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by djrobstep 3y ago
? I pay $15 for my weekly groceries to be delivered, which saves me at least an hour. They are otherwise the same price as in store.
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by djrobstep 3y ago
I’m not trying to win anybody over. Agoraphobia is a real disease. Look it up.
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by djrobstep 3y ago
Nobody likes crowded or dirty space, but an aversion per se to having other people around is definitely pathological. I think this is a social trust thing - lots of people are just scared of strangers. This is particularly true for high-vio
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by djrobstep 3y ago
> Who cares if a car is only utilized 10% of the time. You understand that each car takes up a car-sized plot of (usually very valuable urban) land 100% of the time, right?
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by djrobstep 3y ago
What's wrong with sharing space with other people? Do you have some kind of phobia? You don't need to lug groceries around - just get them delivered.
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by djrobstep 3y ago
? Reality is the exact opposite of what you say
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by djrobstep 3y ago
All these stats really tell you is: - how expensive housing is in that country - how privatized pensions are in that country For instance, Australia has very high wealth per capita. But that's mainly because: - housing is extremely exp
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by djrobstep 3y ago
> Is she really suggesting that an unstable, abusive 2P household is significant better than any 1P household? She does not consider the quality of the household whatsoever. That is the problem. > TFA states that 50% of children in th
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by djrobstep 3y ago
You’ve got the causality backwards. The healthy home environment causes the lack of divorce, not the other way around.
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by djrobstep 3y ago
This research is entirely bogus. As Matt Bruenig points out: > In general, there was some kind of problem present in the family that experienced the divorce that was not present in the family that did not experience the divorce. To actua
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by djrobstep 3y ago
Strongly agree with your first part, but with the second part, it's not always a lack of drive. I have a ~3k stars github project, and tried fairly hard to monetize it (even took VC money at one point), but without any success. I reali
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Automakers Invented the Crime of “Jaywalking”(vox.com)
4 points by djrobstep 3y ago|1 comments
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by djrobstep 4y ago
Wrong, for those with rich parents it’s very low.
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One week with an e-bike has changed my life(wheelreinventor.substack.com)
1 points by djrobstep 4y ago|0 comments
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by djrobstep 4y ago
Yeah that seems bad too!
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by djrobstep 4y ago
This seems like a very unhealthy development. Why not get off the computer and get some real exercise?
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by djrobstep 4y ago
> If the people earning it are poor, it should count towards figures that are helping the poor Did you read what I wrote at all?
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by djrobstep 4y ago
Are you familiar with these programs at all? They contain a “phase-in” design that means they deliberately give less (or even nothing at all) the very poorest.
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by djrobstep 4y ago
Unfortunately poor people are not free to acquire the food they need or live in shelter without being violently attacked for doing so if they fail to pay money to property owners. Poverty isn't voluntary - it's violently enforced
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by djrobstep 4y ago
No they haven't, and that's not what the article says. This is a good video response from Matt Bruenig that goes into these stats in detail: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWBdFHA8KvU
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by djrobstep 4y ago
> Because we keep changing the measure for "poverty". No we don't. > It's much better to be in "poverty" today than 50 years ago. No it's not. > Life will never be perfect but it is tremendously b
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Is Australia's lower house “gerrymandered”?(wheelreinventor.substack.com)
16 points by djrobstep 4y ago|22 comments
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by djrobstep 4y ago
> I hate driving in Denver. The traffic sucks. > Why is walkable so desired? When it's cold (like today) I don't want to leave my car. I'd drive through any day, I'd drive just to avoid walking half a mile. This is
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by djrobstep 4y ago
A ton of young people leave, because NZ has low wages, very high cost of living, and is very isolating because most places feel suburban/rural and car dominated. NZ is terrific if you’ve got family wealth to fall back on, but without y
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by djrobstep 4y ago
Amazing that developers still spend so much time getting bogged down in encoding issues in 2023. Why can't we just edit some data structures directly and send send them around seamlessly? It's a deeply dysfunctional state of affai
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by djrobstep 4y ago
You keep aggressively missing the point. Uber drivers' wages are nothing to do with "what the market will bear" and everything to do with bargaining power. In countries with sectoral bargaining, where bargaining power is high
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by djrobstep 4y ago
I've no idea what you're even responding to. Wages aren't set by the government in sectoral collective bargaining.
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by djrobstep 4y ago
> Firm C that combines the advantages of firms A and B will eat their lunch. Read what I wrote again. The point of sectoral bargaining is to remove downward competition on wages as a possible competitive advantage. > I'm not quit
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by djrobstep 4y ago
You seem oddly defensive of Amazon. Do you work for them? In any case, you've missed the point. If Amazon is competitive and better than others on pay and conditions as you say, sectoral bargaining would be good for them, because it
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by djrobstep 4y ago
It might be "available" but the focus and outcome will be different. Suppose there are two delivery firms: - Firm A develops innovative delivery routing software that cuts delivery costs by 20%. -Firm B is rubbish at software, but

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