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by munificent 7y ago
> You can't get that much wasted water from that usage. You also need to factor in the wastewater to produce all of the other products you consume. That produce you bought at the store and rinsed yourself was also likely washed se
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by munificent 7y ago
Also, housing is effectively a "free" investment. You must have a place to live and you are going to be paying for that. Why not own it so that your payments actually accrue capital while you're at it?
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by munificent 7y ago
Food is a liability too. Not all products exist to provide future value. Some provide value right now , like a place to live.
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by munificent 7y ago
> So, forgive me if I don't have much sympathy for a news organization that refuses to get up to date with how the internet works. News organizations probably understand "how the internet works" better than you do. (Not
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by munificent 7y ago
Oops! Decided to write out the number but forgot to delete the word. :)
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by munificent 7y ago
The Spanish Flu was almost exactly 100 years ago. Recent enough that we think of it as being in modern times with relatively modern medicine and hospitals. My grandmother lived through it, so this isn't the distant past. Current estima
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by munificent 7y ago
Somewhat related: Train Jam is a 52-hour game developer jam that takes place on a train on its way to GDC. https://trainjam.com/
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by munificent 7y ago
Google actually has good-sized, growing offices in a number of major US cities these days. SF and NYC are huge, but there are plenty of other options: Seattle, Boulder, Austin, Pittsburgh, LA, Irvine, Chicago, Ann Arbor, Cambridge, etc. I a
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by munificent 7y ago
In fact, Google has a Pittsburgh office which is doing quite well as far as I can tell.
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by munificent 7y ago
ca.gov says state taxes for someone making $100k are $6,466.00. That's less than half your claim.
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by munificent 7y ago
> I was certainly irrational on a few occasions where someone called out things that I did wrong and I refused to see it. I don't think that's a problem with the emotion itself, so much as which specific events trigger that
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by munificent 7y ago
> You get help on the project in the form of people contributing patches, right? Any open source maintainer will tell you that many PRs, even well-intentioned ones, end up being a net negative. Often they don't further the mainta
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by munificent 7y ago
> they had likely invested considerable time at least using, if not more. I think your choice of the verb "invest" implies a highly flawed mindset about the incentive structure of open source. A lot of open source consumers h
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by munificent 7y ago
People are not robots, but in terms of reaching agreement between humans, "emotion" is more or less just a difference in priorities, which is one of the ways reasonable people can disagree. If we agree on the facts and we agree on
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by munificent 7y ago
> is captured by businesses rather than the employees. "Businesses" don't really do much of anything. What you really mean is the billionaire executives at the top of them.
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by munificent 7y ago
Studies have shown people recall information better if they had to put some effort into acquiring it. Sometimes a profound wisdom lodges better if the "ah-ha" moment occurs in the reader's mind and not on the page.
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by munificent 7y ago
> But what is the minimum size for a business to "get so big they have taken over control of regulation"? This is sort of like asking, "What is the minimum weight you can put on a seesaw before it tips?" The answer
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by munificent 7y ago
> Games Are Not Art (Yet). But pigment smeared on a piece of wood is? > they will not be as culturally relevant as movies or books. I'm sorry you missed the memo, but games are more culturally relevant than books now. It make
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by munificent 7y ago
Well, neither does 120°F summers. I think there's an argument that Pheonix fundamentally can't be pedestrian friendly so optimizing for car-and-bus-friendliness is a justifiable strategy.
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by munificent 7y ago
If you remove regulations, businesses will raise barriers to entry. Businesses don't like to compete. Competition is a zero-sum game that they might lose. Instead, they prefer to form cartels and turn it into a non-zero sum game where
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by munificent 7y ago
I like this a lot too. And, turning it around, a big motivation to gain wealth for many people is exactly because it's a means to provide that environment for their children.
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by munificent 7y ago
> I'd say civilization has already discovered a partial solution to this problem: monogamy where men satisfy their evolutionary urges for usefulness through breadwinning. Yes, I agree. Strangely enough, I think outlawing polygamy
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by munificent 7y ago
> we don't need all the men. We only need a tiny percentage of men. Relevant: A single male galapagos turtle sired 800 offspring, single-handedly (well, I guess it wasn't his hand) saving his species from extinction. https:&
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by munificent 7y ago
> the US needs a group of morally-compromised people willing to do bad things. It's tempting to think that, but do you have any evidence to support it? Look at the list of examples from the parent comment: Iran-Contra - We sold a
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by munificent 7y ago
I'm not a marketer and haven't done a lot of research, but my informal impression is that the logic works out something like this: Because I have the entire book online, people are much more likely to reference and point other peo
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by munificent 7y ago
For what it's worth, I offer my entire book [0] online for free, and I am very happy with both the print and eBook sales. [0]: https://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/
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by munificent 7y ago
> I imagine a significant number of people diagnosed with dementia likely do not have it. I don't think it's as dire as you imagine. People don't just randomly drive themselves to nursing homes for no reason. Like you a
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by munificent 7y ago
There was a reddit thread talking about that, and someone pointed out that there's no way a medical professional would be willing to treat a random tattoo on someone's body as a valid indication of their current consent. What if y
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by munificent 7y ago
I wonder how much of that is driven by suicide. Older men commit suicide at much higher rates than older women: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epidemiology_of_suicide#/media...
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by munificent 7y ago
As the article states, these anti-vax pamphlets suggest parents buy the advertisers natural remedy products instead.

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