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by nostromo 4y ago
Whenever you read a paper creating a new term (like "Blue Zones") -- you can guarantee that the author also has a book out with the same name. And so... https://www.amazon.com/dp/1426209487 They usually also
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by nostromo 4y ago
Retiring off of investment into the economy in return for a piece of the growth is a very happy situation for everyone involved. Companies get access to capital. Retirees get money to live off of. Capital is allocated to those who can ma
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by nostromo 4y ago
Ok, but... You better get used to higher taxes when you're of working age. And you better get used to reduced Social Security payments. Because these things rely on growth. You better get used to a flat stock market. If you want to
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by nostromo 4y ago
I hear this a lot, but even as an atheist I think you're making a bad argument. Murder is a sin in most (all?) religions. It's also against the law. It's not against the law because it's a sin. It's against the l
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by nostromo 4y ago
I just want to point out that you’re living the American Dream. I think you may misunderstand the term as it’s generally used. The phrase isn’t about becoming a billionaire. It’s rooted in the American frontier period, inspired by Protest
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by nostromo 4y ago
The Teams webapp is hot garbage though. On video you can't even see all the participants. It's years behind Google Meet and Zoom.
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by nostromo 4y ago
This is a common feature of dictatorships: a boneheaded decision from a central government wreaks havoc on the people in the field that would know better. It reminds me of Mao ordering all sparrows be killed because they eat agriculture see
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by nostromo 4y ago
> The US is actually lucky to understand this at the deepest levels of policy and law making, with massive aid packages to prevent total collapse. The current inflation crisis suggests that even the US economy can reach its limit with en
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by nostromo 4y ago
Gaming and manipulation should absolutely be addressed, but it seems Columbia was just straight up lying about their numbers, not gaming them.
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by nostromo 4y ago
It's funny though: cabs have gotten better and Uber has gotten worse. I've switched back to taking cabs from the airport. Ubers are slower (cabs are sitting there just waiting) and much, much expensive now (like 2x the cost of a
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by nostromo 4y ago
They’re defining having an elite background as having a parent with a post-graduate degree… which seems like a stretch to me. Post graduate degrees are not that special anymore and they often don’t earn you much additional money, let alone
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by nostromo 4y ago
I once decided not to replace a stolen mailbox at my house. I don’t get anything of value anyway. My carrier just started leaving it on the ground in front of my door. Including all that spam addressed to nobody. Even though I repeatedly
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by nostromo 4y ago
And people often forget that rates go down at the same time people get laid off and the market crashes and house prices go down. If you're unfortunate enough to be out of work, you won't be able to refinance your loan. And if you
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by nostromo 4y ago
An interesting perspective I heard recently from a housing developer: rising interest rates may cause housing to get more expensive, not less. Getting a loan now for developing multifamily or single-family properties is significantly higher
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by nostromo 4y ago
So say that then. Saying gay men lack self control is a different claim entirely, not to mention offensive.
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by nostromo 4y ago
Yeah, and that sucks. Those idiots on Reddit should stop. That’s my point - it’s not effective there or here, for Covid or Monkeypox. I doubt the people shaming people with illness even think doing so will help change behavior. They proba
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by nostromo 4y ago
lol dude - I’m gay. Please continue to tell me more about my people.
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by nostromo 4y ago
> Listen, as a gay man, I’m just going to go ahead and say we are not the greatest at self-control sometimes. As compared to whom? All those straight men and their renowned self-control?
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by nostromo 4y ago
Note how puritanical feelings about sex and sexual minorities come into play here. > A grandma dies because her family ignores rules around not gathering during Covid-19 -- tragic . > A young man dies because he has sex with too many
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by nostromo 4y ago
We shouldn't have moralized the response to Covid either. Trying to shame people into getting vaccinated blew up in our faces -- we now have an entrenched group of people that seem to be opposed to all vaccines, not just those for Covi
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by nostromo 4y ago
On the one hand, I agree with you. People should be more responsible. But if your strategy is "people should have less sex for a while" then your strategy will fail -- just as our "everyone stay home for two weeks" didn
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by nostromo 4y ago
It's interesting to apply Zuckerberg's views to his company 12 years later. Meta's actions towards social media make it seem like it's now a zero-sum game. They copy features from Snapchat and TikTok, or buy companies l
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by nostromo 4y ago
> the solution to most social ills in America is to simply not be poor No, the solution is to be either poor or well off. The lower middle class are the people that have the most to worry about in the US healthcare system.
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by nostromo 4y ago
The majority of Seattle's land use is single family houses, not unlike cities in the Southwest. Besides, apartment buildings exist in desert cities too. The question wasn't about density, it was about building in deserts or not.
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by nostromo 4y ago
Strong Towns starts with the conclusion and then creates arguments to support it. It's interesting writing, but I wouldn't take it too seriously.
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by nostromo 4y ago
I'll voice an unpopular opinion: people should live in these dry areas. Deserts have wildlife, yes, but they have much less biomass than the other places humans live. A person living in Arizona or Nevada is displacing much less natu
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by nostromo 4y ago
Lots of Americans (maybe even most) would agree with you. But the people currently in power (institutional, corporate, and government) are all settled that this is the new standard. So we all have to pretend to agree or get kicked out of s
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by nostromo 4y ago
I’m gay so perhaps I understand how these words can be hurtful better than you do. But context matters. And I’m not going to get worked up by someone using slurs against white nationalists in a debate, even if I think it was misguided.
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by nostromo 4y ago
My take is that he’s attempting to use their world view (that Europeans are more civilized than others) against them by pointing out they’re the ones with brutish views and violent behavior, and they’re white. He’s not espousing their view
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by nostromo 4y ago
I’m not being disingenuous. I didn’t follow him at all, but learned about the incident after Sam Harris spoke about it and subsequently moved off of Patreon. You may not agree with the tone, I don’t either, but he’s debating literal white

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