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by uoaei 2y ago
Affordability, restrictive "open enrollment periods", simple lack of variety/choice in the plans being offered, etc. Surely you are not that naive, please carry yourself in these conversations with a modicum of self-respect.
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Can't wait to use the phrase "standard monetary dispute" the next time a collections agent threatens a family member with jail. That will show them.
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One of the rhetorical devices I despise the most is what I'll call "stranger in a strange land fallacy", the idea that we should re-litigate the most basic questions at the most basic level over and over and over because peop
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by uoaei 2y ago
It's okay if you are uncomfortable in morally ambiguous situations, the most moral thing to do in those circumstances is recuse yourself.
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Peak HN comment, especially with that username...
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The emotion part of your comment is just the love and the discomfort in the struggle, not the struggle itself nor any of the particular details.
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They're a pop news outlet, they assume that the average person isn't questioning the nature of sentience on a regular basis.
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That's exactly what "on alert" means.
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That sounds very much like the first-order reaction they'd expect from upper and middle management. Artificially high prices can give the buyer the feeling that they're getting more than they really are, as a consequence of the su
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The only people who need to be in on the conspiracy are those who 1) see through the superficial narrative and 2) have any power to change the course of its implementation. I suspect that list is quite small.
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Pixelspace is an awful place to be generating 3D assets and maintaining physical self-consistency.
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I think you'd be hard-pressed to make a case that VC-motivated business scaling does not consistently overinflate the businesses which are artificially propped up by investor cash. There are a bunch of companies, existing and dead, tha
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by uoaei 2y ago
> Do we default to public shaming anyone who says a word in defense of the person who is being sanctioned? Defaulting to public debate on the matter isn't as stark a difference from this behavior as we want to believe, especially
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by uoaei 2y ago
So you're saying the "Peter principle" extends beyond tech employee performance and to tech company funding.
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The view from inside a bubble
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Not necessarily, but it does reorient the incentive structures so that the desirable outcomes become unlikely.
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FWIW I'm the same, definitely sketched out by the thin pillars and lack of side airbags though. But I absolutely hate the GPS and presumably-always-on front- and rear-facing cameras.
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by uoaei 2y ago
Everyone chooses their own balance of bills. Personally (I'm not who you're replying to) I'm happy to pay more in rent and utilities if it means I can ride my bicycle most places instead of, say, being a 10-minute drive from
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Totally, bicycles are much more popular worldwide than heavy cars that have little regard for the safety of pedestrians.
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Asphalt is a petroleum product, so it's not irrelevant. But even so you're missing some physics in your comment. Considering that friction is symmetric, road wear implies tire wear and vice versa, at roughly the same order of magn
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Related: tire wear rate is proportional to (total weight / number of axles)^4. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_power_law This has serious implications for the future of automobile development in the age of
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Bikes have completely different needs and are very light compared to cars. It's apples to oranges.
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Bothsidesism has crept into ... US counterintel agitprop?
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Some people just assume that legal == good. Too many of them comment on conundrums of morality without making that clear.
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I suspect you can dig into any metric here and find that they are explicitly determined in terms of an assumption of underlying normality.
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Interpreting one thing as another thing does not imply the inverse. The order in the original quote matters.
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> It’s an emergent ... property in a sufficiently used system This is also a sufficient description of "social contract" for this context.
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When I'm on multi-day trips, planning on my phone is the only option. I usually plan only a couple days ahead and refresh the route based on that day's detours and activities.
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I for one think it's good that countries don't constantly meddle in the domestic affairs of their neighbors. Yes this is cherry-picking but consciously so, to point out the absurdity of the premise.
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There's an additional aspect to the dynamics, which is that the social spaces you put yourself in change the landscape to discourage deviancy from the norm. You become like the people you spend time with.

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