wizofaus

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by wizofaus 3y ago
> You are saying that you don't like democracy then "Democracy" says nothing about ensuring every single vote counts equally. While I am inherently skeptical of systems that decide some votes are worth more than others, pe
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by wizofaus 3y ago
I'm not advocating anything - as it happens I do think it's unfair for some countries to cream off the best talent developed in other countries. But if those countries have failed to provide an environment their citizens can thriv
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Not sure what the OP meant then, but that would've explained the difference in price.
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by wizofaus 3y ago
I gather the auto pilot option costs another 15k.
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Ooh, where can I get a 2024 Camry for $3750? (Actually it's interesting to see car prices in the US seem quite high when converted to AUD - e.g. the base Tesla price in the US is supposedly 48k, equivalent to 72.5K AUD, but they'r
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Sure, but it's still surprisingly good for most programming type questions. Even if the answer isn't exactly right or ideal it often gives you enough to go on to figure it out yourself.
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by wizofaus 3y ago
And that makes it less wasteful? At any rate there are lots of unusual things about Japan, including the post-WW2 rapid transformation it went, that make it hard to judge whether typical rebuilding rates are "wasteful" compared to
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Silly question, but have you tried ChatGPT?
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by wizofaus 3y ago
That's actually now perhaps getting closer to a better (if harder to demonstrate) theory - that housing has become unaffordable largely because we've made cities (and their surrounding suburbs) so much more desirable places to be
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by wizofaus 3y ago
> Yes, it seems the under 30 crowd would rather go to college/university instead these days. Fairly sure housing affordability is a bigger problem for those without tertiary degrees though! > 15-20 points, at least in the USA I&#
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by wizofaus 3y ago
From what I've read, in most countries with strong levels of migration, the level of underemployment is almost always lower among migrants than the native born. I'd be pretty astounded if the UK was an exception. Even just having
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by wizofaus 3y ago
> One oak tree produces lots of acorns. But takes 40+ years to do so...
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by wizofaus 3y ago
I wonder about that - surely there must be a decent number of shoppers who'd prefer to buy products where you could reuse containers, for a start. Recycling perfectly good glass, metal or even plastic containers always feels terribly w
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by wizofaus 3y ago
I'm all for people making cross country trips in a big RV, providing they're properly paying for whatever long-term environmental costs are involved - folks aren't going to get behind a plan to save the planet if they never g
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Wouldn't the big advantage of GMO trees be ones that grow in non-boreal regions? But I gather genetic engineering for most tree species is limited by the slow reproductive cycle (oak trees take 40 years to produce acorns, and they&#x27
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by wizofaus 3y ago
As mechanisms to help reduce net emissions go, planting trees is probably the one likely to encounter the least resistance, so I'm all for it, but the idea that it's going to help us avoid far more painful changes seems a little f
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by wizofaus 3y ago
I basically waste no time at all travelling - I do it mostly by bike which is obviously beneficial health wise, and if I do take a train or bus I use the time to read etc. (plus walking to/fro stations/stops is, again, a positive
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Apparently it's estimated there's about 3 trillion trees on earth currently - I'm assuming it historically may have been closer to 4 or even 5 before we gleefully started chopping them all down. But it's hard to imagine
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by wizofaus 3y ago
There's oodles of references to this online but nothing really I've found so far explaining whether it was ever intended to be taken seriously in the first place. It's hard to imagine anyone doing so.
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by wizofaus 3y ago
How statistically significant is that though? There surely seems to be far greater variation in per-capita economic output on a state-by-state basis than there is in average IQ at any rate.
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by wizofaus 3y ago
If I could choose between a $1000 appliance with a 10-year warranty and a $500 one with a 5-year warranty I know what I'd go with. But that sort of choice is virtually never available.
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by wizofaus 3y ago
> Except that there's basically no way to know which products are going to be more reliable! The fact that basically all manufacturers offer the same fairly pathetic warranties (and that extended ones cost absurd amounts) should giv
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by wizofaus 3y ago
I find myself thinking about that a lot - mainly "how many more hours would have needed to be spent at stage A to avoid the hours being spent now to recover from problems our software is currently causing". And often if I'm h
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by wizofaus 3y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20031218192524/http://w3.uwyo.ed...
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Home ownership rates for those under 30 at least have fallen considerably in many Western countries (certainly in Australia). And yes urbanisation has increased but not that dramatically. What hasn't really happened though is any sig
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by wizofaus 3y ago
> You are assuming that all the old people vote against the interests of the 20-25 years old people Not at all - but we already accept that the fact there are so many more voters in concentrated in a few cities that a pure one-person-one
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Perhaps, but the lifestyles of the rich and famous are still something the masses tend to hope to emulate.
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by wizofaus 3y ago
You hardly need to go anywhere near "the globe becoming uninhabitable for humanity" before you run into pretty devastating consequences for significant percentages of the world's population. And even if we encouraged poorer c
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Body odour is surely partly genetic though - some people just never seem to have it, others do even straight out of the shower. I'm more curious though whether your laundry habits help lycra/sportswear last longer - it typically
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by wizofaus 3y ago
You need a specialist wiki for that... https://cryptidz.fandom.com/wiki/Cryptid_Wiki (I found that because the wikipedia article didn't even list the one I'm most familiar with, given its proximity to where I

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