sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
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sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
1mo ago
But the basic issue behind the abortion debate is this: women don't want to be forced to spend nine months pregnant. That's a massive imposition on their lives. It doesn't really matter whether you're doing it out of "hate" or honest conviction, they will see you as their enemy and won't want to associate with you.
Men and women famously had similar views on abortion until 2020. Framing this as men imposing on women doesn't reflect reality.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
1mo ago
Uh, could you repeat the question please?
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
1mo ago
Any operational definition of "economic growth" in this context that results in it not getting harder to buy housing over time means that housing is not a good investment.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
1mo ago
Deepseek is that chick from Hong Kong ...
And then there's Haskell...
Haskell is like "that girl." You know the one...
You never really went steady, but you'd run into her from time to time while knocking around in disreputable joints, usually late at night, every several months or so. She looked so hot, so sleek, so sexy, so expressive, so exotic. You'd end up back at her place and the night would just... take off. A complete blur of hot, sweaty, feverish, delirious, fumbling passion. You'd do things to each other... you'd do things to her, she'd do things to you... things that you're not even sure have names, that you're pretty sure are illegal almost anywhere. Even her kinks have kinks --- and after one of these nights, you'd realize that you yourself had a lot more kinks than you. And it wasn't just physical, it was --- cerebral. Ethereal. Transcendent. But it would all whiz by in a blur, and by morning you'd find yourself lightheaded, a bit confused, and stumbling homeward to your regular gal.
Over the next few days and weeks you'd find yourself occasionally drifting away, thinking about her. Haskell. You'd be there, banging away at your regular girl, and find yourself thinking "you know, if I was with Haskell, I'd be doing this completely differently." You'd think "I could be doing so much bigger and better stuff with Haskell." Now, your regular girl, she's not as exotic as Haskell. Pretty, maybe, if you're lucky. (Perhaps your regular girlfriend's name is Python. ;-) But not nearly as --- weird. Wild. Cool. Exciting. Don't get me wrong --- your girl, she's wonderful. You've got a wonderful relationship. She's --- comfortable. You can bang away at her all day and night. She's accommodating. Easy going. You work well together. But --- confidentially --- she's, well, maybe just a little bit boring. You'd catch yourself thinking these things, and the guilty pangs would get to you... You'd quash the thoughts, buckle down, and get back to banging away. Comfortable... there's a lot to be said for that, ya know? Comfortable... just keep telling yourself that.
Months would go by. Late some night you'd find yourself out, disreputable places again. Maybe that hacker bar, LtU. Somebody'd slip you an URL for some renegade paper, you know, one of those papers. You'd run into Haskell again. And the whole thing starts over.
Eventually, you're going to get the ultimatum. Haskell's ultimately just like any other girl on some level; she needs commitment. Eventually, after one night of wild, feverish, kinky, abstract passion, she's going to say to you: "All these times, and you don't understand me at all! You know, you're going to have to get serious, mister! I've got needs, too. You're going to have to get serious about my monads, or that's the last time you're going to play with them! Got it?"
...and then, you've got to make The Choice.
Chances are, you're going to go back to your regular gal. Haskell's just too much for any one man, probably. She leaves a trail of broken, brainy, embittered PhDs and former programmers behind her. She ruins you for the RealWorld. You can ride a while, but you probably can't go the distance with her. Go back to your regular gal and try not to think too much about what you've seen. Done. Felt. Thought.
Maybe you can salvage a little happiness; but it'll be hard. After all... you've tasted Haskell.
She's not like anything else.
There's no amount of propaganda that can make land or housing an unattractive investment.
Okay. But it's clearly impossible for housing to be a good investment in real terms and for it to be affordable at the same time. So the options that I can see are:
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Gerontocracy. Buy now or be priced out forever. Housing to the moon. If you're too young or poor to get on the property ladder now, too bad - hopefully you're the eldest/an only child and your parents will leave you the house when they kick the bucket, unless the bills they rack up at the end of their lives consume the equity of course. And if you aren't too poor yet, don't worry: you will be.
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Housing supply is allowed to increase and the price is allowed to decrease.
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The Japanese method. Housing demand is forced to decrease so that the price decreases. Either cramming more people per household (intergenerational housing?) or expelling people from the country/area. I hear Canada has a lot of unpopular Indians, but note that this still involves prices going down and therefore housing being a bad investment.
Curious if I'm missing a fourth option here.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
1mo ago
The Wager by David Grann. A pretty compelling narrative of the events surrounding the shipwreck of the HMS Wager in Patagonia and the return of its crew to England. It's got a good smattering of woke nonsense (referring to Magellan's crew as conquistadores? Really?), but it almost seems like it was bolted on in a subsequent revision so it's easy to ignore. Those poor bastards really had a hard time of it.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
1mo ago
afternoon naptime will yield a fleet of autonomous vehicles cruising about town, each cradling a single precious cargo.
This is really the problem here. No reason that you can't put at least six children into a three row self driving SUV, and imagine how many kids you can stack into an articulated bus. Probably three or four from floor to ceiling, and maybe two deep.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
1mo ago
Is this really a failed replication? It seems that:
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Borellia samples are present
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Most reads are in non-species specific regions
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There are B. burgdorferi specific reads, as well as reads for other Borellia species
So they conclude that the Borellia variant (and I think they implicitly assume there's only one?) is not identical to B. burgdorferi. Maybe, but it's not only B. burgdorferi that causes Lyme disease. B. garinii (also found on the ice man) also causes Lyme disease, and there are other species whose relationship to Lyme disease is just not clear. So I don't view this as contradicting the claim that the ice man had Lyme disease.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
1mo ago
Also, I swear to god if the rumors that Lyme Disease and AGS escaped from a bioweapons lab are true you may very well see me on the news.
