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by clairity 5y ago
the build back better (bbb) act is decidedly not progressive. it aims to spend lavishly, entirely funded by debt with no hope of positive return, so that that spending can be captured by the already wealthy. the only bit of that bill that
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by clairity 5y ago
none of that is progressive. progressive policies would increase fairness, first and foremost, rather than simply spending lavishly to buttress a top-heavy, growth-at-all-costs economy. all of those Democratic bills worsen fairness, often i
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by clairity 5y ago
that's not petty, that's downright patriotic. we have an inalienable right to privacy, security, and liberty, and absolutely no obligation to let companies (or governments) invade or curtail those rights.
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by clairity 5y ago
yes, that's the downside of the 'iterated game' dynamic: the desire to minimize leaks of future strategy. the upside, of course, is fewer defections/betrayals. it's one of the reasons we need independent journalism
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by clairity 5y ago
> “It’s like iOS animations, when closing an app, and seeing the app get sucked into it’s icon. It’s so quick and subtle, you barely notice it.” it’s decidedly not quick and subtle. ios animations are blocking, so anytime i try to do t
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by clairity 5y ago
there’s not a ‘crap-ton’ of (active) covid floating around in the air, super-especially not outside. the virus is relatively fragile and falls apart rapidly due to a variety of natural and man-made forces. moreover, outside, there is a shi
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by clairity 5y ago
frankly, this topic has already been discussed in half a dozen threads (in other posts), and those have overwhelmingly been stupid & obvious memes and anti-china insinuations. the whole thing should just be flagged instead.
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by clairity 5y ago
rent-seeking is the economic concept of income being captured from simply owning an asset rather than from productivity. its literally anti-capitalistic, as it's always a market distortion that creates the coercive force necessary to
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by clairity 5y ago
yes, but like most things worth pursuing, its a thorny problem, largely for economic and sociopolitical reasons, but also technical. as you probably know, AVMs (automated valuation models) have been the hotness over the past few decades, bu
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by clairity 5y ago
that’s right, appraisal/assessment methods can be changed more easily than tax law, and could be a potential avenue for more equitable/productive taxation. the barrier is, of course, working with the ~5000 property taxing jurisdic
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by clairity 5y ago
i bought that humidifier and it works fine for my purposes. it's purely evaporative, so it doesn't really work well at lower temperatures and won't raise humidity much past 50%. for my use case, it keeps the air moist enough
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by clairity 5y ago
based on wirecutter's own test results a few years ago, the blue air 211+ air purifier had the best performance by a good margin, but they wouldn't recommend it, for at least 2 years after i bought it, though they later did so,
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by clairity 5y ago
no, this is an all-too-common misconception, because you’re missing the other half of the distribution where accidents were avoided because the car speeded past an accident that would have happened at a lower speed. speed increases the seve
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by clairity 5y ago
this is exactly what regulatory capture looks like, deceptive and anti-progressive (expressly without the typical political association). as such, every ballot measure should be a default 'no' unless you thoroughly understand the
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by clairity 5y ago
no one's arguing that we can't (or shouldn't) have any criticism during brainstorming, only that negativity (which can also be read as aggression) reduces psychological safety, which in turn reduces creativity. people do pull
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by clairity 5y ago
we avoid negativity during brainstorming to create psychological safety. that in turn expands the boundaries of creativity. the process doesn't end there however, which is what your criticism sems to assume, since we need to winnow dow
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by clairity 5y ago
> "Black people are heavily overrepresented in sports ... partially due to some physical differences that makes them better at sports.... I also don't think that means there is something discriminatory at play other than biolog
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by clairity 5y ago
yes, websocket connections/memory use was a problem, will have to take a look at falcon. i'm personally not a fan of tailwind (or bootstrap) for being overly/cryptically verbose, but i understand why it's popular when co
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by clairity 5y ago
> "...the best source...has been, and remains, their public health authorities." a contradictory conclusion, and somehow both falling for and denying the appeal to authority fallacy at the same time. you discount doctors being
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by clairity 5y ago
to me, this is what makes the upcoming rails 7 release really exciting: no more node, npm, webpack, & yarn! all that js tooling complexity thrown right out the window, replaced with the much simpler set of es6 modules, turbo & stimu
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by clairity 5y ago
it's dismaying to see a reasoned (if countervailing) position being so reflexively suppressed, and maddening to witness the mass hysteria still buttressing ineffective mandated interventions like public masking. the only places outside
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by clairity 5y ago
you could certainly include character traits among choice decisions, but that's more fraught by subjectivity. that said, that's the magic of conjoint done well: turning subjective hidden preferences into (more) objective choice re
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by clairity 5y ago
it's exceedingly difficult to fairly aggregate voter preferences, but all current voting systems seem to reduce all that complexity down to a singular choice in the overwhelming majority of cases. that's a shitload of informatio
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by clairity 5y ago
i'd actually love to see a voting system developed that's closer to a conjoint, which is a statistical method designed to reveal preferences, rather than relying on stated preferences (which are notoriously unreliable). it&#x2
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by clairity 5y ago
what you're literally suggesting is that manufacturing consent is the righteous course. democracy shouldn't hinge on getting the vote 'right' or on the 'legitimacy' of a single elected representative. we'r
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by clairity 5y ago
> "...with AV the plurality winner will be a pretty small chunk of total votes cast (like less than 40 or even 30%). Pretty ironic result for a method that claims that to help find the consensus solution!" that's not ironi
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by clairity 5y ago
> "humans often are just not equipped to fight cancer." blanket statements like this are almost never correct. our bodies are certainly equipped to fight cancer, having evolved a number of mechanisms in that regard, it's j
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by clairity 5y ago
that's actually not small (~600 ft²), being plenty for 2 people (having done this myself), and even a third if they were a child. without even going tiny home crazy, for a single person in an urban neighborhood, a well-optimized 250 ft
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by clairity 5y ago
most households at/near retirement (55+, according to the fed reserve) are doing fine with an average net worth over a million (note that that's all the boomers), and almost none of them are still paying off mortgages. they aren&#
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by clairity 5y ago
retirement savings don't affect day-to-day decisions or welfare, and most folks will not be selling their home, especially not in a recession, so those are both non sequiturs . long-term assets, particularly for the middle class, are

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