wizofaus

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901.
by wizofaus 4y ago
> The world has this deranged flow to it lately that people "need" help on the most basic survival aspects of life Well yeah, we're a social/interdependent species. We generally don't do particularly well trying
902.
by wizofaus 4y ago
> The physical risks of cycling are almost entirely due to cars I'm a regular cyclist (~200km a week) and I don't really agree. I'd say at least 50% of cycling accidents don't involve cars at all (in fact, if I were p
903.
by wizofaus 4y ago
"Car-free small town just sounds weird" Almost no significant urban area is going to be totally car free (unless you're one of a handful of towns/cities across the world - often tourist destinations - where it really is
904.
by wizofaus 4y ago
5.5 million tonnes of it annually counts as a bit more "we don't [produce steel]" - even if it's a drop in the bucket to the 1100 million tonnes China produces. Apparently we're about the 28th largest producer world
905.
by wizofaus 4y ago
"Production of anything, including hydrogen produces a lot of additional emissions" Why would you say that? I mean, some sort of pollutant emission is inevitable in any heavy industry, but there's no physical reason it has to
906.
by wizofaus 4y ago
If the chatbots were able to gauge your interests etc. well enough and provide information purely about products and services that it has good reason to believe you'd be genuinely interested in buying, I'd be happy for it to inclu
907.
by wizofaus 4y ago
But at the point people stop using general purpose search engines because there's so much content spam that they're unable to distinguish from genuine material, then there's no further motivation for anyone to keep the conten
908.
by wizofaus 4y ago
True, if you were only concerned about similarity with the same user's passwords.
909.
by wizofaus 4y ago
Yes, obviously, I'm just saying it's a potential vulnerability that doesn't exist if you don't store the LSH. The LSH doesn't need to be reversible - I'm just saying that you now have a situation where if you
910.
by wizofaus 4y ago
Surely even having an LSH stored is a potential compromise - e.g. if my password happens to have the same LSH as somebody else because I've used "Secret-123" and they've used "Secret123", then you've presu
911.
by wizofaus 4y ago
If we were a species that evolved where extreme inequality made sense, we'd probably be fine with it. But we aren't - not even close. We have strong notions of fairness and acting in the best interests of society as a whole, that
912.
by wizofaus 4y ago
I did think that but even if you extended the model to be one where money could be created via "successful" investments, I suspect much the same result would transpire - wealth would concentrate fairly rapidly if everyone kept re-
913.
by wizofaus 4y ago
The most obvious omission from that model is that in a real economy people voluntarily give money to others in exchange for goods and services. If everyone was equally good at producing useful goods and services then even if the yard-sale e
914.
by wizofaus 4y ago
> I think one of the main issues is just getting it into peoples minds that $6,000 is a reasonable amount to spend on a bicycle Not sure I agree, given that you can buy a perfectly serviceable 2nd hand e-bike for a good deal less, though
915.
by wizofaus 4y ago
But if a politician gets elected with such a policy being a key election promise - i.e. indicating a majority of residents do agree there should be such a policy - is it still 'far beyond any reasonable line'? Why should you pers
916.
by wizofaus 4y ago
That's the point though - richer people with larger houses and sufficient refrigeration space at least have the option to save money by buying in bulk. Then again, richer people need a way of signaling their wealth to others so will ty
917.
by wizofaus 4y ago
It's certainly the case that anyone who needs an item but doesn't have cash on hand for it is going to pay more (by borrowing and paying interest), which isn't quite the same phenomenon but boils down to the same conclusion:
918.
by wizofaus 4y ago
I do find it curious that the only neighbourhoods in my own city where use of bikes for that sort of thing (grocery shopping, taking kids to school etc.) is common are typically fairly well-off ones. I'm wondering if part of the reason
919.
by wizofaus 4y ago
"One analysis of tax burdens relative to income suggests that in ten US states the percentage of income spent on taxes by low-income people is six times greater than that paid by the wealthy" The footnote is to a study at https:&
920.
by wizofaus 4y ago
"This is because most people - maybe 95% - are ruled by their emotions rather than rationality. Or to put it more precisely, people make decisions based on emotions and then use their rational mind after they make their decision to rat
921.
by wizofaus 4y ago
As a counterpoint to that - the chances that a newly developed feature will work perfectly anywhere other than your own development environment are often pretty low. And when it almost inevitably fails, not having any error-handling logic w
922.
by wizofaus 4y ago
Breaking huge tasks up is obviously necessary to make any real progress, regardless of whether you're trying to estimate anything - even if it was my job as an individual to do the whole huge task myself I'd want it in digestible
923.
by wizofaus 4y ago
Have you tried applying that technique in an environment where you're expected to estimate every little bug fix? (some of which would often take less time to do than to agree on an estimate for!)
924.
by wizofaus 4y ago
Fair point, though if I were 70ish in Japan, knowing my life expectancy probably meant I had another good 15 or so years to live, it's hard to imagine making such a statement.
925.
by wizofaus 4y ago
Less earnings sure, but not having a mortgage to pay off any longer helps, as does not having kids to tow around and find accommodation for etc. etc. At any rate there doesn't seem to be convincing evidence that people engage in less i
926.
by wizofaus 4y ago
Those over 70 generally have far more time to travel than the rest of us!
927.
by wizofaus 4y ago
Fortunately I don't believe we'll need to. From a previous glance of that report, scenario F is pretty close to what I'd imagined we'd likely aim for. It would've been a lot smoother and less costly if we'd st
928.
by wizofaus 4y ago
> it would take 220 years to get today's known reserves out of the ground That doesn't strike me as particularly constrained then - it's highly unlikely known reserves won't expand in that time or that we'll find
929.
by wizofaus 4y ago
Well if you really believe that then I assume you think they did the right thing by overturning Roe, so it seems like (in your eyes) it has a self-correcting mechanism in place. Except I gather that it's now the case that right-to-a-l
930.
by wizofaus 4y ago
Are you claiming overturning abortion laws was done on the pretext of protecting foetuses (who are a minority)?

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