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by whakim 5y ago
The thing about textual evidence is that you can't cite an entire text (obviously). You have to selectively choose what to quote in order to support your claims. Additionally, people can write one thing, and then write other contradict
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by whakim 5y ago
10 watts per tire is an absolutely enormous amount given that the rolling resistance of the tire itself is only 10 watts in total. The BRR test also claims that "the drum is covered with diamond plate to simulate an average road"
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by whakim 5y ago
Ivy+ institutions aren't saddling their students with crippling debt (although many others - including supposedly affordable "public" universities - are). Instead they're simply failing to support students from underpriv
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by whakim 5y ago
You're definitely faster with the GP5000s and it's not just an illusion. The GP5000 is an extremely fast tire - some of the lowest rolling resistance out there as measured scientifically [1]. Even the fastest 38mm tires are probab
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by whakim 5y ago
I also own a Canyon Grail (the alloy one, so no weird handlebar) and it's pretty capable for fire roads and some singletrack. When it gets really rocky and rooty though I find myself having less fun simply because the riding experience
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by whakim 5y ago
I get what you're saying, but the logical conclusion of all this is that no one can know anything at all unless they're an expert in that specific thing. But that's why we have experts in the first place - so that we can de
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by whakim 5y ago
> I could not disagree more. For much of human history, and most of American history, saving currency was exactly how you saved value. You already created value in exchange for the money; now you should be able to hold on to that value u
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by whakim 5y ago
Two important foundational works are Markus and Kitayama's Culture and the self: Implications for cognition, emotion, and motivation, and Triandis' Individualism and Collectivism. I am not a social psychologist so I don't hav
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by whakim 5y ago
> The US has pretty good Social Mobility as well, it is complete myth that the "rich" in the US is stagnate, most of the Billionaires in the US are 1st Generation Billionaires, this highlights there are income and social mobili
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by whakim 5y ago
They often avoided having to fight in wars too ;) On a more serious note, in the past nobility and clergy were often exempt from various taxes (e.g. the taille , the main tax in Ancien Regime France) because of the other "value"
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by whakim 5y ago
While I disagree that property taxes are unjust, most date back 200+ years to a time when almost all wealth was in the form of land. If a state wanted to tax wealth, they taxed land. (Though this sounds progressive in theory, such taxes wer
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by whakim 5y ago
That may well be true, but even if Tesla had gone bankrupt in 2018, Elon Musk would still have dramatically more money than you or me. If anything, this highlights how the uber-wealthy are able to make riskier (and, on average, more profita
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by whakim 5y ago
The thing that really needs to be measured here is the real rate of return on these individuals' capital (i.e. post-tax returns) vs economic growth (i.e. growth in wages for ordinary people). The point isn't really about when taxa
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by whakim 5y ago
The framework of individualism vs. collectivism is a complicated (and pretty fraught!) sociological construct. Scholars hotly debate whether individualism/collectivism applies to individuals , societies , or some mix of the two. Ind
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by whakim 5y ago
The estate tax wasn't even enacted until 1916 so there wasn't a period of time where "estates would shrink over time" (for tax reasons, at least; the two World Wars plus inflation actually existing did lead to huge chang
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by whakim 5y ago
It's true that a number of European countries that previously had wealth taxes no longer do. However, European countries only collect taxes on residents. If you wanted to avoid wealth taxes you could simply move to another country (and
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by whakim 5y ago
In the US, simply owning a house that's worth $3M (and literally zero other assets of any kind) puts you in the top 1.5% of the wealth distribution, per the WID. So I'm not sure how you could classify this scenario as "modera
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by whakim 5y ago
This is correct. Piketty's research has shown that as one moves to progressively higher echelons of the wealth distribution (top 5%, top 0.1%, top 0.01%), a higher and higher proportion of capital is accumulated through returns on capi
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by whakim 5y ago
>> Did you know that Taiwan and China (pre-covid) could freely travel between the countries more or less, and even setup business like Foxconn that profit off Chinese labor? There's literally more cooperation between Taiwan and C
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by whakim 5y ago
There are some other interesting ideas that aren't simply "invasive ads" or "subscriptions." Obviously, advertising was effective before the advent of the modern internet, so it seems like it should still be so if w
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by whakim 5y ago
I'm not even sure I understand what you're trying to say.
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by whakim 5y ago
But knowingly echoing antisemitic tropes is antisemitism - that's why I used the phrase "dog whistle."
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by whakim 5y ago
I didn't read the author's charge of antisemitism as strictly guilt by association. I think Richler's argument is that the fixation on shadowy global plots threatening "good old England" both fits into a pattern of
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by whakim 5y ago
I'm not so sure. My experience is that ORMs often discourage (or at least lessen the need for) getting a good grasp on databases and SQL because they abstract away a lot of fundamentals. Like any abstraction, there are obviously benef
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by whakim 5y ago
I don't know what your definition of a "very low" threshold is, but it's much lower than mine. If you're Uber or Amazon, Rails isn't going to work for you. But that's fine because 99.9% of companies in exi
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by whakim 5y ago
> * Any way that reference external resource like css url() can be used as beacon. It should be blockable by client like image, but thinking how it affect is difficult if all tags are allowed. You can already use url() to load background
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by whakim 5y ago
Can you share some CSS vulnerabilities that would work in email but not in a browser? I can certainly think of CSS vulnerabilities that would not work in email because email can't execute javascript, but can't come up with the r
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by whakim 5y ago
Yes, but then who maintains the whitelist? What's to stop individual email providers from deciding they do/don't like certain standards? I agree that email doesn't need much of the CSS spec, but nor do the vast majority
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by whakim 5y ago
By "I wish that emails could just work like everything else on the web" I meant modern web HTML/CSS - I was replying to the GP - not the full set of browser capabilities such as Javascript. I suppose it's possible you&#x
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by whakim 5y ago
That's true, and I wish that emails could just work like everything else on the web. But simply removing Outlook and all its baggage from the equation would be a big, big improvement on the status quo.

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