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by naming_the_user 2y ago
> Our politics has become all about hurting other people, instead of trying to create something positive. We used to go to the polls and say, here’s what I’m voting for. Now we go to the polls to vote against something and we hope it mak
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by naming_the_user 2y ago
It's provocative because the implication is that it's a "problem" that needs to be "solved" when in reality there's a free market, if you think that an area needs a grocery store then start one up, you&#x2
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by naming_the_user 2y ago
The term "food desert" has always seemed needlessly provocative to me. Growing up in the UK my family used to drive 15-20 mins to the supermarket and do a big weekly or monthly shop. The nearest _decent_ non-petrol-station style s
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by naming_the_user 2y ago
Anyone who thinks that the Universe owes them is sorely mistaken.
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by naming_the_user 2y ago
Not everyone is competing. In the economy as a whole how many people are even business owners? Most people go to work and price take at their job without negotiating, without even moving area, without even studying, etc. You also have multi
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by naming_the_user 2y ago
Realistically with anything more than the most basic of games I feel as if it's reasonable to expect that the first 1-2 games are just practice because as you say, there will definitely be something that you've missed.
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by naming_the_user 2y ago
How is it a weak point for a supermarket to be open at 11? 24 hour supermarkets are fantastic and have saved my bottom many a time. Do I _need_ it? No, I don't _need_ much of anything other than air to breathe and a bit of food in my b
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by naming_the_user 2y ago
You’re trying to systematise something that is more like basic human nature. It’s like trying to explain why people like attractive people from a utilitarian perspective. In the real world I just prefer to interact with people who prioritis
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by naming_the_user 2y ago
By "can't" I obviously mean that it's impractical not literally impossible. Of course you can technically walk to anywhere that a car can go and more places besides. The point remains. People buy cars as soon as they can
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by naming_the_user 2y ago
Basically everywhere in the world everyone who can afford it gets a car as soon as they can. The only exceptions are some of the megacities like London in which it's impractical due to congestion / on street parking being scarce.
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by naming_the_user 2y ago
Are we assuming then that you're not treating the children? Because otherwise they just sleep less as well and now you're back to square one. I suppose you can full dystopia it, go the other way, make them need 12-16 hours a sleep
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by naming_the_user 2y ago
Sounds about right to me. One reasonable definition of financial _success_, an acceptable endgame state, is "you have enough that you can live a baseline lifestyle that doesn't feel impoverished through passive income / inter
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by naming_the_user 2y ago
Sorry, I edited my post a bit so what you've quoted isn't there any more but I agree fully with what you're saying. I guess what would be cool is being able to play with the sliders. People already do this in other ways, for
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by naming_the_user 2y ago
It's interesting but I feel as if the discussion is a bit flawed because it feels very binary, i.e. sleep 8 hours = have 16 hours non sleep, sleep 6 hours = have 18 hours non sleep, and we assume that each hour is the same regardless,
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by naming_the_user 2y ago
I think that you're trying to force metro travel patterns into a normalized format for comparison with other modes that doesn't match actual usage patterns. If we have to do that, then for my original post, the relevant factor is
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by naming_the_user 2y ago
I'm not really convinced that removing the need for sleep would result in me being more productive primarily because I'm not an always-on computer. The average day for me has huge differences in terms of my productivity at any giv
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by naming_the_user 2y ago
The relevant figure in my mind is per entry and exit to the system, in fairness the same person usually will take two trains so that’s two drivers to pay. Basically, per passenger served. Per mile basis is weird in a metro system because of
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by naming_the_user 2y ago
I’ve never really understood the argument for driverless tube trains. Take the Victoria line doing approximately a full lap of the circuit in an hour, north to south and back again. That one train with one driver has a capacity of 260 seate
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by naming_the_user 2y ago
Cool, let’s make tyres that degrade when in small chunks with high surface area. It’ll cost a bit more to replace them every few years (since they’ll also degrade a bit more whilst on the car) but will be a far better solution than the knee
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by naming_the_user 2y ago
Works well for me on an MBP with 36GB ram with no swapping (just). I've been asking it to perform relatively complex integrals and it either manages them (with step by step instructions) or is very close with small errors that can be r
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by naming_the_user 2y ago
At least half of your comment is wrong as the latest model MBP has an ambient light sensor, a camera, and an LED, I'm looking at them. Maybe the Air?
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by naming_the_user 2y ago
The longer version of what I’m saying is that people think that bad posture causes pain and issues and that if you just sit up straight you can fix that. In reality I would argue that if you just keep your back, neck etc muscles strong then
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by naming_the_user 2y ago
The issue is that people stop exercising at all as adults which makes about as much sense as stopping teeth brushing. If you just consistently do a little bit of strength training then it never gets hard, you just very slowly tail off in ab
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by naming_the_user 2y ago
The issue with inheritance tax on farms is that it's viscerally obvious that it's just confiscation of land through the back door. A farm that has to pay x% IHT just ends up being x% smaller each generation. Where x is anything ot
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by naming_the_user 2y ago
I'll admit to not reading the entire article here but I think that mostly people mistake posture issues for lack of exercise / being sedentary in general. If you work out a minimal amount and build some core strength / back m
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by naming_the_user 2y ago
Sure. The world would be more biodiverse, have less CO2 in the atmosphere, be less "touched" in general if you or I moved into a mud hut, or furthermore pulled out the old KMS card. Realistically it doesn't matter what we do
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Very cool, but to me it kind of illustrates a common pattern of thought on here which is that there's theoretically some sort of "optimum" city design which works for everyone which is a fallacy. There are costs and benefits
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by naming_the_user 2y ago
In general we seem to have a media/politically driven issue with "studies" being trotted out to try to influence a particular course of action rather than as pure information dissemination. It's not an issue with "t
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by naming_the_user 2y ago
It's fascinating for me to watch these comment threads blow up, I hadn't thought this would take off so much. It's a constant stream of "but my guys don't do this" "but my guys do do this". It's
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by naming_the_user 2y ago
> I got the impression that the highly educated types are wrong in a lot of ways, and the blue collar labourers are wrong in completely different ways Couldn't agree more!

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