losteric

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by losteric 7y ago
What are the shortfalls of tenant rights in your area? and how would you answer the previous question in a world with "ideal" tenant rights?
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by losteric 7y ago
Well, to question your premise - Why is universal home ownership desirable or necessary?
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by losteric 7y ago
Previous poster said take out, not delivery. Some restaurants bump up take-out item price or add a surcharge, factor in no need for waiting/cleaning staff and the profit is substantial. Protip: call in your orders, those take-out apps
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by losteric 7y ago
Bottom-up stimulus money helps us "socially distance" faster and to a greater degree, and bounce back quicker... we don't want to exit this disaster with bankrupt small businesses and unemployed/broke/homeless indiv
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by losteric 7y ago
They all taste differently sweet. If your goal is to taste sugar , obviously sugar does so best.
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by losteric 7y ago
I agree that the previous post was not constructive or effective, but there's nothing sexist about what they said. It's just someone broadcasting critical opinion.
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by losteric 7y ago
70%?! Wow, that's enough to fund all kinds of innovation in the domain name space.
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by losteric 7y ago
imo, some people are clearly in situations where continuous medication is worth the trade-offs... For milder cases, medication can disrupt negative feedback mechanisms. eg Adderall didn't cure my ADHD but a few months at a high dose ga
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by losteric 7y ago
Seems similar to ZIM ( https://zim-wiki.org/ ), except proprietary/hosted? I've just started using zim - can someone more experienced compare the two?
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by losteric 7y ago
Mental clarity is a challenge when fasting on an otherwise stereotypical American diet... those blood glucose swings are no joke. However I have no problems on keto, or even just a consistently low-GI low-carb diet. If anything, fasting see
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by losteric 7y ago
I do - partially for experimental treatment of autoimmune conditions, but mostly just a way of life (no goal). 18h regularly, 24h maybe weekly, 36h occasionally. Nothing planned in advance. It's really not that complicated - remember t
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by losteric 7y ago
That timeline interestingly lines up with the Cold War-era. Perhaps domestic propaganda and "cultural engineering" left some lasting damage...
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by losteric 7y ago
Well I'm unhappy about cellphone tracking too. Why is that problem justification for bending over to the expanding surveillance state?
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by losteric 7y ago
Life will undoubt survive our mistakes. The question is whether we will. Civilization is a fragile thing.
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by losteric 7y ago
Pick one big problem to care about, then commit to at least weekly action. Leave the other problems to other people. Personally, I only have 3 weekday-hours outside of work/sleep/cooking, plus weekends. Half is spent socializing
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by losteric 7y ago
It's also domestic corruption, trading tariff waivers for corporate political support (or at least silence)
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by losteric 7y ago
Right, the store must honor their advertised price... however, they are not required to give away mispriced products. That would be ridiculous.
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by losteric 7y ago
Measuring and optimizing bottlenecks is a core agile idea. My team's process is to estimate and track dev non-dev time with our other sprint metrics at dev-day granularity. ie last sprint I estimated 2 non-dev days for product / d
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by losteric 7y ago
Given caller ID spoofing, they really shouldn't even accept calls from numbers they do recognize... especially with tech like this. Let it go to voice mail then return the call afterwards.
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by losteric 7y ago
Very promising, bringing agile supply chains to a global scale. Plane shipping is cost prohibitive for many goods, while using ships requires large volumes or overhead of middlemen selling sub-container capacity... With airships, smaller bu
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by losteric 7y ago
I only see this happening in exploding tech markets like SF, where the impact would honestly be minimal - some people might have to downsize but we wouldn't see mass unemployment or homelessness/crippling debt like after 2008.
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by losteric 7y ago
The decision of how $X is spent is just part of the bigger picture... what is $X, why do people accept those wages, what options are actually available to them, and how does the presence of conglomerate importers influence the local econom
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by losteric 7y ago
Choice is an interesting word. Our purchasing decisions are constrained by income, which is limited by education and experience. If someone grows up with poor education in an economically stagnant area, their likely minimum-wage severely li
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by losteric 7y ago
Of course it does, but the state's control is limited to outward behavior in monitored settings. Nothing can forcibly change our internal and individual values. Every ban invites testing no matter the consequences. Counter-intellectual
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by losteric 7y ago
> I'm more and more certain much of this is the result of post-modernism. God is dead. We can no longer expect the fear of hell or desire for heaven to keep us in line, so the state must become the omniscient god watching over us. I
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by losteric 7y ago
No, police are not allowed to lie in court... and there are limits to how far they can stretch the truth in interviews/investigations.
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by losteric 7y ago
You sound like me when I was 18, having grown up in a terrible family... this mentality is the maladaptive self-reinforcing trauma described in the post
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by losteric 7y ago
48oz of just coffee, mind you ... no padding with ice, foam, milk, cream, water, sweeteners, etc. That's a lotta Joe.
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by losteric 7y ago
The article also misinterprets Marxism/communism. Amazon is logistics, takeover would give the public a more extensive USPS plus digital infrastructure... it's not a revolutionary seizure of the means of production.
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by losteric 7y ago
I think the more interesting question is, how many San Franciscans earn $500,000/year?

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