zacharytelschow

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by zacharytelschow 3y ago
Not just time, but cost also. As my wife also works from home we've been able to scale back to a single car for 2 years now. Since owning, insuring, fueling, repairing, and maintaining a car typically runs $6k-$10k/year (depending
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by zacharytelschow 3y ago
> Everyone commutes through traffic/crowded public transport and risk catching the latest novel virus, to arrive at work at the same time. Everyone has lunch at the same time so it’s crowded as heck and we get even more mortal dange
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by zacharytelschow 3y ago
> We can easily look at that chart and guess what it's going to look like over the next 10 years. That's why all the past predictions have been so accurate, right? "But we know more now." We do not. Some intellectual
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by zacharytelschow 3y ago
If it's a federal failure why are the homeless highly concentrated in certain areas?
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by zacharytelschow 3y ago
Civil War -> end of slavery Civil rights movement -> equality under the law of all Americans (with later protections under affirmative action actually giving minorities a modest advantage in some situtions) What hoped for outcome is b
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by zacharytelschow 3y ago
> we clearly have better answers to questions of race Do we? It seems like racial tensions are higher than they've been during my lifetime because there's a grievance culture explicitly focused on race instead of treating peopl
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by zacharytelschow 4y ago
Not just racially but also in terms of worldview, culture, and heritage.
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by zacharytelschow 4y ago
> working to prevent the conditions that create violent crime in the first place The conditions that prevent violent crime are simple: consequences for violence. Many jurisdictions let people that commit violent crime walk again and aga
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by zacharytelschow 4y ago
> The is primarily due to the conservative party's realization half a century ago that they could motivate their base with rage and grievance politics instead of with good policy, and win doing so Democrats are mayors of 31 of the n
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by zacharytelschow 4y ago
Elections don't decide which policies will work, only which will be implemented. It's quite simple to see what worked elsewhere and in the past if people would care to look.
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by zacharytelschow 4y ago
> Could someone please enlighten me on why we don't treat governing like we do software solutions? Because half the country doesn't like the answers that experience produces. Reducing crime isn't hard: support and hire pol
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by zacharytelschow 4y ago
The countries biggest cities virtually all have Democrat mayors: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mayors_of_the_50_large...
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by zacharytelschow 4y ago
> Republican-controlled US government freezing the bank accounts of anyone who donated to Planned Parenthood I'm not familiar with this. Searches yield articles about freezing of Planned Parenthood funding. Could you point me in the
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by zacharytelschow 4y ago
Can I correctly surmise that you're Canadian? If so, your leader declared a national emergency to squash free speech, banished handguns so you can no longer protect yourself, and cut off political opponents from the financial system. T
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by zacharytelschow 4y ago
Data validation is a basic expectation in many technology stacks. I don't understand why blockchain would be uniquely positioned to resolve this problem.
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by zacharytelschow 4y ago
> Labor shortage is a wage shortage is a housing shortage is an urban land shortage. Or it's all a money printing inflation problem.
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by zacharytelschow 4y ago
Stores of value are, by definition, stable over time. An ounce of gold has been able to buy you a nice suit for hundreds of years, for example. How can something that fluctuates wildly in price claim to be a store of value? It's nonsen
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by zacharytelschow 4y ago
> war is now the primary driver of inflation “Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon, in the sense that it is and can be produced only by a more rapid increase in the quantity of money than in output.” -- Milton Friedma
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by zacharytelschow 5y ago
This guy seems to exist to create charts that a) show vaccination does nothing to stop Omnicron, which seems to be all recent charts or b) that demographically similar states/countries that are neighbors have virtually identical result
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by zacharytelschow 5y ago
> I cannot find any federal law of any kind (let alone stemming from the oval office) requiring individuals to get the vaccine. Does it need to be a law to be compulsory? How many Americans, including employees of numerous branches of th
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by zacharytelschow 5y ago
"Clinical studies from Israel, the Cleveland Clinic, England and elsewhere have demonstrated beyond a doubt that natural immunity to SARS-CoV-2 provides robust and durable protection against reinfection comparable to or better than tha
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by zacharytelschow 5y ago
Let's apply that logic to everything, then, and see how it works out. You're fat or obese and have health outcomes stemming from those choices? Enjoy your heart attack, fatty. You get injured doing something "non-essential?&q
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by zacharytelschow 5y ago
That hypothetical scenario is current reality for just under half the country.
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by zacharytelschow 5y ago
> It isn't a copyright grant, a contract, legal ownership Exactly the problem. If these were used to prove legal ownership of real assets, whether they be intellectual or physical, they would have value. Selling individually numbere
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by zacharytelschow 5y ago
> Yes, the USA is one of the few countries that do this. Along with Eritrea and North Korea.
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by zacharytelschow 5y ago
> Feels like a bunch of people buying digits rocks. I think it's more like digital beanie babies but to each their own :)
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by zacharytelschow 6y ago
On point on all three. Bitcoin is definitely not currency.
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by zacharytelschow 6y ago
Maybe? I'm sitting on the sidelines very comfortably hoping a bunch of people don't get hurt. I feel as if the bulls are ignoring the fundamentals and limitations of Bitcoin. I agree with Bitcoin being neither money nor commodity
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by zacharytelschow 6y ago
> about the things they are told not to believe. I don't believe things because I'm "told" them, I believe them when I'm convinced using evidence and data. The danger presented by Covid to otherwise healthy adult
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by zacharytelschow 6y ago
If we're going to adjust time, I want one timezone nation wide. Heck, I want that worldwide but let's start with the US first.

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