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by clairity 4y ago
no, not only is that an irrational appeal to authority, but ars spent the last two years fearmongering over covid for clicks just like all the other news sites. this story is also fishing for clicks, just from a contrarian perspective (rela
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by clairity 4y ago
> "Instead of MLB/NFL, check out summer or arena leagues." until you go to the drew league to see your friend play, and lebron decides to show up (kyrie was a no-show of course). then you can't get in for any amount o
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by clairity 4y ago
only 2 things really matter, when the coffee was roasted and when it was ground. everything else has some leeway: the roast, 18g vs 25g of coffee, 300mL or 400mL of water, 195 vs 208 degrees, pour over vs drip. sure, you can micro-tune thos
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by clairity 4y ago
that's definitely a good heuristic for finding a strategy. strategies are realistic methods for how you'll achieve a goal without getting into the details of what you will do to get there (that's the plan). in chess, it m
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by clairity 4y ago
ordinarily, i'd agree that by the constitution anything that's not a federal concern (principally international relations and interstate disputes) is a state concern, but the constitution also notes that neither the states nor the
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by clairity 4y ago
ah, well if mississippi is doing it, that just settles it once and for all i guess. diehard partisanship gets us nowhere. women wanting to coerce other women is nothing new, but it’s still against our natural rights. and yes, it’s essential
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by clairity 4y ago
abortion has been a natural right for thousands of years. women cerainly don’t need you nor the state to intercede in what is essentially a right to bodily autonomy.
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by clairity 4y ago
yah, i can’t wait for attr() to be fully supported. it’s going to both simplify css and reduce js reliance. i’m also really excited by :has() which i think will be the biggest improvement to css since grid. firefox has just started working
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by clairity 4y ago
i really dislike wrapper patterns of any kind, as they add needless markup. sure, it's ok if used sparingly to paper over the inadequacies of current html/css, but it's often used excessively nowadays, just like tables in day
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by clairity 4y ago
also, given the eternal september phenomenon where things that are new to new members are often tired and trite to older members/people, perhaps there's a "maturity" factor that can calibrate what gets surfaced to whom a
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by clairity 4y ago
no doubt that there's some good intent there, but the public performativeness just undermines the genuineness for me. i do think a dampening function on repetitive messages/sentiments would be a net-good however, since repetitiven
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by clairity 4y ago
disheartened, as usual, to see an insightful comment lurking nearer the bottom of the page than the top, while a bunch of throwaway fawnings sit above it[0]. i have a pet theory that there can only ever be about a dozen good comments on a t
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by clairity 4y ago
no, people are mostly terrible at perceiving actual risk vs. the imagined, because evolutionarily, it was much less harmful to get it wrong one way than the other. we humans no longer live in a world of such unpredictable mortality. and eve
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by clairity 4y ago
probably a marginal rise in risk, but not enough to warrant a complete change in behavior (i.e., actively avoiding the area). you'd need to quantify "common" and the relevant priors before you could know for sure. that's
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by clairity 4y ago
that's marginal though, as people might be, at the margin, shifting the places they go, rather than not going anywhere (covid lockdowns excepted). so that might induce a marginal change in incident rates, but not anywhere near at a mag
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by clairity 4y ago
to nitpick, neither yield outpacing costs nor PE is arbitrage. arbitrage is structurally zero-risk, while those other cases have relatively small but non-zero risk, since yield, costs, interest rates, regulations, etc. can change over the l
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by clairity 4y ago
fear is mostly irrational, as people are generally bad at perceiving risk objectively. statistics show that nearly all cities and neighborhoods are generally quite safe for casual visitors and residents alike. vehicular accidents are more l
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by clairity 4y ago
it's basic thermodynamics. you mixed the two, as i explained previously, and now you're leaning into the misconception, rather than acknowledging the difference.
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by clairity 4y ago
> "...they generate more heating/cooling than electricity used." that's thermodynamically impossible. @dktoao, being a mechanical engineer, surely understands this, and made a statement that is different, and more pla
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by clairity 4y ago
that's an incoherent set of policy recommendations. we sorely need regulatory reform that focuses less on specific, ideological goals and more on market dynamism and fairness, but your list is a mishmash of more regulation and less. an
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by clairity 4y ago
passing the ball to the scorer is in fact a harder decision that you claim because it butts right up against the personal ego (to score yourself and garner the esteem that comes with that). there's even a term for that: ball hog. also,
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by clairity 4y ago
this is where playing a team sport like basketball (where all the players are "equal" to start) can give you useful intuition about natural hierarchies. on a team (makeshift or otherwise) players naturally sort themselves out by r
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by clairity 4y ago
at the cat rescue i volunteered at, the kittens who were too feral/fearful to become pets were moved over into the 'working cat' program. they'd be put in the storage areas of the rescue and allowed to roam freely in tho
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by clairity 4y ago
i liked brazil, but it, blade runner, and 2001 weren't nearly as good as delicatessen. delicatessen is so darkly funny and deliciously memorable (ha). city of lost children , which came a little later by the same directors, is my all-
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by clairity 4y ago
rather than arbitrary zoning rules and an implicit pass for such obvious and wanton pollution, those businesses should be regulated and heavily punished (too bad the supreme court made things like this harder not easier recently). that&#x27
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by clairity 4y ago
> "...investors demanded... So they did what the market 'demanded'." to be clear, the founders still had majority control, and so this was a proactive decision the leadership made to grow at all costs, to dominate the
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by clairity 4y ago
more pointedly, focus on structural integrity and mass pollution, not "safety" or "the environment", otherwise nimby's will use it as a cudgel, as they do with CEQA now. specify the forces a building must withstand
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by clairity 4y ago
you'll need to elaborate or restate that to be clearer, because pasadena was the first southern california city (or at least one of) to allow ADUs. that came around a year before the state statute, iirc. edit: i remember because i was
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by clairity 4y ago
> "...he corporate stuff is so loud." yah, money shouts, it doesn't merely talk. that's a consequence of (implicitly) deciding that money should have a voice in the first place. we explicitly sanction this via a gigan
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by clairity 4y ago
consider that your perspective might be biased by your temporal affiliation. for anyone paying even a modicum of attention, the direction google was headed was plainly evident by 2004 (when it went public and gmail launched). google clearly

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