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by ponker 6y ago
Ydz- you replied this comment with a very useful comment that is “dead” either because you were downvoted (impossible) or because the megalomaniacs who run this site consider you persona non grata.
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by ponker 6y ago
No, I’m saying that “we’ll find new solutions to our energy problems like creating potable water problems!” is dumb.
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by ponker 6y ago
LOL fracking. Destroy all your fresh water to get more fossil fuels. It’s almost QED by itself.
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by ponker 6y ago
Non-renewable energy is limited... if we don't gradually make it expensive now it's going to get REALLY expensive very suddenly in a couple of decades. That process is where global wars will be fought over what little energy is re
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by ponker 6y ago
You might not be listening to the best English audiobooks (that's distinct from the audiobook versions of the best books). They are exceptionally good. If Russian audiobook narrators are "household names" perhaps it's be
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by ponker 6y ago
Man-made vs natural isn't a matter of morality or anything, it's just about whether we can do something to avoid our destruction. If an asteroid hits earth then it's not man-made but also inevitable. Climate change isn't
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by ponker 6y ago
I think that most people vastly underestimate how important lighting is to a living space. I frankly think that a $500K house with great lighting feels like a much bigger, higher-end $1 million house. Get lots of high-CRI lighting, at dayli
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by ponker 6y ago
Some of this is voluntary. I have no financial problems but my wife and kids and I moved in with my parents / her parents alternating every few months to avoid total isolation.
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by ponker 6y ago
Wipe out 90% of pollutants or wipe out 90% of humans in a mass die off. The animals (except for rats and raccoons) will rejoice but I don’t think that’s what humans want.
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by ponker 6y ago
Nuts. He sexually abused multiple children and distributed pictures of this, but spent less than five years in jail and is now out.
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by ponker 6y ago
This is how military redactions have been done forever. If a soldier writes home to his family and includes classified details (“I watched the sun rise over Mt Vesuvius yesterday but today we are moving west”) the censors just cut out the t
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by ponker 6y ago
What exactly is the “ceiling” one hits if one capitalizes on opportunities, succeeds in career and family, and makes a pile of money? That the 6th Earl Postlethwaite won’t invite them to tea at Shrumsbury Hall?
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by ponker 6y ago
The Founding Fathers knew that the voters are simply not qualified to self-govern. People who thought they knew better, over the centuries, threw away most of the barriers they placed between the voter and the government.
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by ponker 6y ago
Looks like the thing that makes it economical is the size, at which point the pilot is a small cost.
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by ponker 6y ago
You have to realize the metagame being played here. The game that art collectors are playing is tax evasion. They want to buy something for $100 from a depressed cigarette smoker in tight jeans, then 20 years later say that it's worth
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by ponker 6y ago
Peloton is not $1,000 a month.
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by ponker 6y ago
No. There is almost no free application software that is better than the proprietary equivalent, especially when operated by someone of average tech fluency. The education of our children should not be the proving ground for this effort. (F
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by ponker 6y ago
Is there a word for the pedantry of an uninformed idiot?
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by ponker 6y ago
It doesn't happen as much in plumbing or painting because these fields have not had rapid change in the last few decades, so common practices have stabilized. Plumbing also has standardized code and inspections which pretty much make s
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by ponker 6y ago
This misses the mark by quite a large margin. It's hard to measure the "productivity" of an individual who worked on the polio vaccine, that doesn't mean that it was a worthless product. The fact that productivity is har
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by ponker 6y ago
I feel like there should be a word for what would be pedantry if it was informed, but instead coming from a thoroughly ignorant point of view.
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by ponker 6y ago
It’s easiest to understand when you realize that the company is not going remote to pay SF salaries everywhere, they’re going remote to pay rock bottom salaries everywhere. Geographic pay is a temporary patch to give extra to people in SF w
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by ponker 6y ago
Gift has been used as a verb maybe as long as it has been used as a noun. If you read some older British literature it's all over the place.
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by ponker 6y ago
I agree with this in principle because the outcome of non-adjusted pay will be a "race to the bottom" on wages, which will get more wages to people in poorer areas that helps them lift those areas out of poverty, while basically m
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by ponker 6y ago
Not at all surprising, raising a ton of money usually gets that investor onto your board who probably now wants you to cut unnecessary spending.
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by ponker 6y ago
The fact is that having an employee in New York City, in the average case, is worth more than having an employee in Mongolia. They can talk to a customer more easily, given that your customers are more likely to be English-speaking Yankees
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by ponker 6y ago
Yeah, essentially stop hiring ordinary skill in high cost locations. Why would you? Why would you pay $200K to someone in San Francisco for work that can be done for $100K in Alabama? Unless the person in San Francisco is higher skill, in w
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by ponker 6y ago
The thing is that as a parent of small children I’d never feel comfortable driving a real car 200mph as I can’t really risk my life like that, and am not a thrill seeker. So doing it in game is actually preferable.
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by ponker 6y ago
Imagine a suburban dad who wants a cool thing for his man cave and doesn’t want to get too fiddly with anything, and makes $2m a year as a Director at Google or investment banker in Greenwich. They’ve thought about buying one of these onlin
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by ponker 6y ago
The major difference is that Kickstarter “investors” have no upside exposure.

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