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by dividefuel 2y ago
Sure, to an extent you can buy freedom with money, but I think you'd need a lot of money to really be free. Even in the scenario in your comment, you're presumably still the one driving them around between these activities. Unless
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by dividefuel 2y ago
I think people simply do not want to have kids as much as they used to. Usually these topics emerge with the same three major factors for why people aren't having children: 1. Can't afford to raise a child 2. Concerns about the fu
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by dividefuel 2y ago
I spend a lot of time listening to music and have a large collection of MP3s. I never found a piece of existing software that works exactly as I want it, so I created my own web app for hosting my library during the pandemic. It works great
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by dividefuel 2y ago
I just got a new MacBook Air a couple of days ago, and a couple weeks before that I helped my mom set up a new Win 11 laptop. The Macbook's setup is definitely a bit faster than Windows, but it's not way faster. I still had to tur
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by dividefuel 2y ago
I don't disagree that urban planning is a factor, but I think there's more to this. A very common theme when talking to people in the US is "this neighborhood used to have so many more kids out and about!" Even in the ne
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by dividefuel 2y ago
What's the argument for file sharing ruining music? I would think more the opposite, that it improved distribution and discovery for lesser-known artists, and so helped diversify music.
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by dividefuel 2y ago
This is a good point too. Areas that are really touristy start to converge on a shared "vibe". I don't know if this is always how it's been and I finally realized it, or if it's a consequence of the more recent boom
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by dividefuel 2y ago
I think there's a huge mix of things: 1. People who don't travel because they can't afford it 2. People who don't travel because they're intimidated by it 3. People who don't travel because they don't see
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by dividefuel 2y ago
I don't think it's that people don't care, it's that the hurdles of traveling feel high when you have no experience. How do I plan logistics, like flights, hotels, transportation, and activities? How do I get around when
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by dividefuel 2y ago
Happy to see progress here, but days like today seem like easy targets for meeting demand with renewables: Most of the state seems to be between 55-75°F (low demand), cloud cover seems light, and the days are reasonably long (high supply).
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by dividefuel 3y ago
This is pretty accurate to my experience. Weed makes many relaxing activities more enjoyable. On nights when I had nothing planned and wanted a chill night at home, weed would make that more enjoyable. But then it became easy to justify smo
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by dividefuel 3y ago
This is a great way of putting it, and I think about this a lot. My wife's ancestors had kids at younger ages, and my ancestors had kids at later ages. Her grandparents are all still alive, mine have all been gone for more than ten yea
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by dividefuel 3y ago
This sounds horrifying to me. If everyone has their first child at 40, then grandparents are always 80+ years old, leaving little (if any) overlap in time and rarely good overlap as those usually aren't high quality of life years. I th
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by dividefuel 3y ago
I see the effect most with friends/family who aren't that technical wondering what to do when their phones run out of space. I don't think they expect that the most effective way to free up space is to delete a handful of app
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by dividefuel 3y ago
I don't have LinkedIn installed, but it's hardly the only app guilty of this. My phone has probably a dozen apps or so that take up much more space than I would expect (400 MB for the iRobot app that runs my Roomba? 250 MB for Fir
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by dividefuel 3y ago
The app may do a lot of things, but what fraction of users use all of the things? Even if I use 10% of what an app is capable of, I still have to store 100% of the app on my phone.
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by dividefuel 3y ago
I grew up in one of the towns near the Sutter Buttes. They serve as a backdrop and are a key geographic feature of the area... but since they're privately owned and access is so limited, very few people have ever interacted with the ar
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by dividefuel 3y ago
I don't think Shasta is considered part of the valley -- there are 20-30 miles of hills/mountains separating it from the northern end of the central valley (Redding).
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by dividefuel 3y ago
Is this something fairly unique to the US or do other countries do this too? that is, having a city boundary that's relatively small compared to the metro area.
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by dividefuel 3y ago
Totally agree. I think there's a deep sense that "things are getting worse" across the board, and there doesn't seem to be much hope that the trends will reverse anytime soon.
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by dividefuel 3y ago
Ah, Costco isn't the only grocery store I go to. Roughly, I grocery shop once per week, alternating between Costco and other grocery stores where I buy fresh foods or smaller items that don't make sense from Costco. My personal fe
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by dividefuel 3y ago
Door-to-door, a Costco trip usually takes me about 90 minutes. I go to Costco probably once every two weeks. Just a data point. I'd love to hear how often urbanites go to the grocery store and how long each trip typically takes.
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by dividefuel 3y ago
I think these preferences just aren't universal is the problem, as shown by the disagreement in this thread. For me, many of these things I'd rather enjoy in my own home because the additional comfort and privacy is something that
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by dividefuel 3y ago
Agreed, I like to go in the first ~20% but not actually first. That gives you a chance to quickly make any changes from good qualities you noticed in the first ones, but get it done before fatigue sets in. And it's just nice to have it
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by dividefuel 3y ago
Underpowered in terms of RAMs, storage, and possibly GPU. Agree that M2/M3 are faster and have better battery life. Weight/heat to me fall under build quality, not specs.
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by dividefuel 3y ago
My opinion is you can pick two: low cost, high build quality, good specs. No one matches Apple's build and screen quality. But their base models are pretty underpowered, and it's not until you're spending closer to $2k that y
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by dividefuel 3y ago
My feeling is it became politicized because the left saw it as a chance to expose Trump, and the right downplayed it to avoid impacts on Trump's reputation. Like because one side took one stance, the other side inherently had to take a
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by dividefuel 3y ago
I'm honestly surprised how relatively close these values are. This says personal trucks use about 2x as much energy as mass transit. I would've thought the ratio would be much higher.
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by dividefuel 3y ago
The air is thinner at cruising altitude, though of course thicker at takeoff altitude. I'm sure longer flights are much more efficient than shorter, but whether they ever overtake trains I'm not sure.
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by dividefuel 3y ago
Yes, I was thinking how LinkedIn may be the one exception. "Profiles" though only stick around because they're effectively resumes, and users hope that keeping their profile up to date improves their chances of landing a job.

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