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by scoofy 2y ago
There is a conflation in the idea behind this comment that drives me crazy. This version of equity based on race is using race as a proxy for outcomes in life that are actually based on a wide variety of factors. Equality based on race i
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by scoofy 2y ago
The key here is incremental development. So, I'm really into municipal finance and fixing the housing crisis, which got me into Strong Towns. There is a solution, but it's not one that is going to make everyone happy (obviously)
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by scoofy 2y ago
Again, I would argue that we do have to choose. I also think that the tension between these positions is what is causing quite a bit of conflict in American politics right now. There is an essentialism inherent with these contexts. Just lik
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by scoofy 2y ago
We have to choose between two worlds: a world where nobody cares about our differences, or a world where we celebrate everyone's differences. The mid-century American civil rights movement was based on the former. The modern movement s
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by scoofy 2y ago
Freedom of the press means you have dishonest press. Fox News is just ESPN for news consumption. Out of sight, out of mind. If they reported the bad news, these people would change the channel anyway.
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by scoofy 2y ago
The "inflation rate" is the rate of change. Price being higher than they were in the past is inflation.
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by scoofy 2y ago
My point mostly that you're probably not actually close friends with people you can't discuss politics with. And if you are, then you are interested in different types of friendships than I am.
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by scoofy 2y ago
I mean, I'm not going to change your mind. I don't want to. I've read the book. I found it very helpful in a practical sense, while at the same time as finding it horrifying. >that's simply the way most, if not all, p
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by scoofy 2y ago
The book has you meta-analyze every aspect of your conversation. You're basically treating everyone with kid gloves all the time. Never tell someone they're wrong, go out of your way to praise people, treat everyone like the noble
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by scoofy 2y ago
>To me it just sounds like you're holding interrogators to an unreasonably high standard in order to deny the findings of the study. There isn't a THE Turing test. On a deep philosophical level, a Turing test is a kind of nev
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by scoofy 2y ago
Ugh... I can't stand cloudy weather! A "nice day" means no clouds! I just can't be around people who think clouds are nice. If they like that weather so much, why don't they move somewhere where it's cloudy all
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by scoofy 2y ago
There is some good stuff here, but I generally disagree. The difference for me is, I don't like everybody, and not everybody has to like me. That's okay, and it's not about disrespect, it's just that I like to surround m
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by scoofy 2y ago
Honeypots in JS and CSS I've been dealing with this over at golfcourse.wiki for the last couple years. It fucking sucks. The good news is that all the idiot scrapers who don't follow robots.txt seem to fall for the honeypots prett
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by scoofy 2y ago
If you really believe this, just go full bore and get a swingless golf club: https://youtu.be/MGpg8rclilc?si=S-vEbbtk3RWMAkg6
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by scoofy 2y ago
No, for golf at least, it completely changes the way the game is played for even amateurs.
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by scoofy 2y ago
This is so ridiculously naive. It's happening in every single major city in America.
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by scoofy 2y ago
I assure you we are kindred spirits. I started writing about golf as someone who was just a bit embarrassed to like golf because nobody was writing about golf from a skeptical position. My blogs name is “Wigs on the Green” because that’s an
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by scoofy 2y ago
It's really not. You can absolutely change your strategy based on what the other player is doing.
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by scoofy 2y ago
By "finesse" I just mean that the sweet spot is to small to consistently hit with a full powered swing, so by doing that, you're taking a huge risk. That's the way it was in the 70's, but it's just not that way
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by scoofy 2y ago
>Golf is essentially a single player game that you play against yourself. With modern golf, yes. This is only because of the advent of television. Match-play used to dominate the game, and is still advocated my many (myself included), wh
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by scoofy 2y ago
When baseball starts taking multiple days to finish a game, I'll obviously change my tune. I just think the scope of cricket is a unique and bizarre one.
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by scoofy 2y ago
That’s exactly what has happened. The real issue is that it’s materially changed what the game is about .
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by scoofy 2y ago
I used to attend round rock express games a lot. The problem is because they are a minor league team, it doesn’t matter if they are good or bad. There is no one to root for because their best players are all just sent up to the majors. It l
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by scoofy 2y ago
>The data show It's the clubs and everyone knows it but nobody wants to admit it because the club manufacturers are the money behind the game. You give a pro a persimmon driver and 70's blades and it doesn't matter if they
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by scoofy 2y ago
I don't disagree with any of this, I'm just saying that we know where this goes. It's just an arms races if you let it become one. If the pitching is getting too good, make it harder to pitch. >In short, you would rather h
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by scoofy 2y ago
There are plenty of associations who do this: https://worldhickoryopen.com/ I still play with my grandfather's persimmon clubs about 25% of the time. It's just a coordination problem... but once the dominant profe
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by scoofy 2y ago
If the pitchers are getting too good, just make it harder to pitch. Don't make it easier to hit better pitches. Golf is also an arms race too. Look at the lengths of golf courses over the last 50 years. It's comical. It used to be
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by scoofy 2y ago
I play golf. I write about golf. I genuinely love golf. Over the last 50 years, we have slowly broken the game of golf by allowing incremental technological advancements -- just like this -- that make it easier to do something that is hard,
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by scoofy 2y ago
The fact that all these kids likely missed a year or two of school because of COVID is explanatory.
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by scoofy 2y ago
>We didn’t get into the current situation because someone woke up and decided housing scarcity would be cool. I mean, in a way, we did. CEQA didn't become the monster that it is now because the California legislature intended to ena

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