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961.
by roughly 2y ago
It shows they work 1.5 hours less per week. That’s one day off every six weeks, and I’d frankly bet that’s going to taking care of all the other uncompensated labor a person must do to survive. I don’t think I’d draw a lot of conclusions ab
962.
by roughly 2y ago
So they gave folks $12k per year to see a reduce in working hours by 1.5 hours per week and lower earnings by $1500/yr. I don’t think I’d call that a “moderate” labor supply effect - I’m frankly surprised that’s far enough outside the
963.
by roughly 2y ago
As a voter, you have an infinite choice of actions. There's a "write in" line - you can cast your vote for literally anyone who's ever lived, any fictional character, anyone or anything you want. You can cast no vote, yo
964.
by roughly 2y ago
I'm not arguing that voters must do anything. I'm saying that there are two possible outcomes on November 6th, and that to pretend otherwise - to pretend that your vote, or lack of vote, or protest vote, or whatever else leads to
965.
by roughly 2y ago
I’m not stating this as a treatise on political science or theory or the rights and obligations of the citizenry or any other high-minded ideal: come November 6th, one of either Donald Trump or whoever the democrats pick to run will be the
966.
by roughly 2y ago
This is the other problem with this election cycle: Trump is saying truly deranged things, but they’re so far outside of what people think would be reasonable for a person to say that he’s not getting the kind of blowback for them he should
967.
by roughly 2y ago
In fairness, that’s because the Republican Party has changed dramatically since Romney was their presidential candidate.
968.
by roughly 2y ago
> I view voting as a responsibility to pick a candidate I want to lead rather than a vote to block someone I don't want to lead. You can view it however you want, it doesn’t make it true. Perhaps it would help to consider that one o
969.
by roughly 2y ago
1) build a society that requires a car to get around 2) exclusively sell cars with ludicrous acceleration and top speed 3) set legal speed limit at 1/6th the top speed of most vehicles 4) enforce strict financial penalties for operatin
970.
by roughly 2y ago
Termination shock wasn’t great, no - Kim Stanley Robinson’s Ministry for the Future was a much better work in that vein. I think Cryptonomicon is very good, I really liked Seveneves, Anathem is fantastic, and I liked REAMDE as well, as far
971.
by roughly 2y ago
From conversations with folks who work in DC as senate & house aides - a phenomenon of the modern Republican party is that many GOP members of the house & senate have reasonable opinions on things and can agree on a reasonable polic
972.
by roughly 2y ago
A running problem for our society is that our individual temporal planning horizons are too friggin short. On average, any one of us will live at least 75 years, and most of us will live at least a decade longer. The older we get, the more
973.
by roughly 2y ago
> other than that post-death MMORPG book, that one was terrible and just a slog the whole way through Literally everything about that book except the main plot was fantastic. It read terrifyingly prophetic once he could peel himself away
974.
by roughly 2y ago
If you can get past the absolute slog of a beginning, Anathem is amazing.
975.
by roughly 2y ago
The Neal Stephenson experience. That, and the 20-page grad-level dissertation on some esoteric subject randomly in the middle of the book. The man’s truly one of the best out there, and I’m convinced a more aggressive editor would ruin him,
976.
by roughly 2y ago
Thank god they’ve got every existing product on the market to choose from, then.
977.
by roughly 2y ago
So for sure talk to a professional at that point - if you’ve fixed all the sort of baseline health bullshit we all do to ourselves and still feel like you can’t do the things you want, talk to a doctor or a therapist or psychologist. Two no
978.
by roughly 2y ago
Yeah, I had a ludicrous amount of free time during the pandemic and got to pay more attention to my attention span (heh) - I found when I sat down to read, I’d get about 3 minutes in and my attention span would wander; if I persisted, I’d m
979.
by roughly 2y ago
Diet's super important, but I feel like it's such a giant friggin' thing in our society that it's hard to put that at the top of the list. I subscribe to the "make a change that feels tractable, live with it for a b
980.
by roughly 2y ago
> no micropayment system has ever really taken off This is true, but it's not really the same thing as "we don't need micropayments" and "there's no configuration that would work for micropayments." Hel
981.
by roughly 2y ago
Second and third all the advice to talk to a therapist and/or an MD. Beyond that, though, three things that have been Big in helping me build my mental capacity (and they’re all deeply stereotypical, but): 1. Sleep - more than anything
982.
by roughly 2y ago
I'm not a crypto maximalist or even optimist, but it'd be interesting to see a version of this with smart contracts - when you rehost content and collect payments, a percent goes back to whoever you rehosted from, and on from ther
983.
by roughly 2y ago
"We must do something, this is something, therefore we must do it" "Micropayments are desperately needed" - this is true. "I don't see modern payment networks doing anything to get there" - this is also tr
984.
by roughly 2y ago
We’ve all got enough history here to know that “opt-in” is a short step away from “opt-out”, which is a short step away from “we removed the toggle to simplify the user experience.” At this point any new “opt-in” feature in any piece of sof
985.
by roughly 2y ago
> the early 2000s the only thing governor good hair did was build the hell out of wind farms It really was not long ago that “free non-polluting energy” was a thing that Republicans could get behind. Even Bush got very into biofuels, alb
986.
by roughly 2y ago
SMBC with a similar sentiment https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/sad-2
987.
by roughly 2y ago
Christ, I think it might’ve taken me to my late 30s to really do that work - that’s a hell of a succinct summary of the art of growing up.
988.
by roughly 2y ago
Authy supports normal TOTP but also has its own proprietary TOTP format for which alternatives do not exist.
989.
by roughly 2y ago
Authy supports TOTP, but also has its own proprietary TOTP-esque format that a bunch of sites & companies use (Twitch and my bank, among them) that can't be copied into another site. (Yes, it's bad, no, it shouldn't exist
990.
by roughly 2y ago
As they say, Unix gives you enough rope to shot yourself in the foot.

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