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by prottog 4y ago
> as it becomes more limited in supply, it becomes more expensive. Not only that, current "proven reserves" are based on what's economical to extract. As the price of oil rises, we will find more oil.
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by prottog 4y ago
Then it's a beautiful thing that modern life allows even those of humble means to enjoy the comforts for which kings of old would have needed thousands of actual slaves. Every resource is finite and non-renewable considering even the s
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by prottog 4y ago
By that metric, very few of us travel more than the distance from where we were born to where we are buried. ;-)
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by prottog 4y ago
Air conditioning is a lot more efficient than heating.
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by prottog 4y ago
Yeah, light cars are rare, especially in the US. A brand-new base model Hyundai Elantra, which is a very mainstream compact sedan, weighs 2,725 lbs. The lightest new passenger car sold is the Mitsubishi Mirage at 2,095 lbs. It has all of 78
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by prottog 4y ago
My understanding is that in most states, getting alimony and child support payments lowered due to changed circumstances of the father is very difficult even with legal assistance.
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by prottog 4y ago
I heard it called Malmodishu? ;-) That is a very fascinating subject. In addition to the 20% who were born outside of Sweden, another 6% are born in Sweden to parents both born outside, meaning over a quarter of the population today is not
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by prottog 4y ago
The pace of change quickens due to technology enabling our interconnected world today.
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by prottog 4y ago
OK, I grant that the life I described is perhaps not aspirational for anybody born and raised in a first-world country in the last 30 years or so. (I know many from other backgrounds whose idea of unimaginable wealth is exactly that.) But i
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by prottog 4y ago
> You used to be able to buy a house in 12 months instead of 18 months if you worked overtime. Todays economics make it so working overtime lets you buy a house in 13 years instead of 17 years. Actually, if 50 years ago you used to be ab
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by prottog 4y ago
I don't know where GP's old employer was located, but it sounds like it's in a low cost-of-living area, the kind where homes can be had for under $100k. Earn $50-60k a year, pay off your house in maybe ten years instead of th
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by prottog 4y ago
The places where you can easily clear more than $25-30 an hour as a waiter are also places with high cost of living and expensive housing. As a counterexample, in my area (a midsize city in a low cost-of-living state), restaurants universal
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by prottog 4y ago
Relative to what other jobs in the area pay and the cost of living, of course. The competition may in fact be McDonald's paying $12 an hour or Walmart paying $14.
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by prottog 4y ago
There's a similar disconnect in expectations of outcomes. The same days when people "wanted" overtime were the days where people expected to get ahead by busting their asses; sure, you could work short hours, play with your k
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by prottog 4y ago
I only know a bit more than nothing, but I'd wager anything industrial is considered more interesting. Single-family residential wiring, especially for new construction where there's nothing in the way, is so simple that even I, u
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by prottog 4y ago
Absolutely. We must be very, very cautious as a society when automating anything that can violate civil rights and individual liberties. The government must pass a very high bar indeed for that kind of thing.
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by prottog 4y ago
> The evidence suggests otherwise. When states wield their power on rights, it's usually against the interests of their people States decriminalizing pot, for one, would be an example of state law trying to broaden liberties that fe
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by prottog 4y ago
> This is actually super interesting in that Article 1. Section 10 suggests this requires Congressional approval. The UCC is not an interstate compact in the sense of Article 1 Section 10. They're merely the same code that each stat
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by prottog 4y ago
> living in a country with one of the densest (but still entirely unsuitable for most long distance journeys) rail networks I'm very curious, what country has such a dense rail network that isn't very good for long distance jou
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by prottog 4y ago
> Executive decrees or questionably legal actions of government agencies are fundamentally bad - but have become commonplace and a necessity of life since Congress is fundamentally broken. Two wrongs don't make a right. Everyone inv
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by prottog 4y ago
Isn't the point that the established infrastructure is already established?
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by prottog 4y ago
> I know people who made a good living being the layoff/callback dude for years. That's hilariously inefficient. I would be mad if I were a shareholder in this business, but good for those employees in question who were savvy.
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by prottog 4y ago
You might have misread me -- I was responding to the GP's no doubt exaggerated comment about Tampa being oppressively hot every single day of the year, with the opinion that even people who may not enjoy warm weather would nonetheless
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by prottog 4y ago
The same as Patagonia's Chouinard: > The details of how Green will give away his company are unclear, but in an interview with Fox & Friends Weekend last week, Green said that 100% of the company’s voting stock has been moved to
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by prottog 4y ago
This always bothered the hell out of me when interacting with Korean websites, especially online banking. I believe in addition to the factors that the article listed, there are several laws in place that mandate this chicanery, at least fo
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by prottog 4y ago
I say this without any snark or sarcasm: I welcome your analysis on the matter, if you have thoughts to add. It's inconceivable to me where this belief comes from, that everything will be so much better if only the wealthy paid their &
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by prottog 4y ago
Believe me, I'm in favor of building much, much more housing than we are now, and of a more diverse kind. But by focusing on the price of housing (whether for rent or purchase), I think the conversation gets wrongly shifted to how to d
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by prottog 4y ago
Indeed, to each their own, but certainly by any reasonable standard there are a few very pleasant months out of the year in Tampa.
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by prottog 4y ago
Are your jobs portable, either remotely or by virtue of being in demand in most places? If so, you could easily take a leap into a lower-tier (in size and/or stature) city. You're right that anything comparable in quality is in fa
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by prottog 4y ago
I read the article and skimmed through the underlying paper; the authors of the latter are careful to note that they cannot establish a causal relationship. Interviews of homeless people, at least in some West Coast cities, indicate that dr

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