snakeboy

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by snakeboy 4y ago
>...roads already exist and maintenance is extremely cheap. It’s paid for with gasoline taxes. According to [0] no state derives more than 71% of its "State & Local Road Spending" from gas taxes. Unclear to me what proport
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by snakeboy 4y ago
Try-hard edgy energy here. Just enjoy the day off dude.
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by snakeboy 4y ago
We're talking about postdocs though, which is a completely different population than college students. I found this [1] which estimates that 51% of US postdocs are foreign-born as of 2018. [1] https://elifesciences.org&#x2F
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by snakeboy 4y ago
Note the first in the saga is Au Bonheur des Ogres[1], or The Scapegoat in the English edition. [1] https://www.complete-review.com/reviews/pennacd/scapeg.htm
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by snakeboy 4y ago
I'd argue that usually the neighbors are people entirely removed from the skate boarding debate one way or the other. They just don't want excessive noise pollution outside their apartment (be it from skateboarders, mopeds, neigh
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by snakeboy 4y ago
> and will always vote Republican I'm not sure I would go that far. I can easily imagine a situation where the Republican party pulls out all the stops and ensures Trump doesn't win the nomination, only for Trump to run on the
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by snakeboy 4y ago
According to Gallup, the proportion of Americans who trust mass media a "great deal" or a "fair amount" dropped 10 percentage points during the Iraq war, and then never fully recovered. Of course, broken down by politica
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by snakeboy 5y ago
I haven't watched this video yet, but this channel "Soft White Underbelly" has some really incredible content especially around drug addiction in the US. Has helped me to humanize the headlines we see about the "opioid
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by snakeboy 5y ago
Perhaps it is still repeated since it's a good point. Although my impression is that most of the anti-woke bloggers/podcasters are hucksters looking to ride the polemic for fame and money rather than intellectually-interested in f
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by snakeboy 5y ago
Usually platonic roommates are less willing to share a one-bedroom, much less a studio.
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by snakeboy 5y ago
Just out of curiosity, is it considered best practice these days to use the gender-neutral "their" even with a specific subject (Obama) who is known to use masculine pronouns for himself?
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by snakeboy 5y ago
> Now, simple politically correct choice - stress or mRNA vaccines known for causing heart issues? Huh? You assume the vaccines cause heart issues, and use as evidence for concluding that vaccines cause heart issues...? Did I misunders
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by snakeboy 5y ago
Seems like they're pretty different cases, given how life-destroying opioid addiction is. Pushing vaccines is mostly just profiting by adding another layer of bureaucracy and annoyance into daily life. I'm not really more angry at
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by snakeboy 5y ago
It's also relatively standard practice in the US. Of course it's illegal "by the books" just like in France and some parts of the UK. At worst you'd probably get a fine if you get caught in a densely populated urb
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by snakeboy 5y ago
Wow, I had never seen that before. What a bizarre video with a forced tie-in of the whole manifest destiny idea with lunar missions (1976). It seems to completely ignore the reality of communities and society (and history, for that matter)
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by snakeboy 5y ago
These goals seem to me like progress towards a life well-lived. Good luck!
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by snakeboy 5y ago
17 year olds are known to not always act in their long-term rational self-interest.
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by snakeboy 5y ago
It feels wrong to me to group "consume" and "travel" together. Travel is legitimately a positive force for exposing people to new cultures, ideas, and wealth sharing, which in turn strengthens the global community. Of
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by snakeboy 5y ago
I've heard some positive reviews about gather.town[0] for virtual co-working, though I've never used it. The demos look cool though. It lacks the creative element of Minecraft though. I'm not sure to what extend the worlds
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by snakeboy 5y ago
I'm all for hating on Ajit, but from a cursory look at the prison case, the FCC just never really had the jurisdiction to regulate intrastate calls and repeatedly lost in court on that question. There was already a 50 cent cap on inte
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by snakeboy 5y ago
I don't think "eponymous" is the word you meant there.
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by snakeboy 5y ago
How did he deserve it exactly? They were being snarky, sure, but population-wide infection hospitalization rate is estimated around 2-3%, so yes , the vast majority of Covid cases were mild. That's not even a controversial statement
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by snakeboy 5y ago
Good thinking. When I cancelled it (No complaints, I just did one of the 12 week offers as it's too expensive for me in general) they made me go talk to a sales person in their chat room, and they actually put me on hold for ~20 minut
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by snakeboy 5y ago
I've spent a lot of time interviewing data scientists for an entry-level position lately, and it's pretty shocking to hear them describe their master's "capstone project", which often consists of a group project wit
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by snakeboy 5y ago
He's exaggerating (or maybe it's the case at UCSB), since it's usually only true for first year undergraduate (among "traditional" students starting right high school. I think older students usually live off campus
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by snakeboy 5y ago
And 90% of Twitter's problems would be solved if they weren't trying to be maximally "useful" to every single person on earth all the time. 10 hours was just an arbitrary number, but there are plenty of more creative sol
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by snakeboy 5y ago
Your example which is why everyone in this thread has been bending over backwards to emphasize that certain services (like medical ones) should aim for full reliability. Suppose twitter/reddit/HN shut down for 10 hours a day.
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by snakeboy 5y ago
> And we see that it clearly has a very negative impact overall so idk what kind of argument is that. You're talking about AC? Surely the climate dialogue hasn't devolved to the point of "uses energy == bad". We can r
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by snakeboy 5y ago
The marginal cost is basically zero per additional public transit user, no? If a city bus runs every 15 minutes, the ridership volume changes nothing up until some critical point is reached where another bus gets added to that route, or a
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by snakeboy 5y ago
Wow, that's awesome. Great work! For a simple test, I searched "fall of the roman empire". In your search engine, I got wikipedia, followed by academic talks, chapters of books, and long-form blogs. All extremely useful re

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