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by ctdonath 7y ago
They don't want it with burned/crusted/rotting food on it.
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by ctdonath 7y ago
You won't have $1000/mo for food when your landlord raises rent by $1000/mo. As I said, the actual economics around this are more complicated, but the paraphrase/summary is that if nobody has to work for $1000/mo an
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by ctdonath 7y ago
Indeed. What is "waste" now may be quite usable in the not-far future. Analogy: every time I cook using aluminum foil, I cringe at throwing out a usable wad of the metal solely because there's some charred food waste on it, w
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by ctdonath 7y ago
When you're putting tremendous direct effort into those turnips, when those turnips will likely make the difference between life & death thru the winter, when others facing bleak prospects are likely to take "the opportunity
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by ctdonath 7y ago
Glad someone noticed. If everyone is getting $1000/month, that becomes the new $0/month. Basic necessities, especially rent, will jump in cost; a low-end landlord will know everyone there has another $1000/month to spend, a
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by ctdonath 7y ago
Point me to the data. Those who get higher wages may be happier, but those unemployed due to their work being ended for want of value would understandably despair. Seems like data easily shifted for sociopolitical benefit.
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by ctdonath 7y ago
13 stories seems too much to "accrete". Architectural or economic, it's a startling achievement of anarchy.
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by ctdonath 7y ago
I’m curious about the economics of constructing such a place: 13 story buildings under such conditions seem a non sequitur.
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by ctdonath 7y ago
Minimum wage: if you can't produce $X/hr in value, you're prohibited from producing at all. I suspect raising that cutoff would increase suicides.
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by ctdonath 7y ago
No, Apple wasn't "competing with Rolex" on price. Ten grand was to defuse the "OMG, $400 for a watch?" response to "well, you COULD get a stupid $10,000 version, but at $400 it's great." It also made
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by ctdonath 7y ago
Perhaps it was (relatively) easy. What made it easy was precisely that it was Apple: full & willing integration with the iOS ecosystem. A couple UI clicks/taps, if not outright automatic, and your AirPods are happily talking to the
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by ctdonath 7y ago
https://m.xkcd.com/2233/
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by ctdonath 7y ago
Cars are liberating. I can escape from a city on a moment’s notice, travel 1000 miles on a whim in a day (and do), beholden to none. 8000 miles last summer thru remote spectacular regions, as we saw fit, was exhilarating. Transit is stiflin
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by ctdonath 7y ago
When speed limits are low enough, drivers don't care en masse.
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by ctdonath 7y ago
Apple Watch was very much marketed as a fashion accessory first. That didn’t work. Au contraire, that was _vital_ to shifting the public discussion. Right at the beginning, public sentiment was "what? >$400 for a watch? are you cr
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by ctdonath 7y ago
As a favorite ad opined: "Sure you can get a hamburger for $1. But then you'd have to eat it."
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by ctdonath 7y ago
As a Sony ex-fanboi: another fail was the painful bare achievement of stated specs. Sure product did X, but did so relying on weird tech stacks, or not X.00001, or cut corners in presumed but not actually stated specs. Result was that when
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by ctdonath 7y ago
...he writes, conveniently overlooking the human rights abuses and threats against neighbors which induce the sanctions. Hanging gays for being gay, beating/jailing women for not wearing scarves, frequently declaring intent to bomb Isr
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by ctdonath 7y ago
And every year we see news stories of HOAs inducing foreclosures etc on owners for $10 late dues, flying national flag, or painting a porch the wrong shade of white. Gov't/HOA involvement & enforcement varies wildly. This subt
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by ctdonath 7y ago
Some form of enforcement must be available to the HOA. Otherwise I'd sow wheat in my yard and raise a gaggle of chickens starting tomorrow.
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by ctdonath 7y ago
The nuanced verbiage of the article is overshadowed by the lead graphic, showing the US leader being punched. This, along with current context of Iranian-organized mob assaults on the US embassy in Iraq (including burning the lobby), plus p
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by ctdonath 7y ago
Less capable of violence, yes, but still able to low-level terrorize or cause serious financial problems.
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by ctdonath 7y ago
HOAs are practically incorporated hamlets - local governments. There is a government (board) which imposes taxed (dues) and imposes zoning & other laws (rules), and can impose debilitating punishments (liens) against subjects (residents
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by ctdonath 7y ago
Really important & useful ideas require hundreds of pages to express.
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by ctdonath 7y ago
Cybertruck promises 6 seats at $39,900. Minivan is the next obvious incarnation of EV.
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by ctdonath 7y ago
Tweets are hype. Official statement: "We reaffirm our prior guidance of 360,000 to 400,000 vehicle deliveries in 2019." That was met.
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by ctdonath 7y ago
No worse than plugging in your cellphone before bed. You park at home, you plug it in; 10 seconds. Most ICE adherents still don't grasp: every morning, your EV is "topped off" and ready to go full range. Rare long trips aside
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by ctdonath 7y ago
Still early in the technology's development and permeation of society. Was just a few years ago that EVs were simply not feasible. Now they're downright common in some areas (Atlanta), have reached "affordable" (Tesla 3
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by ctdonath 7y ago
Or become one. Just passing the basic test teaches far down the technology stack from cell phone magic.
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by ctdonath 7y ago
If you understand the complete technology stack, there is no "unless". Thousand-mile communications included. And if you understand the complete technology stack, you'll reconsider living in a metropolitan centre.

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