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by zozin 6y ago
What if I have a large family? What if I need to crate my large dog in the car? What if I want to go to Costco and buy a bunch of groceries and supplies and bring them home? What if I like visiting national parks and the speed limit en rout
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by zozin 6y ago
This is what inevitably happens when you centralize power/authority/buying options for consumers. Amazon can make or break a business/product line. Centralization also makes it much easier for those who are willing to cheat t
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How to Absorb Textbooks Like a Sponge(youtube.com)
3 points by zozin 6y ago|0 comments
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The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success(claremontreviewofbooks.com)
108 points by zozin 6y ago|195 comments
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by zozin 6y ago
Drone delivery is going to happen, but most people aren't going to benefit from it in the immediate future. Drones are too loud and the self-flying software isn't advanced enough to effortlessly and efficiently deal with the comp
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by zozin 6y ago
The lock downs were premised upon preventing hospital systems from being overwhelmed. We accomplished that relatively easily, at least in the United States. However, politicians and bureaucrats, unwilling to let a good crisis go to waste,
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by zozin 6y ago
"Hey Internet Stranger, here's a bunch of non-sequiturs that get to the crux of my real belief that AMERICA BAD!!! Try to prove me wrong, haha"
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by zozin 6y ago
A number like that in a vacuum is absolutely meaningless. The death rate in 2020 vs. historical averages is much lower in the US compared to the UK, Belgium, France, Spain, Italy, etc., but if you believe the media uncritically you'd t
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by zozin 6y ago
I beg to differ. We still have no idea which policy will prove correct in the long run because the Covid-19 timeline (6–8 months) is still too short. It's not outside the realm of possibility that letting the virus burn through the po
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by zozin 6y ago
And this is why you don't get your information from Wikipedia regarding any controversial topic.
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by zozin 6y ago
This seems like a worthless comparison. One hundred percent of parents can get C19 and 100% of their children can get it too. How many of these parents still have jobs? The unemployment rate for parents is probably lower than the aggregat
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by zozin 6y ago
You keep bringing up racism and devolving the conversation. The entire gist of your argument seems to be that universal principles don't matter so long as progress is made. That's a shortsighted and fairly moronic point of view.
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by zozin 6y ago
I am an immigrant. Yes I am white, but my grandparents faced famine at the hands of Communism and my parents were poor, just like yours. If you go further back in my family history I'm sure you'd find generation after generation
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by zozin 6y ago
The thought of living in a China-centric world during the twilight of my life on Earth (2050+) makes my hair stand on end. I do not want to be treated as a second class human because of the color of my skin or my ethnicity. I do not want to
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by zozin 6y ago
That's the whole point of federalism/separation of powers. Our government is not supposed to be efficient. This fact might not always make sense to those obsessed with efficiency, such as as programmers, but in this case it&#x27
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by zozin 6y ago
This is looking at the problem backwards. Neighborhoods with higher proportions of African-Americans living in them are charged higher insurance premiums because AAs tend to be poorer, less educated, etc. because of their unique history in
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by zozin 6y ago
All of these apps are just a gigantic waste of time, and proven to be highly manipulative and emotionally draining. I've managed to avoid all of them, including FB which I only keep to message family members and friends. The fact that
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by zozin 6y ago
This is akin to the CCP's modus operandi, also known as mafia tactics. I really don't like fighting fire with fire, it sets a terrible precedent.
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by zozin 6y ago
This, like AMP, looks like a blatant attempt by Google to lock in users/advertisers into the Google ecosystem. If you're going to leverage your monopoly to harm end users, then the time for lax government regulations is over.
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by zozin 6y ago
It doesn't benefit the rich and powerful to bring attention to what is going on in Xinjiang and to Uighurs. Just like IBM, Hugo Boss, Coca-Cola, etc. made money in Nazi Germany, the likes of Volkswagen, Nike, etc. are making money tod
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by zozin 6y ago
I hope people are saving their temporary unemployment benefits. State budgets are tapped out and even the most generous states only give ~9 months worth of benefits. Come January/February whatever Congress passes will expire again and
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by zozin 6y ago
So Churchill drank and smoked all day, slept only five hours and still lived to 90? Some humans really do win the genetic lottery :p
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by zozin 6y ago
Out of the four companies questioned by Congress Google seems to be the most poorly/inefficiently run, as well as the most likely to be broken up due to its products monopolizing the spaces they compete in. If Congress does act and if
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by zozin 6y ago
I think UBI would be disastrous for society even if it's perfectly implemented, which in a democracy is nigh impossible because there are too many stakeholders fighting for a piece of the pie. To think that you could replace entrenched
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by zozin 6y ago
We are at war and data collection and social media influence serves as the ammunition and propaganda. If Bytedance is a truly innocent third party, then they completely misread the situation when they spent billions of dollars to expand ou
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by zozin 6y ago
Let's not pretend that Bezos spent much time on this statement. His lawyers and other employees wrote it for him.
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'authoritative data sources, such as Wikipedia" Lol
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by zozin 6y ago
The fatalism around America’s relative decline is so tiring to read about. Apparently the only thing that can occur is a sudden and disastrous collapse of Pax Americana, even though as shortly as 15-20 years ago America enjoyed total and c
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by zozin 6y ago
The cynic in me assumes that state governments are using this crisis as an opportunity to lower expenditures because of looming budget crises. Releasing tens of thousands of prisoners without sufficient support into a flailing economy is s
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by zozin 6y ago
Costco holds a special place in my heart. Even though I'm single I still get most of my groceries there. I've been going to the same two locations for +3 years and I've seen very little employee turnover; the employees seem

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