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by scoofy 2y ago
I literally just finished The Return two days ago, because the Blank Check Podcast, a very long form podcast about filmographies that I love, is covering Lynch. The fact that The Return exists at all is amazing. The fact that it is not wh
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by scoofy 2y ago
>Eraserhead is highly watchable It is a film explicitly designed to be unpleasant. This may be artistically interesting, but it's certainly no going to appeal to most people.
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by scoofy 2y ago
The issue isn't that it's a health risk directly, it's just the result of some very reasonable principals. The "Delaney Clause" in the Food Additives Amendment of 1958 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act
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by scoofy 2y ago
That's just not true. Russian Hill has plenty of highrises that were built in the 1970s : https://maps.app.goo.gl/LukSfpMG5DnumTL79 The point isn't that LA should force the area to be highrises. The point is th
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by scoofy 2y ago
Eraserhead is borderline unwatchable. I love David Lynch, sort of, but without telling people that they're about to sit down and watch an hour-and-a-half of what is effectively an unwatchable piece of avant-garde cinema, then they&#x27
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by scoofy 2y ago
"You can't build dense buildings on a mountain side" What are you talking about?!? Downtown San Francisco has easily 4x the density of the area and it's built on mountains. Italy has dense villages on the sides of mounta
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by scoofy 2y ago
This isn't even that surprising. It's been a controversial food additive banned in various countries basically my entire life, and I'm in my 40s.
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by scoofy 2y ago
I think the reason why Twitter is problematic isn't Musk, but is directly related to the structure of Twitter , thus Bluesky will eventually inherit exactly the same problems. The underlying issue is that the structure of these servic
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by scoofy 2y ago
>That would set a terrible precedent. The existing precedent is the National Flood Insurance Program. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Flood_Insurance_Progr...
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by scoofy 2y ago
My understanding is that it entirely possible that the FAIR plan might be bailed out by the Feds.
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by scoofy 2y ago
No. The insurance companies won't cover these houses. They called it an "insurance crisis" and then made a state insurance system which will likely go bankrupt and have to be bailed out because of this fire: https:/&#x2
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by scoofy 2y ago
Climate Change may aggravate it a bit, but it's not the underlying cause. The root cause is that Southern California is just severely fire prone: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santiago_Canyon_Fire The Santiago Can
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by scoofy 2y ago
The California FAIR Plan will almost certainly be bankrupted by this event, and then will almost certainly be bailed out by the state... which will be a direct subsidy.
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by scoofy 2y ago
I significant amount of the homes destroyed were "uninsurable" which they called an "insurance crisis" and they created an insurer-of-last-resort called the California FAIR Plan, which was socialized fire insurance: htt
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by scoofy 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_hazard
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by scoofy 2y ago
Not to be pedantic, but this is exactly the scenario when you want to use the median or mode, not the average. Incomes are power law distributed, so one H1B or non-H1B borderline executive could be throwing off the average non-trivially.
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by scoofy 2y ago
"is a crank" is really far from "has some controversial or heterodox views" I'm not arguing that everything Lustig says is correct, on the contrary, I've gone out of my way to criticize him. My point in this
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by scoofy 2y ago
You're attributing extreme claims without citation or context.
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by scoofy 2y ago
>While people often choose “diet” or “light” products to lose weight, research studies suggest that artificial sweeteners may contribute to weight gain. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2892765/ Again…
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by scoofy 2y ago
What are you talking about?!? He's not some random dude, he's a specialist and professor, at UCSF: https://pediatrics.ucsf.edu/people/robert-lustig >sugar is addictive >>The evidence supports the hyp
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by scoofy 2y ago
I mean, so, right away, debt service is 17% of their budget. That should immediately be a red flag. Is it the end of the world? Of course not, but that's a non-trivial part of the budget that is dedicated to interest alone which strong
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by scoofy 2y ago
Thanks! Like I said, yes, the style could easily be improved, but it's really difficult to spend time on that when I'm working so hard on the backend. It's a low priority, even if it's a bad first impression for some p
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by scoofy 2y ago
I'm very interested in any citations you have about where they are wrong. Not because I'm trying to nerdsnipe, but genuinely because their thesis seems incredibly plausible, and would explain the development pattern in North Ameri
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by scoofy 2y ago
I've built https://golfcourse.wiki with heavy use of htmx. Yes, my site appears a bit clunky (this is intentional), but as a solo, full stack developer working on a personal project, I wanted things to be stipped down and f
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by scoofy 2y ago
Strong Towns writes about a lot of this stuff. America loves to build but are loathe to care about maintenance. Something as simple as municipal cash accounting (instead of double entry accounting) is how tons of cities are finding themselv
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by scoofy 2y ago
I studied philosophy in college and grad school, mainly because I was raised extremely religious and couldn't figure out what was real and what was bullshit. Every time I read something like this I think to myself 'just please go
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by scoofy 2y ago
If you play golf and like wikis, please do me a solid and add your course (no matter how small) to https://golfcourse.wiki It was a covid project of mine, and it's growing even if many people don't know that it exists.
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by scoofy 2y ago
I think there are plenty of folks, like myself, that are pro-gun but anti-assault rifle, or at least anti- guns-in-public-life. There is a basis for the second amendment, and that is a defense against tyranny, but that means we're talk
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by scoofy 2y ago
Again, it doesn't matter if one person owns 1000 houses or 500 people own two and rent one of them. The incentive system is to increase the shortage, and without addressing that incentive then the population of homeowners (most of th
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by scoofy 2y ago
My point isn't that I don't think a luxury tax isn't a horrible idea, I just don't think it'll solve the problem. If there is a profitable way to remove housing to create a shortage, there is an economic incentive f

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