oneshoup.bsky.social
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I'm losing it at this interior courtyard
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That would be very cool! I have no idea what Puerto Rico looks like!
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Say what you will about US housing markets post 1980, but this problem will probably get solved? Chicago will gentrify new nabes if rents go up. Now that's a different set of problems....
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One of the biggest sources of Medicaid fraud is the attempt to move non emergency hospital visits to government reimbursed non ambulance transport. It was really big in the 2010s. Just a funny quirk to your thought
www.gao.gov/products/gao...
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It seems really clear that the #1 reason every excepted the principal is that they were tired after 50 years of killing and just wanted it to stop
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In MEMORIES (1995), the final short is by Otomo about a city which endlessly and seemingly pointlessly lobs artillery shells at an unseen enemy, apparently for decades, crushing generations under this
Everything seems so awful about the current situation
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They're getting better at this....
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He simply can't perform the normal ritual acts of the President. It's very strange. It would cost him almost nothing! Other autocrats do that stuff b/c it's easy and makes you popular
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The low trust hungarians also trust random translated FB comments than their children. It's beautiful; the anti-imternational internationale
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It's so cool some guy wrote a book about this that became the most influential book on early European religion and widely influenced art and culture — also that it's totally fake
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This isn't even the weirdest thing that can happen with dragon choosing on Pern
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Do not do this but uh sort of
www.npr.org/2019/03/25/7...
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There's a slight bias these days towards girls
www.economist.com/briefing/202...
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Yeah w/ infinite money it's be nice to replace the st. St. Bridge wit a tunnel but haha.
I was wondering if we could at least partially trench in the N section after the bridge and then close some streets and build a small bridge for yamhill or something like that. Slowly chip away at it
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Everyone will make themselves blonde pugs, and then they'll make themselves borzois (monsters), and then golden retrievers will be in....
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I think the discrimination against people who weren't selected in vitro is bad (the text of the movie gets confused on this since medical tests for astronauts is probably reasonable, but it's clear that none selected people are routinely socially discriminated against in bad ways)
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There was that pianist with 12 fingers?
Given the way gattaca worked (all through selection?) it seems it's be hard to get very big differences
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Would it make sense here to trench the bnsf line on the east side? I was thinking about how to do this the other day...
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Oh yeah I like all the weird proposals you post. Which I was a real engineer so I could have better thoughts on them....
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It's an interesting idea, I'm just not convinced I guess. Maybe the AI future will have thousands of autonomous boats stripping the sand of the earth to lay hundreds of these cables a year.
www.bbc.com/future/artic...
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So there are about 600 undersea cables (and according to the bbc) there are 150-200 instances of damage a year, but they're mostly not a big deal. I don't think we can really calc' the prob of a given cable breaking in a year from that, but it seems high.
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I suspect the majority of the cost (like many things!) is on the services side: planning permission, getting all of the electrical utilities to agree etc.
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I feel like the "if it cracks anywhere the tendon breaks it everywhere" makes this implausible? I mean what are we going to do when a boat hits it (the proposed solution is lots of cables which doesn't seem likely)
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Your Unknown Armies supplement is coming along great I see.
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Every time Yud is right
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I don't know if you could do an actual Kafala system in a democratic country — it's not really possible to tell if it's popular among citizens in the Gulf (or at least maybe the 30% who hate it in the west also hate it there)
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I mean the bar here is pretty low. Who exactly is the competition if you try to control for "infinite oil money"?
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Don't worry he just shot up oil prices
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The problem is there's no second coming — you're going to have to live tomorrow whether you like it or notml
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Yeah surprising to a lot of people. Even those who really believed, I don't think they predicted which things would be easy or hard.
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What were the biggest mistaken beliefs you had?
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Pete do a yatra. Walk from NYC to LA. You've already grown the beard.
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When will Gavin Newsom grow the beard?
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What are the other options? A very very bad DNS rollout somewhere?
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Why do you "hear him" but then "listen to him"? Or "see" and "look"? And then sometimes you "agree with" or "agree to" or "agree on"?
And these are less systematic than wa/ga but it's always painful everywhere.
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Explaining which verba take which args with which prepositions/cases is just one of those incredibly complicated things in every language.
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Colin Fraser has been calling this the "False Torment Nexus". It's much easier to say you're building the Torment Nexus than to build it, and oddly there are many VCs who will pay for a 10% ownership of a hypothetical Torment Nexus
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What these changes look like in raw dollar terms, per CBO analysis of GOP budget bill:
Typical household in bottom income decile loses ~$1,600 annually.
Typical household in richest income decile gains ~$12,000 annually.
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This is extremely similar to the rules around dancing in Seattle until they were loosened slightly in the 00s
In Seattle it was a backlash to the city as a nightlife hub for sailors etc in the early 20th. I wonder if it's the same in Vancouver?
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We are far more pathetic than the people in SOWER since actually crime is fine and there's no energy crisis, we elected fascists because egg price went up.
Also butler was envisioning some kind of very Evangelical tyranny, I don't think anyone predicted Trump and what happened to us Christianity
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Even the SF which gets marked as prophetic misses a lot. Butler's with gas all of this crime stuff which just wasn't true (I think no one predicted crime would go down for no obvious reason), and the cyberpunk stuff is so far up its own ass about the end of the state
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Is any of it good looking back? Like Nick Land has one interesting idea about AI and capitalism and then mostly wrote nonsense.
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It's an awkward story b/c it continues well after independence. 4/5 Irish people born in the 30s ended up leaving (insane stat).