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by shantly 7y ago
> But, you like accessing content for free, correct? Meh. The best online content's fully paid, donationware (Wikipedia), or simply free. 100% of the ad-supported stuff could go away tomorrow and my quality of life would suffer not
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by shantly 7y ago
Discovery (if it's not on Amazon it doesn't exist, to many online shoppers—no, seriously) convenience (I already have an Amazon account) and confidence (yes Amazon is a shitty flea market at this point, but they're a shitty f
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by shantly 7y ago
> If people lose confidence in the system because of that it’s because they can’t multiply. Elizabeth Warren’s new health plan will cost $50 trillion over ten years. Middle class Americans make $8 trillion a year, compared to about $130
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by shantly 7y ago
Anyone living actually out in the country has already been driving 30-60min each way a couple times a month for "major shopping" including groceries, and maybe gardening or raising some livestock to supplement that if they'
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by shantly 7y ago
Better to subsidize moving these folks to rural "cities" where the stores are if you're going to be spending the money, right? Unless you're also discouraging more people from moving out into the sticks unless they can a
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by shantly 7y ago
There's more worry with kids, in my experience, by a long shot. More responsibility. Less crushing grind (though lots, to be clear). And it's better motivated than high school, that having a disorienting and disheartening mix of
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by shantly 7y ago
> she doesn’t understand why everyone else in the class can’t just listen the first time it’s explained Hey look, it's me! Make sure she knows how to study. And doesn't see needing to study as a sure sign of failure, and the
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by shantly 7y ago
To be fair you're lucky if murder-drug merely deals aggravated assault. The means by which the deadly weapon became possessed (who knew this was going to take a turn for the supernatural?) is pretty distasteful, though.
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by shantly 7y ago
I had a relatively easy high school experience compared to many—almost no physical bullying, very little bullying otherwise, ran with a couple friend groups outside my almost-the-nerdiest-bunch-but-not-quite primary group that had a kind of
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by shantly 7y ago
I truly don't know how to significantly improve the school experience for most kids short of just kicking out (or isolating) the bottom few percent, in terms of disruptiveness, violence, and GAF-ness, certainly by 6th or 7th grade, if
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by shantly 7y ago
We had a client one place I worked that liked to schedule 1-2hr meetings, never bring up the topic at hand, and then the three or four folks from their company would just chat things through on the phone with one another, mostly unrelated t
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by shantly 7y ago
Remote work saves me ~$300/month in extra child care, or else having to work so late that by the time I get home my kids are going to bed because the other option is not being able to reach an office until 9:30-9:45, by letting me get
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by shantly 7y ago
Hm. That actually raises a good point—how long until militaries can operate without gasoline and diesel? Or even significantly reduce their use? Hard to imagine anything competing with petroleum there in the mid-term future, which mean su
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by shantly 7y ago
Well sure they have the same capabilities from a certain perspective, in that both ultimately send data from a database to a client, but GraphQL does this entirely through a fairly free-form query language with either auto-generated or cust
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by shantly 7y ago
> My point is - exposing db over HTTP (REST, GraphQL, ...) is bad architectural design and idea. I'm with you that exposing a fairly free-form query language over HTTP seems like something that's gonna bite several someones in
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by shantly 7y ago
AFAIK this distribution of expenses is why "Medicare for all" isn't that much more expensive than just "Medicare + Medicaid" (which is to say, public health care spending as it exists already). Consider also how m
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by shantly 7y ago
To borrow and paraphrase Bertrand Russell's argument on the topic: Why do we see inherited titles as plainly unjust and undemocratic, but entertain inherited fortunes as just and compatible with democratic ideals?
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by shantly 7y ago
I think that's mostly as opposed to, say, tree-dwelling spiders... but then again, you know about ballooning, right? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballooning_(spider) Key quote: "Even atmospheric samples coll
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by shantly 7y ago
1) I don't need to keep up with the news at all ~355 days/yr to be an adequately informed voter. It's not like it takes that long to google a candidate and some issues and catch up on what you missed. 2) If we're going t
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by shantly 7y ago
May mean the MSN homepage. IE, maybe Edge (dunno) could have those set as the default.
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by shantly 7y ago
The heavier the vehicle, the more damage it does, ~exponentially. Freight trucks use more fuel (and so, fuel taxes) and have more fees and such but nowhere near enough to make up for the extra damage they do.
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by shantly 7y ago
K-12 school start times don’t flex. Before-care and dropping off early at daycare cost money.
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by shantly 7y ago
> It's such a waste of time that nowadays I just move up to the next price bracket where most products are made of real wool and/or cotton. Yeah, I found my sizing in a couple decent-ish brands that hardly deal in synthetic fab
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by shantly 7y ago
> There are interesting cases - like why someone who really can't afford a particular thing buys it anyway - but usually that sort of thing, in my experience, comes down to a type of stress that has them making suboptimal decisions
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by shantly 7y ago
> Why would anyone spend thousands of dollars on a Prada handbag, an Armani suit, or a Rolex watch? If you really need to know the time, buy a cheap Timex or just look at your phone and send the money you have saved to Oxfam. One issue i
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by shantly 7y ago
Shit, I remember most of the "bad stuff" in Debt predating capitalism by somewhere between centuries and millennia. Seems like a weird way to write it if its Secret Purpose was to be a long-winded hit piece on capitalism.
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by shantly 7y ago
I'm not sure any system's going to do better. There aren't a ton of people who are good at applying (let alone thinking up) systems such that they work effectively and as intended. Too many will slice up and build atop a syst
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by shantly 7y ago
4 would be great progress, but I see 3 days as the point where we've really won—when "your job" is no longer the dominant force in your life. When an ordinary working person can answer with something other than what they do
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by shantly 7y ago
Other cool things about git being "just a directory full of files": - you can put the git directory somewhere other than in your working directory, if you really want to. Or reference a bunch of .git directories in a series of com
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by shantly 7y ago
I've done exactly this ~4 years ago when I briefly worked at a place that used Subversion, after an acquisition. I wanted to be able to dick around in my own branches, with proper diffing and tracking and all, without updating the serv

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