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by gonzobonzo 2y ago
> The point was "most people dream of cruises to interesting places, not cruises themselves" and your response was "people don't want to take vacations to boring places either" No, my is that just as many people
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by gonzobonzo 2y ago
> I'd agree there is bias but argue the framing is highlighting, not introducing, it. E.g. how many wanting to take a cruise are just as happy with Norfolk, Baltimore, and Wilmington as stops vs San Juan, St. Thomas, and St Martin?
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by gonzobonzo 2y ago
> but "don't take that long haul to where you've dreamed of your whole life" is a significantly less practical pitch than "well if you want to see the Caribbean spend more time there by taking a more eco-friendly
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by gonzobonzo 2y ago
The estimates I'm seeing is that cruise ships are about 2x-3x the emissions per kilometer than flying to a destination and staying there (obviously, it varies with a lot of factors). So if you were flying to a nearby island, you would
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> Your version of the question has the qualifier "in local elections". Yes, the point is that qualifier works because when you're talking about people voting "in the USA," you can be talking about local or federa
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by gonzobonzo 2y ago
> Treating the question literally, that would not be in the USA (federal elections). I strongly disagree. Going by your interpretation, the question "How many people in the USA vote in local elections?" would have the answer &q
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> There's this tech pattern of letting the cash-cow stagnate and deteriorate while focusing on high risk moonshots. It is interesting to go back a decade and read the articles about Google's moonshots from then. There was even
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> To paraphrase a recent conversation I had with a friend: "in the USA, can illegal immigrants vote?" has a single truthful answer ("no" obviously). But there are many places around the web saying other things (which
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by gonzobonzo 2y ago
Doesn't this get to one of the fundamental issues though, that many of these frameworks and languages are poorly constructed in the first place? A lot of the times people turn to web searches, Stack Overflow, or AI is because they want
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Or it could save you. Cameras being ubiquitous kept this guy from being wrongly convicted of murder[1]. [1] https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2017/sep/29/larry-d...
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> All the consequences of my dna leaking seem so extremely theoretical and unlikely that I’m willing to take the risk in exchange for a few minutes of fun reading a report about where my ancestors came from. That's one of the things
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by gonzobonzo 2y ago
嚔 is an unusual character, though. Not just in that it's not often used, but also because it's construction is atypical. It would be like Ph.D. students forgetting how to spell "onomatopoeia," which, yes, wouldn't b
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> Newspapers are a business and have to give their customers what they want. This is true, but it shouldn't be viewed as unproblematic. Audience capture is a huge problem, and news organizations telling their audience what they here
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by gonzobonzo 2y ago
> You need to ask to get attention That’s fair, but if you push someone to review your app they’re going to rate it as they see fit, based on what’s important to them, not what the developer thinks is important. If the user feels strongl