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Re: I put my whole life into a single database

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Post by mixmastamyk »

mym1990 wrote: post #188
crazygringo wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you want to reduce air travel for environmental reasons, then tax it more. Shaming individuals doesn't seem to be productive or helpful. Air travel works for people if the benefits outweigh the costs. The only thing that changes behavior is to change the costs. And even if costs were 10x there are still plenty of people who will fly tons, because it would still be economically productive. There are always going to…

I think a broad tax would just make it more difficult for middle and lower class to fly. Tax the business/first class and frequent flier, but don't push people who can already barely afford to fly out.

I appreciate this concern, but "poor people exist" is not a valid reason to continue destroying the environment, imho. It's not just people that have to bear the repercussions.

That said there are probably some work-arounds, tax free twice a year, tax rebate or some-such.

Re: I put my whole life into a single database

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Post by hrmtst93837 »

nkrisc wrote: post #25
noemit wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A counter example: I've been wearing an Apple Watch for close to 10 years. I've tracked my weight as well along those years but nothing crazy like OP. The Apple watch tracked plenty. I had some strange symptoms and two doctors insisted I had a weak heart and potential heart failure. This was shocking! Turns out I do have a really "weak" rhythm, but heart failure is when your heart is progressively getting worse in it…

But you didn’t spend hundreds of hours on it, so when it did happen to be useful it seemed like an outsized benefit. I would wager that for most people, most data about themselves will be useless and not worth collecting. Of course you can’t know what data will be useless or not, so unless the cost of collecting it is minimal or nil (wearing a smart watch, writing down your weight each day/week), it’s probably not wo…

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Re: I put my whole life into a single database

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Post by jamilton »

zbentley wrote: post #71
vladms wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Depends where you take the train to London, it is a much nicer experience anyhow than going to airports and people should consider that as well (ignoring climate stuff)! On the price, the very annoying thing is that fuel for planes is not taxed! Changing this would require quite some effort (falls under some specific laws, that are old and nobody wants to touch, etc.) but I think everybody should just ask "honest tax…

I agree re: fuel taxes, but it’s a complete nonstarter: passengers would be voting against their wallets, and airlines would lobby against it since it’s a vote against their business model.

Still worth trying, IMO.

An alternate approach that would be seen as consumer and business-friendly would be subsidizing companies with a certain level of fuel efficiency per passenger mile, targeted above current levels.

Re: I put my whole life into a single database

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Post by tasuki »

crazygringo wrote: post #187
tasuki wrote: post #185

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What is the purpose of your comment? Are you neutral? No judgement?

I asked you first. But I'll also respond to your questions: my purpose is to show that your claim that the original comment was "free from judgement" is wrong. I'm not neutral, I'm attempting to show that your claim is obviously false, that it's not plausible at all. Of course I'm trying to judge a comment that seems wrong. So now that I've replied honestly to your questions, will you reply honestly to mine? Repeatin…

Ok, fair.

But you see: not one comment here is neutral. It would be silly to expect a comment to be neutral, such a comment wouldn't be written in the first place. I think the original comment expressed the point while staying as neutral as possible.

> So you think the commenter was neutral?

Yes, it stated some facts.

> No judgment?

Yes, it contained no explicit value judgement. Any value judgement we bring into it is our own.

> Again, what was the purpose of the comment then?

How would I know the purpose of someone else's comments? I don't even really know what my purpose is debating here with you. I certainly don't see myself persuading you of anything :)

Re: I put my whole life into a single database

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Post by JCattheATM »

vidarh wrote: post #23
brodo wrote: post #4

The takeaways at the very bottom of the page are valuable: > Overall, having spent a significant amount of time building this project, scaling it up to the size it’s at now, as well as analysing the data, the main conclusion is that it is not worth building your own solution, and investing this much time. When I first started building this project 3 years ago, I expected to learn way more surprising and interesting f…

For me it's about managing ADHD-like (never diagnosed, and I don't care to assume) patterns, coupled with self-accountability. I have a self-improving dashboard (it kicks off Claude to propose additions based my positive/negative feedback on past attempts, and then builds them) that feels quite helpful. E.g. one of the things it added was fitbit integration that shoves my step count and resting heart rate in my face…

> managing ADHD-like (never diagnosed, and I don't care to assume)

What's the difference here between assuming and saying 'ADHD-like' instead?

Re: I put my whole life into a single database

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Post by crazygringo »

tasuki wrote: post #195
crazygringo wrote: post #187

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I asked you first. But I'll also respond to your questions: my purpose is to show that your claim that the original comment was "free from judgement" is wrong. I'm not neutral, I'm attempting to show that your claim is obviously false, that it's not plausible at all. Of course I'm trying to judge a comment that seems wrong. So now that I've replied honestly to your questions, will you reply honestly to mine? Repeatin…

Ok, fair. But you see: not one comment here is neutral. It would be silly to expect a comment to be neutral, such a comment wouldn't be written in the first place. I think the original comment expressed the point while staying as neutral as possible. > So you think the commenter was neutral? Yes, it stated some facts. > No judgment? Yes, it contained no explicit value judgement. Any value judgement we bring into it i…

What you write doesn't make any sense. You say it's "silly to expect a comment to be neutral" but the comment is "as neutral as possible" and then answer if the commenter was neutral with "yes". Those aren't consistent.

I don't know what definitions of neutral or value judgment you're using, but I hope you can use this as a learning opportunity. The original comment has the obvious implicit judgment that a greater CO2 footprint is a bad thing. This is shared context. It is so obvious it doesn't need to be explicitly stated, any more than "murdering people is bad". The purpose of the comment is clearly to shame the person for having such a high carbon footprint, otherwise there's no purpose in bringing it up. I don't know what your purpose was in trying to deny that. But if you genuinely didn't understand before, I hope now you do, and that this has been helpful in improving your reading comprehension or understanding of shared/implicit context.

Re: I put my whole life into a single database

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Post by BeetleB »

noemit wrote: post #14
brodo wrote: post #4

The takeaways at the very bottom of the page are valuable: > Overall, having spent a significant amount of time building this project, scaling it up to the size it’s at now, as well as analysing the data, the main conclusion is that it is not worth building your own solution, and investing this much time. When I first started building this project 3 years ago, I expected to learn way more surprising and interesting f…

A counter example: I've been wearing an Apple Watch for close to 10 years. I've tracked my weight as well along those years but nothing crazy like OP. The Apple watch tracked plenty. I had some strange symptoms and two doctors insisted I had a weak heart and potential heart failure. This was shocking! Turns out I do have a really "weak" rhythm, but heart failure is when your heart is progressively getting worse in it…

This was great because you didn't put much effort into it. Whereas the conclusion was about "it is not worth building your own solution".
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