hypersoar

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by hypersoar 4y ago
Everywhere I look I see the unexamined assumption that inflation is necessarily bad for everyone. I haven't be enable to find a straight answer on who it actually benefits and who it hurts in the long run. I've found economics stu
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by hypersoar 4y ago
Why shouldn't we expect people who work in cities to be able to live dignified lives in those cities? There are always going to be janitors, home care providers, baristas, grocery store employees, etc. Our daily lives depend upon them.
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by hypersoar 4y ago
The fact that people don't stick to diets is why they don't work. This is what I mean about discounting the human element. A solution requiring every individual to do something incredibly difficult is no solution at all. It&#x27
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by hypersoar 4y ago
I'm sick of the "it's just calories in, calories out, idiot!" bullshit. It's at least partially wrong an woefully incomplete. Telling a fat person to eat less is like telling a depressed person to get out more. I kn
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by hypersoar 5y ago
It doesn't take a genius to arrive at this strategy. Just tens of billions of dollars.
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by hypersoar 5y ago
> TSA screening in trains make much less sense than in planes. First, planes have a history of hijackings Not to mention that the most important measures protecting against this have nothing to do with the TSA. 9/11 Changed complete
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by hypersoar 5y ago
All Ph.D. programs nominally charge tuition, but hardly any students (at least in STEM, don't know about elsewhere) pay it. They get a stipend plus a "tuition waiver".
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by hypersoar 5y ago
Citizens United wanted to pay for commercials for their movie on cable within 30 days of the last primary election. They were free to distribute their movie as far and as wide as they desired.
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by hypersoar 5y ago
DST in Seattle means that it doesn't get dark until around 10pm, which also sucks.
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by hypersoar 5y ago
I think a lot of commenters are missing the point of this site. It's an opinionated collection of books they think should be weeded. They're specifically talking about libraries trying to provide information to the general public.
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by hypersoar 5y ago
Well, this guy was a #1-ranked MTG player, so it's not a fair comparison for most of us mortals. It took me hundreds of tries and some very good luck to beat A20.
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by hypersoar 5y ago
Note that this isn't the big multi-state case, but a case brought by the city of Baltimore. This hearing was not on the merits. The upcoming decision is about whether the lawsuit should be heard in state or federal court. I presume fed
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by hypersoar 5y ago
I've been using Nix for about a year. I don't use NixOS but home-manager and nix-darwin. Just about every single time I've tried to do something new, it has ended up being way more complicated than I thought at first. - Insta
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by hypersoar 5y ago
Yeah, I agree that there's too much focus on highrises as a fix our housing supply. The units you get by replacing a block of detached homes with mid-rise apartments add up fast. Side-note: Learning about one-plus-fives was one of thos
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by hypersoar 5y ago
There's a crazy detail in here that I don't get. A big part of this article is about the price gouging which led to a windfall for gas companies and huge debts for Texans. > In the hours after the blackouts, ERCOT tried to shor
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by hypersoar 5y ago
TFA explains at length that the power generating facilities are only half the problem. The other half are the gas wells and pipelines themselves. Fully winterized gas plants still can't make electricity if they can't get any gas.
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by hypersoar 5y ago
It's very irritating when news articles talk about a complaint or opinion without linking to it. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ilnd.41...
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by hypersoar 5y ago
The broad concept of "lobbying" is really just people bringing their concerns to elected representatives. I don't really see how you would ban it entirely.
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by hypersoar 5y ago
As a math Ph.D. dropout who took the first two exams: the trouble is that you have to solve them quite quickly. The tests weren't too hard for me, but I did have to practice the sorts of problems I would see so that I didn't have
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by hypersoar 5y ago
I can't help but connect this to the internet fulfilling it's promise of helping people to find communities of others like them. In the past, I imagine a lot of these parents would have had trouble filling up their life with enabl
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by hypersoar 5y ago
I bounced off of Rainbows End but really, really liked Marooned in Realtime . It's tied with Deepness for my favorite book of his. You don't need to read it's predecessor, The Peace War , which is fine, but nothing spec
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by hypersoar 5y ago
I'd bet that there are plenty of politicians with ADHD who don't talk about it. Just as there are certainly plenty of politicians with personality disorders who don't talk about it.
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by hypersoar 5y ago
GP posed a question about why affordable housing in any particular place should be a goal. I offered an answer. The market price of labor, or of anything else, does not come to us as if handed down by God. It is the result of a social calcu
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by hypersoar 5y ago
Every city relies on a bunch of cheap labor. Dishwashers, janitors, cashiers, cleaners, landscapers, baristas, gig workers, and on and on. Is it healthy for a city to need all of these people while denying them a place in it? We have this g
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by hypersoar 5y ago
There's a big difference between cooking dark meat and white meat. Thighs and drumsticks can easily go higher and still be good, or even better. But breasts lack the fat and connective tissue that breaks down in longer cooks, so they&#
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by hypersoar 5y ago
> On 23 April 2018, Meechan was sentenced to a fine of £800, with no prison sentence.
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by hypersoar 5y ago
Good luck! I went through a course of TMS last year and had pretty good results.
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by hypersoar 5y ago
> in New Zealand you currently you can't exist in public without either iOS or Android. This sounds too insane and stupid to be true. Because it isn't. From your second link: > If you can’t use the app, download the NZ COVID
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by hypersoar 5y ago
Huh, I remember when this happened, but I hadn't realized it happened in some blog commemts. For those who are unaware, the comment pointing the flaw in Nelson's proof is Terrance Tao, one of the most extraordinary mathematicians
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by hypersoar 5y ago
We just had a 20-year period with historically high deficits and historically low inflation.

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