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by frenchy 4y ago
There's a lot of not wealthy people who are polarized in that direction as well though. It's not simply a matter of sending a few oligarchs to the gillotine. In the short run, basically everyone in North America and Europe benefit
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by frenchy 4y ago
It probably is functionally lighter, too. When you walk, your body doesn't slide smoothly along the ground - it wobbles up and down and back and forth. The way most people walk is optimised so that the torso does the least amount of wo
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by frenchy 4y ago
> Unfortunately, we're in the process of driving the police out of the city Where I'm from, the police never really enforce traffic law anyway.
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by frenchy 4y ago
> Chromium isn't successful because of the billions thrown at it. It's successful because it was significantly better than anything else during its rise I think you're dramatically underestimating the importance that adver
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by frenchy 4y ago
It wouldn't be that much of a problem, but I think there's enough room for confusion, that I think people just wouldn't bother with it. For example, while it would be obvious that /tiθ/ is "teeth", somet
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by frenchy 4y ago
Distribution of grades is rarely even, and I'd guess that if you looked at the median grade on Rotten Tomatoes is would be much closer to 70 than 50. Things less than 50 are usually "very horrible".
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by frenchy 4y ago
That might be something worth talking to a journalist about.
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by frenchy 4y ago
That's only sustainable for now because car fuel is cheap. It's not guaranteed to stay that way.
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by frenchy 4y ago
We must have very different kinds of kids. My kids hate the car, it's basically like jail to them, whereas on the bus we can talk and play together. We don't use the bus, but that's because bus service in our area isn't
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by frenchy 4y ago
Land value. Where I live, 80% of the cost of our property is the land itself, and only 20% is the building or "improvement".
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by frenchy 4y ago
Not in the US, but I grew up in large city in a developing nation. Someone fooling with your car wasn't common, but it wouldn't be a huge surprise either. I regularly took public transit: it was cheap, plentiful, and well used. Ob
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by frenchy 4y ago
30% of people can be a lot of people, expecially in a political environment where there are only 2 parties, and the district lines are optimized/gerimandered. Also, you really don't have to travel to realize that life can be diffe
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by frenchy 4y ago
> Any set of rules can seem reasonable on paper Maybe to some people, but when we were last buying a property, one of the places we put an offer on had a rule that you weren't allowed to hang clothes to dry on your balcony. We did m
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by frenchy 4y ago
I actually thought it was suprisingly good, given the difficult problem domain. It's been a while since I used it, but one thing that might help would be to look at the interface the for Alarms in Android. It looks pretty similar, but
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by frenchy 4y ago
I belive it got cancelled ( https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/sidewalk-labs-cancels... ).
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by frenchy 4y ago
> They calculate a marginal decrease in electoral margins if new voter ID laws were to be enacted. So what you're saying is that voter ID will result in some citizens not voting. Personally, that seems like a fair reason to oppose
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by frenchy 4y ago
Probably for the same reason that zero-based versioning ( https://0ver.org/ ) is so popular. People want to avoid commitment.
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by frenchy 4y ago
How would you ethically design an RCT on masks (as a method of reducing COVID-19 transmission obviously)?
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by frenchy 4y ago
You're right that this should get talked about, simply because it's the sort of thing that some people will wonder about. That said, I'm pretty sure "everybody getting sick all the time" has basically been the expec
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by frenchy 4y ago
> some nefarious agenda Like requiring that publicly own companies disclose known sources of income?
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by frenchy 4y ago
Did you try that URL? When I go there it says it's not available and directs me to the source URL.
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by frenchy 4y ago
Trying to play devil's advocate, I thought "What about if someone ends up homeless, sleeping in their car, and dog mode calls the cops on them?" Maybe that would actually be a good thing, if we also provided them with actual
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by frenchy 4y ago
> Because no children would ever die in an accident involving public transportation? I apologise for an appeal to "common sense" since I really don't have any data, but it seems sort of obvious that it would be safer for t
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by frenchy 4y ago
As long as land prices are high, a highrise should net a lot more profit though, would it not?
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by frenchy 4y ago
> Most condo boards don't support installing electric charging infrastructure. If they don't, that's on the owners who vote for and run the strata.
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by frenchy 4y ago
> Not sure what Toyota has to do with anything They're probably referencing the fact that Toyota has hedged their bets on hydrogen fuel instead of electric. As far as I'm aware though, that hedge has been going poorly for them.
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by frenchy 5y ago
You've just described those roller skates that they make for little kids that stap on to the shoe. I don't know if you've ever tried them, but they're mostly useful for making your kid think that roller skating is a horr
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by frenchy 5y ago
His treatment of Poland wasn't very nice.
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by frenchy 5y ago
This article is really not that good, it suggests a bunch of obvious reasons why Google has a moat (Chrome, everyone's personal data) and misses some others (brand recognition). Then it goes and an explains reason why OP thinks Google
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by frenchy 5y ago
Nazi Germany didn't fall to a coup (though at least one was tried).

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