dionidium

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by dionidium 8y ago
That's correct. That's why we don't use arbitrary distinctions for proper regional comparisons and why groups like the OMB spend so much time developing standardized areas for comparison. Your comment is more revealing than e
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by dionidium 8y ago
The overriding, pervasive problem with regional comparisons is that people give undue attention to non-standard, arbitrary distinctions -- e.g. political borders -- where comparisons across standardized areas (e.g. those defined by the OM
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by dionidium 8y ago
> twice in the past year I have ridden cross town to the UW station and then rode the light rail to the airport. Right. But... twice in one year. You're making my point.
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by dionidium 8y ago
> New York on the other hand is more of a spaghetti mess. Not really. Look at the map again. Everything flows through Manhattan. The entire system is setup to take you to Manhattan. If you want to go from the Bronx to Queens or Brookly
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by dionidium 8y ago
> Second, we already have a perfectly fine train to O'Hare! People who don't like or use transit love to talk about trains to the airport. It reveals a lot about how they view transit. To wit: it's a novelty, for speci
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by dionidium 8y ago
A few mental tricks I've mentioned here before that help me: 1. I once heard Sam Harris talking about this process. Most people sort of are their thoughts. That is -- this is tough to describe plainly -- their thoughts and feelings are
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by dionidium 8y ago
Right, and if the job is "forward in the NBA," then maybe you'd rather know height. Fair enough, but it's not really responsive to my point about the general case. Perhaps to help clarify your thoughts on this, imagine t
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by dionidium 8y ago
That's a pretty simplistic conclusion that ignores one of the biggest technological and cultural life-altering inventions in human history: the automobile.
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by dionidium 8y ago
I'm not an expert in the field, but my casual understanding is that the research shows basically the opposite to be true. That is to say that IQ is generally predictive of success and/or ability across just about any dimension you
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by dionidium 8y ago
>I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of drivers failed to adequately budget for the maintenance costs of their car Nearly every car owner fails to adequately budget for (or even understand) the full cost of ownership of their car :
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by dionidium 8y ago
"Hey, where's the St. Louis Post-Dispatch," I thought to myself. Ugh, it's now the 26th largest by circulation [0]. How the mighty have fallen. They do have RSS feeds, if you want to add them: https://www.stlt
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by dionidium 8y ago
The claim is that it never happened. Anybody can be a source for that :) If it’s happened, then there should be some credible source detailing the case in which it happened. No such source exists.
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by dionidium 8y ago
The danger as a society we have to day is the people who grew up during those events are all passing away. This seems to say exactly the opposite of what you think it says. By your own admission, you're describing the actions of dea
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by dionidium 8y ago
The problem with this is that seeds tended to blow between fields And the problem with this is that it's nothing more than a spurious hypothetical that never actually happened. Monsanto sued and won in cases where farmers were del
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by dionidium 8y ago
Monsanto has always been unfairly hurt by their name. You can't have an argument about GMOs on the internet without somebody mentioning Agent Orange or some other completely irrelevant nonsense.
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by dionidium 8y ago
> Many of my tech friends in SF aren't even registered to vote here. I'm a transplant to NYC and I'm generally pretty critical of complaints about transplants -- try living in a city nobody wants to move to and get bac
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by dionidium 8y ago
"Blocking ads for these reasons while continuing to use the sites is not unlike eating at a restaurant and leaving without paying because you think their prices are exorbitant" Do we really have to replay all the arguments we ha
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by dionidium 8y ago
And the Staten Island ferry, with its spectacular views of lower Manhattan, One World Trade, and the Statue of Liberty is free! It’s a fantastic way for a tourist to spend an hour at no cost.
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by dionidium 8y ago
> "In 2012, when the average wedding cost was $27,427, the median was $18,086. In 2011, when the average was $27,021, the median was $16,886. In Manhattan, where the widely reported average is $76,687, the median is $55,104. And in
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by dionidium 8y ago
It seems plausible to me that something similar was driving Alito's question about compact discs, which this article also derisively referenced. It sounds to me like he might have been attempting an analogy about physical media in orde
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by dionidium 8y ago
I've seen thoughtful, well-crafted ColdFusion and PL/SQL applications and I've seen Swift code that was incomprehensible and unmanageable. I've seen beautiful PHP and ridiculous Python. The amount that the language matte
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by dionidium 8y ago
It's not only much simpler, it's the only action that actually makes any sense. Obviously, people should be given the ability to hide and ignore things they don't want to see, but what's the point of a mode in which I si
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by dionidium 8y ago
The irony of condescending to your readers is that it's only the people you actually want to impress who will notice.
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by dionidium 8y ago
Maybe the best thing I can do here is concede that "can you find $400 for an emergency" is an imprecise question that this article doesn't (and can't) answer. I think I know what it's saying (probably because I have
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by dionidium 8y ago
In my experience, nobody wants to hear this, but basic food is damn near free. I get it, I get it -- it's just a silly thing Sean Hannity says. It also happens to be true. Nobody has to eat cat food to save money. Have you priced beans
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by dionidium 8y ago
A version of this comment appears every time this is discussed. This isn’t what we’re talking about. These aren’t liquidity problems. People really just don’t have the money.
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by dionidium 8y ago
They live on Social Security. Sometimes I tell people this and they seem surprised. It’s not surprising to poor people. My grandparents never had more than Social Security in retirement. It’s all my mother has (or all she would have if not
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by dionidium 8y ago
OK, but, like, what if some people are just actually bad at making decisions? Unless you have a plan for that you’re just moralizing toward no practical end.
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by dionidium 8y ago
There are some funny cost sources in there. Tobacco enforcement? OK, but I mean, that's not the cost of tobacco, that's the cost of your distaste for tobacco. Lost productivity and lost years of life? Yes, I suppose it's true
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by dionidium 8y ago
You're talking about fashion, not beauty. When I see 70s-era pictures of a beautiful girl (in bell-bottoms, with flowers in her ridiculously-tapered hair) I think her fashion looks silly , but I have no trouble recognizing the physica

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