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One of the frustrating things about modernity as a westerner is that I don't feel the need for the standard of living that all of these incredible-but-dangerous advances in modern science and technology have granted us. I don't ne
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Most people who talk about the housing shortage using the term "housing shortage" find it unethical to suggest restricting the rate at which new people are allowed to settle in the United States.
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This is one of the many technological trends that are driving every part of American life to dependence on the government-business matrix. It would be less painful if the agents of the matrix weren't growing so incompetent.
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Are you suggesting that immigration has had no effect on the price of dwellings in the developed world, and that two years of low immigration during a period of unprecedented economic slowdown and intense inflation was enough to prove that?
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The rate of immigration to developed countries far outpaces the rate of building new dwellings in developed countries. Net growth YoY for places like the US, Canada, UK, Australia all tell the same story. Several traditionally less-develope
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Live From Here was mostly storytelling? I thought it was mostly music, given that Thile is one of the greatest living musicians. I never listened to a whole LFH show, but I watch a lot of great musical clips from it. Here's my favorite
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by quacked 3y ago
To put it simply, I work with my coworkers, and management doesn't. I can tell who solves problems faster, is kinder and more sympathetic, works harder, delivers more, and is requested more often by clients because I'm in the tren
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> it's the people with options to work somewhere better who are leaving This happened at the last place I worked. It was so incredible to watch it happen. First the COO took off, and her favorite VP (who hired me) took off as well.
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In my opinion, the "standup" is a cargo-cult imitation of what effective teams do informally. Effective, small teams all know what the other team members are working on because they tell each other throughout the day and at the ba
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https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/05/04/9925440...
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All design methodologies have their drawbacks, but I think the most hellish design method is "Agilefall", where you use the trappings of Agile/Scrum/Kanban development (Jira, standups, tickets, etc.) to implement a serie
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> It's hard to be brave when By definition, the only time it's possible to be brave is when it's hard.
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I believe people should take care to add "men and women at" before talking about companies. Companies and corporations are abstractions. There are real people taking these actions. - "Men and women at IBM promised to back off
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I have never observed that, given free choice, people prefer to associate with people that are unlike them. When you've recently immigrated to the US from a foreign country, you don't think "finally, I'm away from my cou
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> I‘ve gone through a ton of comments below and see a lot of contradicting evidence to your thoughtful suggestion. When you make a huge generalization like "the northern states I'm from primarily developed their culture from Sc
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I'm not identifying as being from somewhere else. I'm explaining the broad origins of northern US and southern US culture. When it comes to talking about US history, people are quick to denigrate the US and explain how young of a
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Outside America, this is true. Inside America, if you are unaware of pronounced regional cultural differences arising from the settler groups that form your ancestry and local culture, you're either ignorant, or not American.
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I'm the original commenter, and I agree with you. The person you're responding to is accurate about that "friendly belligerence", but whenever I go down there I get all the "y'all doin' all right?"
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I am from the northern US (Protestant Scandinavian/German) and my wife is from the southern US (Protestant English/German) [1]. In the first several years of our relationship, we had several big disputes about how to treat each ot
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America adds between 600k-1.2M immigrants per year, and that's the officially counted ones. That's a surefire way to add strain to a limited supply. This is occurring in Aus, Canada, and the UK as well.
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What a nightmare of a city. I tell people who haven't been there that it's a city-size concrete strip mall built on a swamp. The worst part is that it could be paradise, with smarter building. The JSC and Rice campuses are both qu
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by quacked 3y ago
I used to fly hang gliders. For almost every issue (except for flying too fast), when you get into trouble in a glider you lower your AoA and increase speed.
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What would you consider a high information density program? I wouldn't mind some text labels on some of the buttons, but compared to a lot of modern web apps I use (and the Slack redesign), Audacity is a Bloomberg terminal. To be hones
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It's frustrating that every single company seems to move away from building powerful software with high information density to gift-wrapped software with low information density. I make practice tracks for my band, and I still use Auda
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Postpartum depression is much lower in places where mothers get a lot of sunshine, live among numerous family and friends, eat whole diets, walk a lot, and don't suddenly go from rat-race identity-capturing careers to soloing a screami
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I was writing with a US-centric mindset, so I agree that neither Omaha or Alaska is that realistic if you're a Canadian citizen. I'm intrigued by your assertion that there is not any low-end work available in Canada, though; my un
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> What exactly is your solution for "bad behavior" in society then? There are many possible solutions for "bad behavior in public"; on the "carrot" side there's better education, better nutrition, more
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> I was wondering how a dropout was able to pull it off. Nautral talent plus hardwork and good mentoring was all in there. "Formal education" is just industrialized mentoring and compelled hard work. Dropouts and "uneducat
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Climate change is a luxury belief that people wave to get federal funding or social points. Living a true low-emissions lifestyle (not one where you consume exactly as much as you did before except EVs instead of gas cars) is a serious hand
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> The earth is a big place, why is it always the US they choose to visit? Since almost all credible English-speaking UFO sightings (i.e. someone actually saw something strange in the sky and isn't delusional or lying) have been US m

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