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by trgn 4y ago
Yup, small conservations efforts can make a real difference. Leaving sections of our yard a little more wild, and bird and insect population went up, this includes lightning bugs, which we continue to get in abundance (we're in a reaso
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by trgn 4y ago
Agreed. I'd go a step further, there's a real-world heuristic that this implies. Initially, prefer to task CPU over memory allocation. Crufty allocation generally will always have a real negative impact felt by the end-user. A low
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by trgn 4y ago
> People simply refuse to sacrifice anything. This is because of two things: (1) fetishization of size, weight, speed. This is modernism, a monomaniacal obsession with measurements, a very infantile mindset. (2) self-preservation; People
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by trgn 4y ago
Upvoted since I agree with the sentiment, although at some point, real changes do start in our own lives. Less driving, smaller homes, abandoning those trashy free plastic bags in stores (wtf - I'm so sick of seeing plastic bag litter
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by trgn 4y ago
Aggressive rebalancing of portfolios in face of global uncertainty (supply chain, war, interest rate hikes/QT). Lots of handwringing, but sell-off of last 3-4 months has been extremely localized to growth tech. All the rest pretty OK.
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by trgn 4y ago
Is this really the case though? The annual check up is something that's been advocated a long time, 50s at least, and predates the obesity epidemic. The annual checkup is a symptom of a therapeutic view of health care, a view which can
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by trgn 4y ago
> sneer at people's misfortune, I wouldn't be surprised if this is mixed in. People love to see the mighty fall. I was surprised how much of the throwaway news filler in Europe is about random Florida-man stuff. Although, to me
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by trgn 4y ago
It's because he is critical of the work of his peers. Forcing someone to admit to dishonesty is a petty abuse of power. The board is effectively compelling him to grovel. "It's easy to find a stick to beat a dog" "S
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by trgn 4y ago
The great junk transfer is the flipside of the great wealth transfer. It's going to be massive, and only just starting.
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by trgn 4y ago
I love the distinction between stronger and weaker road users. With more power comes more responsibility, put into practice.
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by trgn 4y ago
tbf, I have no idea if catharsis through art has scientific evidence. It has pedigree though.
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by trgn 4y ago
We totally should.
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by trgn 4y ago
You die from the perforation wound and organ damage, not the impact.
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by trgn 4y ago
I think we're overextending the point a little, and apologies if my point did not get across well. What I wanted to illustrate was that those kind of speeds, in heavy vehicles, in cities, on surface streets, are negligent - spiritually
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by trgn 4y ago
The key part for me was: > [Lawyer] argued that Riad’s actions — driving 74 mph on a surface street — did not rise to “gross negligence” and should not be considered a felony. At that speed, the driver's momentum was around 67.000 k
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by trgn 4y ago
> I feel that if you live in a city you either understand that it's going to be somewhat noisy or you'll go insane This is the perfect Rorschach test. I refuse to accept this premise, that a city is noisy by default. The city i
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by trgn 4y ago
I think that is misreading the original comment. Skateboarding is antisocial because skateboarders are inflicting a noisy hobby on the neighbors. It has nothing to do with whether the skateboarder will make friends or not.
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by trgn 4y ago
This is a specific example of a more general critique of therapy, or at least, classical psycho-analytics. It conflates that moment of insight (the "breakthrough") with healing, similar to how making a big poop is hard work, but r
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by trgn 4y ago
This is thermodynamically inevitable, at least, according to this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth,_Virtual_Wealth_and_Deb... Storing wealth for later is one of the hardest things to do. It is an unsolved problem,
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by trgn 4y ago
It kind of baffles me that the critiques of modernism were already so comprehensive in the 70s, e.g. Wolfe wrt art and architecture, and then,... nothing really materially changed.
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by trgn 4y ago
Because Rembrandt is awesome. > Why would a genius deny themselves the license to be original? Because originality as a virtue is a fairly recent concept (post-WW1, after disintegration of the bourgeois order). Some artists reject that p
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by trgn 4y ago
> Art is about art That is a very modernist way of looking at it. I think art ceases to become art when it is self-referential. Art is truth, and great art can stand alone, divorced from context. > is driven towards art because they w
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by trgn 4y ago
You make the best point on this thread I think. Inflation numbers don't really correspond easily to quality of life or day2day expenses, especially if you're making well above what's required to afford the necessities. Gettin
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by trgn 4y ago
> The more the Fed distorts normal market signals, I don't see at all how the Fed is manipulating market signals. Public companies are an open book. We know at all times what their financial fundamentals are. Fed does not manipulate
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by trgn 4y ago
I think that's overextending the parent's point. Labor can certainly come out ahead. Market crashed (or at least tech did), and will likely continue to do so. If you're a rentier now, it doesn't mean you'll end up i
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by trgn 4y ago
> 99% of daily life proceeds under conditions of total anarchy, authority and security are entirely illusory and we pay incredible costs to maintain those illusions Those costs are totally worth it. I'd rather live in a nation with
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by trgn 4y ago
I agree with current zoning and permitting is harmful. I can't wait for a better urban life here, with services and amenities in proximity, which more homes closer together would enable. I don't think it will meaningfully reduce c
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by trgn 4y ago
Thanks, I'm sensitive to that, and it's a great point, in the US for sure the 2008 correction was felt for years. US will likely continue to see rate increases in the next couple years. We'll see if that is going to affect ho
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by trgn 4y ago
The US is rotating from housing as commodity investment to housing as intergenerational asset, something which has happened in a lot of other countries already (see e.g. Western Europe, mentioned in other comments here). House prices will r
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by trgn 5y ago
Slower speeds hoepfully. Imagine golf carts tottering around the city. That's the automated driving of the future. Not the current mad max roads, but with robots. Instead, some florida retiree town, but with robots.

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