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by wat10000 5mo ago
I wonder if fuel efficiency just doesn't matter enough for trains, since they're already so efficient at turning motive energy into motion. Other costs may dominate.
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by wat10000 5mo ago
They made sense when batteries were so expensive that decent range was unaffordable. That era is coming to a close, though.
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by wat10000 5mo ago
Performance art is a huge part of the justice system. That's why there's the funny clothes and titles. A major function of the system is to convince people that its authority is real and its actions are fair. It has the power of t
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by wat10000 5mo ago
Few people think the ultra rich are illegally evading taxes. The issue is exactly that they’re paying all they’re obligated to, and it’s not very much, relatively. You’re really strawmanning here. Instead of arguing as if we’re morons who d
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by wat10000 5mo ago
Imagine if the inventor of the tractor went to a college for farm workers (if there were such a thing) and gave a commencement speech that was all, "Tractors are going to revolutionize farming by making your jobs obsolete." I thin
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by wat10000 5mo ago
This is well known. The question is whether they should be. It's not some immutable law of nature, it's a deliberate policy choice to tax returns on capital differently from returns on labor.
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by wat10000 5mo ago
By being somewhere around the 40th percentile of income, according to that link.
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by wat10000 5mo ago
It’s way less, is the point. Top earners pay just a little more than their share of income. The tax system as a whole is nearly flat.
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by wat10000 5mo ago
Focusing on a single tax is silly. We should look at all taxes paid across all levels of government. Federal income tax is one of the most progressive taxes out there, so of course that's what people focus on when they want to make the
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by wat10000 5mo ago
Only because I live it in and can't easily sell it to raise cash. Let's say you own some stock and it increased in value last year. Do you feel like you "made" any money from that? I did and it did and I do.
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by wat10000 6mo ago
The purpose of everything is to distract from everything else. It's the "flood the zone" concept.
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by wat10000 6mo ago
"While folks here are quick to jump to blaming the arsonist for this, it's also worth noting that the arsonist is a firefighter and was responsible for putting out numerous other fires." I mean, yay?
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by wat10000 6mo ago
We could say the same for most of the comments on this site, including yours and mine.
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by wat10000 6mo ago
It would only be unfalsifiable if the connection was one-way, i.e. our souls receive input from the world but have no effect on the world. We would effectively be passengers in a meat puppet, and any influence we have on that puppet is pure
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by wat10000 6mo ago
I came here to comment this same thing. I had this idea as a laugh, but I'm taking it more and more seriously as time goes on. There are very confident statements made here that I don't think a conscious human could sincerely clai
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by wat10000 6mo ago
Can't possibly just be because they like those fancy SUVs. I own an electric car (albeit not an SUV) that cost nearly that much and I can tell you that I didn't give a crap about status, and while the green part was a nice aspect,
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by wat10000 6mo ago
People are rarely willing to spend five figures on something just to be trendy or green.
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by wat10000 6mo ago
I’ve traveled to a decent number of countries and the only city I’ve been to that wasn’t filled with cars was Venice. I love public transport and I wish the US would do it better, but cars are extremely common all over the place and self-dr
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by wat10000 6mo ago
I’d say they failed to make it cheap enough, although maybe that goes with “simple.” I needed a roof replacement around the time when this looked like a viable option, but there’s no way I was going to pay a substantial multiple over the pr
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by wat10000 6mo ago
It may not be a painting to honor the gods, but if you ask the artist about it, I bet you’ll find a great deal of cultural significance. Swiss watches are absolutely steeped in cultural significance. The phrase “Swiss watch” immediately con
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by wat10000 6mo ago
Apparently signed integer overflow UB helps with loop optimizations because it makes it easy to prove the loop always terminates. I assume that's not why it's UB, though; surely it's UB because some systems trapped on overflo
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by wat10000 6mo ago
It's worse than that, the behavior of the entire program is unconstrained by the language standard beforehand too. Raymond Chen discusses how things can go wrong once you're going to reach UB even before you get to it: https:&#
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by wat10000 6mo ago
Oh, please. You gave me links you said would “demonstrate” your claims. Then you preemptively attacked me for not buying it. Meanwhile, all I said about these sites is that they have a good track record and that they give you enough informa
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by wat10000 6mo ago
I don't know what you expect from me. You're saying I can't trust anything online because bias creeps in. Then you're saying I should trust your links that say that Snopes isn't trustworthy. Huh? So far what you&#x2
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by wat10000 6mo ago
Your links are mostly about ownership, supposed sources of bias, and internal politics. I want to know what they've actually gotten wrong. The only example I'm seeing there is a claim about glyphosate, and the article is by the pe
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by wat10000 6mo ago
What lies exactly?
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by wat10000 6mo ago
They are generally quite good, and they provide ample background info for you to replicate (or repudiate) their findings on your own if you're so inclined. What's amazing is that people think Snopes or other fact-checkers are auto
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by wat10000 6mo ago
I don't mean assembly in this case, but something more like the compiler's view of the code. a++ can be broken down into more primitive operations, and might actually be, depending on how the compiler is implemented. The fact that
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by wat10000 6mo ago
We get by on a combination of matching patterns (any pointer cast gets a lot of scrutiny, for example), compiler warnings, tools like UBSan, debugging when things go wrong, and sheer dumb luck. Having an understanding of how the code gets t
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by wat10000 6mo ago
I'd say it's more like C was designed from really dumb compilers on really diverse hardware. The standard, at least the early versions of it, was more to codify what was out there than to declare what was correct. For most thing

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