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by naravara 4y ago
Cities are not just dense downtown cores with arterial streets. Most families living in cities live on side-streets that don't get much through traffic, and children frequently play in them.
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by naravara 4y ago
> Maybe because children don’t play on the street at all in the city. They absolutely do
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by naravara 4y ago
Have you ever seen "The Cable Guy?" The movie with Jim Carrey and Matthew Broderick from the 90s? Jim Carrey's character is one of these dudes who is constantly quoting tv shows and seems to have absorbed his whole worldview
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by naravara 4y ago
It is a bad battery (along certain dimensions). But there is serious doubt as to whether the world actually has enough Lithium and other rare earths to actually meet battery demand indefinitely, even assuming we get the supply chains and in
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by naravara 4y ago
We’ve seen enough of the fossil fuel industry’s shenanigans and political lobbying efforts to know how that will go. The anecdote about the turtle allowing the scorpion on its back to cross the river comes to mind. It’s in their nature to s
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by naravara 4y ago
I mentioned motor oil
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by naravara 4y ago
I don't know if most households have enough use for lubricants to be able to consume a quantity equivalent to 80% of the volume of plastics they're disposing of. My door hinges and bike-chains can only be so smooth. Even if it was
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by naravara 4y ago
An employer shouldn't want that for you either. I think what this ends up being is an argument for good documentation and onboarding so you can transmit the "theory" to other people. Reasonable amounts of churn are manageable
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by naravara 4y ago
> Are we slowly losing a joy of reading blog post because there are so many? Are the books gaining popularity again? What are your thoughts? One of the downsides of blogging is that bloggers very often do not have editors. I think just a
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by naravara 4y ago
Most people have no idea how any of this works, so I wouldn't take observed behavior to be a "revealed preference."
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by naravara 4y ago
I always send a "I am good to cancel today's meeting unless someone has something they would like to discuss." Takes no more effort than just cancelling.
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by naravara 4y ago
The alternative is spending all day coordinating with 10 different people's secretaries to schedule time on their calendars with them. It's much easier to cancel instances of a recurring meeting than to have to schedule each one e
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by naravara 4y ago
Presumably they can still schedule the synchronous conversations one at a time. They just can't set them to "recurring." I have no idea how they make policies like these work with business partnerships though. I could live wi
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by naravara 4y ago
I mean, they can they just have to convert it. Is it that different from sending it as a PDF because you need to have installed a PDF reader or Acrobat to read it? The only reason .docx files are more easily readable is because everyone mak
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by naravara 4y ago
This list doesn't really seem all that concerned with historical or etymological facts to be honest. Take a look at the entry for brownbag, for example.
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by naravara 4y ago
I don't actually think any trauma specialists actually back this approach to eliminating all triggers for everybody. The general treatment model for traumatic stress issues like this is to steadily reduce the association between the tr
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by naravara 4y ago
Vinyl isn't making a comeback because of mastering or fidelity issues. It's making a comeback because people like the ritual of putting a disc on a platter and having to focus on listening to it. It's a different form of enga
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by naravara 4y ago
The initial back-up isn't the problem. It's keeping it current over time as you add new music. Then you need to keep track of which songs are on which drive and also access your backups often enough that some of the routine error
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by naravara 4y ago
> “Side-loading” can’t come quick enough. I have no issue with the App Store vetting apps arbitrarily, but there needs to be an alternative where developers can provide their apps direct to consumers without this BS. I'd have agreed
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by naravara 4y ago
The problem is being an established, known company doesn't mean you can be trusted to not behave badly on the platform with regard to security vulnerabilities or user privacy. See Facebook as a prime example. The bad press doesn't
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by naravara 4y ago
Got a price on Andreessen being an investor in Hive? I just checked in Crunchbase and it looks like they’ve raised $3M but no specifics. And all I’m able to find is that it’s from an unnamed angel investor. $3M seems small potatoes for Andr
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by naravara 4y ago
If you're not federated with them your instance is going to be a ghost town. I think it'll be hard to run an independent instance with enough activity on its own to be worth joining unless you have some external source of communit
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by naravara 4y ago
I think the author is coming at this with a focus on the crypto scene, where it really is deeply rooted in distrust, but I see the value of decentralization in the Mastodon/ActivityPub more as one of a desire for more variation and com
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by naravara 4y ago
What part of "The desired outcome already happens in India and Africa through other, more constructive and humanistic methods without any of the ethical downsides" is defeatist? I don't understand the fetish for imposing drac
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by naravara 4y ago
> the living standard in developed world has to drop. That depends on how you define "living standards." For example, the USA can probably afford to lose a LOT of consumer products spending while still raising HDI metrics by si
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by naravara 4y ago
Your ideas about population control are antiquated. It is well known that demographic change follows women's rights and economic development, particularly in access to healthcare and education. Draconian laws just lead to wide-scale op
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by naravara 4y ago
India has also hit replacement or below replacement level population in most of the country and it was done without invasively draconian policy setting. Just female literacy and access to healthcare.
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by naravara 4y ago
Shrinking globalism has a lot of causes so I don't want to overstate the case here, but one big part of the drive to pull back from it is the PRC's own currency manipulation and leveraging of its manufacturing bottleneck for geost
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by naravara 4y ago
They can still spill out through activist work, they just can't be as easily astroturfed by troll-farms so people will have to come by their influence honestly, through moral suasion and persuasive powers.
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by naravara 4y ago
I actually think having large, centralized platforms actually makes the polarization problem worse because they encourage usage habits that keep people only within the milieu they've had curated for them within that platform. A more co

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