naravara

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by naravara 4y ago
> but what's wrong with funding homeless shelters or schools? You don't get to be fabulously wealthy without some of the second order effects of your wealth accumulation being unsavory. Generally speaking, these people will do
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by naravara 4y ago
Marx is the opposite of the kind of reference you want if you want to reject dialectical thinking. That was Marx's whole deal.
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by naravara 4y ago
The high cars have the other downside of minimizing visibility around intersections when parked at corners. Pedestrians can't see cars coming and the cars can't see pedestrians coming. Usually the cars also can't see bikes co
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by naravara 4y ago
It’s more like arguing you shouldn’t self diagnose your symptoms because you’re not a doctor. And also, someone who doesn’t know how to code isn’t going to be able to make sense of the source so that particular type of Dunning-Kruger proble
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by naravara 4y ago
Unless you’re a lawyer you should be reading articles by lawyers instead of trying to come up with cockamamie interpretations on your own.
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by naravara 4y ago
Show this data please
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by naravara 4y ago
Also honest content moved into video and podcasting formats (that are harder to index) or inside walled gardens like Twitter or Facebook. It's like if the internet was a sea and Google was the ship used to navigate it, the water has dr
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by naravara 4y ago
Also, arguably the most socially productive outlets would have been public goods, like major infrastructure investments and public education and health initiatives. But that's evidently politically untenable.
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by naravara 4y ago
I think it's simpler than that. The ideology of the post-90s/post-Reagan neoliberal era inculcated a set of hyper-capitalist values that posited humanity as "homo economicus" and operated as if we are little more than pr
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by naravara 4y ago
I guarantee you all the institutional investors and big finance invested in crypto absolutely do know better, and they know they have better quality information and the ability to respond to it faster than the masses of "retail" i
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by naravara 4y ago
Doesn’t Wordpress own Tumblr which ticks all the boxes you just described?
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by naravara 4y ago
Sales pay scales are very bimodal. A handful of rock star people make incredible amounts of money, most just get by alright, and maybe a quarter drop out because they can't close enough. It can be very high pressure, and a significant
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by naravara 4y ago
> They also essentially created the welfare state… Nah the Silent Generation did that. But also most of our political gerontocrats are also either Silents or very early Boomers. They're not really the core of the Baby Boom generatio
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by naravara 4y ago
> Teens are being told the world is terrible by pessimists when there truly hasn’t been a better time to be alive. A lot of people were saying exactly this right before Franz Ferdinand got shot.
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by naravara 4y ago
Arguably TV was actually bad for kids. (And adults too, considering what kind of brain poisoning seems to accompany overconsumption of cable news).
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by naravara 4y ago
Sir. We're talking about 13 year olds.
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by naravara 4y ago
Social media also impacts people's mental, emotional, and psychosocial states as well as their relationships to many of the people in their communities. So it both hits the hormonal triggers AND the social support systems.
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by naravara 4y ago
I've had this done to a pair of suit pants by a not particularly notable dry cleaner and they did a great job. It was expensive though. I think it's not so much that it's unheard of here as it is that very few people in the U
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by naravara 4y ago
It seems a little odd to try and reassure me that everything isn't falling apart by referencing the Protestant Reformation as the "we've been through this before and come out of it" example. The Protestant Reformation wa
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by naravara 4y ago
This seems like it would replicate Google Reader's (PBUH) social features, which would be a great idea.
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by naravara 5y ago
There's a lot of 1960s SciFi where future people are planning out interstellar travel routes with slide-rules. Even "The Foundation" series posits that basically all cool technology in the future is going to be based on maste
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by naravara 5y ago
Making phones is extremely difficult. Even Google didn't do a great job of making a profit off its flagship, in-house line of Android phones despite them being the best Android experience available. Apple owns almost all the profit-sha
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by naravara 5y ago
Indeed. It is wildly counterproductive over the long term. The things we dump on them are largely things they’re well able to make for themselves. If we wanted to dump stuff that would have real, long term impacts we’d be sending cutting ed
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by naravara 5y ago
> It can be successfully argued that the political left have adopted the drama and status of victimhood in a way that hasn't been done before in mainstream politics It absolutely has. The martyr/persecution complex is a central
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by naravara 5y ago
> Yet another entry in the emerging genre of making an entirely uncontroversial point (criticizing people for glorifying and faking mental illness for attention), followed by the second half which is the author complaining about how ever
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by naravara 5y ago
> The ones I hypothesize are actually subject to a delusion of being transgender don't act like that. Their personality shifts radically after transitioning and they behave like an exaggerated caricature of their target gender and h
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by naravara 5y ago
Honestly I’ve never seen it as bad as in certain parts of Seattle. The meth use is very readily apparent and it has people behaving way out of line and highly erratic or aggressive. That said, I still worry more about car traffic and reckle
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by naravara 5y ago
Worse yet, most cars now are lifted high enough to where the block line-of-sight for pedestrians and cyclists (and even people in reasonably sized sedans and compact cars) from being able to see oncoming traffic from an intersection when th
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by naravara 5y ago
> especially designed to encourage diversity of ideas. Exposure to diversity of ideas is not a problem on social media. What drowns out most ideas is actually threat of cyberbullying and internet mobs, being drowned out by bots, and algo
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by naravara 5y ago
I had hoped an electric vehicle future would have meant a lot less road noise but if everything is clocking in curb weights in excess of 5,000 lbs I guess it won’t be as serene as I dreamed. Sad.

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