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by cletus 5y ago
The key part of this is that they surveyed 16 to 25 year olds. This is not the typical age demographic, particularly at the lower end, who are prioritizing having children anyway. If you've been on this Earth awhile you start to realiz
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by cletus 5y ago
IMHO there are six key problems here: 1. A predicted consequence of Brexit was that the UK would become more of a tax haven once freed from the shackles of EU banking and financial regulation. This would be (and is) sold under the banner of
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by cletus 5y ago
A lot of problems ultimately turn into energy problems. Lack of recycling comes down to it mostly being uneconomic to do so. There can be a labor component to this too but the energy cost matters. A lot of labor can be automated, which then
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by cletus 5y ago
So this opinion is a fairly popular one but I'm not sure there's any factual basis for it. The idea is simple: there's little evolutionary pressure to adapt because technology and society can deal with issues that once would&
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by cletus 5y ago
It's not even a question: the Earth is absolutely facing the same fate. The Sun is getting hotter and in ~1 billion years the Earth will be uninhabitable by us in its current form. Eventually (~4-5B years) the Sun will expand while in
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by cletus 5y ago
There was a time when I knew a few screen/tmux bindings but I'm afraid that's been relegated to history. For years now I've used tmux in concern with iterm2 so everything I do is with a mouse/trackpad. But flipping
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by cletus 5y ago
This comment just doesn't sit right with me. Obviously there's the issue that it reeks of tech elitism but there's more to it than that. Like not everyone needs to pass a FAANG hiring crap shoot. You can give someone useful s
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by cletus 5y ago
I haven't used a tiling WM but I'm intrigued by the idea. I have reservations, specifically that I have really poor eyesight so I honestly don't know how many windows I could usefully put on a screen anyway. But still, piles
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by cletus 5y ago
So let's talk about NYC as it's a place I know a fair bit about, having lived there for >10 years. NYC is clearly an expensive place... kind of. Manhattan obviously is really expensive but there are 4 other boroughs plus the Hu
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by cletus 5y ago
So you see this kind of argument in the current "labour shortage". Some people will say certain businesses can't afford to pay more and they'll fold otherwise. I personally don't see the business owner earning an in
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by cletus 5y ago
The dirty little secret of SFBA tech workers is (IMHO) that they're not really liberal. They like to pretend to be and pay lip service to various social causes. They'll vote for the legalization of gay marriage (Prop 8) and recrea
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by cletus 5y ago
Here's another point to consider: the Trump tax "cuts" in 2017 were in fact a giant middle finger to college-educated workers in coastal blue states, in three major ways: 1. The $200-500k Federal tax bracket actually went up;
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by cletus 5y ago
So, it's obviously hard to define what the Bay Area actually is. The SF to SJ corridor is one definition but that excludes East Bay, which is significant. Probably the best proxy is the SF-SJ-Oakland metro area, which seems to have a p
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by cletus 5y ago
> You're arguing that people trying to make a better life for themselves are ruining the lives of others? 100%. > I think it's extremely clear that Californian's own tax policies California's tax policies have been
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by cletus 5y ago
You have my sympathies if indeed you did have a severe adverse reaction from a Covid vaccine. I say "if" because honestly, anyone can say anything on the Internet. That doesn't make it true. But let's assume it is: by it
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by cletus 5y ago
Why do you assume your sources are any better? Or even different? At the end of the day I honestly don't really care what flavour of irrational hyper-selfishness it is, to be perfectly honest.
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Good. This will both alleviate pressure on the Bay Area as well as accelerating the political shift to the left in Texas. It's a win all around. I actually think that living in the Bay Area as a tech employee is increasingly unjustifia
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by cletus 5y ago
People get overconfident with self-driving cars because they consider the problem as navigating from A to B while driving along the road within the law. That's the easy par The hard part is the long tail of human behaviour and the unex
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by cletus 5y ago
USDA/AHA > Tucker Carlson (who is vaccinated BTW) > If you want to listen to a bunch of well meaning morons ... Oh the irony. The sad reality is that anti-vaxxers are highly susceptible to being manipulated and that is actively h
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by cletus 5y ago
> The problem is that the perception of public trust is eroding significantly ... There are many problems. That's not one of them. Here is a better list of problems: 1. People don't understand what "research" means. H
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by cletus 5y ago
I'll take wishful thinking for $1000, Alex. To be fair, there are generally two reasons for these kinds of predictions: 1. People in a bubble think something is way more important than it is. I hate to say it but user data privacy is i
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by cletus 5y ago
So, progressively since probably the 1980s (maybe earlier?) Australia has introduced a system called "superannuation" (or just "super" for short). There are two parts to this: 1. Mandatory contributions: currently 10% of
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by cletus 5y ago
I see a bunch of confusion about Mercury in this thread so let me correct the record. First, as to why colonize Mercury, there are some really good reasons: 1. Cheap, abundant energy (ie solar); 2. Access to tons of raw materials, particula
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by cletus 5y ago
This is one of several books I read in the 90s that I still think about and love so much. Startide Rising and Downbelow Station are the other ones that immediately springs to mind. This book (and Startide Rising) are very much in the space
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Calls for breaking up companies make great headlines for politicians but let's look at the history and why this was necessary as a solution to antitrust. The textbook case for the Sherman Act was Standard Oil. Built up by Rockefeller i
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by cletus 5y ago
> ... every other major consumer OS (macOS, iOS, Android) has a bundled web browser At the time Windows had a >90% market share and there weren't mobile Internet devices so it should be held to a different standard. That being sa
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by cletus 5y ago
This is a good story. You can take away several things from it. Here's mine: it demonstrates the value of reputation and trust and how easily they're lost and how hard they are to recover. IE4 came out at a time when Microsoft con
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by cletus 5y ago
Why should public transport cost anything at all? I mean, what's the point? You might say the service costs money. It does. The ticket prices never cover that so you're already running at a loss. You spend money on enforcement, pa
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by cletus 5y ago
The general perception of Arizona is that of a desert. But did you know that Arizona has ski resorts? The Rocky Mountains extend into Arizona and they get snow in the winter. >90% of Arizona's water comes from snow melt.
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So there are four major draws to China for Western companies: 1. It's a market of >1B people, hundreds of millions of whom are rapidly developing disposable income. That in itself is probably enough; 2. Cheap labour; 3. Supplier pro

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