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when people estimate their calorie intake it's completely off unless they're writing it down after everything they eat this is the same with everyone self assessing productivity gains almost always wildly over stated

Let me explain exactly why every new subdivision in America looks like the top photo, because the math is wild. A mature tree increases a home's value by 7 to 19 percent. On a $400,000 house, that's $28,000 to $76,000. A single shade tree produces the cooling equivalent of ten room-size air conditioners running 20 hours a day. One tree on the west side of a house cuts energy bills by 12 percent within 15 years. The bottom photo is worth more, costs less to live in, and sells faster. This has been documented by the University of Washington, Clemson, Michigan State, and the USDA. The data is not in dispute. Removing those trees saves the builder roughly $5,000 per lot. Concrete trucks need twice the dripline radius of every standing tree. Utility trenches need flat ground. A bulldozer flattens 200 lots in an afternoon. Preserving trees adds weeks and thousands per home. So the developer pockets $5,000 in savings and the buyer eats $50,000 in lost value for the next two decades. The person making the decision and the person paying for it have never been in the same room. The Woodlands, Texas is the proof of what happens when they are. George Mitchell bought 28,000 acres of Houston timberland in 1974 and preserved 28% as permanent green space. He forced McDonald's to build behind the tree canopy. That McDonald's became one of the highest-volume locations in Texas. The first office building, designed to reflect the surrounding forest so you couldn't see it from the street, leased completely. The Woodlands median home price today: $615,000. Katy, a comparable Houston suburb that clear-cut: $375,000. Named #1 community to live in America two years running. Fifty years of data. The trees are worth more than removing them saves. Developers clear-cut anyway because they sell the house once and leave. You live in it for 30 years.

If you make a NFT of a real ayatollah, and the ayatollah itself gets destroyed by a B-52 tomorrow, you still have the same ayatollah. Because the token still exists and is a retarded goatfucker just as before. Nothing has changed. What NFT is doing to the concept of ayatollah, few understand.

BIP 360: Pay to Merkle Root was published

It’s very simple… everything in red has had massive government involvement.

Venezuelan man: “Those who say that the U.S. is only interested in our oil, I ask you: What do you think the RUSSIANS and the CHINESE wanted here? The recipe for arepas?" 😂😂😂

StackOverflow graph of questions asked per month. Holy shit.

@FranciscoBTC Wow!! Congratulations to you and your family!

wife is not on twitter (otherwise she’d kill me for posting the one of her in the tub 🤣) we welcomed a strong beautiful son who gives me even more energy, focus, and purpose to everything I do. So grateful for this life 🙏🏽 Let’s keep building!

The temptation to print money out of thin air: almost impossible to resist. And once surrendered to, it corrupts everything. That's why Bitcoin is impossible to replicate.

@darosior @jevidon so override the feature freeze. simple. there is no hard-deadline. bitcoin operates on a it's ready when it's ready basis because of the mission critical nature. it's just words (deprecation warning string) so has no conceivable code effect. it's a show of good faith.

Much of the poverty alleviation program of Effective Altruism made more sense at the end of history when Europe was prosperous, American military might unquestioned, and only Western technology advancing. It was a kind of pluralistic washed technocratic revival of the civilizing mission of the 1900s. Today's task isn't a benevolent globalizing managerialism, helping along the third world catch up to the first. After all, the development or even propagation of good institutions cannot be something imparted or redistributed from a Western world that no longer possess either. The only development success story of the thrid world today is China, a country that didn't imitate our present day institutions but made its own. Rather those who wish to benefit mankind find ourselves in a dire economic, political, philosophical, and ultimately moral struggle within the Western world on whether to maintain first world prosperity and progress at all.

@DrEliDavid I assume the 'billionaires shouldn't exist' crowd is very pleased with the Israeli strikes.

Fun fact: The combined net worth of H×mas leaders eliminated today was over $10 billion, all of it from international "aid" (mainly European taxpayer money)

I assume the 'billionaires shouldn't exist' crowd is very pleased with the Israeli strikes.

One of the biggest problems in bitcoin is that there is nothing to do. You buy bitcoin every with every paycheck, withdraw to cold storage and that's it. When you tell someone who's only interaction with bitcoin for the last 4 years is pressing the withdraw button on the exchange that they can make a difference and kill shitcoins by running knots, it makes them feel like they have a bigger part in bitcoin and gives them an action they can actually do.

@alissa_claudia @alltagsprolet Selbstselektion. Migranten, die in einen Wohlfahrtsstaat mit Arbeitsverbot einwandern vs. Migranten, die irgendwohin auswandern, wo es keine Aussicht auf Unterstützung gibt. Beide Gruppen haben fast nichts miteinander gemeinsam, außer die Nationalität.

Ich hab ja geschrieben, dass D und A Migration einfach nicht können. Dennoch kann bzw. könnte es jeder einzelne Migrant schaffen, sofern er wollte und von seinen Fähigkeiten her könnte. Warum ich grantige werde? Nun, ich halte es für nachgerade rassistisch, Migranten Fähigkeiten zur Assimilation abzusprechen, indem man behauptet, diese müssten von Dritten quasi geformt und gehätschelt werden. Das Versagen bei der Migration liegt mE darin, dass zu wenig gefordert und verlangt wird und gleichzeitig der Arbeitsmarkt abgeschottet und mit Gewerberecht überfrachtet wird.

Das Desaster begann schon 1978. Im Jahr 1978 begann eine bedeutende Migration von Libanesen nach Deutschland, hauptsächlich als Flüchtlinge vor dem libanesischen Bürgerkrieg, der 1975 ausbrach. Diese Migranten reisten oft über Ost-Berlin, erhielten dort ein Transitvisum für die DDR und gelangten nach West-Berlin, wo sie Asyl beantragten. Die westdeutschen Behörden kontrollierten die Grenzen in Berlin nicht, sodass eine Einreise nach Westdeutschland erleichtert wurde. Diese Migration ist ua für die heutigen Clan-Strukturen-Kriminalität relevant. Während in die USA eingewanderte Libanesen heute eine wirtschaftlich starke Kraft sind, sind die in Deutschland noch heute auf Sozialhilfe angewiesen. Deutschland und Österreich können Migration einfach nicht.

@AuronMacintyre @Noahpinion @MrKapitalist @MasterThiefEsq Reminds me of Leftists going from „communism leads to more economic success“ to „economic success is not the most important thing“ after the fall of the sowjet union.

@Noahpinion @MrKapitalist @MasterThiefEsq Sure, nations do not exist purely to maximize their economic output Often economic success correlates with better outcomes but treating it as the final cause can lead to disaster South Korea has a pretty solid GDP but will be dead in a few generations if nothing changes

Can someone on the right explain to me how hurting the U.S. economy is supposed to restore community and a sense of nationhood to our country?

Same thing lefties started to say after the Sowjet Union proofed that communism leads to worse economic outcomes.

the time picker on iphones alarm app isn’t actually circular it’s just a really long list

@francispouliot_ That’s awesome. I‘ll need a QR code library for dart-flutter in the upcoming weeks, is yours open source?

Interesting tidbit: we could not find a QR code software library for dart-flutter that respected the privacy of our users (zero data leak) so we built our own! And we did not take into account possibility of QR codes having inverted colors. Fixing it! This is the Hard Path.