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by drekk 3y ago
People on tropical islands don't really use cars. I don't think most of the readers on HN understand the level of sacrifice required from everyone to avoid the worst of what's coming. It's going to require a lot more fro
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No, government R&D dollars did. Most of the significant advanced were "too risky" for corporations to view them as growth opportunities. Even though taxpayers fund the studies they're charged not only for the products but
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They're raised with different expectations of what is acceptable... do you really think society treats horny men and women in the same way? Am I an effeminate man for reading erotica? Is my girlfriend a masculine woman for watching por
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This to me is the larger issue. Younger people are more isolated than ever. Dating apps have commodified human intimacy in a way that will have generational consequences. I was watching "Married at First Sight" in the background a
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You realize difficulty in dating goes beyond the binary of "has partner? Y/N" Your article outlines several potential reasons. Many of which present challenges to young women as well. Do you talk to your female friends about
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2+2=4 is arbitrary. Humans decided base 10 makes sense because we have ten fingers. It's arbitrary in the sense that it's something we picked out of convenience. Base 10 isn't some real thing existing in reality that you can
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by drekk 3y ago
It wasn't okay. I don't think you're responding to someone who is pro-war. Strawman aside, do you think sanctions are fine? How can we ensure they're consistently applied to belligerent countries like the US? Because if
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by drekk 3y ago
I think it's pretty rational given capitalism's explicit focus on short-term profit at the expense of negative externalities. Workers are replaceable. The US outsourced its manufacturing sector. Now the same people who oversaw tha
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Traditionally tech workers and lawyers have been careers with incredibly low union membership. Very much an example of the "labor aristocracy" that companies and the government seem to be proletarianizing at their own risk.
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It's really unfortunate to see the same tribal shit-flinging on HN. Both parties are wings of the same bird. They work in the interest of their donor base, not their constituents. Commodifying housing and criminalizing homelessness is
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My university required freshmen to live in dorms. Many colleges do.
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If anything we should be decarbonizing faster and avoiding the situation where everyone just replaces their ICE vehicles with electric. Just because it's convenient to move 1-4 humans around in a couple of tons of metal doesn't me
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Maybe I have an Apple laptop but an Android phone and would like to use a unified messaging solution across both. But we shouldn't have to get to such specific examples to discuss the issue at play here—Apple is fighting against advers
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They do have their own network because they integrate more than just iMessage. It's "Apple's network" because Apple won't allow anyone else to run a server. Adversarial interoperability might ruffle some feathers, b
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The funny thing is I'm being compelled to invest my own savings (taxes) to fund R&D that is then patentable. It would be a huge improvement to directly pick what I'm subsidizing, and actually get to read the results I've
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by drekk 3y ago
Conversely, I'm not going to need to ration insulin in Argentina, Brazil, or India. Can't speak to the DPRK or Somalia as I haven't been. If capital was allocated democratically rather than at the whim of companies (that end
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The cost of living is ~30% lower in Paris compared to a major US city like Los Angeles. If you factor in what people pay here for healthcare premiums you've accounted for most of the difference in salary. That's before we even get
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Compare the cost of living in Berlin to even rust belt US cities and it's really not favorable to the US. If you want to include "healthcare premiums" in the calculation as a tax then the US pays more taxes per capita than mo
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> There is no such thing as a functional heroin addict I don't have time to really get into the weeds for this discussion, but I can at least do the weaker refutation of this very general claim by way of a counterexample. Professor
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It's already not legal to smoke in public for weed and in most places for cigarettes. Frankly I don't think outright prohibition addresses that any better than the existing system. Nor do I see how having bodily autonomy is necess
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The article discusses this. It's talking about a "commuter trip". As it points out, this is pretty similar for other wealthy nations. In the US, for example, 60% of drives cover a total distance less than 10km.
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San Diego native here. California bees are incredibly docile and produce honey year-round. They produce more slowly in the winter due to availability but they don't hunker down+expel male drones like in harsher climates. If you take a
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by drekk 3y ago
The richest 1% is responsible for 49% of lifestyle emissions. The poorest 50% are responsible for just 10% of emissions. It's really disingenuous to act like most of our CO2 emissions are being spent lifting people out of poverty rathe
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I really don't understand how you reconcile that with unions pushing for federal and state wide wage / benefit increases that cover non-union employees as well. You need a structure with which to organize labor power. Call it what
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I think whether or not a population in general supports gay marriage has no bearing on the morality of ethnically cleansing them. Civilians being cut off from food, water, fuel, and electricity is not defensible. And trying to turn it into
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The difference being pulp is ripe fruit in a fruit juice you're drinking and seeds/leaves/dirt are not edible for us in the first place. I seriously don't get it—if you don't like fruit why drink fruit juice. Plenty
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People went places before cars were invented, and then General Motors put itself between people and the desire to move around by buying up public transit only to dismantle it. Now car companies are offering not "a better way" but
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What does it say about our culture that futuristic media envisioned flying cars and robotic servants but not an altered labor arrangement?
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I like "Synaptic Self: How Our Brains Become Who We Are" by Joseph Ledoux. It's less pop science and gets into some detail about how our neurons work at the cellular level. He's not afraid to use doodles to communicate i
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It's a "safe investment" because people need a place to live and the supply is artificially constrained. Personally don't see why the barrier to having a place to live for new generations should be raised just so that bo

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