sprucevoid

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by sprucevoid 4y ago
> So why now? From my reading of degrowth works the answer is: because now the global resource use induced by growth have accumulated enourmous negative externality costs, costs that will nedlessly increase further unless counteracted by
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by sprucevoid 4y ago
> You don’t have a fundamental right to moderate my growth, against my wishes — but I do have a fundamental right to seek growth. No, neither is a fundamental right. Because both growth and degrowth as a national policy (or global intern
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by sprucevoid 4y ago
Those preferences are greatly shaped by inequality and status consumption. Change the institutional backdrop (which degrowth policy aims to do) and the preferences change. Robert Frank's work is great on much luxury consumption is cont
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by sprucevoid 5y ago
That hotkey only opens the graphical overlay to take a screenshot. So not silent and additional steps required.
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by sprucevoid 5y ago
That hotkey only opens the graphical overlay to take a screenshot. So not silent and additional steps required.
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by sprucevoid 5y ago
I wish Firefox would natively let us silently take full page screenshots from a keyboard shortcut. It is (currently) a three click operation, but they seem to change the steps and graphics for it every year or so.
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by sprucevoid 5y ago
> In practice, progressive tax curves and incentive programs let politicians meddle. Is there cross-country comparative empirical evidence for that? My hunch is that very obscure tax curves (trapezoids and what not with layers of ad hoc
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by sprucevoid 5y ago
Yes to per-person guaranteed income. No to flat income (or wealth) tax (progressivity is better so no good reason to switch to something worse). Revenue neutrality: only if, and to the extent, it makes it makes the policy package easier to
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by sprucevoid 5y ago
> I do wonder if this has an effect of encouraging the segments of society that don't plan so well From the POV of climate destruction the segments that don't plan so well, or to put it more bluntly, who plan and act so badly t
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by sprucevoid 5y ago
Robert Frank's progressive consumption tax proposal, https://archive.ph/AXDkQ Another alternative is flat consumption taxes on climate damaging products combined with general wealth taxation and cash redistribution to
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by sprucevoid 5y ago
Not only, but single biggest. find won't do, but I'd be happy if either ANGRYsearch or FSearch one day reached feature parity with Everything.
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by sprucevoid 5y ago
Both speed and GUI matters (to me). ANGRYsearch and FSearch come closest on Linux, but they're still far off and the upcoming Everything 1.5 (in alpha) widens the gap.
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by sprucevoid 5y ago
Everything[0], instant NTFS file search on Windows. The thing keeping me from using Linux on my main home PC. [0] https://www.voidtools.com/
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by sprucevoid 5y ago
To me that page is very confusing. Feels like I'm reading a single person's private brainstorm notes rather than a documentation.
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by sprucevoid 5y ago
Airtable makes most money from pro/business use cases and that's what alternatives mentioned here compete for. But consider personal/family use: Recipe collections, inventories, todo, personal project planning and tracking, .
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by sprucevoid 5y ago
Excellent. I hoped for a similar VS Code extension but found none. There's only Banner comments[0] to ease converting a string to large ASCII letters inline. [0]: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=heyi
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by sprucevoid 5y ago
Nice. Though it makes me think it would be nice to have this as a built in code editor minimap feature without the multi line ASCII code. The editor would parse special tags in comments and overlay the minimap with the tag text in big lette
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by sprucevoid 5y ago
Your "obvious magnitude difference between the two" is an interpersonal wellbeing comparison claim, the thing you earlier thought impossible. Progress. "A more interesting question from the utilitarian perspective is ...&quot
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by sprucevoid 5y ago
I have already given simple examples of interpersonal wellbeing comparisons of a type that are both common-sense and in fact widely put to practical use in health care and risk migitation in all countries in the world. If you want to disput
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by sprucevoid 5y ago
You conflate the question of interpersonal wellbeing comparison with both adjacent and orthogonal issues I have said nothing about (level of precision, mathematical modeling, deontic criteria, ...). What I describe is practiced daily in hea
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by sprucevoid 5y ago
No, the OP claim "we do not assign any moral value to decreasing the well-being of those who are better off" is different from your claim "0 weight on those who are "better off", leaving all the weight for those wit
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by sprucevoid 5y ago
The suffering is only subjective in the sense that a particular migraine is generated in a particular brain where only one person, me the subject, has direct experience access to it. But migrains and brains are biological processes in a phy
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by sprucevoid 5y ago
A general utility claim: One person suffering from the severest form of migraine is bad. Two persons suffering from the severest form of migraine is twice as bad. Here's another: one person suffering from the severest form of migraine
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by sprucevoid 5y ago
> The "priority view" in this article is known as the "Kalai egalitarian bargaining solution" in economics and game theory, or the "Rawlsian" social welfare function No, that is a common misunderstanding, es
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by sprucevoid 5y ago
I suspect MeteorMarc meant 'euthanasia' in the philosophy sense of a death that is (a1) rationally planned over a period of time and (b1) in the dying persons overall interest. Which can be contrasted with 'suicide' in a
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by sprucevoid 5y ago
Bonus: Useful as a visual dictionary for us non-native english speakers.