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by wheels 3y ago
Absolutely. I'm entirely responding to the "does it even matter" part of things. It's possible to simultaneously be an across the board improvement and still not reach the level of trivially inexpensive.
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by wheels 3y ago
I think you're also right. The framing for this is I spend some time in a village that has a part that's now been inaccessible because of a landslide. About 10 people live on the road that's now impassable. Digging a safe
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by wheels 3y ago
> What's the percentage of overall income? Half of that? So low that your argument holds very little water. Yeah, about that. Do you think most working class people are flippant about costs that take 2.5% of their pre-tax income?
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by wheels 3y ago
My inclination to agree that public transit should mostly be a nationalized utility. But some experience in rural areas leads me to a counterargument that I don't have a good answer for: Should people that live in urban spaces massive
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by wheels 3y ago
I've been confused in the last couple of threads related to this topic how responses like yours exist. Trying to be constructive, I'm going to float a theory: you live in Silicon Valley and that doesn't seem like much money
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by wheels 3y ago
But this started with, "We need to realise that 9 euros or 49 euros makes no difference." It does, for me, and lots of people like me. It's fine for you to think we don't matter, but your claim that people like us don&
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by wheels 3y ago
Tax isn't much, but insurance, fuel and maintenance are more than €49/month. But I'm not considering getting rid of my car. (I may when my kids are older.)
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by wheels 3y ago
I'm not arguing that it should exist for €9, I'm arguing that there's a major difference in the effects of a €9 ticket vs. a €49 ticket. I'd actually change my behavior for a €9 ticket. I won't for a €49 ticket,
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by wheels 3y ago
That's absolutely false. I don't even spent €9 most months on public transit in Berlin, but at €9, I'd get it and probably use public transit more often (which is the point). There's no way I'd buy a €49 ticket.
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by wheels 3y ago
Her English is pretty bad. The commenter I was replying to insisted all internationally minded Germans speak excellent English. That's false for Angele Merkel and Guido Westerwelle, and it's literally impossible to find more hig
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by wheels 3y ago
I've been in Berlin for 17 years, and in my early days in Berlin, a room in a shared apartment could be found for as little as €75/month (e.g. 6 bedroom apartment), and studio apartments could be found for €250/month. Hell,
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by wheels 3y ago
Yeah, probably the chancellor and foreign minister were the only two from their generation that were educated, internationally minded and don't speak English.
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by wheels 3y ago
Again, Angele Merkel is a pretty convincing counterexample.
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by wheels 3y ago
Yeah, you're totally right. Angele Merkel was definitely not internationally minded. (She does not speak English well, nor did her foreign minister.) It's also a pretty terrible thing to assume that everyone who wasn't born i
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by wheels 3y ago
I agree that German isn't especially useful globally, but you're wrong on a couple points: - There are several countries with German as an official language, and a few other with German-speaking minorities. Germany, Austria, Swit
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by wheels 3y ago
I'm both a foodie, an avid home cook, and an induction fan. I don't miss gas at all for typical western cooking. I'm also a Kenji Lopez-Alt disciple, and have been getting into wok cooking. I picked up a used 3500 watt gast
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by wheels 4y ago
Imaginary numbers are important in a lot of real world applications. One of the most important ones at the moment is in quantum mechanics and quantum algorithms. You can't model quantum algorithms without imaginary numbers.
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by wheels 4y ago
It's really not that hard to find 15w LEDs with CRI95+. 15w will be approximately equivalent to a 100 watt bulb. A quick Amazon search pulls up multiple options. Recently I even got out the big guns and bought this thing, mainly to r
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by wheels 4y ago
Amusingly, I tried to convince my ex (Serbian) that Smoki and Erdnussflips are the same thing. I filled a Smoki bag with German (ja! brand) Erdnussflips, and she immediately noticed, though there were a few seconds of confused looks (and l
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by wheels 4y ago
I have no inside information on this one, but YC has been around for 18 years, and pg left the president role 9 years ago. It's been about half of YC's life that he's been out of the day-to-day stuff. It's absolutely n
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by wheels 4y ago
I like cooking and having people over, so it's something I do often. I have kids, but most of my friends don't, so the numbers aren't coming from big families. If it's something that you aspire to, here's the basic
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by wheels 4y ago
No, I live in a new building with reinforced concrete external walls. But it's a general rule in Berlin. (Other German states have other rules, often with restrictions even earlier.) And yes, I have been able to hear neighbors dishwa
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by wheels 4y ago
Yeah, I often also do parties, where I cook for 20-ish people, and often have 3-4 dishwasher loads after a party. Speed does matter some. Where it matters a lot more is that I live in an condo where officially I'm not supposed to ru
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by wheels 4y ago
The prowess here is greatly overstated. His implementation would be pretty obvious for anyone that had read an Information Retrieval textbook any time in the couple decades between when these methods were devised and when he wrote that pos
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by wheels 4y ago
> without worrying that same work will be co-opted by an entity seeking to undermine the effort you and your community have done for years That literally is the point of open source: that it's not reliant on a single vendor. Tha
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by wheels 4y ago
I think calling them cockups is a stretch. A few points: - Flexibility of the US labor market is one of the things that makes it attractive relative to labor markets of other rich countries: it's easy to hire more people when demand
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by wheels 4y ago
I'm guessing the answer is, "Because you can already burn the plastic directly." Presumably burning this oil would have the same levels of pollution as burning the plastic in the first place, but also takes extra energy to
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by wheels 4y ago
A modification I add is to ask them to do it for someone else once they're on their feet again. That's a pretty easy thing to agree to, and the anonymity of it allows the other person to make good on it if they feel that's i
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by wheels 4y ago
It almost always makes more sense to just give money (or frame it as a "payment" for something) than to loan friends / family money. The usual thing I ask is that people do it for someone else later in life if they can. It
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by wheels 4y ago
I read the grandparent differently than you and nightpool . I read the first two paragraphs as general policy, and then the following lines as specific cases. To come to the interpretation you guys had, you have to assume that the fifth p

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