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by jewayne 4y ago
Yep. As always, we need to keep in mind that our natural social unit is not the nuclear family, but the tribe. Even two parents trying to parent a single child without the help of the tribe is essentially beyond our evolved capabilities.
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by jewayne 4y ago
Conservatism. There's a word that's lost all meaning over the past several years. "Fiscal Conservatism"? Maybe. But only if we go back to an older definition of "fiscal conservatism", which is closely in line w
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by jewayne 4y ago
Here in my city, at least, virtually none of the stolen Kias/Hyundais were being sold. They were being stolen by middle schoolers for joy rides. Throughout the summer of 2022, groups of kids as young as 13 were stealing a different car
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by jewayne 4y ago
Umm...I'm sorry, but it very much is a form of survivorship bias. "Survivorship bias or survival bias is the logical error of concentrating on entities that passed a selection process while overlooking those that did not." &q
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by jewayne 4y ago
Not when I'm just walking around the block. :)
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by jewayne 4y ago
There's nothing childish about wanting your neighborhood and city to be livable.
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by jewayne 4y ago
Sorry, but I can't avoid picturing you as one of the dystopian fat people in Wall-E who are so obese they've lost their ability to walk.
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by jewayne 4y ago
Nobody needs an HOA. Until they need an HOA.
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by jewayne 4y ago
Your definition of "high density" and "very affluent" are different from mine.
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by jewayne 4y ago
Wow, I did Nazi that coming.
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by jewayne 4y ago
Interesting thing I learned during the pandemic: There are actually countries where more people live alone than in the United States. In particular, in Sweden, the vast majority of all unattached adults, even young ones, live alone, without
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by jewayne 4y ago
You're too kind. It's not hate. It's contempt . I've decided that many Americans believe that the definition of "freedom" is "freedom from having to even think about people who are outside of my family&
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by jewayne 4y ago
Is nobody else going to tell this guy that the earned income tax credit already exists?
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by jewayne 4y ago
Yes, because statistically valid studies are cheap and don't require highly-trained professionals.
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by jewayne 4y ago
Yes, that's how it works. Certainly nobody would just complain loudly that "Nobody wants to work anymore!" and demand more suffering for the people at the bottom of society.
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by jewayne 4y ago
"I don't want to see you, I don't want to hear from you."
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by jewayne 4y ago
Again, you seem to believe that eliminating the job of social worker from society is a viable option.
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by jewayne 4y ago
Yep. Only in my lifetime have we attempted to limit movement across that border. But because certain media outlets use the language of war and invasion to describe the peaceful migration of people from country to country, the followers of s
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by jewayne 4y ago
This might be the biggest PR disaster I've ever seen. Suddenly, the media is full of stories implying that the Canadian government is trying to kill its infirm citizens. This happening with the backdrop of a culture that habitually pro
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by jewayne 4y ago
I get it. Yes, stable and productive frameworks would win out in a fair fight, but it isn't a fair fight. The warts in the stable, productive framework are known, and there's already mid-level devs with battle scars that are clamo
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by jewayne 4y ago
Notice, you're not complaining about employees using too many health services, you're complaining about you and your employees getting massively overcharged for the (let's be honest, relatively few) healthcare services they g
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by jewayne 4y ago
In the US we actually use quite a bit less healthcare than some other places in the developed world (Japan, for example). Which is what you would expect, that our high prices would reduce the consumption of healthcare. We in the USA have co
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by jewayne 4y ago
Non-EV owners seem to be under the impression that DC fast charging has not been invented yet. The Superchargers that I use all charge at a peak of 250 KW. At 250 KW, my car is gaining up to ~17.5 miles of range per minute of charging. Of
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by jewayne 4y ago
No doubt this existed before the media. Think of when you were a kid, and your parents were always making you pick up your things, saying people would trip on them. But you knew how dumb they were, because nobody ever actually tripped on yo
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by jewayne 4y ago
I love the word "grok", but I don't think it means what you think it means.
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by jewayne 4y ago
I know and it drives me crazy. "Bigger" and "smaller" express differences , not fractions or multiples.
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by jewayne 4y ago
No I don't. That's my point. To me, the number that's two times smaller than x is -x. (x-2x)
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by jewayne 4y ago
I think if you want to say "1/30th of the size", you should say that. Growth is usually measured as a difference. For example, a 200% increase means the value has tripled.
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by jewayne 4y ago
I have a minor in math, and I don't know what "shrinking by 30X" means. To me, decreases always start from 100%. So I think we are talking about a ~97% decrease in size?
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by jewayne 4y ago
The only thing they did wrong was fool you into believing that a private corporation can be a bastion for free expression. Sorry, that is what academia is for. Corporations are just organizational machines for making their shareholders mone

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