jacobmoe

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by jacobmoe 8y ago
I agree in general, but think you might have it backwards in this particular case. Simple is better, but if the only way to ensure it gets through is to make it more complicated, then let's add the modifications.
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by jacobmoe 8y ago
> people would be happy to pay a price to make sure you can't drive near them And I would be happy to receive their money and use it to fix and expand the subway. This is obviously a larger discussion of ideology. I'm a left-of
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by jacobmoe 8y ago
I sold my car after I had to move my registration and I saw how much I'd be paying for insurance. Luckily, it's New York, where you don't _need_ a car. I just can't understand how anyone is against this, unless you perso
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by jacobmoe 8y ago
People who live in big cities are a lot like people who live anywhere - they generally try to fix problems and improve the place they live in. Some noise is inevitable. Excessive noise is a problem that can be fixed.
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by jacobmoe 8y ago
If inequality is your concern, guaranteeing that everyone sit in gridlock together is about the worst possible way you could go about it. Taxing people who want to drive and using that money on public transportation is an obviously more eff
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by jacobmoe 8y ago
I'm visiting near the Salton Sea right now and have been learning more about its fascinating history. I don't know about the technical advantages or disadvantages (evaporation?) but there would be minimal local opposition to such
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by jacobmoe 8y ago
"4" is a concept, but you don't deny that the 4 turnips on your table do have physical reality, do you? Is the notion that there are an infinite number of turnips spread out through an infinite universe "just a concept&q
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by jacobmoe 8y ago
Maybe. I suppose I've never questioned my assumption that you're more likely to find people high on the openness to experience scale in urban environments than rural. It's intuitively true to me, and it is the case that citie
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by jacobmoe 8y ago
I've elicited some strong reactions here. The commenter I responded to said this: > When I read the stories of big city lifestyles I'm amazed so many people opt-in to it. Traffic, noise, concrete everywhere. Yuck - but to each
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by jacobmoe 8y ago
Heh, honestly didn't realize I was name dropping. I'm curious what a poll of "does the word Hasidic mean anything to you" would show. I was just using it as an example of the kind of person who is different from me. The
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by jacobmoe 8y ago
I was responding to a comment, not to the post. Didn't know tangents aren't allowed here. You're right - New Yorkers can be insufferable. I was just pointing out what I like about living in big cities. I'm sure you have
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by jacobmoe 8y ago
Yeah, the question is "do cities attract people high on the 'openness to experience' spectrum, or do they make people that way". I don't think we can know for sure, but I suspect there is a little of both going on.
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by jacobmoe 8y ago
Not trying to start a "town vs city" argument - to each their own, as you said - but I think people who don't live in big cities misunderstand what life is like there. In NYC you hear tourists say "I could never live her
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by jacobmoe 8y ago
I think your irony meter needs to be calibrated. Whether we can agree that a given tax policy is good or bad is dependent on whether we can agree to what the goal of taxation is. I think the goal is to maximize human flourishing. I honestly
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by jacobmoe 8y ago
I'm aware of the Laffer Curve. It's generally used as a argument for decreasing taxation, even after experience finds that decreasing taxation leads to lower revenue. Just because it's true that there are two levels of taxati
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by jacobmoe 8y ago
I'm enjoying the contrast between the title of this article and the first sentence of the article that it links to: > California lost a very small but statistically significant percentage of high-income residents after voters approv
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by jacobmoe 8y ago
My favorite example of the unexpected practical benefits of primary research is the first paragraph from the original proposal for the web: https://www.w3.org/History/1989/proposal.html > This proposal concerns
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by jacobmoe 8y ago
Is there a plan, or is this just never going to get fixed? The NYC subway reached a crisis point, so the MTA just put together a massive 10 year plan to fix it. Maybe it'll pan out, maybe it won't, but there's a plan and peop
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by jacobmoe 8y ago
Thanks, I'll look at this, though I would advise retaining some skepticism when evaluating data from a single source, especially when that data is confirmatory of that source's stated mission. Here's some more to evaluate: h
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by jacobmoe 8y ago
You could easily come up with data that might be interesting to look at when discussing this question: - are college liberals more or less likely to answer survey questions supportive of free speech than they were in the past - has the annu
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by jacobmoe 8y ago
Ah a change.org petition. The PC left is out of control! This is a great example of what bugs me about this crowd. They seemlessly move from actual problematic behavior (like a few famous examples of deplatforming at a few elite college cam
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by jacobmoe 8y ago
How many people leave, gain experience at a US tech giant, and then bring that experience home? Didn't see it mentioned in the article but that would be somewhat positive for Canadian tech, if it was happening in big enough numbers.
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by jacobmoe 9y ago
I have lived and been all over both countries. This is wrong - the quality of life is very similar. Of course, the US has famously higher levels of certain social ills than you'd expect for a country of its wealth, but that's not
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by jacobmoe 9y ago
I run to work 4 days/week (work from home the other day). It's about 6 miles from my place in Brooklyn to the office in Manhattan. Took me a while to work up to 6 miles as a daily routine but can do it easily now. Combining my com
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by jacobmoe 9y ago
I'm looking forward to using this for writing JIRA tickets. Their text boxes override some mac key bindings that are deep in my muscle memory. Want move back a space? Oops, ctrl-b in this text box makes text bold. Jump to the start of
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by jacobmoe 9y ago
I always enjoy the food there. What's _not_ a tourist trap in Manhattan?
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by jacobmoe 9y ago
The statement was: " Usually a good contra-indicator for economic health". It's a surprising and counter-intuitive claim. Requires more than a single example. It at least requires more examples than you can find to show the
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by jacobmoe 9y ago
How so? Are there historical examples?
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by jacobmoe 11y ago
I'm torn. On the one hand, I agree. On the other hand, I wouldn't have found this Neal Stephenson post if it wasn't for social media.
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by jacobmoe 11y ago
People like to say that emacs isn't an editor but a platform, or just a lisp interpreter that comes with text editing libraries. But is it? The emacs development team sees it as a text editor, I think. If it was just an interpreter, I

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