That would have to be some kind of bioweapons program run by the Ancient Astronauts, because a 5300 year old mummified ice man had Lyme disease.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
1mo ago
It's not unusual for foreign games to be funded by that government (one example that comes to mind is The Long Dark).
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
1mo ago
Your Jesse Singal link seems to be broken.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
1mo ago
I guess I mostly looked at the closeup of you running in the sun and your eyes seemed to contrast with your skin a lot.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
1mo ago
I think you'd be better off with a tan (or high carrot juice intake). To me it seems that your dark eyes have too much contrast with your fairly pale skin.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
1mo ago
I'd be interested in seeing the studies on carbonated water being bad for teeth. Coke zero still has added acid, so it's certainly worse for teeth than carbonated water.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
1mo ago
I can't help you with any of your questions, but I've used a Miele induction cooktop with touch controls and that thing is fucking garbage. Utensils constantly triggering the touch controls, something is always randomly turning it off, and it's hard to use when the surface gets greasy.
I guess what I'm saying is, proceed with caution around touch controls. It's possible that other brands do a better job, but Miele is really not entry level.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
1mo ago
My point is simply that there are a lot of Europeans with similar (or darker) skin tones and dark hair who don't have traditions of extensive facial jewelry. In other words, skin color doesn't seem to play a causal role, and not all cultures agree that facial jewelry looks bad on pale people, and not all pale cultures abstain from facial jewelry.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
1mo ago
The problem with this claim is that the palest Indians are paler than many Europeans, and it's the North Indians (usually paler) that wear the most jewelry.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
1mo ago
Indeed I work in industry, not academia, but I don't see it as any way bad if foreign students use American academia as a stepping stone into American industry. It's still a net benefit to the US.
Had they not come these jobs would have still been filled (probably at significantly higher cost, but if that’s the cost of a more equal society, so be it).
It's unlikely that these jobs would have been filled at a higher cost on account of the cost already being very high. It's more likely that the job would have been not filled or filled with inferior people.
An example of the top of my head - all but one of the authors of Attention is All You Need are foreigners. I don't know if you count Google Research/Brain as a "fairly standard job" but it's pretty obvious to me that there aren't seven foreigners on this paper because they're cheap.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
1mo ago
This is the problem with fighting a genuinely genocidal country like Israel: you can never surrender because they admit they want to replace you on your land.
If this were the case, Israel never would have unilaterally withdrawn from Gaza, including demolishing Israeli settlements. Evicting Palestinians from Gaza has only become a serious option after the latest round of bear-poking.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
1mo ago
the us tax payers is funding efforts to educate a bunch of foreign nationals who then leave.
Do they leave? I work with tons of very smart foreigners who got an advanced degree at an American university, so they can't all be leaving. We'd definitely be worse off if we can't brain drain the world anymore.
And let's not forget that Trump once proposed a drastic solution to retain international students:
You graduate from a college, I think you should get, automatically as part of your diploma, a green card to be able to stay in this country. That includes junior colleges, too.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
1mo ago
There's yet to be an example I can think of where he made a promise then got beaten by a competitor to delivering on it.
Tesla robotaxi comes to mind. Waymo has been serving customers and steadily increasing its coverage for years now. Musk has been promising autonomous robotaxis since 2019 (initial timeline: 2020) and Waymo launched its Phoenix pilot in 2022.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
1mo ago
That helps, and those aren't stroads, but it's convenient for a variety of reasons to mingle residential and commercial developments (as has been done for nine thousand years from Chatalhoyuk until WWII).
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
1mo ago
It's cheap to take a one-lane-bidirectional road that has a bunch of existing development on it, expand it out to 2, maybe put a center turning lane in it, and you have what is effectively a highway.
This is only the case in the situation where the development isn't actually on the road or the lanes are super wide.
Same with the 4-way stop and the traffic light; it doesn't require a few million dollars per intersection like roundabouts do (it's the cheaper, more technologically-advanced option, though it of course does make other sacrifices).
I'm not sure what your claim is, exactly. Are you saying that stop signs are technologically advanced? Or that you can have stop signs on a road where the speed limit is 50 (based on your next paragraph)? I certainly haven't seen that before.
Yes, it'll cost you more lives and property damage because someone didn't look both ways and got (them or their car) hit by another car going 50 mph, but human safety and human dignity (in this case, the dignity of not living in a million-dollar shoebox and it only taking 10 minutes to get to your destination rather than 60) are always two sides of the same coin.
Wide, high speed roads are a nuisance to live near (ask me how I know), so I don't know that it's a big increase in dignity to make every road a 45MPH arterial.
I'm not sure what you are getting at with your 10 minute vs 60 minute journey hypothetical. The places where it takes 10 minutes to make a trip and the places where it takes 60 minutes to drive an equivalent distance are not the same, and this goes back to the land usage in the first part. You can't expand the roads endlessly, because there's stuff on the side of the road, and to make things worse, that stuff on the side of the road is why people travel in the first place, and with wider roads those places are forced further apart except in totally rural areas.
You can't take e.g. San Francisco and replace every two lane road with a six lane road to fix the traffic without running out of land or building double decker freeways in the middle of the city.
In general, my preferred mode of living is a medium town with quiet, shaded streets in town so that people can walk and bike around and kids can play in the street without getting oneshotted by a driver scroooolling tiktoks at 50 MPH. This is incompatible with wide roads with high speed limits, aka, stroads.
For everything else, there's the interstate.
The man's expenses are probably near zero. Between savings and social security he may be ahead of the modal silicon valley striver living paycheck to paycheck between mortgage, property taxes, and private school.
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