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by ceras 8y ago
I agree with you we should strive to avoid unnecessary hardship. Everything dies, and a life that ends with humane[0] slaughter is not necessarily one that wasn't worth living. However I suspect we agree some lives are so filled with s
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by ceras 8y ago
There's a book somewhat related to this idea called The Two Income Trap. I haven't read it yet, but recently read a good book review of it[0] that discusses the extra competition created by two-income households and tries to vet t
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by ceras 9y ago
It's easy to fire employees in Denmark. That's one reason why it's economy and employment rates are quite good for Europe, and while you think it proved your point, it's evidence of the opposite. See [1][2][3]. If you&#x
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by ceras 10y ago
NYC's, unlike all other bike share programs, is not subsidized, explaining the relatively higher cost of $163/yr (still a great deal if you ask me). NYC is considering subsidies so that the program expands to poorer areas farther
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by ceras 10y ago
Just to add to this, there's also #3: lack of scale. IIRC Beyond Meat has also stated that with comparable scale they could match the price of similar beef products. Marketing speak or not, I'm inclined to believe it since it&#x27
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by ceras 10y ago
No one's contesting that, but you can't only consider environmental impact when the differences in animal welfare are unfathomably worse for chicken meat production - easily orders of magnitude worse per pound of meat. Anyone thin
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by ceras 10y ago
Similar for me in NYC: 25min walk or 15min using bike share. Subway when raining or snowing.
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by ceras 10y ago
I'm fairly active and don't care for feeling hot in the summers or restricted in general. Feel free to rock your own suit, but it's not a "mistake" to disagree with you.
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by ceras 10y ago
It wouldn't stop me from joining a company that's clearly better than the rest. But engineers have a lot of comparably good options in hub cities, so it's reasonable to be picky about small stuff - we can afford to be. A form
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by ceras 10y ago
Why does this matter for a single hardware product in an ecosystem? ChromeOS is still clearly being invested in. As a Pixel laptop owner I couldn't care less if they refresh the Pixel anytime soon.
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by ceras 10y ago
Here's a good compare-and-contrast: https://www.reddit.com/r/Stoicism/wiki/faq#wiki_what_are_sim...
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by ceras 10y ago
> It's a philosophy of inaction and accommodation to injustice and oppression. This is not what I got out of reading Meditations by Marcus Aurelius and articles on Stoicism. In common English use, "stoic" sometimes implies
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by ceras 10y ago
At my company there are meeting rooms, phone rooms, focus rooms, and social common spaces like micro-kitchens you can go to.
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by ceras 10y ago
This is in very stark contrast to what I've heard that Tokyo is a city where children maintain a lot more freedom than western countries (especially the US) have moved away from[1]. When I visited it seemed true: lots of rather young k
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by ceras 10y ago
As someone with a city planning hobbyist interest, I've visited Mexico City and greatly disliked it. It's a miserable city to get around in, though I can see its potential if it ever decides to move away from heavy car infrastruct
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by ceras 10y ago
Maybe you're misunderstanding these policies. Not only do these companies often discuss the pipeline problem publicly (and sometimes offer corporate support to address it), but as rhcom2 pointed out, it's not the only factor. If i
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by ceras 10y ago
Diet definitely has a bigger impact than exercise, but isn't there still a correlation between more urban areas and lower obesity even when controlling for poverty? There may be other factors to urban, non-car-based living besides the
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by ceras 10y ago
Any chance you can share more info? I'm very curious. It's certainly true that almost all finance software jobs pay much less than the big tech companies, and I've yet to personally run into one that clearly paid more (at bes
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by ceras 10y ago
I don't think it's fair to say people are "falling for it." Their motivations may just differ from yours. For example, say you're interested in earning a lot of money as a software developer - where else are you goi
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by ceras 10y ago
Sure, I did this (and more if you count my 401k). I don't think I was that frugal: I certainly didn't want for anything, and ate my fair share of sushi. Like the article mentions, saving a lot is easy if you're fine with a
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by ceras 10y ago
Not sure I agree: NYC would highly benefit from improved tri-state metro area coordination. Plans like extending the 7 train to NJ's Secaucus Junction would be much easier to pass. I'd expect DC to have similar problems.
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by ceras 10y ago
It's definitely important to be thoughtful of MTA capacity, but FiDi is probably one of the best suited parts of the city to make such a change with minimal MTA impact. You can start with parking spaces: even if those are mostly for co
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by ceras 10y ago
Nobody is claiming their lives are worth less: it's clear OP does not feel that way, and it's mean to imply otherwise. But very sadly their labor is currently worth a lot less, and regulations that try to force a change (like any
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by ceras 10y ago
But it's a very slow process: a majority of NYC residents live in below-market-rate housing. And Bill de Blasio's mayor campaign was anchored on preventing "affordable housing" units from leaving the pool, so the rate of
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by ceras 10y ago
If you check out the graph in the article, the sales drop was sharp, abrupt, and coincided with the outbreaks: https://b.fastcompany.net/multisite_files/fastcompany/imagec... Anecdotally, I definitely heard the ou
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by ceras 10y ago
Not car stamps: the important distinction is that the welfare should not be earmarked for a specific use. This allows the market to behave naturally and no longer force non-users to pay the indirect tax while letting poor people who want to
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by ceras 10y ago
> I'm wary to advocate this position too strongly because if implemented in a vacuum it would be a very regressive tax (in the hurts poor people sense), but I would be very in favor of it with something counterbalancing that harm. S
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by ceras 10y ago
> In Tokyo, the Tokyo metro Fukutoshin Line basically exists to compete with JR's Yamanote Line for people traveling between Ikebukuro/Shinjuku/Shibuya Wasn't this also important for relieving congestion by increasing
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by ceras 10y ago
I mostly agree for lower and midtown Manhattan, but NYC is much, much bigger than that. Elsewhere cabs are far less frequent, and subways less likely to be the fastest route (especially during weekend and late night service).
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by ceras 10y ago
Counter-anecdote: I've had an NYC cab driver stop in the middle of the interstate trying to figure out which way to go next to JFK. It was pretty scary. The driver quality in both services seems very low to me.

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