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by fnimick 3y ago
"Those with power" are the voters, the vast majority of whom would gladly run them all over in order to save a few dollars. We're getting exactly what we deserve.
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by fnimick 3y ago
Humans on a large enough scale are basically toddlers, it seems. Nobody is willing to give up the slightest luxury today in order to have a better tomorrow. It's incredibly disappointing.
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by fnimick 3y ago
I didn't know being a plumber that gets good reviews involves putting in a substantial amount of unpaid work.
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by fnimick 3y ago
Which is why I expect a basic income to come before it gets to that point. Not enough for anyone to ever save or invest in themselves, just enough money handed out from the government to be sucked right back up into the rent-seeking money m
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by fnimick 3y ago
Only if you don't care about cyclists and pedestrians who now have no protected time to cross intersecting roads.
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by fnimick 3y ago
Came here to post this. It and the expansion are each 40+ hour purely narrative experiences that are genuinely emotional and moving self-directed journeys of discovery. There's nothing else like it. If that sounds interesting, seriousl
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by fnimick 3y ago
And shouldn't you support having as much information be available as possible, or do you want people to play games and try to hide info to raise prices on people?
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by fnimick 3y ago
And how does regulatory capture fit within your conception that democracy and capitalism are completely separate? Of course people with large amounts of money and influence can influence ostensibly democratic processes, in order to take mor
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by fnimick 3y ago
Ah, a libertarian. Would you support everyone having to test every food product they buy in order to make sure they aren't getting exposed? Regulation would be tyranny after all. (and no, I had no problem with being "forced"
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by fnimick 3y ago
And you can't make the same broad benefit argument for public transit? Rip out the MTA or the El and see how state finances do when all that economic activity in the city center grinds to a halt. Not to mention that there are more cost
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by fnimick 3y ago
> PA Turnpike drivers pay every day for buses They do? The tolls on the pike don't even cover the maintenance on the road. It's the general tax fund, paid into as well by non-drivers, that makes up the difference.
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by fnimick 3y ago
"crazy gas taxes" - you mean the taxes that don't even come close to paying for roads, let alone all the other negative externalities of driving? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbEuaCCV-zg
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by fnimick 3y ago
I pay every day for roads, infrastructure, pollution, traffic deaths, etc. even though I don't drive. How is that fair?
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by fnimick 3y ago
How can you be so sure all your colleagues are useless? Are they doing any important but non-flashy work (planning, documentation, cleanup, etc) that isn't captured by the "story point" metric, which is a pretty bad tool to g
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by fnimick 3y ago
You don't get to, because you don't get to opt out of the social benefit that they result in. (remember that government spending basically created transistorized logic, microchips, and computer networking as we know them today. wo
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by fnimick 3y ago
On the scale of phones and ovens sold, this makes a huge difference. Look at the ATX12V standard coming soon for desktop PCs - just a couple percent increased efficiency at idle will save tons and tons of power when applied across entire of
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by fnimick 3y ago
That amount of money is absolutely nothing compared to the waste that goes on in the startup industry. Remember the $445 million self driving pizza oven delivery van?
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by fnimick 3y ago
> That money doesn't come from nowhere, the roads are paid for by the property and gas taxes of those burbs. Two points: many roads get federal and state funding from the general tax fund meaning we all pay for them whether we drive
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by fnimick 3y ago
Great! Now do roads. The same people who complain about subsidies to public transport don't bat an eye at hundreds of millions spent on extra highway lanes. The typical argument there is "the economic benefit of mobility pays for
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by fnimick 3y ago
> an hour on a train/bus/etc would likely be too much downtime for me. You realize books exist, right? Or any other media you'd be consuming sitting down at home anyway?
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by fnimick 3y ago
I'd be cautious, considering Teslas in "self driving" have a nasty habit of running over single track vehicles (motorcycles and bicycles) because their systems don't recognize that anything narrower than a car exists. h
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by fnimick 3y ago
God forbid people with their bulging wallets have to share public space with The Poors!
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by fnimick 3y ago
That's rich considering we just set a global record for highest average temperature ever recorded. Have you watched the record flooding recently? Just because your personal personal upper class bubble world hasn't ended yet, doe
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by fnimick 3y ago
Most Americans buy insanely large SUVs or pickup trucks as their family car though, for that 1 time a year they need to tow something or possibly carry something big. I'd rather not spend all my money on a rapidly depreciating asset th
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by fnimick 3y ago
> having a car opens up a world of possibilities and luxuries that a hundred years ago were simply unimaginable. [citation needed] Many wonderful cities and regions around the world are perfectly enjoyable with no need for cars. Or are y
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by fnimick 3y ago
The solution to that is to build better infrastructure to remove bicycle/vehicle conflict points, not put everyone in cars so they can be "safe".
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by fnimick 3y ago
Your car gives you a private benefit at a public cost. That's the problem. Car infrastructure is ruinously expensive and the effects of driving harm everyone, either from the pollution generated in the long-term or in the short-term wh
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by fnimick 3y ago
This is the reason I have never done a genetic test, even when one was offered to me for free. You'll pay for it the entire rest of your life.
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by fnimick 3y ago
It may be a VC forum, but it functions as a broad technical forum. How many posts here are explicitly about startup economics? It's important to remind people in the broader technical community that financial success should not the onl
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by fnimick 3y ago
This is why I like that Northeastern does their intro class in a Racket / Scheme dialect. (plug for https://htdp.org/ as IMO the best way to learn computer science) The goal is to learn how to think about problem solvi

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