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by ksdale 5y ago
There are definitely a lot of rich people that don't do anything useful, but looking at the Forbe's list, it's populated by business people who, regardless of the usefulness of their businesses, have worked a lot . ( https:&
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by ksdale 5y ago
Interesting! I've always wanted to play around with a breathalyzer.
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by ksdale 5y ago
Exactly. No one I know would describe me as a lightweight, but when I have 2 drinks in 40 minutes, I'm very well aware that my reaction time and my ability to notice things is reduced to extent that I'd feel like a jackass getting
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by ksdale 5y ago
You'd have to literally take those shots and go out to your car in the next few minutes to get surprised like that, which... I guess people would do, but it's not that easy. Pounding shots catches up with you very quickly.
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by ksdale 5y ago
Whenever I've looked at the BAC chart and compared it to my drinking, I discover that I would be incredibly uncomfortable driving while anywhere near .08 BAC, so I always assumed it was underestimated somehow... or else people are al
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by ksdale 5y ago
Haha I'm only in my early 30's and I feel like an absolute dinosaur when we have an internet outage and I tell the kids that there was a time when we didn't always have internet access, and even a time when we didn't h
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by ksdale 5y ago
The point isn't privacy, which is obviously a completely legitimate thing to desire. The point is that the image they present on social media is a complete fabrication. You were saying that everyone expects social media to be a little
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by ksdale 5y ago
It's one thing to say that people might not be as happy as they appear, but quite another to say that someone's marriage basically doesn't exist, which is what the parent was saying.
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by ksdale 5y ago
Very good points!
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I think as far as pop culture glorifying it, there's an element of people not really understanding what it means to be on the side of the outlaw. A lot of people think of themselves as on the side of outlaws in general without ever rea
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by ksdale 5y ago
I don't know if this is too basic, but we tried to make butter from scratch one time and everything we saw said that if there was even the tiniest bit of liquid left when you're done churning, it would cause the butter to go ranci
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by ksdale 5y ago
But is this essentially like arguing that terrorism justifies all of the security theater at the airport?
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I think he explicitly says in the post that China emits more carbon per capita after accounting for carbon offshoring.
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by ksdale 5y ago
I think a third major thing is that people often have very skewed ideas of how many calories things have, like you decide to have a salad instead of a burger at a restaurant because it's the "healthy" choice, but often, becau
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by ksdale 5y ago
I feel like that is equally an argument against like, horror movies existing. Just because art depicts something doesn't mean it endorses it (it may have endorsed it when it was made, but we don't have to blindly accept their valu
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by ksdale 5y ago
That's the name of the shipping company.
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by ksdale 5y ago
Exactly this, I feel like the "all of your customers" thing is important and what bothered me about the GP comment. I know it's tremendously inconvenient for people who are trying to travel, but it seems like a triumph of tec
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by ksdale 5y ago
How long should that take, for every single person doing business with a company to change their plans?
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by ksdale 5y ago
Olympians are also religious about taking care of themselves. They absolutely will take off as much time as they need to make sure they're performing at their peak.
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by ksdale 5y ago
I mean, there's an absolutely ridiculous number of kids who can't do things to grade level in public schools, and grade level requirements aren't particularly ambitious for what a kid could learn, given their age.
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by ksdale 5y ago
I don’t know nearly enough about the process to challenge your point, but I want to point out that just because something smells bad or produces acid in huge quantities doesn’t mean it’s permanently bad for the environment like unsequestere
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by ksdale 5y ago
Yeah for sure, that's not to say it was always a certain way or that it's an inevitable march towards anything, just that massive shifts in culture do happen (and I think as your comment illustrates, cultures changes much faster t
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by ksdale 5y ago
I think something like gay rights provides a great example of hundreds of millions of people becoming drastically less judgmental over just a few decades. Of course it involves changes in the law as well, but massive cultural shifts do happ
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by ksdale 5y ago
Just this morning, I read this newsletter about lumber prices that seems to provide a very plausible explanation - https://constructionphysics.substack.com/p/lumber-price-faq
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by ksdale 5y ago
I always thought of it as a tolerances thing. The stronger/fitter (for certain definitions of those words), and the smarter (ditto), the more slack you have built into the system. On the average space flight, an average person is just
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by ksdale 5y ago
I am not a person who knows much, but google says that current sea level rises are between 3 and 4 millimeters a year. At that rate it will take 300 years to reach 5 feet. It seems like increasingly severe storms will (would) have an impact
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by ksdale 5y ago
Or they are anticipating some sort of tax on funds held offshore and figure it is better to repatriate the money prior to a tax increase.
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by ksdale 6y ago
I don't think it's subjective at all. There are cities that are clean and safe and well run, and you might not want to live there because they have a lot of people, but that doesn't make the city bad. I think your preference
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by ksdale 6y ago
The very, very easy way to fix that is to build enough housing. Places don't suck because a lot of people live there, they suck for lots of reasons that are orthogonal to the population.
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by ksdale 6y ago
Index funds go up because more people want to buy them than sell them, cryptocurrencies go up because more people want to buy them than sell them. Index funds happen to represent ownership of productive assets, but the assets don't rea

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