elmomle

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by elmomle 4y ago
It would be better to make it a special month. Nicer for people born on those days than being born on the Unmonth.
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by elmomle 4y ago
The problem is that it's a classic large-scale prisoner's dilemma. Living in a walking city is nicer than living in a driving city. But living in a walking city with a car is even nicer! The only way to fix it is by passing taxe
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by elmomle 4y ago
Having worked at one of the big scooter companies, I can say that (when I left in 2021) we had plenty of scooters in service that had been operating for two years or more. That said, this generation of micromobility has fallen flat. Any so
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by elmomle 4y ago
The Amish have the right idea. If the point of helpful technology is to help us to better achieve our goals, the fact that we find ourselves drawn to devices like moths to flames strongly implies that the technology is not helpful. If eve
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by elmomle 4y ago
Thanks! I agree with that overall point--the possibility of accounts being withheld and/or of false inclusions is an interesting one and worthy of discussion. That said, while there are doubtlessly many people who read this article an
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by elmomle 4y ago
Could you provide a more substantive critique of this article? It seemed to me like novel and worthwhile reporting.
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by elmomle 4y ago
Though presumably gravel roads limit development, keeping car traffic minimal.
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by elmomle 4y ago
Unless you happen to think that reduced car ownership is good for the world!
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by elmomle 4y ago
To clarify, the thing one eliminates is typically a molecule or a food group--the most common are probably (in no order) added sugar, gluten, fried foods, processed foods, dairy, and red meat. One can eliminate any or all of those, typical
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by elmomle 4y ago
There are only two sources of water that are "free" (as in not already heavily taxed for human use) and that would really move the needle on the Southwest's water supply: the Canadian Pacific Northwest (Yukon & McKenzie R
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by elmomle 4y ago
What you say is correct from al the perspective of advertising and corporate budgeting. From the perspective of charitable work, which they invited by loudly proclaiming "look at our charity", it is appalling.
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by elmomle 4y ago
It's actually surprisingly close. According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Roman_wars_and_battles , there were 21 Roman wars in the 2nd Century BC. US count ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
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by elmomle 4y ago
It's probably more correct to say that the whole system exploits sex workers. No intention to punish is necessary--MC & Visa are happy to make as much money as possible while ultimately dumping all risk onto the individuals making
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by elmomle 4y ago
I believe the paranoia is misplaced. I'm not aware of a single instance in the whole history of the US where a citizen was targeted by members of the public primarily on the basis of their owning a gun (or holding a permit)--are you?
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by elmomle 4y ago
I don't think it's a straw man. You show me the big evangelical movement centered around adoption of children who would have otherwise been aborted. Which, you know, would be the obvious Christian answer here, rather than forcin
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by elmomle 4y ago
I love the simplicity. Is there support for joins / use of multiple tables?
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by elmomle 4y ago
How would people be prosecuted if prosecutors aren't paid money?
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by elmomle 4y ago
Most of the problems of this world come down to us being engaged in scads of massive Prisoner's Dilemmas with (generally) fairly fast memory decay. NIMBYism, Realpolitik, etc. all come down to Prisoner's Dilemma--most people want
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by elmomle 4y ago
Outdoor workers actually have a significantly reduced rate of melanoma. Sun exposure increases risk of carcinoma, which is almost never fatal (in fact, knowing nothing else about a person, diagnosis with a basal or squamous cell carcinoma
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by elmomle 4y ago
OED: "The state or fact of being mentally conscious or aware of anything" ( ( https://www.oed.com/oed2/00047729 , #3). This jives more with my intuition that a toddler is conscious, even if they aren't rea
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by elmomle 4y ago
Dams are the only thing making the southwest habitable at scale (regular water regardless of river flow).
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by elmomle 5y ago
Though the timing is suspicious, it's presently not known which of the two it is, so the ambiguous phrasing seems appropriate.
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by elmomle 5y ago
It's a question of what your baseline is. It seems OP may have had (say) a 3500 calorie diet as a baseline, then started exercising, perhaps burning an extra 500 calories but now consuming 4000 calories to feel normal. In your case,
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by elmomle 5y ago
Capital has tended to trump social capital in the long term, particularly since sufficient capital can shape the public discourse.
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by elmomle 5y ago
The book in particular really opened my mind to the idea that illicit drug economies and anti-drug police activity are ultimately symbiotic, forming a system that consumes lives. And nothing else that I've read has conveyed so vividly
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by elmomle 5y ago
The words we use are important, because public opinion tends to matter quite a bit with these things, and public opinion is shaped immensely by words and their connotations (remember death panels?). If sci-hub is said to aid in the piratin
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by elmomle 5y ago
Why do 3-4 year olds need devices?
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by elmomle 5y ago
I wouldn't say CNN is perfectly in the opposite direction; rather, they're on nearly opposite ends of the Overton window.
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by elmomle 5y ago
What do driving practices have to do with vaccinations? Do you actually have any reason to think that the pro-vax population is more prone to unsafe driving practices? Or is your point that "in a large population, I bet I can find ma
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by elmomle 5y ago
Is (3) either implementable or necessary (for the former case, are you liable the if you hold stock the moment the decision is made? What if the decision is kept secret from public stockholders?)? Agreed, though, that quality of life would

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