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by fossuser 5y ago
I’ve also had a really hard time understanding why people praise him so much, I’ve tried multiple times to listen to his stuff and it’s just super disappointing. Worse than most lay people in depth. For people interested in AGI there are ma
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Eh - I don’t agree, his rhetoric and the macho over confidence is similar to a lot of people I grew up with that support him (that are working class).
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That’s kind of case-in-point - it’s high status in low class circles.
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I think this is wrong and misses the point. A lot of his political popularity is because while he’s rich, the way he speaks is “working class”. He’s a good example of the difference we’re talking about.
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Welfare may be a bad example because I think there are more white people on welfare in general? Would potentially be evidence of class divide. I think there’s truth in what you’re saying though - single family zoning is an easy example. Als
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It loops back around at the top. It’s why there’s an eccentric rich person trope and why it’s called “fuck you” money. If you’re totally financially independent you’re more free to do what you want, independent of class behavior expectation
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Yeah - I agree with all of this. On a related note, I think the US approach to dismissing class is preferable to the UK where it’s very explicit. While both approaches have issues, when it’s explicit in the culture people seem to discrimina
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by fossuser 5y ago
This is highly dependent on university - I didn’t notice it much where I went (RPI), but it’s a lot more obvious at Stanford.
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by fossuser 5y ago
Even without the race element - there’s definitely a class thing. I noticed it when I moved to the Bay Area after growing up in western New York. The types of foods people ate or didn’t eat, the restaurants people would or would not go to.
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The arguments I’ve seen have specifically been about hydrogen in the context of EVs (specifically almost always as a way to dismiss EVs). - The trade-offs work in favor of EVs, hydrogen has a similar distribution problem to gasoline (fuelin
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Yeah - it sucks in comparison. Not at all similar to anything in my library. It might as well be random.
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Main thing I miss from Spotify is the discover weekly playlist. I started using Apple Music because Spotify’s attempts to ruin podcasts by making them exclusive to their platform irritated me. Discover weekly is a really great thing though
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Moneystuff had a good post that touched on this today. Even if they don’t pay, the scammers buy puts on the public stock for the companies they’re ransoming so they profit off of blowing them up too. I’d imagine that’s easier to track and s
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It also gives some context to Ted Kaczynski - when I learned that he was possibly dosed on massive amounts of LSD and screamed at while in college. It's not a huge leap from there to why he broke down and became the unabomber. https:&
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by fossuser 5y ago
Yeah - there's some correlation with age just because you're forced to take in some inputs/experience just from existing. I think there are exceptions though in both directions related to how much you try to directly get bett
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by fossuser 5y ago
> "where that apartment was rented below market because it was run-down, and was replaced with a market-rate apartment" I'm going to be a little pedantic, but I think we're mostly in agreement. A rundown apartment is
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Tokyo and Singapore come to mind - it requires proper incentives to be in place. The US is a mess given the incentives towards home ownership as an investment. The Bay Area and California make this incentive worse with Prop 13.
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I don’t think it’s the building that creates gentrification - it’s the lack of supply. Increasing supply to meet demand should reduce prices. Not building to keep housing crappy enough to reduce demand doesn’t work (and doesn’t everyone pre
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See this: https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/the-left-nimby-canon There’s a new form of NIMBYism that’s pretty extreme and comes from the left. The only group interested in building housing seems to be the neoliberals&#
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How Fake Money Saved Brazil (2010)(npr.org)
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> "And you can manage that okay. You can manage on a per country basis. You feel good about that? > "Sure. I mean, for us, that’s easy. And then we can provide that to our customers as a function of what we’re doing. But I t
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by fossuser 5y ago
I guess I've had more issues with it. Line of site is often a pain with things in front of the TV or appliances in TV stands behind a cabinet. The responsiveness is often slow (granted this is the fault of the TV's UI/softwar
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I think that's a different product/market? Aren't those displays targeting high end video/movie production that requires perfect color correction? I'd also guess they're marked up a lot given their customer (mo
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I like the idea of one cable to an external box of many inputs that lives in the tv stand. It separates out the input box from the display (makes it easier to plug things into) and allows just one cable to come from the TV. You can also hav
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Roku has ads built into the UI? I'm also not sure how it meets the qualifications of everything else I listed?
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It's not OLED, also looks pretty cheap? I don't want a crappy, cheap, panel with no smart features. I want a premium panel without smart features. Think like Apple Pro Cinema Display in TV form.
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I'm not sure why TVs still use IR - haven't all other forms of wireless moved past that to much better performing standards that don't require direction or line of sight? Nobody is pointing their xbox controller at the consol
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I think there’s a market for this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26290427 “Make it OLED, dumb TV, instant on, Apple TV box plugs in. Separate box with front facing ports that connects to screen with one cable. A remo
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Entirely depends on which is more likely, which probably depends a lot on where you live. No such thing as perfect security etc. but the trade off could make sense.
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Safety Deposit Boxes are a bad idea and you shouldn’t use them: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/19/business/safe-deposit-box... I think they’re some sort of pre-internet relic people thought offered more

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