teakettle42

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by teakettle42 4y ago
You’re either woefully confused, blatantly lying, or have lived an incredibly and uniquely sheltered existence in some sort of enclave of wealth and privilege. > Do you seriously believe that there's some kind of omnipotent bike the
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by teakettle42 4y ago
How many years have you spent in NYC as an independent adult?
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by teakettle42 4y ago
Low-level quality of life crimes are a constant; I seriously doubt you haven’t been the victim of similar crime.
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by teakettle42 4y ago
> Unless you're saying that people in New York disproportionately don't report crime that doesn't change much about the rankings. People in New York don’t report crime that disproportionately occurs in places like New York
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by teakettle42 4y ago
124 pedestrians in one of the most walked cities in the world, with a total population of 8.38 million, an additional 2+ million daily work commuters, tourists, and other visitors? That’s effectively zero.
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by teakettle42 4y ago
The numbers do lie, though. When I first moved to NYC, it was a wet, slushy winter. My wife left her shoes outside our apartment door to dry off overnight, in a locked building with about 12 other units. By 7am the next morning, they’d va
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by teakettle42 4y ago
> If you have a ton of figures and not a ton of equations it’s not the best choice to use latex. Strong disagree; wysiwyg editing in Word is an exercise in endless frustration, and Word’s typesetting and fonts are so ugly that it’s painf
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by teakettle42 4y ago
My main concern with rented cloud software for this space is that it seems like a great way to lose access to editing your own past a academic/technical work.
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by teakettle42 4y ago
Sure. Why not? Make a cogent argument for the idea. I’ll disagree, of course, but in the exceedingly unlikely event that you present a strong argument, it’s still an opportunity to hone my own counter-argument.
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by teakettle42 4y ago
Manner restrictions are different than content restrictions. There’s speech that doesn’t fit the community’s guidelines in terms of the manner it is expressed, but I don’t believe there are any ideas that should not be tolerated here.
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by teakettle42 4y ago
> What does "attrition" mean? People killed in car crashes? Yes > How could that not be a net loss? Is every human a net-positive to society? Obviously an objective measure is impossible to establish, but I doubt everyone is
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by teakettle42 4y ago
Nobody needs a gun to commit suicide. In countries where guns are less available, they use hanging or poison. Putting that aside, it’s not our role to forcibly limit the choices of healthy, responsible people just because some unhealthy, un
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by teakettle42 4y ago
> If you could systematically reduce the speed on all urban/suburban streets to no more than 20 mph (actual driving speed, not posted limit), it would be a huge safety win for humans living in those places. What evidence is there th
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by teakettle42 4y ago
None of those features require a cloud vendor with access to your calendar data or Map history. The solution isn’t to pretend abusive data collection is safe if the only thing protecting against misuse is one law. The solution is to stop ab
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by teakettle42 4y ago
> If you start taking pride in the state updates, the endless meetings and approach that part of your work with the same pride you would approach coding then you may find some of the stress disappears as instead of always fighting the sy
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by teakettle42 4y ago
> A society is not going to backstop the lack of a virtuous government by regressing its technological resources. Prioritizing privacy would not be a regression. The regression was the constant erosion of privacy and ownership in pursuit
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by teakettle42 4y ago
Would you mind sharing how you do this without making it awkward for the recipient or a spectacle? I’ve never been able to work that part out.
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by teakettle42 4y ago
> If people are to work all kinds of jobs at all levels of income there, then people at all income levels should be able to live there as well. Why should taxpayers subsidize employers unwilling to pay a living wage?
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by teakettle42 4y ago
> One constitutional expert warned that the carve-outs undermine the notion that everyone is equal before the law A monarch is unequal under the law by definition. This editorial seems to be arguing there’s a distinct “private persona” t
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by teakettle42 4y ago
What if you literally cannot build more supply than the demand? What if there’s a feedback loop between building more supply and increased (induced) demand?
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by teakettle42 4y ago
Apple unequivocally does not do active A/B testing on their users by changing applications or the operating system out from under them.
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by teakettle42 4y ago
First, we still need plumbers, painters, and tradesmen of all sorts. Second, not everyone is equipped to earn a PhD by significantly advancing our knowledge in a useful field. In fact, the majority of people are not. Third, the demand for
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by teakettle42 4y ago
If that’s the kind of tyrannical state and use of a monopoly on violence you aspire to, sure.
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by teakettle42 4y ago
Uber’s behavior was well-known from 2014-2018. I never even considered them for employment. Do you want a gold star for taking a job at an immoral company, exiting that SF tech cesspool because of “inequality”, doing a runner to a comfortab
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by teakettle42 4y ago
The state’s job isn’t to enforce prior restraint on others who have done nothing to violate your rights.
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by teakettle42 4y ago
The roads we mutually pay for belong to us collectively, too.
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by teakettle42 4y ago
> May I steal this, please? Of course. Glad it was cogent enough to be useful.
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by teakettle42 4y ago
Sounds like a good reason to create protected “no turn on red” crosswalks. The state’s monopoly on violence should be used judiciously and sparingly to secure our individual rights, not as a catch-all tool for coercing (or outright forcing)
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by teakettle42 4y ago
> I'm against repeating the mistakes my grandparents made, in all their ignorance. You’re making the exact same mistake by rejecting today’s an attainable but imperfect solution in favor of an unattainably perfect one. The end resul
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by teakettle42 4y ago
That’s not what decommissioning means and what you’re asking for is childishly ridiculous. How, by your definition, would you decommission the coal and gas plants we’ve been running for forty years while people like yourself threw ignorant

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