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by sershe 4y ago
I have no idea where you got the impression I had age in mind. Most people commute between suburbs and cities, and this commute data is averages (and broken down by state, too - some states don't have many hip cities) - not people taki
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1) There are statistics that show the same is true for most workers. Commutes are 20-40 minutes. Most of those for whom this is not true either have uncommon priorities and trade-offs, are poor, are actively planning to move, or are just st
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by sershe 4y ago
Seattle is #18. At peak rush hour it is 30-40mins, the main reason being that it's across a giant bottleneck of a bridge that also has ongoing construction; driving to suburbs that are not directly across the bridge would be faster. Bu
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Well, statistically most of people don't live "out there". To live out there is a choice... like, I know people who live in a mountain town because hiking/climbing is walking distance, or people who live in the country c
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by sershe 4y ago
I commute from a large-ish city to its suburb, my commute is 15-18 minutes. Anecdotes are not data... average commute in the US is like 20-30mins. I suspect most people who can be fully remote (i.e. are not in service industry) can afford t
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1) Doing something is better than failing to do everything. I was accumulating notes on useful low-pri habits to have / things I maybe want to do for like 7 years, hardly doing any of them. Sometimes I'd try to do all of them - st
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What is a median private school tuition? I doubt it's very high, I know someone who taught in an extremely wealthy-focused and exclusive private school and the tuition was $35k/year. In contrast, New York state schools appear to s
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To be fair, you have to remember as far as cultural changes, trends etc. is concerned the life for the entire period was pretty static by modern standards. The notion of progress, and especially the widespread expectation that things will g
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A combination of (0) having disposable income, as you said, but also (1) lots of free time to browse social media, which in combination with making money might mean maybe not working so hard; (2) low enough standards to spend a lot of free
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Why not? I don't mean literally clone, I mean if everyone had my level of commitment and aversion to initiating violence. Communism/anarchism wouldn't work cause I'm lazy, I would take all I need as long as I can, but wo
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by sershe 4y ago
You are comparing an idealized version of one system with reality-fied version of another; the an-cap that Rothbard was describing doesn't have much private repression by the wealthy. Idealized to idealized, they are all great. FWIW in
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"Capitalism is a system dependent on perpetual GDP growth" is it? If it is, why does GDP matter - GDP is a highly abstract metric, so what is the underlying thing that capitalism needs? And to the extent that it exists, is it uniq
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I don't think consumerism and capitalism are related in this way. Consumerism just happens to be what people want to do. Capitalism as a better substrate allows people to do more of what they want to do... people in different systems (
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Yeah, if everyone was like me, I bet AnCap would work (very different from most-common versions of anarchism, and in my view, the only non-morally-repugnant one - but still impractical). Heck I bet if you could clone some saints old-school
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by sershe 4y ago
Of course it's possible, it existed before capitalism and had tons of mutual aid and resilience. It's called "subsistence farming". Without surplus extraction + capital accumulation, it was always stuck at low equilibriu
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by sershe 4y ago
Something similar was already done in Soviet Union with glass containers (standard for obvious reasons) - instead of being recycled the usual way, they were washed and reused, so you could return them for a non-trivial fee[1]. I wonder if t
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by sershe 4y ago
After some research, no :( Well, not for me. There currently seems to be a gulf between "you don't own your data" and "you have to solder a bunch" options.
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The main one, perceiving successful people and material success as not being bad/morally unacceptable. I would have said 15 years ago it's really specific to growing up in Russia or the like, but I think it's getting more and
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I thought we were all about making it easier for felons to reintegrate into society? ;)
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My favorite reference point for Javascript use is simple-HTML version of GMail. It's a webapp and it works fine with ~0 javascript. Is your thing more complicated than GMail? If yes, maybe you can use Javascript in proportion to how mu
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by sershe 4y ago
GMail manages to implement a pretty complicated app without Javascript (their simple HTML mode) and it works just fine, on anything other than my gaming PC it's faster to use and I prefer it. And we are comparing it to Gmail itself, on
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It's much more simple than that - vast majority of the world has become rich or richer by using more energy (almost a tautology), and vast majority of energy is produced from fossil fuels. Fossil fuels are still for the most part the s
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A good summary on Hickel: https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/against-hickelism "Very few people know how to build/grow anything end to end. Consumerism appears to be the only way to live in the West right now
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"I am...glad you were able to afford expensive private schooling to shield your kid from the effects of the ~~deadly pandemic that led to more than a million deaths in the US?"~~ misguided public policies that are even more unreas
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by sershe 4y ago
I think the notion of enclosed area without any traffic that is not local just works at any scale. In US, there's (very rarely) courtyard housing. Where I grew up, it looks like this: https://www.bing.com/maps?osid=38aa
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Ah, the advantages of the cloud devices. I guess my next device monitor will be fully offline
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by sershe 4y ago
Since they added "Access denied" for misbehaving browsers, can they instead serve them some sort of bad response that will "surface" issue to the users? Depending on what would work better and cost less... (1) a small li
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Except Houston is a fast-growing city, and Gary is a dying city. Houston managed to keep housing affordable while growing faster than most/all major cities.
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One thing I did that really, really didn't work is buying a lot of bond funds. Just buying a lot of individual bonds seemed too complicated, so I did that and apparently bond funds don't behave like bonds and just go down on senti
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by sershe 4y ago
One of the reasons users don't care is that they have no expectations of quality. It's painful to watch non-tech people use software written by incompetent developers, like Teams. You'd literally see someone type, then Teams

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