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by viburnum 8y ago
The thing about cycling is that it’s basically fast walking. In places where cycling dominates people only ride as fast as a quick jogger (10 mph is a 6 minute mile). The correct model for cycling isn’t space on the road, it’s an extra side
842.
by viburnum 8y ago
These two idiots are used to winning arguments by saying they know the most math. Now they're cancelling each other out.
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by viburnum 8y ago
Social Security is just sending checks worth 3 or 4 percent of GDP to old people. It’s about the same as defense spending. Nobody ever worries about running out of money for defense.
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by viburnum 8y ago
Is this a Canadian federalism thing? Are social payments pronvincial instead of federal?
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by viburnum 8y ago
It’s worse if you include 401k payments to offset a more generous public pension.
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by viburnum 8y ago
Yeah, it’s totally insane, working Americans pay for a Nordic-level welfare state but don’t get it (fun times for rich Americans though).
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US Workers Are Highly Taxed If You Count Premiums(peoplespolicyproject.org)
434 points by viburnum 8y ago|498 comments
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by viburnum 8y ago
There are a handful of vibrant cities in the world that haven't been given over to freeways and parking, and they're so rare and desirable that they've become luxury goods that are speculated on, like they're paintings
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by viburnum 8y ago
In the lowland northwest, red alder is typically the first tree to get established after a disturbance.
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by viburnum 8y ago
OK this sounds like bullshit. Can somebody explain what's going on?
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by viburnum 8y ago
This is just socialism, thinking your hearing and breathing is more important than efficient landscaping. If leaf blowers were really that bad the market would have eliminated them.
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by viburnum 8y ago
Facebook actually pretty useful for events and looking up businesses if you have a fake account with no friends. I recently disabled my account but there were things I missed so that's why I made a fake account.
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by viburnum 8y ago
This a good solution that scales.
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by viburnum 8y ago
I wonder if this could be scaled up to provide district heating for villages and small towns.
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by viburnum 8y ago
For those of you who have succeeded, how long was the withdrawal period? I try but in always get sucked back in after a few days.
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by viburnum 8y ago
Okay fine whatever, every other big employer will be lining up for the same deal or threatening to leave.
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by viburnum 8y ago
If they start handing out billions for corporate HQs it won't stop with Amazon. Google and everybody else will like up for theirs too.
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by viburnum 8y ago
Procedural arguments like this are silly. You have to judge things by what they are substantively. Feudalism and slavery were not utopian projects but they were clearly brutal. Nordic social democracy consciously set out to create a decent
859.
by viburnum 8y ago
If you've ever been lucky enough to swim in a pool that's just been filled up, you know this is true.
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by viburnum 8y ago
Worse than 2012 MacBooks.
861.
by viburnum 8y ago
Because their writing system is a huge hassle, numbers look good.
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Facebook Remade the Internet in Its Hideous Image(newrepublic.com)
1 points by viburnum 8y ago|0 comments
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by viburnum 8y ago
This thing is trash and never should have been built, but pointless highways are big business so let's pretend climate change isn't happening and keep building highways
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Skin in the Game by Nassim Nicholas Taleb – digested read (2018)(theguardian.com)
20 points by viburnum 8y ago|7 comments
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by viburnum 8y ago
That doesn't make GMOs good. A lot of GMOs are designed so that you can dump herbicides and pesticides on them. That is a problem.
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by viburnum 8y ago
If you're lucky, and many tech workers are, at the beginning of your career work can be insanely fun because, unlike school, you're finally spending most of your time doing the one thing you're good at it, you're gaining
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by viburnum 8y ago
China should continue to subsidize solar so they eatablish a completely dominant position, then use their navy to start sinking oil tankers. That's our best hope for salvaging Earth's climate.
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by viburnum 8y ago
I quit sugar five years ago, didn't diet, and was surprised when I lost of ton of weight. It never came back. I can't be the only one.
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by viburnum 8y ago
I heard the same from a masseur. Leaning forward to look at a monitor pushes your center of gravity forward so the rest of your body has to compensate, which includes the pelvic tilt.
870.
by viburnum 8y ago
I kept lowering the weight until I was just doing the bar and I was still having pain. I'm still working on basically mobility now.

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