war1025

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by war1025 6y ago
> for a few months nothing really happened at all, at least where I live. I suppose the impact probably also depends on age and the number of siblings. We've got three that are two years apart and preschool aged. They were able to e
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by war1025 6y ago
You'd be surprised. My general feeling (which includes my own family's behavior) is that people have returned to hanging out with whoever they used to. They just don't go to restaurants or other social settings to do it. Ther
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by war1025 6y ago
I want to throw out another angle that I think is relevant: The curriculum broadly is determined by the school board. The school board tends to be made up of more "well off" people. They will prioritize the types of classes that t
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by war1025 6y ago
Wikipedia [1] tells me that most tornadoes are less than 250 feet across, and even the biggest tornadoes are only 2 miles wide. So basically the area of effect they have is similar in size and shape to a roadway. Yes, you don't want a
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by war1025 6y ago
Because tornadoes are extremely rare. And when they do occur, the area they effect is very small.
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by war1025 6y ago
Nothing stops you from using decimal in Imperial :)
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by war1025 6y ago
My personal mantra at work is: One useful thing per day. If I manage to do one useful thing every day, it adds up to a lot of useful things over time. And that has proven to be enough. There's a sort of mediocre Johnny Cash song with t
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by war1025 6y ago
I read somewhere that if you want good posture, just sit on the edge of the seat. So that's what I do and it seems to work fine. Chairs with backs are nice, but it seems like they will always just lead to terrible posture.
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by war1025 6y ago
And then think about how it shakes out for a family plan. Health insurance in the US is an untenable situation and I really just hope it explodes sooner rather than later. The biggest issue, in my opinion, is how much of the cost is shielde
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by war1025 6y ago
I don't think I've ever felt "awful" except maybe the first couple weeks of lockdown. But I have found myself randomly tearing up when listening to something or thinking of how things used to be. I think I heard someplac
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by war1025 6y ago
We actually had sort of a sweet spot the the late spring / early summer where the worst case scenario had obviously not happened, but people were still not going back to seeing their regular friends / family. During that time, we
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by war1025 6y ago
> If we cannot get our government to help us We are the government. There is no magical "them" out there.
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by war1025 6y ago
> it's clear that they aren't actually making rational decisions as much as rationalizing their decisions That's a human universal, no matter the situation. We make up our mind, and then backfill an explanation.
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by war1025 6y ago
Not really. They are categorical choices. Decide X is a "safe enough" activity. Done. I agree that trying to balance that every single day would be tiring, but broadly deciding "Our kids can play with the neighbors" is a
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by war1025 6y ago
One of the main ways I've found out of this is to just accept that taking certain calculated risks is worthwhile. At the very beginning of lockdown, we decided that seeing or next door neighbors was acceptable. That was helpful. In ear
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by war1025 6y ago
The thing I think is really interesting about this is the implication that efficiency got much worse before starting to get better. I guess intuitively that makes sense since the first refrigerators were probably upgraded actual "ice b
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by war1025 6y ago
I like this, but also on some level I feel like it's nothing more than inspirational "rah-rah" garbage. I wish he would have expanded on it. A great example of the distinction from my younger days: We had the game GranTurismo
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by war1025 6y ago
What is the energy use of such an old fridge compared to a new one?
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by war1025 6y ago
> Campaign advertising is not news. No, but Twitter live streams aren't campaign advertising. The protests are demonstrably violent and destructive.
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by war1025 6y ago
> The unfortunate reality is that mentally ill people that don't know how to take care of themselves are expensive. When did I ever mention housing for the mentally ill? What I'm saying is I think consenting, functional adults
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by war1025 6y ago
> And we are seeing massive outbreaks of COVID-19 on college campuses now that some are reopening Honestly, great. Let the young catch it to act as firebreaks for the more vulnerable. If you are going to college in person right now, you
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by war1025 6y ago
The silly thing in my opinion is that college dormitories are exactly that type of housing. No kitchens, shared bathrooms. Works perfectly fine for housing large numbers of young people. Somehow we've decided that we shouldn't giv
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by war1025 6y ago
They got a huge initial boost. It's dragged on to the point that I fully expect support to start dropping precipitously. Especially as the protests have become continuously more destructive riots.
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by war1025 6y ago
> A big smell here is if the large majority of your tests are mocked. We fell into this hard for a few years at my work. Going back to any of that code is a nightmare because the test suites are so fragile. Testing behavior and setting u
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by war1025 6y ago
We are to some degree talking past each other. You say the protests have achieved their goals. To me, that means they are an organized campaign of some sort. The fact is, BLM is a national organization with nearly universal name recognition
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by war1025 6y ago
> This is not a PR campaign and the protests and riots are not a public outreach effort Then they are utterly useless. The way you phrased it, the protests are nothing more than tantrums by oversized children. Tantrums should not be rewa
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by war1025 6y ago
> Why fret so much over the language though Because impressions matter, and if you want to get buy-in from an already weary broader populace, you need to have clear messaging. Shouting "defund the police" in the middle of riots
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by war1025 6y ago
> Since when is human rationality “luxury”? Most people's interpretation of "human rationality" is little more than a religion of its own.
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by war1025 6y ago
> but is it actually true? Perception is all that matters, and a large chunk of the country follows conservative media. Unfortunately the country is doing a great job of lining up behind their preferred propaganda outlets rather than loo
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by war1025 6y ago
I had no idea they were a 20 year old company. I assumed they were a fresh startup around 2015 or so when they started getting a lot of media traction. Maybe I was just out of the loop, but that's really surprising to me.

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