flagrant_taco

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by flagrant_taco 3y ago
> As a developer I hate "precise" and "complete" requirements. Usually these extremely detailed roadmaps are just fairy tales. Requirements and roadmaps are very different in my opinion. Requirements say what the prod
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by flagrant_taco 3y ago
Is it any different in your opinion when $1T is created and deposited into bank accounts rather than minted and released as coins?
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by flagrant_taco 3y ago
> the money isn't printed. It's debt, which is different. The debt is expected to be repaid, with interest One person's debt is another person's money. Our economic system is built on an expectation of contistent grow
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by flagrant_taco 3y ago
Sure, more people should have the opportunity to gone school their children and hunting, fishing, and foraging is a great way to feed your family with less environmental impact. Knowing how to set a bone is great in an emergency, but I woul
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by flagrant_taco 3y ago
I'm honestly not sure if the logical error is on me there. If a majority of people honestly believe that humans are causing serious harm to the planet and still set a high bar for a certain level of lifestyle, environmental impact be d
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by flagrant_taco 3y ago
There is a lot of room between being entirely self sufficient and minimizing impact. Simply "needing" less goes a very long way to reducing impact.
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by flagrant_taco 3y ago
Suburbs may very well be the worst of both worlds, being more spread out but still not spread out enough to be fairly self sufficient.
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by flagrant_taco 3y ago
That really does entirely depend on the size and style of the SFH, location on the land, lifestyle, etc. Single family homes are often easier to power off-grid with solar if that's on the table, though again with regards to externaliti
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by flagrant_taco 3y ago
Oh it's definitely not simple, I don't mean to input that. Your examples only really touch on one relevant example though, sewage. Sewage isn't really an issue in rural areas, off grid seltic systems process waste on site and
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by flagrant_taco 3y ago
Wanting to live somewhere and reducing climate impact are different though. If you build a city full of dense housing, where does all the food and water come from? Or the electricity, furniture, and clothing? Costs can be externalized, but
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by flagrant_taco 3y ago
Duplication often leads to resilience in a system, and can lower the infrastructure required since the centralized resources aren't being shipped across the country. Optimizing for profit in urban land use excludes the production of ra
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by flagrant_taco 3y ago
How do those small urban footprints survive though? They bring in outside resources, external zing the impact elsewhere and adding in the cost of transporting goods into and waste out of the urban centers. There isn't a magic answer to
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by flagrant_taco 3y ago
Property taxes that factor in existing improvements doesn't leave the owner as far behind chasing potential value that they are already being taxed for. When your tax burden is a factor of expected market value of the land plus permane
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by flagrant_taco 3y ago
Not at all, they could simply report the real cost difference in the basket as well as the adjusted cost. Every year we don't see a matrix of GDP compared to both the real and nominal GDP of all previous years. We see those two numbers
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by flagrant_taco 3y ago
CPI plays a huge role in our everyday lives though. From cost of living raises to entitlement programs, it all moves based on inflation numbers and the CPI. The Fed even considers these numbers when watching the economy and deciding on fisc
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by flagrant_taco 3y ago
Hah, yes rational markets and all that
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by flagrant_taco 3y ago
Land value taxes are generally set arbitrarily high. Localities are incentivized to set values as high as they can attempt to justify. They end up modeling what they think could be the most profitable or valuable development on the land the
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by flagrant_taco 3y ago
This argument has often confused me when so many people are concerned with global warming. Why should a city incentive land owners to develop and commoditize their land? If we want to reduce human impacts on the planet, why not incentive th
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by flagrant_taco 3y ago
You don't need a pickup truck if those are your deciding factors. The F-150 Lightning is pretty useless as a truck, with the largest battery storing as much energy as 4 gallons of gas[1]. If you want a truck get a gas or diesel truck,
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by flagrant_taco 3y ago
The most successful scams actually do go into excruciating detail to appear methodical, that's how you get people to buy in. While I do agree with many of the points you raised, for me those point to the uselessness of the CPI as a mat
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by flagrant_taco 3y ago
If they listed both that would make sense, that's commonplace when listing net vs gross revenue, nominal vs real GDP, etc
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by flagrant_taco 3y ago
The Consumer Price Index is a scam at this point, as far as I can tell. They regularly modify the list of items in the cart, meaning the data isn't reliable over time. They also include caveats where they can modify the Scritsmier pric
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by flagrant_taco 3y ago
It wasn't totally clear to me in the article whether the mist is entirely made up of sea water. It mentions how small the most important particles are, but is that an effect of the missing process or an additive mixed in while atomizin
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by flagrant_taco 3y ago
There isn't any real browser competition when the only difference is in what the UI around the actual web browser is. The browser experience is what actually renders the web page, not the menu system around it. We wouldn't need st
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by flagrant_taco 3y ago
I was just assuming you were talking about managers not independent contributors. The "you" would be the person with the authority to fire though, as a working programmer would have absolutely no power to fire anyone saying there
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by flagrant_taco 3y ago
That's a pretty big caricature of anarchists. I'd expect an anarchist to say something to the effect of businesses creating insulin if there's enough market demand for it. You seem to assume that businesses, markets, and inno
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by flagrant_taco 3y ago
That sounds like a lovely version of capitalism, but the one I've experienced is anything but optimized. There can be incentives to keeping around unproductive jobs, the size and stability of an org can often be used as a basic sign of
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by flagrant_taco 3y ago
Teams can actually function well and have no problems for periods of time. I those cases you would almost certainly break that by firing the manager. I think everyone would agree that yes-people are useless for a team, but if you find yours
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by flagrant_taco 3y ago
What you're describing is the opposite of the whole point of specifications. The aim wasn't to circle around a single implementation, it was to define feature specifications that would allow multiple vendors to build cross-compata
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by flagrant_taco 3y ago
I think we're just thinking about very stiffener goals for the web. I'm not interested in a version of the web that is driven by one browser or company, even if it can technically be modified or tweaked as long as you don't d

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