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by tbrownaw 9mo ago
> Gambling isn’t a new problem, but apparently we thought it would turn out differently this time, for some vague unclear reason. The things I've seen have been either "it's not right to tell me not to" or "non
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by tbrownaw 9mo ago
> get like 250 miles or less range per charge. Still dramatically less than gas cars. My old '07 Focus would get about 260 or so miles between visits to the gas station.
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by tbrownaw 9mo ago
> doesn't need neck-snapping acceleration I thought this was mostly* a side-effect of electric motors inherently behaving differently than combustion motors. * Not that it can't be deliberately turned off since everything goe
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by tbrownaw 9mo ago
> You are far better off with people that can work together across the bridge, but that requires actual mutual trust and respect, and we’re not able to do that. Are you claiming it's fundamentally impossible for people to get alon
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by tbrownaw 9mo ago
And you do this honestly, by negotiating reduced hours for the same pay or by negotiating piecework rather than time-based pay. Right?
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by tbrownaw 9mo ago
There's also the problem that the logical basis is "two wrongs make a right" and the factual basis is unquantified personal anecdotes and disparate impact.
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by tbrownaw 9mo ago
Ibram Kendi wrote about how the only way to not be racist is to deliberately treat people differently based on their race. He was quite popular for this for a while. But also for the DEI thing specifically, what's going on is that obje
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by tbrownaw 9mo ago
> Maybe his corpse can identify as 'living'? Kind of like the opposite of spending a year dead for tax purposes?
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by tbrownaw 9mo ago
> The latter are core moral views, and we should not be so quick to dismiss them as merely political. Morality and politics and religion all have significant overlap.
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by tbrownaw 9mo ago
For example, the general attitude shift about Elon Musk following that cave rescue incident. Before that he could do no wrong, and after that he could do no right.
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by tbrownaw 9mo ago
It mocks diversity policies by presenting race as arbitrary and surface-level, rather than some deeply unchangeable thing that pervades every aspect of your being. Since diversity policies are a way to push back against judging people diffe
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by tbrownaw 9mo ago
Huh. I would have thought something like that would be in response to Rachel Dolezal, but the Wikipedia page for "Transracial (identity)" says her fifteen minutes of fame was way back in 2015.
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by tbrownaw 9mo ago
It also doesn't allow for the whole affirmative action / disparate impact approach, yet that's how it got applied in practice for quite a while.
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by tbrownaw 9mo ago
> [0] 80-90% of people describe themselves as an "above-average" driver. What shape is the distribution of driving ability? It seems entirely plausible that most drivers are decent and a smaller population are bad enough to p
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by tbrownaw 9mo ago
> As an outside observer of this beef tallow trend, it looks to me a lot like a fad driven by some internalized machismo: "It's not proper food if it's not from a dead animal." Well, it's a response to the gree
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by tbrownaw 10mo ago
I kinda want some just 'cause it's cool, with the only problem being that I haven't been able to find an excuse to justify (to myself) needing it.
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by tbrownaw 10mo ago
> only Romance language ...But we're (mostly) not one?
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by tbrownaw 10mo ago
> That doesn’t mean “free as in beer,” but “free as in speech.” It occurs to me that this is a rather US-centric analogy.
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by tbrownaw 10mo ago
From https://lmarena.ai/how-it-works : > In battle mode, you'll be served 2 anonymous models. Dig into the responses and decide which answer best fits your needs. It's not a given that someone's needs are
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by tbrownaw 10mo ago
> Firstly, paying is not at all the correct incentive for the desired outcome. When the incentive is payment, people will optimize for maximum payout not for the quality goals of the system. 1. I would expect any paid arrangement to in
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by tbrownaw 10mo ago
Not unless we decide that personal mobility is evil, and start just assigning people to plots of land when they reach adulthood.
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by tbrownaw 10mo ago
I think the idea is that nobody would prefer to rent if given a choice, and that everybody could afford to own if not for the presence of landlords in the market.
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by tbrownaw 10mo ago
When this doesn't make anything better, the conclusion won't be that it was a bad idea but that it somehow didn't go far enough.
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by tbrownaw 10mo ago
Sure it can be an investment even with no capital gains, there's still income from charging rent.
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by tbrownaw 10mo ago
> It's fine to ban big banks from buying homes and wont do damage to the nation It makes things slightly worse for people who want a non-apartment house but think they might move soon.
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by tbrownaw 10mo ago
> because there's one extremely obvious way to lower the price of building new housing: Reducing or eliminating tariffs on construction equipment and materials and ensuring a robust supply of low-cost labor. Oh I thought the one e
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by tbrownaw 10mo ago
So if you aren't staying long enough to want to deal with a mortgage, you'll be stuck with an apartment only?
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by tbrownaw 10mo ago
> A pervasive belief in scaling has resulted in a massive windfall in capital for industry labs and fundamentally reshaped the culture of conducting science in our field. People spend money on this because it works . It seems odd to c
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by tbrownaw 10mo ago
One good way to make screen time (online; video games) slightly less unhealthy is a standing desk.
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by tbrownaw 10mo ago
> Note that I am not defending this decision (nor the usage of the glyph today). One could argue that historians should use a special font that can render these two glyphs, but the problem is likely a lot more subtle than I am thinking.

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