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by mac01021 8y ago
Since it's encrypted end to end, presumably they will be oblivious to all that stuff?
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by mac01021 8y ago
That's true. But almost everywhere in the continental US is within minutes.
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by mac01021 8y ago
Which is exactly the same as using standard time all year and then moving all your appointments 1 hour earlier for the rest of eternity. Except that "noon" ceases to mean the time when the sun is highest in the sky equidistant bet
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by mac01021 8y ago
But can't we just leave the clocks unchanged and then let people wake up at sunrise and go to work and school as early as they like?
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by mac01021 8y ago
By why is UTC a Molotov cocktail?
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by mac01021 8y ago
Pretty bad title. tldr: if you don't actually cut all ties (property holdings and business dealings) with your state of origin, they my try to tax you as though you reside there still.
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by mac01021 8y ago
I never saw anyone hooking up a monitor via USB 2.0
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by mac01021 8y ago
This is by far the most favorable, least ominous, reporting I have encountered on China's social credit system.
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by mac01021 8y ago
If you want to balance the budget without reducing spending, then you need to raise an extra 40% of the current revenue. This page ( https://taxfoundation.org/summary-federal-income-tax-data-20... ) shows the fraction of exis
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by mac01021 8y ago
Get a mortgage.
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Your City's Climate, 60 Years Hence(fitzlab.shinyapps.io)
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by mac01021 8y ago
We could completely solve smog without making even a tiny dent in our carbon footprint. Why not instead try to get people to understand the real problem?
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by mac01021 8y ago
I disagree. You're right that the effects of our actions on the climate are not directly observable by laypeople. And that the scale of the problem is daunting. But it is _critical_ that we fix the underlying problem in the next coupl
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by mac01021 8y ago
Maybe... Given the impact on the world's ecosystems of the current population, it doesn't seem so far fetched that having _fewer_ children might be critical to the continuation of society.
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by mac01021 8y ago
Those things might improve life for a lot of people. But "freeing them to make rational choices"?
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by mac01021 8y ago
Daycare just costs money, and not everyone needs daycare. So why not "money for all"?
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by mac01021 8y ago
Tangentially: anyone know where this use of the word "staff" comes from?
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by mac01021 8y ago
I read/skimmed the whole article with the sole intent of discovering who the expect will pay them once they're bootstrapped. I failed.
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by mac01021 8y ago
> when the government does it, it's what? Unremarkable and not newsworthy?
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by mac01021 8y ago
Does the thing they're trying to to build really cost more than 20M to build? If so, why? That sum buys a lot of engineering and sales hours. And if not, why raise so much?
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by mac01021 8y ago
It's absolutely enough for housing if you squeeze in. Healthcare and education are problems, but I'm not sure they're enough to provoke a revolution when everyone is otherwise well-fed and sheltered from the elements.
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by mac01021 8y ago
Yes. Either we become Greece, or we tax earners enough to make up the difference. Neither of these seems pleasant, but if enough people are starving or homeless, it might be inevitable.
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by mac01021 8y ago
That depends what you mean by "enough money". If more than half of the population makes at least double what they need to keep themselves from starvation, then you could argue there is enough money. In short, your disagreement wit
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by mac01021 8y ago
Right. The article was about the social structures that cause wealth disparity to come about in the first place. Maybe you meant, though, that we should be discussing plans to replace those with better social structures. That's fair,
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by mac01021 8y ago
Of those examples, I can almost guarantee you that all of my friends and family from outside of STEM fields have only heard of Curie.
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by mac01021 8y ago
Is there widespread agreement on what it means to be a "tech company"? Is a tech company or tech city just a company or city with a lot of software jobs? Or do people generally construe it to encompass more than software (batteri
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by mac01021 8y ago
Ok, that makes sense. When your streets are lain out in a grid, everything is easier. But most municipal road systems are far less tractable. I can't imagine easily navigating my hometown, or any other town in New England based on g
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by mac01021 8y ago
(Because I can't think of any) Who, in 2019, are the "cherished underdogs of today"?
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by mac01021 8y ago
given that knowledge of local streets is necessary to find a route there, what would be a better system?
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by mac01021 8y ago
> Then create bullshit "incentives" that sound good on paper but which practically no one uses to squeeze a few more pennies What's an example of this?

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