userabchn

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by userabchn 3y ago
It irritates me when people press the crosswalk button on quiet roads (where most of the time there is nothing coming, so you can just cross) before they have even looked to see if anything is coming. Most of the time they then cross immedi
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by userabchn 3y ago
I suggest that a substantial portion of that "socio-cultural-political climate" is due to foreign influence operations trying to amplify division for this purpose.
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by userabchn 3y ago
I think the foreign influence operations that aim to increase division in American society and promote equality of outcome are an attempt to counter it, not by outcompeting America but by hobbling it, seem to be somewhat effective.
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by userabchn 3y ago
But unfortunately it is the type of thing that, although obviously a superior solution, is unlikely to be adopted in the rest of the world. Where I live, as, I think, in most places, people would think you were very strange if you put those
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by userabchn 3y ago
Make corporation tax progressive, resulting in it being easier for small companies to compete with big ones, without requiring the government to decide what is and what isn't a monopoly.
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by userabchn 3y ago
As others have said, it was an enjoyable read, and I thank you (and everyone else involved) for caring. One small bit of feedback: I suggest being a bit more subtle about how much work you did. At times I wondered if you were telling us thi
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by userabchn 3y ago
The school that I went to buried a time capsule that was supposed to be opened in 25 years. When that time came around, some of the students present at the burial contacted the school the enquire about the opening, but no one at the school
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by userabchn 3y ago
It reminds me of works by Adam Curtis, especially The Power of Nightmares.
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by userabchn 3y ago
Where I live you had to be home to receive packages. If you weren't, you had to go to a distribution centre to collect them. During the pandemic it seemed to change, so now they just leave them at your front door, and it hasn't go
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by userabchn 3y ago
I think the more coherent thing to do would be to treat banks like other industries and not bail them out. Customers would then place their money in safer banks, discouraging banks from engaging in risky behaviour.
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by userabchn 3y ago
It demonstrates the ability to dedicate yourself to something and achieve success.
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by userabchn 3y ago
> Children of professors This is like people claiming that because a higher percentage of children of high earning parents become high earners, that they got an unfair advantage because their parents could pay for them to go to good scho
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by userabchn 3y ago
I think choices was meant to mean things like being able to choose between competing healthcare providers. Created and supported by big industry players that get them turned into law (and thus "government-imposed" - classic regula
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by userabchn 3y ago
I think the change in circumstances in some Middle Eastern countries has been even more dramatic. Places like Abu Dhabi were small towns with houses made of mud/palm fronds in the 1960s.
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by userabchn 3y ago
I would ideally like to be able to fit my whole life into a suitcase and be sufficiently free of commitments that if someone asked me to move to the other side of the world next week I could. I achieve this in my own life, but I share the f
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by userabchn 3y ago
I live on only a bit more than that myself. I batch cook all of my meals for the week on Sunday mornings. It's simple food, all made from raw ingredients. I don't eat any sandwiches, though, since bread is usually highly processed
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by userabchn 3y ago
Is "wealth" the right comparison when you are talking about affording rent and food? I think it is spending that matters. There is an approximately fixed amount of land in the world, an approximately fixed amount of housing and fo
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by userabchn 3y ago
Reducing the burden for those filing their taxes is nice, but an effect of simplifying the tax code that I am more interested in is that it restricts the power of the government (and so the reduces the attractiveness of lobbying politicians
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by userabchn 3y ago
I was once at a restaurant beside a girl and her parents and a friend of the parents. All were American, but the girl, who had just returned from spending one semester at a university in England, spoke with a strong RP accent. Similarly I m
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by userabchn 3y ago
I think landowners should declare a value for their property, that is used for taxation, but also allows anyone to immediately buy the land from you at that price. This would allow rival road companies to quickly purchase the land necessary
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by userabchn 3y ago
What percentage of the negative comments come from chatbots that are part of foreign influence campaigns to spread negativity in this largely Western world (or even largely US) forum?
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by userabchn 3y ago
Not a TV series, but an interesting documentary about Makani, a failed wind energy startup funded by X: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qd_hEja6bzE
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by userabchn 3y ago
I am certain that the people who make comments like this have never lived in a country where they had to deal with something like a government-owned bank.
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by userabchn 4y ago
In my country there used to be a government-owned airline with a monopoly. Tickets were so expensive that only the wealthy could afford them (yet somehow the airline still lost money). Then the market was thankfully deregulated. Competition
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by userabchn 4y ago
I believe uMatrix development was discontinued a few years ago, so it is not surprising that it doesn't work reliably anymore.
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by userabchn 4y ago
You single out only fossil fuels, but there are so many other ways in which we are damaging the environment that we also need to worry about - PFAS everywhere, noise and light pollution, pesticides and many other chemicals in rivers, expans
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by userabchn 4y ago
If the thing they use the infrastructure to do is actually valuable, then they can just add the cost of the toll to what they charge for doing it. Splitting the cost of building and maintaining infrastructure among users is, I believe, the
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by userabchn 4y ago
But I can explain why: they need to blend-in to build trust with other group participants and so become more persuasive when they are trying to influence, and also to avoid bot detection. The influence might also be much more subtle than ta
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by userabchn 4y ago
There have been quite a few instances of "fake news" stories about famous people making donations, such as to hurricane victims, that the famous people have said were not true and they don't know where they came from. No one
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by userabchn 4y ago
The opposite is done in other buildings, such as MIT's Simmons Hall, where the building can look bigger than it actually is because each room has multiple windows: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Simmons_Ha

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