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puredemo··on Ask HN: What will self driving cars do to real estate?
Are you just talking about RVs?
puredemo··on Ask HN: What will self driving cars do to real estate?
I would think real estate will become more spread out.

Personally, I wouldn't mind a 1.5 hour commute each way if I could code the whole time rather than drive, and if my car was electric.

puredemo··on The Decline of ‘Big Soda’
That's why the "public option" was such a decent choice. Before it was killed to sell-out to insurance companies.
puredemo··on RoboCab: Driverless Taxi Experiment to Start in Japan
What bothers me more is that the intelligent are too busy working to have kids, while the lowest classes now want basic income and will have all the time in the world to start large families. It's absolutely dysgenic.
puredemo··on The Benefits of a Quiet Ego
That gave me more of a sense of urgency and egoic ambition, not the other way around.
puredemo··on The Benefits of a Quiet Ego
The idea of some "ultimate reality" is so annoying to me. There is regular ol' reality which our mind and senses have evolved to perceive as best they can via natural selection over millions of years.

The reasons we have a lot of "scripts" running in our mind is because they have historically helped us survive and pass on our genetics. Turning them off doesn't manifest joy but a genetic dead-end, in aggregate.

puredemo··on One founder, zero staff, making $1.2M in monthly recurring revenue
How would you prove an opt-in, even if you had more info than just the email address? I mean, would a timestamp column suffice? What did they expect to see exactly?
puredemo··on The model minority is losing patience
"All these Asian applicants look the same..."

Seems to be her meta-message.

puredemo··on The two Detroits: a city both collapsing and gentrifying at the same time
Noe Valley in particular is considered a very upper class area. The rest mentioned are all decent / above average.
puredemo··on Amazon’s $23M book about flies (2011)
All of those things are useful in the right context.
puredemo··on Show HN: Experimental “Text-To-Color” engine I wrote for fun
No taupe? No periwinkle? Teal isn't teal? Pls.
puredemo··on Epistemic learned helplessness (2013)
>Someone's claiming that some particular aspect of modern diet causes obesity? It would have to either make you feel lethargic (lower calories out) or make you hungrier (raise calories in). Both of which are directly observable and easily correlated to the contents of recent meals, without having to argue over mechanisms and confounders and personalized gut bacteria and such.

This is extremely facile. Take trans fats scarring arteries and causing systemic inflammation, for instance.

puredemo··on Reasons to love SQLAlchemy
Another vote for Pyramid.
puredemo··on Groupon Is Laying Off 1,100, Shutters Operations in 7 Countries
It's basically just common sense. The server does the same amount of work whether the meal is priced at $100 or $50.
puredemo··on The Fake Meat Revolution
mmmm Cadmium
puredemo··on Envelope – Postgres database to web app with just HTML and SQL
Having worked on CF, it's not as bad as people made it out to be.
puredemo··on Ashley Madison Code Shows More Women, and More Bots
Great article. I wonder why the full database hasn't been released? Will be a whole additional scandal if full message logs are released in a future dump.
puredemo··on The Myth of Big, Bad Gluten
That wasn't the tldr; at all.
puredemo··on “Two days ago the police came to me and wanted me to stop working on this”
Only because they don't have huge ghettos with gang problems. It's basically a demographics issue.
puredemo··on The likely end of DownThemAll
idk, better extensions / plugins is the main reason I use firefox, easily.
puredemo··on Show HN: 10HN – Top articles from HN served every morning and every evening
I'm fingering my monitor but nothing happens.
puredemo··on Editing humanity
>You now have a generation that can't effectively socialize and communicate.

Not just one generation -- Crispr changes are passed down inter-generationally.

puredemo··on Rust in 2016
And only the first actually refers to the language.
puredemo··on Some analysis of the 1M most popular sites on the web
Too many battles to wage for one fairly small organization
puredemo··on Some analysis of the 1M most popular sites on the web
Too many battles to wage for one fairly small organization
puredemo··on Running a Dark Web pedophile honeypot
source?
puredemo··on Running a Dark Web pedophile honeypot
seek help.
puredemo··on /r/IAmA set to “private” after Victoria is let go from Reddit
Karmanaut is one of the few default mods who allows fairly "contentious" comments to stay up. As long as he is top mod of /r/IAmA I don't think that will change.
puredemo··on Greg Chesson has died
Who is he survived by?
puredemo··on What’s the best way to spend $20K to help the common good?
It's not and entirely falls into the "noble poor" fallacy.
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