> Yes, images and videos can be horrific, but that horror absolutely pales in comparison to what the world has to offer.
"Eat your dinner, there's kids starving in Africa."
Readit Newspavel_lishin commented on Recreating Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments neosmart.net/blog/recreat... · Posted by u/ComputerGuru
> Then my mom wrote the following: “be careful not to get sucked up in the slime-machine going on here! Since you don’t care that much about money, they can’t buy you at least.”
I'm lucky to have parents with strong values. My whole life they've given me advice, on the small stuff and the big decisions. I didn't always want to hear it when I was younger, but now in my late thirties, I'm really glad they kept sharing it. In hidhsight I can see the life-experience / wisdom in it, and how it's helped and shaped me.
I think this was meant to be a reply to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46903929 ?
pavel_lishin commented on The time I didn't meet Jeffrey Epstein scottaaronson.blog/?p=953... · Posted by u/pfdietz
Before you get too excited about this just imagine the average line of people at the DMV or the Grocery store and now imagine that those people are in charge of the lives of hundreds of millions. If you think HOAs are bad, you aint seen nothing yet.
The current system of oligarch patronage is bad, but at least it keeps the train mostly on the rails.
But aren't most HOA horror stories based on people who'd been running them for years if not decades, and only end happily when someone replaces those entrenched in power with new people?
pavel_lishin commented on NIMBYs aren't just shutting down housing inpractice.yimbyaction.or... · Posted by u/toomuchtodo
Can you clarify why it is absurd to add density to an area with huge 5 acre lots?
Or why cities should be able to ignore state laws, for that matter.
pavel_lishin commented on Parking lots as economic drains progressandpoverty.substa... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
If a developer builds in a way such that the demand for street parking outstrips supply, the street parking still has a cost, that cost is just expressed in time to find a spot, not dollars like you're suggesting. People unwilling to pay that time cost will find paid lots or not have a car (which is basically the dynamic in my building: people either pay $450 a month for a spot or they spend 10-15 minutes looking for a free street spot).
In practice, of course, existing residents feel entitled to "their" street parking and get mad when a new building with new people contending for those spots is built but there's no logical reason to preference residents who have previously lived there. This is where politics rears its head though.
> People unwilling to pay that time cost will find paid lots or not have a car
If we're talking about commercial properties and zones, people unwilling to pay that time cost just won't come to the area.
Well, do we really even need to discuss juggling 1? I just call that tossing the ball around...
> do we really even need to discuss juggling 1?
When I was learning to juggle, that was the first step - and for someone who's never really tried to juggle, or toss a ball up and down in a very consistent way, it's surprisingly hard. Honestly, probably not a 1 on the scale.
Those animations - the stick figures moving red balls - were all over Tumblr a few months ago, with people creating all sorts of interesting animations out of them. You can find them by searching for "juggling lab".
And this is exactly why Microsoft can get away with a buggy mess of a user hostile operating system.
They only have an incentive to make a good OS if people are willing to leave when it’s a bad one.
There's a semi-common saying that it takes seven attempts for someone to successfully leave an abusive partner. Give him time, I guess.