in which ri
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by celtain 5y ago
To the people who are "vaxxed and done", the pandemic-halting benefits seem to be real enough. Many of us aren't done (and many others were done long before the vaccine came out), but we're not the subjects of this artic
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by celtain 5y ago
This reminds me of people who say that "duck and cover" is useless in the face of a nuclear strike. Obviously mitigations won't help if you're blasted in the face by an airburst (nuclear or biological), but it seems like

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