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by naravara 7y ago
Immigrants are also forced to develop their own peer communities and support networks since mainstream culture, stores, and media don't cater to them. Growing up I was surprised by how low the expectations were for my American classmat
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by naravara 7y ago
If we draw from the Society analogy, people realized that their neighbors weren't happy with the government all along and production quotas weren't actually being met. So presumably, the author thinks people will look around and r
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by naravara 7y ago
>Gravity is gratis for one which really helps with long term health and we don't have to completely redesign our current technology to work if there's gravity where we will in space. And yes the resources for Earth are better f
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by naravara 7y ago
> I think an actual Mars colony is centuries out just due to the amount of things left to invent to make it viable. More importantly, there just isn’t enough reason to bother doing it aside from satisfying the Edmund Hillary “because it’
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by naravara 7y ago
> that's because when capital freely creates capital, all restrictions on production and competition become meaningless. Not at all. There are still plenty of limited factors in the production function. The capital itself isn’t unli
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by naravara 7y ago
> And what about robots? There is a danger that automation will further exacerbate income inequality, so redistribution is a natural response, because it would increase the effective wages of low income jobs Why does it make more sense t
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by naravara 7y ago
Total aside, but this notion that before the invention of minted coinage all exchange was done via "barter" is just completely ahistorical. Before currency exchange was done via favors. Instead of countable coins, you contributed
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by naravara 7y ago
This is purely personal preference and probably not reflective of the overall market, but to me the big disadvantage of the iPad is that, as long as it's only running iOS, I still always feel like I need to own a "real" compu
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by naravara 7y ago
I suspect my rescue mutt has a lot of shepherd breed in him and he’s the same way. He gets extremely agitated if either my wife or I walk away from him. It’s almost impossible to get him to focus on any games, work, or even food if one of u
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by naravara 7y ago
My library even offers a media streaming service that you can use to check out movies and shows to watch at home! You can check out eBooks too. All offered with no ad-tech nonsense.
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by naravara 7y ago
Yeah this sounds very weird to me. In my family by the time we were able to read without effort we started taking turns reading to each other.
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by naravara 7y ago
In the old days, you could either subscribe to a periodical OR go to a newsstand and make a one-time payment for a single issue. E-commerce has not yet figured out an analogous model to let me just read one thing without subscribing. We get
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by naravara 7y ago
Yeah for a long while I felt like an idiosyncratic person for using it and it did feel like a minor sacrifice. Nowadays it really does seem like a competitive platform on quality. Slightly less good at parsing the semantics, but much better
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by naravara 7y ago
>Thanks for ruining the Web, Google. When does the mass-migration to DuckDuckGo go mainstream?
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by naravara 7y ago
>A lot of tech solutions to transportation problems are reinventing elements of mass transit. For sure. And I feel like they're going about it backwards by defaulting to maintaining norms of private property and leasing things start
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by naravara 7y ago
Yeah I tried to be careful with the "some people suggest" because it's still kind of a rumor. I have an eczema problem that tends to get worse when I'm not exercising regularly and gets better when I am. But obviously al
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by naravara 7y ago
If anything I've heard the correlation goes the other way. Regular exercise reduces inflammation markers across the board. Some people suggest it even helps alleviate allergy symptoms all else being equal.
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by naravara 7y ago
> Ride-sharing, autonomous vehicles and emission-free vehicles should all alleviate the issues we currently face with traffic, parking and accidents. No they won’t. This is just willful self-delusion on the part of transit haters. Most o
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by naravara 7y ago
Someone in a previous thread that I, unfortunately can’t remember, suggested that it might not just be the SEO but the internet that changed. Google used to be really good at ascertaining meaning from a panoply of random sources, but those
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by naravara 7y ago
I do feel like They’re having some trouble with the UX though since it has to juggle 3 kinds of file management. You’ve got the obvious “manage my music files on this device” part. Then you’ve got the “manage my music files as part of this
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by naravara 7y ago
Yeah. For the cost of all this retrofitting of roads, you’d be able to build the most insanely comprehensive transit system anyone has ever heard of. FWIW though, it probably is possible to use this sort of technology for buses and shuttles
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by naravara 7y ago
>You are projecting today's problems on tomorrow's technology. Entropy is just a fundamental aspect of how time progresses. It's basically axiomatic that anything we have degrades without actively recreating/reinforci
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by naravara 7y ago
a.) Who is building a Death Star? b.) Death Star isn't theoretically impossible. We know you just need to direct a massive amount of energy at a planet to blow it up, the only question is figuring out how to get that kind of energy.
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by naravara 7y ago
> Your birth certificate is in a single paper copy and it's damn hard to get a replacement and yet most people have no problem keeping it safe for decades. Decades might as well be seconds if we're talking about interstellar tr
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by naravara 7y ago
Presumably there will always be some culture of holdouts who resist the upload process kind of like how the Amish resisted the industrial revolution. Of course, if the philosophical zombies end up being evangelistic transhumanist zealots, w
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by naravara 7y ago
>this would also make interstellar travel time scales irrelevant. Not really. You're assuming this "machine storage" mechanism can preserve state forever. Even if you manage to upload consciousness losslessly and maintain
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by naravara 7y ago
>Teleportation seems more convinient to me and much less financially and socially devastating. Sure, but there is that pesky problem where the solutions need to be theoretically possible.
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by naravara 7y ago
At that high a level, getting too granular about actual systems just ends up with people throwing your standards out because their special snowflake of a use case cannot possibly work under it. The reason it ends up focusing on the bureaucr
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by naravara 7y ago
>Young women however spend about 2 hours more on their phones per day more than men What does "on their phones" mean? This is like saying they spend time "reading books." There are good books and bad books. There are
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by naravara 7y ago
>I suspect the cost to the consumer would have to double for it to maintain any profitability, and the demand already sucks. I suspect if you price in other externalities it would be even worse. Those things are flimsy trash that are mea

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