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Ok, I'm curious. How does the explanation for everything's existence being "God did it" not simply push the question up a level to wondering how to explain God's existence?

Oh, I did live in a dorm and I guess it didn't. It was one small room for two people, maybe 150sqft or less, we had a communal kitchen.

I can't think of any times my university cared about anything I did outside of the lecture hall (besides maybe my professors caring about me having done the work?) in the US. What are you referring to?

Many students will have graduated by the time they are 24, so it is possible that both statements 1. the majority of American children go to college and 2. 40 percent of 18-24 year olds are enrolled are simultaneously true

He can say whatever he wants about his own politics, it is abundantly clear from his political statements and activities that he is not left in the slightest bit.

Not a lot of comments here consider the possibility that the political compass quiz is nonsense. But the results imply that ChatGPT is more authoritarian and further to the right than Tim Pool (https://preview.redd.it/i9q78gt1hj7a1.jpg?width=605&auto=web...) who is most certainly not actually left-ish in the slightest, at least by any way I understand the word.

East India Company

No biggy my dude, it was clear from the jump that you didn't intend anything combative. Enjoy your scotch

This is a minor nitpick, but it was a question, not an assertion.

> Remote work

> Anticipate more mid-size and smaller companies will go back more fully into the office as times get tougher. This will not be one size fits all, but will be an increasing trend.

Up to this point in the article, whether you agree or disagree with the points, the author offers some arguments and reasoning supporting each. Here, they simply assert that small and mid-size companies will go into the office, with no supporting argument. Why? Won't many small and mid-size companies have come up under covid and not have an office lease in the liabilities column? Why would they pay (insert large city) rents to save money? How does it help?

I'd love to see some clear examples of conservative voices being targeted solely based on ideology, cause I don't think they exist.

The replies so far seem to just confirm my point. Doesn't seem like any of them were banned "solely based on ideology" at all.

Come on y'all, show me one example where someone was banned for asking for lower taxes!

I _think_ that the meta progression is the sticking point that determines whether the game is a roguelike or a roguelite, roguelite being the one with the meta progression.

wait what? 50 weeks * 60 / hr * 40 hr weeks = 120k yearly. what senior faang engineer is making less than that?

It's complete nonsense even when you're conscious and fine!

I definitely remember approximately weekly having to stay up all night to finish my regular assignments assigned the same day and due the next

Also the infotainment. And real questions because I'm genuinely curious: do driver assists (ABS, ASR, TCS) and their adjustments rely on processors? What about in-car adjustments to suspension height, ride firmness, throttle response (e.g. eco vs sport vs comfort modes)? Lane keep assist, blind spot checking, adaptive cruise control all seem like things that would require processing power as well.

depends on the Ferrari tbh

I really enjoy the chicken-and-egg-esque meta implications of this comment, that you are of the Type 1 persuasion and therefore find value in this reductive model of human thought. I instinctually grasp for nuance away from these two modes, which ironically seems to put me squarely in Type 2 (even though I often find value in reductive models). Trying to dig deeper into this just feels like zooming in on a fractal.

Isn't the article's primary claim exactly that?

Extremely true in Houston (and the rest of Texas). Property taxes are big and can change dramatically year to year.

well clearly they just didn't work hard enough!

He is still the CEO. He will step down later this year.

Not that this fundamentally changes your claim, but it's probably worth pointing out to someone reading that you can use an ad blocker on iOS.

This is about the same as I felt after reading this-- and his comment explaining Tokyo's free public toilets, "No homeless, no drugs, no crime, 100% politeness rate?", all but confirmed those suspicions for me. It reads more like an ideological rant than a considered treatise on potty economics.

I think you might have missed this important line:

> Most of the power knocked offline came from thermal sources, Woodfin said, particularly natural gas.

I'm not sure how this relates to my claim

Completely agree with you. I was just pointing out that the public discussion of universal healthcare in the US tends to demonize it as a path to Leninism or Maoism, in contrast with the claim that China now has nothing resembling communism. At no point was I advocating for communism (or any other economic system).

For some definitions of communism... in the US, many would have us believe that universal health care is a key component of communism and China still has plenty of that.

It depends entirely on how you define poverty- typically these claims are based on a figure of $1.90 per day as the threshold for "extreme poverty", and you can use the World Bank's calculator to verify that they are true here: http://iresearch.worldbank.org/PovcalNet/povOnDemand.aspx

But it doesn't tell the whole story. Could you survive on $2 per day? The implication of this claim is that you are not in "extreme poverty" at that threshold, but I'm not sure many people would agree.

The next natural step is to ask where the line really should be drawn? For many reasonable numbers, we can see that number has been rising in the past few decades. You can set your own inputs on the linked calculator based on where you believe the poverty line should be drawn and decide for yourself.

AWS is not a common carrier