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by electricviolet 6y ago
This is really interesting -- thanks for the link.
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by electricviolet 6y ago
The real alternative is more housing development plus treating housing as a social good rather than an investment, but that's a long-term goal, it's not gonna happen overnight.
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by electricviolet 6y ago
Yeah, your experience is just very different from the average renter if you move around a lot, so you have different concerns.
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by electricviolet 6y ago
You said "when things come easy to people, they don't appreciate it" referring to one of your Section 8 tenants. If you didn't mean to imply that housing comes easy to poor people who are on Section 8, then what did you
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by electricviolet 6y ago
Most of the left leaders I follow and trust are specifically opposed to police unions due to the fact that they protect violent officers. Let's not lump other public sector unions in with police unions; the teacher's union has not
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by electricviolet 6y ago
Carbon-neutral energy sources are already cheaper than fossil fuels. The problem is inertia. https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesellsmoor/2019/06/15/renewa...
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by electricviolet 6y ago
And we all know which one it's going to be...
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by electricviolet 6y ago
No, "de" is a preposition -- "of the rear"
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by electricviolet 6y ago
This is why we can't have nice things :(
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by electricviolet 6y ago
If the infection rate were 50% we would be close to herd immunity (which I've read would require about 70% for this virus), so that would be better news in a sense. Unfortunately 21% is a long way from 70%, and it's taken a massiv
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by electricviolet 7y ago
The harm right now is that there's not even enough PPE for hospitals, so anyone buying a face shield for themselves, if that were possible, would keep a face shields from going to a health worker who needs it more. A couple months from
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by electricviolet 7y ago
There may be other local electronics recyclers who will take it.
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by electricviolet 7y ago
> Climate change is reversible in a couple hundred years That's optimistic. Climate change is potentially reversible, but it would involve large-scale geoengineering or carbon capture that we don't have the technology for yet
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by electricviolet 7y ago
This can't be the case -- the bug only affects specific runways at these airports, not all the runways.
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by electricviolet 7y ago
Honestly I'd be fine with a model where city centers are primarily pedestrian and there are big parking garages on the borders of those areas. Less parking space would be needed overall since each residence and business wouldn't n
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by electricviolet 7y ago
There are thousands of us! Thousands!
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by electricviolet 7y ago
In fairness, my library system has a fairly steep fine system and I've gone 8 months without returning a book before. Anecdote vs. anecdote.
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by electricviolet 7y ago
No, of course not, but it allows the opportunity for that same plane to be powered by no-carbon sources in the future. With a gas-engine-powered plane, there's no chance of that.
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by electricviolet 7y ago
About the taxes thing -- you can subtract foreign taxes that you pay from your American tax bill, and you also get an exemption on your first $100,000 of earnings, so it really only affects you if you're living in a low-tax-rate countr
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by electricviolet 7y ago
I have friends who have had awful experiences working for NGOs, and eventually ended up burning out. It can be all the stress of working for a tech company, with 1/3 of the pay. The dynamic that often shows up is that higher-ups try to
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by electricviolet 7y ago
Not trying to minimize the human cost of global economic disruption, but it's almost certainly less than total extinction.
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by electricviolet 7y ago
Maybe it's because of the difference in what's at stake: If the USA falls into a debt crisis the result will be global economic disruption. If the world falls into runaway climate change the result will be the extinction of the hu
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by electricviolet 7y ago
I actually love it. Knock sock.
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by electricviolet 7y ago
Of course they should still be able to live a good life, but they should certainly not be able to hold a position of power over the people who their opinions are offensive towards and still be allowed to express those opinions.
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by electricviolet 7y ago
I want everyone to understand the medium his comments were made in. This was not just a "work forum", it was a mailing list containing thousands of people in the MIT computer science community, including professors, researchers, a
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by electricviolet 7y ago
OK, rephrase the question to "Does the way we've programmed computers to learn happen to resemble the way that humans learn?"
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by electricviolet 7y ago
Let's be clear -- the biggest responsibility for change rests on those who have the most power. Those "cowards" may have no savings and could be fired at the drop of a hat. But if what you mean is that employees have a choice
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by electricviolet 7y ago
https://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/05/us/baby-formula-the-locke... I suspect it's primarily in low-income areas.
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by electricviolet 7y ago
You buy 2-3 slices of bread every morning? Or are you buying some kind of roll or smaller unit of bread? The smallest unit of bread most people are able to buy is a loaf, and for me, it takes a week or two to go through a loaf of bread.
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by electricviolet 7y ago
Indeed -- Exxon has known about climate change since at least 1977. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/exxon-knew-about-...

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