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by drewrv 3y ago
The US has a notoriously terrible social safety net compared to peer countries. The "worst-performing public schools" are using their money to provide food, transportation, healthcare, and counseling services in addition to academ
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by drewrv 3y ago
I'm a fan of Stumpy Nubs but I disagree with his economic analysis here. Saw Stop has effectively had a monopoly on this type of saw, so of course they've been pricing it high. When Bosh came out with their own version it only mad
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by drewrv 3y ago
Do you think the government should regulate workplace safety?
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by drewrv 3y ago
> But shouldn't I be the one to weigh the value of a risk to only myself against the value of my fingers? What about employees? They don't get to decide.
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by drewrv 3y ago
There are already safer alternatives.
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by drewrv 3y ago
Can you elaborate on that or drop a link that explains more?
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by drewrv 3y ago
> In 2023, COVID is a bad cold/flu. Bad flus are deadly. > With the flu, we know that people are no longer contagious once symptoms are gone Famously, Covid is different in that it can be spread asymptomatically.
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by drewrv 3y ago
A plane could crash and a car could crash. One method of travel is still safer than the other.
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by drewrv 3y ago
It actually chuckled when they mentioned “labeling misinformation” or “manipulating search results”. Those are forms of speech! They are doing the thing they’re complaining about. Either this is being done in bad faith by peddlers of BS, or
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by drewrv 3y ago
Obviously it didn't pan out, but you could think of Convoy as an aggregator of small carriers. A big shipper doesn't want to deal with 1,000 small carriers but they can deal with Convoy, and Convoy deals with the small carriers. C
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by drewrv 3y ago
The courts will continue to have substantial leeway and the bill makes no mention of medical care: “Democratic California lawmakers have approved a bill that would instruct courts to consider, among many other factors, whether a parent affi
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by drewrv 3y ago
Can you spell out what’s insane about AB 957? Because that sounds perfectly reasonable to me.
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by drewrv 3y ago
I feel like you’re valuing hypothetical kids who would get tricked by nefarious school counselors over real kids who are abused by their parents and kicked out onto the streets for being queer.
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by drewrv 3y ago
I’d argue that JS can’t compete but typescript can. Anders Hejlsberg is a freaking genius.
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by drewrv 3y ago
I think you're falling into a trap of romanticizing the past. One way to avoid that is to look at data, most of which shows crime dropping and productivity increasing over the past few decades. Additionally, we have access to large amo
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by drewrv 3y ago
As someone who had their appendix removed yesterday, I’m grateful that cheating nature can actually be done safely and effectively.
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by drewrv 3y ago
“Kids are doing something differently from how we used to do it” is always a red flag for me. The fact that traditional high school debate produced leaders such as Nixon, Pelosi, and Larry Summers is not the ringing endorsement of the proce
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by drewrv 3y ago
I watch a lot of Sam Pilgrim with my son: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PDpqLylqeM Him and I like to bike together. In general, given a sport they're into, there's probably an entertaining goofball doing intere
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by drewrv 3y ago
People (rightly) talk about how great it is at playing steam games. One thing that’s often overlooked is that it is excellent at emulation too. I’ve played with emulators in the past but they’re always a little laggy, or the controls aren’t
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by drewrv 3y ago
All of google or just google search? I've been mostly happy with DDG but still use google maps.
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by drewrv 3y ago
I feel like reddit could serve better ads than Facebook if they tried. Sure Facebook knows what college I went to and who my uncle is. Reddit knows my hobbies and interests. The fact that I subscribe to r/woodworking, r/diy, etc,
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by drewrv 3y ago
* Hotel - Kenny's Log Inn
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by drewrv 3y ago
A little off topic, but you should check out bikeindex.org
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by drewrv 3y ago
I understand that the terms are mostly unambiguous, but I always wonder how these get defined in edge cases. For example ferries, at least where I live, alternate the direction of travel as they go back and forth. There isn't a fixed &
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by drewrv 4y ago
How can I prove to you that I have a headache? At a certain point you just have to listen to patients and trust them. It’s really weird to get super skeptical of people’s claims only for a specific disease or a specific type of person.
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by drewrv 4y ago
He also doesn't acknowledge that regulations exist for a reason. Sure, there are some onerous or silly regulations. But TVs are cheap/unregulated and medical devices or aviation equipment are expensive/regulated for very good
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by drewrv 4y ago
Just to clarify, because the nuance is getting lost, they are not suggesting it was lab made. A naturally occurring virus can be studied and then accidentally leaked from a lab. But yes, there's no indication that the US is trying to c
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by drewrv 4y ago
It’s also been an incredibly risky ride. Mt Gox collapsed in 2014 so owning a bunch of btc 10 years ago is no guarantee you’d be doing well today.
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by drewrv 4y ago
Murder and nonnegligent manslaughter is a pretty reliable metric, since police get called and they actually have to show up when there's a dead body. Seattle ranks 77th when you sort by that column!
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by drewrv 4y ago
"Tough on crime" policies don't actually lead to less crime. If they did, the US would be among the safest countries on the planet. Seattle, which is "soft on crime", is a relatively safe city with lower rates of vi

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