> Not sure where the popular impression that it is not competitive comes from The fact that it goes up 20-30% every year (no claims, obviously), that I cannot raise my deductibles to significantly lower my premiums, and…
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"I never thought the leopards would eat MY face," sobs dude who contributed to the leopard-owned face eating industry. There has never been a good argument for attempting to filter email addresses based on domain. Check…
Being able to come up with compelling use cases for a technology does not redeem that technology from creating a terrible power imbalance that incentives will assure is inevitably abused. Whenever anyone hears "remote…
Yes. But of course "healthier" is describing the health of brain worms. On the bright side, this probably indicates that the reactionaries' pushes to deeducate the population are reaching a point of diminishing returns,…
This article ended waaaay to abruptly. Reverse Centaurs and Canonization would seem to be orthogonal dynamics, and there was synthesis to be had by contrasting them. Centaur + no Canonization -> personal infrastructure,…
> There's nothing unproductive in calling out denying responsibility/culpability. Some would say it's practically mandatory. I've been condemning the surveillance industry going on two decades now. Making that…
What we consider an the branches are defined in the Constitution, but my point is they are not defined as the top-level in a hierarchy of organizations, but rather behaviorally based on what function is being done.
> But with those ingredients costing $20-25 you would be able to afford to make how many burritos? It doesn't matter. The post I was responding to said that you could create a substitute for a burrito shop burrito with…
"cook almost every meal" is exactly the type of "expanding the scope" I was talking about. Cooking food yourself is a well-known way of saving money. Starting by trying to reproduce burrito shop burritos is not the way…
You're talking about meals that take 2 prepped ingredients (pork/veggies, pork/ramen, cereal/milk) versus something that takes on the order of 10 (tortilla, rice, beans, some kind of protein, cheese, pico, lettuce,…
The funny part is that I'm currently at the home-centric cook-for-multiple-people end of the spectrum. But burritos are just such a comically bad example of things to make at home to save money. Switch to pasta or basic…
You're expanding the scope to a much larger process and pattern of behavior that has to be undertaken and managed. Sure it's doable, and you can save a bunch of money that way. But as a one line throwaway comment it's…
This idea is directly at odds with the top-level comment. "the whole business is rotten." If someone is a professional programmer and wants to maintain a similar level of income, where do you propose they go? There are…
I'd say you're making a different framework. In the dual state framework, your privileged state (caste) is just as aspect of the prerogative state. The dual state framework doesn't declare "which way" the illegality…
> Not sure where the popular impression that it is not competitive comes from The fact that it goes up 20-30% every year (no claims, obviously), that I cannot raise my deductibles to significantly lower my premiums, and…
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"I never thought the leopards would eat MY face," sobs dude who contributed to the leopard-owned face eating industry. There has never been a good argument for attempting to filter email addresses based on domain. Check…
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Being able to come up with compelling use cases for a technology does not redeem that technology from creating a terrible power imbalance that incentives will assure is inevitably abused. Whenever anyone hears "remote…
Yes. But of course "healthier" is describing the health of brain worms. On the bright side, this probably indicates that the reactionaries' pushes to deeducate the population are reaching a point of diminishing returns,…
This article ended waaaay to abruptly. Reverse Centaurs and Canonization would seem to be orthogonal dynamics, and there was synthesis to be had by contrasting them. Centaur + no Canonization -> personal infrastructure,…
> There's nothing unproductive in calling out denying responsibility/culpability. Some would say it's practically mandatory. I've been condemning the surveillance industry going on two decades now. Making that…
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What we consider an the branches are defined in the Constitution, but my point is they are not defined as the top-level in a hierarchy of organizations, but rather behaviorally based on what function is being done.
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> But with those ingredients costing $20-25 you would be able to afford to make how many burritos? It doesn't matter. The post I was responding to said that you could create a substitute for a burrito shop burrito with…
"cook almost every meal" is exactly the type of "expanding the scope" I was talking about. Cooking food yourself is a well-known way of saving money. Starting by trying to reproduce burrito shop burritos is not the way…
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You're talking about meals that take 2 prepped ingredients (pork/veggies, pork/ramen, cereal/milk) versus something that takes on the order of 10 (tortilla, rice, beans, some kind of protein, cheese, pico, lettuce,…
The funny part is that I'm currently at the home-centric cook-for-multiple-people end of the spectrum. But burritos are just such a comically bad example of things to make at home to save money. Switch to pasta or basic…
You're expanding the scope to a much larger process and pattern of behavior that has to be undertaken and managed. Sure it's doable, and you can save a bunch of money that way. But as a one line throwaway comment it's…
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This idea is directly at odds with the top-level comment. "the whole business is rotten." If someone is a professional programmer and wants to maintain a similar level of income, where do you propose they go? There are…
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I'd say you're making a different framework. In the dual state framework, your privileged state (caste) is just as aspect of the prerogative state. The dual state framework doesn't declare "which way" the illegality…