notJim

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by notJim 5y ago
This feels like a post-hoc rationalization to me. I drive a Tesla and I do often find the breaks annoying. I would prefer to drive straight through rather than stand in some random parking lot for 30 minutes. Even if I want a break, I’d pre
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by notJim 5y ago
That sounds strange, it sounds like an area that should’ve been served by foot and public transit traffic.
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> Of course, requiring existing residents' input means that there would probably never be new housing, so that isn't a realistic option. Yeah it's unfortunate there's not really a way to say "this is getting buil
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by notJim 5y ago
That's interesting, but I doubt it would be allowed by most apartment leases, and I think for townhomes, many people wouldn't want some rando parking in their garage.
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And because the walkable cities have been made unaffordable by those insisting that no one wants to live in such a place.
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by notJim 5y ago
How do you feel about medium density? I live in a neighborhood with some of the qualities you describe, and it has lots of small courtyard condos, and 2-3 story apartment buildings. These would've been illegal to build up until the las
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by notJim 5y ago
People have this all-or-nothing thinking about this, but realistically most cities ought to have a mix. A single person in their 20s doesn't necessarily need or want a house with a yard, but they might want one later on. Right now, in
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by notJim 5y ago
Something I only recently learned is that zoning rules generally require housing developments to include a certain amount of parking. This drives up the cost of housing, because of the space required (either up or out.) Many cities are redu
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by notJim 5y ago
IMO Portland is actually kind of like this (for now). I've heard Berkeley, CA sort of, too. In Portland (where I live), I have a driveway and convenient street parking right outside my house, but I can also walk to many shops and resta
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by notJim 5y ago
That’s funny, because on the face of it, detecting breaking changes seems impossible to me, not easy.
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It's not so bad if you make sure to get good sleep the night before and start in the morning sometime, and perhaps take a long break somewhere in the middle.
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by notJim 5y ago
I really disagree with this. I've spent time optimizing web apps (both client and server side), and I've never used bit-twiddling to do it. Your application will be very fast and have none of that. The performance problems you run
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by notJim 5y ago
I agree these are huge challenges, and that climate activists are unrealistic in their expectations of how much people are willing to sacrifice or change. I would guess most climate activists take more than one flight per year, and certainl
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by notJim 5y ago
Does this include or exclude DEXes? It sounds like C) could mean that DEXes are not included (which would be good), but I'm not entirely clear on the legal definitions of some of these things.
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That can't possibly be right, according to Fox News, Portland, OR is an authoritarian communist hellhole. Just glad you got out alive.
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> So they end up not taking it for valid safety concerns. Are you referring to the mRNA vaccine? If so, source for this? I see lots of articles that question whether the vaccines are as effective for immuno compromised people, but none t
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> For many people, being rationed to 1500kcal per day would be much less invasive than a foreign substance being forcibly injected into your body. Annoying and restrictive, yes, but definitely not invasive. I'm sorry, but the govern
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by notJim 5y ago
This is definitely part of it, but I feel like it underplays the fundamental difficulty of studying nutrition. Put yourself in the shoes of someone who wants to study this, and you rapidly see the problems. Effects of nutrition take many ye
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by notJim 5y ago
This emotionally charged language isn't helpful to a rational discussion. I think your comment would be stronger without it. > I am fully vaccinated, but the research is clear - I can carry an infection just as effectively in my nas
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by notJim 5y ago
That's relative risk, not absolute risk. It's not saying 8% of people will be hospitalized, it's saying vaccinated people are hospitalized 92% less than unvaccinated people. Your absolute risk is much much smaller than 8%.
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by notJim 5y ago
The frustrating thing about weaselly antivax nonsense like this is that if you just google your question, there is a clear answer: > Over 20 women enrolled in the initial adult Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine trial became pregnant during th
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by notJim 5y ago
Do you have a cite? I thought vaccination reduced hospitalization to nearly zero. Here's a link where the highest state is at .06% https://www.kff.org/policy-watch/covid-19-vaccine-breakthrou...
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by notJim 5y ago
I think immune compromised people can generally get the vaccine, but there are questions about how effective it is. Some have proposed they may need a 3rd dose.
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I think it's a practical thing. We don't require vaccination for restaurants, but because vaccination is required at schools, practically you can assume that most people are vaccinated. And for many of these illnesses, we have att
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I doubt it, when I looked at Phoenix salaries they seemed to be in line with the bls averages.
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by notJim 5y ago
These are good. I think I'd add one: 7. Tech companies (explicitly or not) are skeptical of people who don't switch jobs. People call them "lifers" as a denigrating term, for people who are just coasting. Switching job
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Take it up with the Bureau of Labor Statistics. These are nationwide averages.
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As far as renovations, I think the simple reality is that renovating requires a lot of very skilled labor, and skilled labor is not cheap. Good contractors where I live are booked months and months out. The weird thing is if you look the sa
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by notJim 5y ago
I feel that people shouldn't be surprised by this. Amazon delivers you stuff extremely conveniently and cheaply enough that you don't really need to think about it. That is about the extent to which most people are engaging with t
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Most of these things are either likely to be fads (NFTs) or just ways to fuel the speculation and ponzi schemes (compound and uniswap.) Theoretically lending could be used for doing things in the real world I guess, but it seems like once t

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