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by xyzzyz 4y ago
Depends on your goals. I’d love to have some big towering trees around me, but I also love gardening and laying in the sun. One big tree in an inopportune could shade my entire yard.
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
This might seem like nitpicking, but it is hugely important distinction for people interested in demographics. The simple fact is that societies engaged in subsistence farming are, in fact, stable instead of growing, and their TFR is not ve
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
Subsistence farming has been a marginal activity even in colonial North America, and that was even more true in United States. It was mostly restricted to native Americans. The rest were overwhelmingly engaged in market farming, not subsist
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
In a university class, we had an assignment that asked us to write a program that would communicate with its copies over POSIX message queues. I remember grepping through the source of all the software I had on my Gentoo installation, and c
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
> So, for sociologists, this feels like "wow, it only took half a century to trickle through." But most sociologists are totally in on the game. It used to be that the mainstream media narrative was opposite of what the sociolo
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
What if they disagree that it is in their interest? Is there any objective way to say whether something is in someone’s interest? Consider the Amish, for example: they disagree that adopting all modern technology is in their interest. Shoul
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
Why would anyone, let alone tens of millions of people, be supportive of their own oppression?
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
> But sure, go ahead and blame environmentalists for the destruction profit driven market capitalism caused. The alternative economic systems are even worse on environmental grounds, and their only saving grace is their ineptness and ine
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
But that’s the entire point: the planes are using those museum piece engines purely because these are certified, and certifying new engines is an extremely hard, close to impossible proposition from business perspective. Sure, there is a wa
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
> It’s also the worst large metro system, by timeliness and reliability, in the world, despite being very well funded. You forgot to mention cleanliness, comfort, and safety, where it also is just atrocious compared to other metro system
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
Sure, but this doesn’t mean that private pilots need or want FAA to “helpfully” force them to use older tech. The argument I responded to was about negative externalities of potentially less safe new levels plane engines for third parties.
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
Exactly. This is similar to medical context, where it is found that decreasing regulations typically improves safety, both because it is easier to innovate and bring better products to market, but also because it increases liability of m
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
> Those industrial uses don't crash into a random person's house if they fail, It is highly unlikely to crash into a random person’s home due to engine failure. Planes don’t drop out of the sky like stones when their engines
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
They didn’t exactly stop innovating: ChatGPT itself is using tremendous amounts of innovation that was done and published by Google. What they stopped is beating their competition to launching compelling products based on the innovation the
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
Isn’t freedom house the same one who in 2020 gave top scores to countries that literally arrested people for walking around outside? That forbade people from running their businesses and customers from hiring their services? All of these re
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
What was the poster’s meaning, then? Sorry, I genuinely do not understand what you are getting at here.
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
How so? Can you explain?
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
It is not my fault that the activists decided to call it “banning books” when the government curates selection of books in public school libraries. I wish that such confusing language has not been introduced, but here we are: people are no
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
> When it's entirely politically motivated, there is. Banning books glorifying Nazism is also very much politically motivated. Do you think it would be wrong? Anyway, doing politically motivated things is the whole point of democrac
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
You are describing a theory of governance that has no bearing on the reality of today’s America. Over 20th century, it has been clearly and definitively established that not only the state, but also federal government have every right to i
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
Those two are literally the same thing. The “banning books” you’re talking about is literally the state curating the selection of children books in public libraries. Florida is not actually banning sales of certain books, as it would be ill
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
There is absolutely nothing wrong with the state banning books from public schools. No sane person would object from banning literal hardcore pornography from school libraries. It would be ridiculous to suggest that the state must allow the
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
> The loss in generational wealth is effectively based on skin color. For many black skinned people in America, sure. For all? Certainly not. There are millions of African immigrants and their descendants in America, who have not experie
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
> Like the point made here[0], it's de-facto reparations by advantaging those who were/have been affected by lost generational wealth (unequal schools and racist HOA & loan policies). Does anyone actually check whether reci
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
They still operate on a budget, and have to make decisions to stretch that budget. British NHS, for example, will deny coverage for a lot of procedures that are routinely covered by American private insurers, because they do not consider th
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
> Yes, I do, and I think we are creating more victims of crime over the long term with with our current approach to incarceration I think you are very wrong here, but I don’t think that there is anything at all that could possibly convin
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
Predictions are not worth much. Everyone predicted UK’s economy will collapse after Brexit. While it certainly has not flourished, it is not any worse than before. Now, what about the other “major powers” which are “predicted” to grow their
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
5 gallons of water is 10 cents at San Francisco prices and more like 3-5 cents in a typical place with normal prices, just FYI.
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
> How is it becoming a legacy language? This is completely false and unsubstantiated. Yeah, finding good C++ devs is hard, the thing takes skill. If getting good developers that know technology X is hard and getting harder over time (whi
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
What about victims of crime, do you care about them at all, or only about the criminals? Neither in this nor in your previous comment you ever mentioned them, you only talk about how policing damages the lives of criminals. Look, I simply d

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