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by ethanbond 3y ago
Also necessary in NYC which I don’t really feel is low-trust in general.
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by ethanbond 3y ago
BYD is for sure a legitimately remarkable company and to some degree I’m thankful for the competition. But I am highly, highly skeptical (and you should be too) of pretty much any number coming out of China. You should be especially skeptic
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by ethanbond 3y ago
It's not just possible but quite sensible to support these particular protestors' particular claims without necessarily supporting all possible vetos of all possible construction projects OR supporting fully arbitrary selections o
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by ethanbond 3y ago
If I care about my privacy, I much prefer the world where Apple just restricts APIs/integrations that are harmful to it than that they have to employ armies of lawyers and auditors to go after TOS violations after the fact.
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by ethanbond 3y ago
Uhh yeah, I don't think anyone should be able to veto anyone's construction project. I do think that people should be able to veto (or at least protest) construction projects like ones that pipe toxic chemicals through their drink
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by ethanbond 3y ago
I think the “does it pipe toxic spill-prone chemicals through your drinking water supply” question is at least relevant to the legitimacy of someone’s stake in the situation.
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by ethanbond 3y ago
That’s fine, but that’s not why they said they’re pulling their money.
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by ethanbond 3y ago
I'd have thought the Ideologically Pure folks over in Texas would invest/divest solely and exclusively on the basis of whether it's a good place to get returns? Even accepting their excuse that ESG investing is suffocating th
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by ethanbond 3y ago
Yeah basically the reason is that people are imagining their current built environment, which (especially in the US) is often solely and exclusively designed for automobiles, and imagine it without cars. It’d be a legitimate nightmare. What
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by ethanbond 3y ago
So? Does it matter much for some reason? That doesn’t seem like a compatibility issue.
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by ethanbond 3y ago
Sorry is "real estate agents need their cut" an argument against moving, or an argument for reducing the power of real estate agents, who are pretty much useless for 99% of residential transactions anyway?
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by ethanbond 3y ago
Causing landlords and speculators to actually put units to market does increase supply, without the added complexity (and cost and time lag) of having to build it first.
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by ethanbond 3y ago
Land Value Tax achieves more with less compliance overhead and no loopholes (hiding land is hard).
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by ethanbond 3y ago
Absolutely. In Churchill’s prose: https://www.landvaluetax.org/history/winston-churchill-said-... Landlordism is an absolute scourge.
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by ethanbond 3y ago
They do sell sparkling products, including IMO the best-tasting flavored sparkling waters on the market. Agreed flat water out of a can is… not my favorite.
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by ethanbond 3y ago
Okay so your theory is that managers know who would be good to promote, but they literally pretend not to and simply choose someone they’d like to hang out with instead?
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by ethanbond 3y ago
That seems excessively cynical (and self-excusing). The reality is it’s incredibly hard to measure engineering work even in the best case scenario, never mind something as abstract as software and in as opaque an environment as a modern rem
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by ethanbond 3y ago
That’s a nice maxim and all but in actual reality, the vast majority of people on the vast majority of topics have to use heuristics to build (and disconfirm) their beliefs. The people who are actually close enough to a topic to even be ab
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by ethanbond 3y ago
Selecting from a biased population into an “unbiased” sample is itself also political. Like having one fringe scientist on stage with one mainstream scientist, giving the illusion that their ideas have equal acceptance among their peers.
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by ethanbond 3y ago
Exactly, which is why the whole “fiduciary duty to maximize profits for shareholders” is a totally meaningless/unenforceable/zero-information idea. Shareholders have many many different interests on different time horizons so busi
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by ethanbond 3y ago
The ideology has existed since shareholders have. Dodge v Ford Motor is the nucleation point for it going mainstream. But it took a generation of lawyers and business leaders getting trained as if a Michigan court decision is gospel for t
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by ethanbond 3y ago
Well I hope they kill fewer people en route to their own self-destruction than Boeing has (and likely will ).
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by ethanbond 3y ago
People digging into Boeing's specific history are likely doing themselves a huge disservice. It's too easy to say, "Oh well I won't acquire a company like McDonnell Douglas!" But that's not the issue. The issue
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by ethanbond 3y ago
The AirPods are really the first mass-market augmented reality device. It's so well done that no one even thinks about them that way. That's how it'll need to be with visual augmentation, but there's no reason I've
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by ethanbond 3y ago
And it’s a problem for democratic societies in nearly all cases, so that’s why it’s being called out here.
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by ethanbond 3y ago
Race: Famously irrelevant to the whole tribal lands/indigenous rights topic
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by ethanbond 3y ago
Table elements are pretty much completely absent from modern web dev though?
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by ethanbond 3y ago
Now define “something suspect”
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by ethanbond 3y ago
Same boat! Lost 60lb over 2 years or so, was definitely challenging, but have been able to keep it off after reverting to a more standard diet.
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by ethanbond 3y ago
Your “partly because” is way too dismissive. Low carb diets work because they radically change your perception of satiation. This article is aimed towards people building muscle which is very obviously very hard to do with a low carb diet,

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