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by dougmwne 3y ago
I think that poverty really is a state of mind, and so SLS, as a thing separate from mental health, inadequate health care or material deprivation makes a lot of sense to me. Once you start seeing life as shit, something where no good chang
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by dougmwne 3y ago
Money is an abstract representation of the labor of others. If there’s no one to labor for you then your currency is just paper.
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by dougmwne 3y ago
My partner's grandmother spent her entire career researching a single bacteria species and its reaction to a single environmental toxin.
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by dougmwne 3y ago
That would sound like a kinetic bombardment weapon and that we were about to get rodded. My level of concern would be sky high!
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by dougmwne 3y ago
Ok yeah I would consider Paris to be an outlier when it comes to the EU because its urban and suburban area is absolutely massive. But imagine you took the entire metro area population of Paris, (12 million) then spread them out across a 10
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by dougmwne 3y ago
Then why does the NYT and WaPo swing a punch at the EU every other week? The left may be culturally more aligned, but both parties agree they hate EU trade policy.
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by dougmwne 3y ago
I would say it’s not very much in the US’s interest at all. First of all, having a credible economic rival, even if they are extremely aligned with your political values and culture, is still a threat. See how much the EU is attacked by the
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by dougmwne 3y ago
But that’s exactly the point here. Sure, having a nice back garden and a fully detached house is nice. But the price we pay when we build 2 million of those in a metro area is the 2 hour commute, and car culture, and unaffordable housing in
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by dougmwne 3y ago
I’m very skeptical that you have lived in a US suburb with single family homes. They are almost never walkable, have no services except those you drive to and life involves driving from one parking lot of another. Having lived in several EU
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by dougmwne 3y ago
There’s no need to wonder. This isn’t a mystery. City planning in the US is totally screwed. No density, single family homes over dense multistory apartments, highways over rail lines, cars over public transit, parking over parks. Everyone
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by dougmwne 3y ago
I just had a conversation with an LLM trying to find a word to describe your feeling. Life is indeed weird. Here you go: The concept of "thrownness" (Geworfenheit in German) was an important existentialist term coined by philosoph
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by dougmwne 3y ago
What has been, that will be; what has been done, that will be done. Nothing is new under the sun!
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by dougmwne 3y ago
For some definitions of wealth, sure. I think the minimum definition is that you are freed from at least some need to labor. Clearly there’s a wealth point at which you need to capture excess value from the labor of others.
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by dougmwne 3y ago
Yes, I think you’ve really got it there. The federal government is absolutely trying to orchestrate this situation for the benefit of companies. They try to keep unemployment at a sweet spot number where not too many people are living on th
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by dougmwne 3y ago
This is absolutely being orchestrated, right out in the open. OP’s entire post is fundamentally about the balance of power between labor and capital. The Fed’s stated goal is to cool the labor market so that wage growth will calm down. In o
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by dougmwne 3y ago
If you ride the Bart seeing urine is quite normal, along with the producer sitting in the middle of the puddle.
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by dougmwne 3y ago
For me a nicer office would change my mind and I have worked in that office before. Allow me to reminisce: Was working in DC on Capitol Hill. Had a 30 minute bike ride to work right down the center of the national mall. Had a private office
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by dougmwne 3y ago
Me too. And I think it’s entirely rational. The newsroom budgets at all news organizations have been slashed to the bone. There’s nearly no well researched journalism being produced today. This news content is nearly information free and co
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by dougmwne 3y ago
Yes, there’s a new high speed train from Miami to Orlando, but you would have to rent a car when you get to either end anyway because there’s no realistic public transit in all of Florida. By the time you rent a car, you might as well drive
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by dougmwne 3y ago
I think this is a silly Disney view. I don’t think it’s about the history and the sunk cost specifically, but taking the difficult path to learning compromise, communication, patience and forgiveness. That takes a lot of time, decades at l
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by dougmwne 3y ago
It would bias our energy markets towards electric and away from fossil fuels. But due to climate change, there’s already a lot of pressure to go in this direction.
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by dougmwne 3y ago
Is it a coincidence that the light field lens resembles the compound eye of an insect? Could a similar process be happening in the insect’s visual cortex to reproject multiple views? Insects can’t move their eyes like humans, but apparently
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by dougmwne 3y ago
Because that’s where the defense and intelligence industry is centered.
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The people who say this usually have a quick walk around the block to the office or a pleasant bike ride through a city park, not a 2 hour slog.
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by dougmwne 3y ago
I suppose employers would need to be allowed to ask your living location and decide to hire you based on the length of your commute.
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by dougmwne 3y ago
This really feels like a bad take to me. Cities are out of room and can only grow by increasing the commutes even more. Being able to share that growth with towns that have plenty of room to expand seems like a huge win. And preventing peop
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by dougmwne 3y ago
Tell me you’ve never been part of an RFP process without telling me you’ve never been part of an RFP process. Sure, in some cases what you say is true, when you have an undifferentiated product in perfect competition with other products whe
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by dougmwne 3y ago
Sure, we are close to the end of silicon semiconductor improvements. And Moores law could be near its end. In fact the price per transistor has not been dropping recently, so it may be over already. If there’s hope for the future, it’s that
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by dougmwne 3y ago
The process sure, but the end product? Sand awoken, talking, thinking, creating, dreaming. Merlin was not so powerful.
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by dougmwne 3y ago
Citation: thermodynamics. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landauer%27s_principle

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