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by zip1234 4y ago
Cars are more durable than ever, electronics often become obsolete before their life ends, and many building material would last a lifetime but become out of fashion so are thrown away.
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by zip1234 4y ago
Probably better to stop propping up the small farms and let the unproductive land be reclaimed by nature. Extensively use pest resistant GMO crops to increase yields on less land and overall lessen the land needed for farming. At the same t
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by zip1234 4y ago
I actively dream about this. Hard to believe it is constitutional—-overreach of police powers.
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by zip1234 4y ago
You are saying the owners want to pay everyone as little as possible, so why would CEO pay go up? I suspect the reason is more about competing for the best CEOs because of their importance to a company.
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by zip1234 4y ago
How would wetlands conservation laws not be constitutional?
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by zip1234 4y ago
Some do. Plenty of people don't even have a bank account so they use a check cashing place.
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by zip1234 4y ago
...also Tiktok doesn't care about privacy
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by zip1234 4y ago
>because the users and content creators on Tiktok aren't on Instagram Instagram's getting more and more of the creators--financial incentives. Why post on just Tiktok if you can make more money by posting on both?
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by zip1234 4y ago
Prop 13 is terrible and has create a 'landed gentry'. It certainly hasn't lowered housing prices and forces those people to stay in a house that they may not want to live in but have to because moving removes their benefit. T
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by zip1234 4y ago
Most houses I've seen there are $50k houses on $2M pieces of land. Something like 75% of the land is used for single family detached houses. Just remove the dumb restrictions and there is plenty of space and prices go down.
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by zip1234 4y ago
Trucking is also highly subsidized via highway money, with gas/usage taxes covering less than half of roads..= Take that away or make trucks pay for wear and tear and maybe we would see more investment in rail. Long haul trucking almos
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by zip1234 4y ago
This is truth. Not a happy truth but truth. Education is friction against what they are using the tool for.
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by zip1234 4y ago
Apple nerfed everyone else's ads to grow their own ad business. Apple's version of privacy is that if Apple has the data it is private, but if anyone else does it is not private. Just go read Apple's TOS. They collect browsin
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by zip1234 4y ago
The Mach E climate controls on the touchscreen are fine. With modern cars, mostly just set it to the temp you like and leave it. It isn't like old cars where constant fiddling with fan and temp to get everything correct is needed.
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by zip1234 4y ago
Why should cops look tough? I would rather a cop on a segway than sitting in a camaro.
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by zip1234 4y ago
Azure App Service linux is much cheaper than windows.
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by zip1234 4y ago
Old jet engines are super noisy. Modern jet engines are much much quieter.
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by zip1234 4y ago
Well, one can go ahead and enable End-to-End encryption in Facebook Messenger now: https://www.facebook.com/help/messenger-app/786613221989782
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by zip1234 4y ago
Is iMessage not end to end encrypted? Facebook Messenger has end to end encryption. How does Apple not?
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by zip1234 4y ago
Even in the US, only 5% of trips are longer than 30 miles. 60% were 5 or less. For the ~50% of households with more than one car, one of them could easily be electric. https://www.energy.gov/eere/vehicles/articles&
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by zip1234 4y ago
As far as I know nobody can just make changes unilaterally without another engineer's approval.
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by zip1234 4y ago
A startup is designed to grow as fast as possible until they saturate their market.
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by zip1234 4y ago
How would a union make Robinhood a more successful company that can afford to pay all of those employees? For that matter, how would it make a government organization better?
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by zip1234 4y ago
It's not just saccades, it is the entire system of vision and all of the approximations that the brain is doing in order to process the information. The twitter thread only goes into a couple things. There is also inattentional blindne
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by zip1234 4y ago
There is a podcast call "You Are Not So Smart" that talks about all the ways our brain tricks us. https://youarenotsosmart.com/podcast/
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by zip1234 4y ago
My meaning is that, for example, ego and carelessness are tied into our visual system. People believe they are more attentive and have better reactions than they actually have.
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by zip1234 4y ago
This is why driving is the most dangerous activity most people usually do.
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by zip1234 4y ago
True, tire dust may not be hugely different with EVs, but tire dust is definitely a problem. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jul/25/tyre-dus...
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by zip1234 4y ago
Don't forget about the heavy metals in tire dust.
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by zip1234 4y ago
Even just capping all road worthy vehicles to 80 would probably save a lot of lives.

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