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by mech1234 7y ago
One thing I've been thinking a lot about lately is the increasing lack of productive physical activity available to men in a lot of settings. Idleness and sedentary lifestyles are increasing in prevalence. Manual labor and sports are b
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by mech1234 7y ago
I've seen similar towers at walmart. I usually park next to them to make it easy to find my car. Not really that different in application than the security cameras we've had for decades though, unless I'm misunderstanding som
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by mech1234 7y ago
This article is extremely brief and contradicts the more nuanced reality of a lot of published research. For people with higher intelligence, their income is generally higher. The correlation is strong, the effect size is large, and the res
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by mech1234 7y ago
I'd rather have a wolf surtax added to the bear patrol tax.
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by mech1234 7y ago
A question to Europeans reading this- If you had to assume that U.S. 5G equipment manufacturers would provide backdoors to U.S. officials, and Chinese 5G equipment manufacturers would provide backdoors to Chinese officials, and Europeans ha
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by mech1234 7y ago
I think you're wrong in ways that are difficult to untangle. To give an example of an obviously flawed deontology, "Never swim within 30 minutes after eating" is a deontological rule. Many experienced swimmers (or eaters) kno
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by mech1234 7y ago
The reasonably expected ends justify the well-considered means, if and only if they are net good.
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by mech1234 7y ago
Deontological ethics or deontology is the normative ethical theory that the morality of an action should be based on whether that action itself is right or wrong under a series of rules, rather than based on the consequences of the action.
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by mech1234 7y ago
I've had a theory that: In the long run, consequentialism and virtue ethics converge. Calibrate your chosen virtues to produce good outcomes. The more experience you have, the more closely you can understand which virtues result in whi
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by mech1234 7y ago
I can mention that if you use mint.com and have anything that isn't quite perfectly standard about your financial accounts it won't work well. for example- My wife and I have a joint brokerage account at Fidelity, and my wife also
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by mech1234 7y ago
>In 1970, the family structures of the rich and poor did not differ that greatly. Now there is a chasm between them. As of 2005, 85 percent of children born to upper-middle-class families were living with both biological parents when the
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by mech1234 7y ago
You should get into baking if you want to see where precision matters and how it can be expressed in cooking. Generally, things you cook on the stovetop don't need strict quantitative controls. Exercise your own judgement and experienc
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by mech1234 7y ago
Buy a car cheap enough that if you total it, you aren't upset. Drop collision coverage. Only carry liability insurance. Feel liberated.
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by mech1234 7y ago
I was really hoping to see statistics regarding fatal accident per mile in comparison to other forms of transport, guess I'll have to dig deeper for it. Makes sense that scooters would be roughly similar to bicycles though.
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by mech1234 7y ago
No. Household sizes have been getting smaller, not larger, over time. It would be pretty far-fetched for the combinatorial effects of mixed-income households to boost the median in spite of this.
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by mech1234 7y ago
I suspect if you made a wing out of a flat piece of material, tilted at the appropriate angle of attack, it would be sufficient to fly a plane. It just wouldn't be optimized at all. Really, you need full Navier-Stokes behavior to expla
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by mech1234 7y ago
Another well-regarded source is the congressional budget office. The data linked below from 2014 is even more optimistic than my previous data because it uses household income instead of individual income. (because the distribution of indiv
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by mech1234 7y ago
I think it is a mischaracterization. Notably, the graph provided at the second link covers a time period ending in 2008, the depths of the great recession. Things are numerically a bit better than depicted there. The overall story is the sa
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by mech1234 7y ago
It's false that none of the growth is being captured by middle income people. It is being captured to a greater extent by the very top of the income distribution and by the global poor, but income is growing across the board. Real medi
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by mech1234 7y ago
I checked the minimum required specs advertised for FS2020 and it made me sad. I have a pretty decent used dell M6800 workstation at home (gen 4 i7, K3100M graphics, 32GB RAM) and I don't know if I'll be able to run it.
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by mech1234 7y ago
Are you including 401k index funds/ general retirement funds in your definition of pensions? That is a typical source of stock ownership for many Americans. You don't have to actively follow the stock market to be an owner of stoc
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by mech1234 7y ago
>A once-every-three-years study by the Federal Reserve Board found that in 2016, 51.9 percent of families owned stocks, either directly or as part of a fund. https://www.politifact.com/california/statements/2018
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by mech1234 7y ago
Lots of people underestimate the degree to which economic growth fuels good life outcomes for wide swaths of people. -Even though many people live paycheck to paycheck at many different income levels, enough income growth can get you out of
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by mech1234 7y ago
A couple things: 1. Signals travel faster through the air and vacuum of space than they do fiber optic cables or electrical cables. 2. If there is an HFT trader based in the U.S. looking to trade based on events happening in Spain or Japan
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by mech1234 7y ago
What programs tackle child poverty?
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by mech1234 7y ago
Seems to me like the real motivation is defending their own agricultural industry. American chicken is cheaper and likely just as good. The health claims are weak, everyone can understand protectionism, but it is often masked behind other c
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by mech1234 7y ago
Can't agree more with this. Spending ~25k every 15 years on a bathroom remodel needs a budget of over $1000 per year. Do you really get that much value out of it?
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by mech1234 7y ago
From the scattered information I have read, the infection has a very long dormant period (2 weeks), during which it may be contagious, and a high R_0 value of at least about 2.0. The R_0 value states how many people will catch the virus fro
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by mech1234 7y ago
The vulnerable are often underbanked. They might not have a bank account, debit or credit card, or smartphone with Venmo/Cash app/(whatever app is popular today). Cash is the easiest way to help vulnerable groups. If a homeless pe
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by mech1234 7y ago
Rich people skew right-leaning. We can imagine many reasons for this, but I'll break it into two groups: 1. The same moral leanings that are identified with right-leaning parties are moral leanings, that when applied to your own life,

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