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by sershe 5y ago
It has much less to do with inequality, and much more with zoning patterns in North America (and few other countries). I am not so sure about that, but it may actually be reverse - the richer people may choose to live far away, and drive, i
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by sershe 5y ago
What if they disagree with you on whether it's bad for society?
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A typical thing they do in less developed countries where tap water is decent but not quite reliable enough is either install an in-line filter for drinking water, or get a pitcher filter (like a Brita).
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by sershe 5y ago
Lol, now I'm getting silently downvoted. Come on, tell me which specific statement from my post (or the GP post) is false, or non-factual and doesn't contribute to the discussion :D
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by sershe 5y ago
Heh, I don't understand why you are getting downvoted (well I do, but it's not a charitable interpretation). Yep, totally agree - people are not entitled to buy a house wherever they want. At least before the money printer went br
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by sershe 5y ago
> Since no one is perfect, it is so easy to find such a person, that it is every person. Nope, that is a vacuous statement. Some people contribute more, some people contribute less - again, trivial to demonstrate, let's say I contri
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by sershe 5y ago
That is somewhere between 3 and 4.
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There are 4 broad scenarios according to which (or a combination thereof) the climate emergency will develop: 1) In a giant case of prisoners' dilemma, the humanity will coordinate worldwide and rise to the occasion, massively cut emis
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by sershe 5y ago
One of the previous years AQI 246 (in SF) was compared to smoking 11 cigarettes a day by some researchers. Assuming you do literally nothing to avoid it, 500 must be like smoking a ~pack a day. That is a typical, easy to track volume for ma
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Genuine question: does old-style insulation not help? From when I was a kid I remember that a log house built using 60ies village technology (realistically probably more like 19th century technology), insulated with something stuffed in the
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Can't find it now, but this is probably based on a study/studies that I've seen that showed that lack of vitamin D is correlated with bad things, but supplementation doesn't fix the bad things nearly as much as you would
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by sershe 5y ago
Well, apparently you are using a very exotic definition of "quality of life", especially in the original context (of the states increasing the quality of life). For any specific improvement in quality of life, as it is commonly un
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Shadow Empire I think tries to model that, but I cannot tell if it's really bare-bones or if it just isn't surfaced enough so it looks too simplistic and you rarely interact with it, other than using political power to boost priva
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by sershe 5y ago
Well, if housing construction cannot keep up it would balance out the quality of life, right? People will move as long as negative QOL delta from expensive housing is, in their view, less than positive QOL delta from other sources. As for t
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by sershe 5y ago
Is this supposed to be a trick question? For example, if you tax people and build a highway (or a rail line), someone driving on it/riding it but not paying taxes does not contribute to this particular QOL improvement. Generally, there
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by sershe 5y ago
In my view, having executive agencies propose rules to congress would have been a much better solution. Why is prescriptive administrative state (i.e. outside of expert analysis that informs the decisions of others) "necessary"?
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It would only punish the states who would attempt to increase the quality of life for people who don't contribute to said quality. Why would others be worried? The more people move in, the better.
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Can't find it :( It was a self-hosted web app though, so it's probably not that useful anymore. I'm pretty sure 3 generations of web stacks were created, over-hyped and deprecated since I wrote it ;)
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by sershe 5y ago
+1 on this... My serial distraction until I finally switched to paper was writing TODO apps for myself, then abandoning them. The only one that worked well for an extended period of time would literally show you one task to do. You could do
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by sershe 5y ago
Very few people really devote their life to a corporation, at least as far as I can tell. It's either just a job to pay the bills (for most people), or an exciting project that you easily switch from when it suits you (if you are in te
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by sershe 5y ago
Interesting, my take was always diametrically opposite, that if it has any meaning at all it's the allegory for getting converted to a collectivist religion or an ideology. Zombies are not really selfish - I mean, if you were chasing o
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by sershe 5y ago
I had the same experience in Spain... we were doing some climbing around Costa Blanca and parked/walked along a few random stretches of highway and they are all covered in trash thrown from cars. That was really surprising, I had a ste
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by sershe 5y ago
The proper name for "perpetuate injustice without racist intent" is "classism". It can happen in homogeneous countries just as well.. in fact, I grew up in Russia surrounded 99% by other white slavs, and I'm super
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by sershe 5y ago
1) As for replacing the cake with "healthy food you enjoy", that is exactly my point. You start with what works. Then out of that you can choose what you enjoy. So, you don't eat tons of cake because that's what you enjo
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It's kinda sad that this is the top comment. Why would that be true, as in, why would enjoyment mean anything here? Most people enjoy eating cake, I sure do, but it's probably a negative to their long term health and well-being. F
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by sershe 5y ago
Why exactly is it insanity? I like the 3 strikes better (my only concern is drug crime and other non-crime) - 3 separate occasions of disregarding others' most basic rights establish a clear pattern; the society reciprocates by not res
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by sershe 5y ago
1) Ngo is not white. I read his book and saw nothing there about "white supremacy". [edit] Ok, except maybe a biased take on Arbery murder in particular. Which doesn't really have much to do with anything systemic, or with mo
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by sershe 5y ago
1) No, they don't "need" to be able to rent a 2-bedroom. 2-bedroom is a luxury in most of the world, either because well, it is, or because housing is equity-focused and therefore shitty (case in point is me growing up in the
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by sershe 5y ago
I dunno, I am in the GP camp. I find even the most wasteful pastimes enjoyable, like videogames; recently, I noticed I don't enjoy them as much (compared to e.g. college days or even when I had more relaxing jobs) and after some reflec
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by sershe 5y ago
I don't understand why paternity leave is even a thing, anywhere. Having children in the first world is an environmentally destructive hobby, as selfish as any other. Sure, go for it, I don't mind - but why should we subsidize it?

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