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by relaxing 1y ago
Notoriously reliable word of mouth. Very cheap, much freedom.
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by relaxing 1y ago
The numbers are the same because the system worked, and manufacturers starting engineering energy efficiency into all their lines.
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by relaxing 1y ago
If it saves the power company from having to make expensive upgrades then yeah, they should.
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by relaxing 1y ago
If everyone has to buy a subscription to consumer reports that is effectively a tax. …only it’s better than a tax because it preserves the freedom to get ripped off if you choose. Yay freedom.
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by relaxing 1y ago
That doesn’t match any definition of scale. They favor individual efforts because they don’t want certain groups being helped.
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by relaxing 1y ago
I didn’t mean you personally. The people who decided to implement the policy believe that cruelty will create deterrence. Persisting in this line of thinking despite centuries of cruelty and no end to the undesired behavior is what leads t
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by relaxing 1y ago
I think everyone understands the lawmakers (and by extension the voters) are to blame.
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by relaxing 1y ago
Individually managed efforts doesn’t scale. If you were cynical you might think that is precisely why some favor that solution.
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by relaxing 1y ago
Because that’s who we’re talking about?
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by relaxing 1y ago
OK, so you endorse a policy which not only creates human suffering now but harms society and creates more human suffering in the future. The cost of fixing it is minuscule and outweighed by the future benefits. What are the good faith argum
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by relaxing 1y ago
Every accusation is an admission for them.
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by relaxing 1y ago
The reason behind the citation style is to serve the automated parsing of citations by research information systems, which can then roll up all of your contributions to the field into a single score which determines one’s entire worth in ac
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by relaxing 1y ago
Bigger cars dominate because a) consumers want them b) manufactures make higher margins on them c) ZIRP enabled higher spending, and d) the push to electrification was the point, not some unintended consequence.
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by relaxing 2y ago
I’d be pretty upset if the value of my home was harmed because someone decided to make it common knowledge that the town I lived in was crap.
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by relaxing 2y ago
Eh, he goes out of his way to say > The good news is that I don’t think that the illiberalism of identity politics will endure much longer. Especially when it comes to the literal policing of humour - and cancellation of comedians for te
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by relaxing 2y ago
A filtering shower head is already targeting the high end discretionary consumer. They didn’t bite.
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by relaxing 2y ago
Only two lecture slide decks? Did the professor get tired of uploading the material for students to review post lecture?
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by relaxing 2y ago
These articles never explain what’s wrong with calling each function separately and storing each return value in an intermediate variable. Being able to inspect the results of each step right at the point you’ve written it is pretty conveni
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by relaxing 2y ago
Because you can use chatgpt without an account.
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by relaxing 2y ago
They should have had the benefit of hindsight as well thanks to testing.
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by relaxing 2y ago
Why didn’t someone just set up domestic manufacturing for those hobbyist parts?
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by relaxing 2y ago
You’re not improving things. You’re trying to take away things that make the world better. If you stuck to programs that help boys - yes they exist - maybe you’d have a moral leg to stand on.
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by relaxing 2y ago
> My point is that there are plenty of -isms going around and focusing on race alone completely ignores the fact that our lives are impacted in different ways. No it doesn’t. We have other means of support for people whose lives are impa
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by relaxing 2y ago
> In theory, perhaps, but in practice nothing is being done to help boys. Untrue. There’s a ton of work being done on how to better support boys in school. > In fact, DEI programs in universities continue to favor young women even as
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by relaxing 2y ago
> This version of equity based on race is using race as a proxy for outcomes in life Because racism is ongoing and negatively impacts people of color, it makes sense to focus where harm is being done. There is a leftist school of thought
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by relaxing 2y ago
And what world is that?
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by relaxing 2y ago
Taxpayers subsidizing free maps for hikers? Expect that access to privatized shortly.
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by relaxing 2y ago
What I would give to be able to zoom in on an image without causing the entire page to reflow and crash mobile safari repeatedly. Surely I’m not the only one who encounters this. Why haven’t Apple devs (or web devs in general) fixed this?
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by relaxing 2y ago
It sounds like you’re really invested in the idea that life was tough in the old days. I’m certainly not going to disabuse you of that notion.
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by relaxing 2y ago
Movable type is technology. Archimedes’ screw is technology. The inclined plane is technology. A sharpened stick is technology. Not all technology is equal. It varies in complexity and the demands it places on our lives.

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