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by leetcrew 5y ago
you can be against gun control without collecting guns. there are also gun collectors who are somewhat in favor of gun control (eg, "fudds"). my point is that many (maybe most?) political positions have very little to do with how
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by leetcrew 5y ago
okay, that's a good counterexample. I wouldn't expect you to be able to have a good relationship with someone who doesn't agree you should exist and/or your gender identity is real. but take gun control for example, whic
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by leetcrew 5y ago
I disagree. I mean sure, it's a good thing (if true) that race is less significant than politics in choosing a partner, but why should we have to pick one? unless you're part of a very select group of activists, politicians, or we
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by leetcrew 5y ago
do you not agree that housing demand in nyc/sf is highly inelastic then? the rest kinda follows from that. or are you arguing that the supply itself is even more inelastic than the demand? I think part of the problem with this example
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by leetcrew 5y ago
the pre-AC prices are already in equilibrium. mandating AC increases the cost of supplying housing, so it disturbs that equilibrium. who actually absorbs that increased cost depends on the elasticity of demand. for highly elastic goods, the
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by leetcrew 5y ago
> To say this another way, most people do not understand the long-term value of a $1 saved today. Obviously, exactly how you calculate this is a little complicated but if people realised that $1 now was worth $4 or $6 or $8 in 30 years t
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by leetcrew 5y ago
it depends what counts as "rich". I can imagine a world where everyone has a structurally sound shelter, maybe even a large one. I can't imagine a world where everyone lives in a penthouse apartment overlooking central park (
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by leetcrew 5y ago
100% of the rewards don't have to come from transaction fees. they could also be funded in part from other customers' interest payments. I notice that the best rewards cards often have very high interest rates. this is also not a
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by leetcrew 5y ago
I think it's entirely fair to critique a project that's currently in development against modern standards. take a look at what the community has done with freespace: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcNChKy__yo
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by leetcrew 5y ago
not to mention that freespace 2 can actually look pretty decent these days. there is a community project that has upgraded the graphics and models over the years. it doesn't look like a 2021 AAA game, but it far surpasses anything that
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by leetcrew 5y ago
seems like they're creating just as much inconvenience for themselves as for the prison employees, so I guess it's fair?
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by leetcrew 5y ago
I believe athenion was not actually in control of athens in 86 BC, but rather the tyrant aristion who had seized control. if athenion had still been in power, he might have followed the other city-states in surrendering to sulla. hard to sa
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by leetcrew 5y ago
I don't think there's any requirement that manufacturers guarantee results of third-party reviews for the entire run of a product. it probably just has to meet the specs published by the manufacturer. as long as you still hit that
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by leetcrew 5y ago
I don't think it really makes sense to "scale" the number of prestigious schools. a big part of what makes a school prestigious to most people is that it appears on a relatively short list of top schools. you can try to say t
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by leetcrew 5y ago
I could be wrong, but I believe those are more for efficient production of pizza. at least in my area, I only see those in the crappiest takeout places.
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by leetcrew 5y ago
depends on the therapist and your situation. lots of difficult decisions in life come down to what you personally value. the therapist can talk it through with you, but they can't decide your values for you. on the other hand, if you&#
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by leetcrew 5y ago
the 60% figure is referring to the clearance rate, which is just the ratio of charges filed to crimes reported. so if by "solve" you mean "someone gets convicted", the rate is quite a bit lower.
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by leetcrew 5y ago
> More mass means more force to impart at the same speed. technically yes, but the effect of more mass in a vehicle-pedestrian collision is asymptotic. a small (3000 lbs) sedan is already 15-20x the mass of a typical human. the vehicle l
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by leetcrew 5y ago
it doesn't need to be invasive or expensive. in my state I need to get an emissions test every few years, which simply consists of plugging into the ODB jack and reading some values. just take an odometer reading while you're chec
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by leetcrew 5y ago
I don't think unlimited PTO is necessarily a scam, but it's only a benefit if you're a highly productive employee that takes more than 15-20 days off per year. there is one major downside of unlimited PTO. I don't take v
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by leetcrew 5y ago
when? the nvidia 8800 GTX launched in 2006 at $599 MSRP. it wasn't even the top card of that generation. that would be the 8800 ultra which launched eight months later at $829 MSRP. unless I'm mistaken, you would have to go back t
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by leetcrew 5y ago
> Also what kind of argument is "an intelligence agency that employs tens of thousands of people"? my point is that, however you may feel about the NSA, you are comparing the budget of an entire government agency to that of a s
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by leetcrew 5y ago
you are comparing against the entire us military budget (which includes funding its own fusion research), an entire category of consumer spending (ie, money that the government can't spend to begin with), and an intelligence agency tha
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by leetcrew 5y ago
maybe true ten years ago, but I really feel that you would have been living under a rock to not understand that at this point. take linkedin for example. what could possibly be the point of making a linkedin account other than to have peopl
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by leetcrew 5y ago
I think that can be addressed as a more general case of 2). I'm not necessarily saying it's okay that you end up in google's results because your name appeared in some random news article or because your alma mater has a publ
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by leetcrew 5y ago
I don't actually think having hits for your name through google is the most pressing privacy issue we face today. if I can find you by searching your name, one of two things is likely true: 1) you have opted in to indexing by having a
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by leetcrew 5y ago
meh, it's pretty common for students to lose/misplace their ID cards. where I went to college, people would usually let any college-aged person follow them into a building without a second thought.
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by leetcrew 5y ago
I don't think this is really true? most schools I'm familiar with are "open campuses". the public is free to walk around campus, visit the library, etc. during normal hours. restricted areas like dorms and labs with expe
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by leetcrew 5y ago
95% of those people were 50+ years old and 80% were 65 or older. while terrible, I doubt that contributes much to the labor supply.
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by leetcrew 5y ago
most tours are given by undergrads. what kinds of questions about academics do you expect them to answer? outside of their own major, they probably don't have any information you couldn't look up on the website. this ties into (im

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