DuskStar

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by DuskStar 7y ago
Unfortunately, the government explicitly listing allowed and denied categories would result in people finding luxury goods that were still allowed, and condemning the government for that (expensive foods, for instance) - and simultaneously
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by DuskStar 7y ago
My reading is that either restrictions were sufficient before, or the new ones won't be enough either . And the more onerous the restrictions, the less likely it is that people will be willing to follow the important ones in the futur
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by DuskStar 7y ago
Sloppy compliance is the proper route to take if you expect good faith to be rewarded . If you don't - if you think French regulators would be happy to make up some revenue shortfalls via fines of a foreign company - then overly-conse
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by DuskStar 7y ago
I was under the impression that NYC had a confirmed infection rate of ~1%. Have they really had a tenth of confirmed cases die already?
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by DuskStar 7y ago
I'd say that landscaping is at least a field that has the possibility of operating while social distancing. As for bodies piling up in Detroit... While that's true, additional restrictions added today won't have any impact
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by DuskStar 7y ago
And at least in Michigan, they're not taking the time to open up low risk businesses now - instead they're filling in even more of the gaps that allowed life to continue. No golf courses, even without any staff contact. No landsca
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by DuskStar 7y ago
An alternative interpretation is that Scotland got its independence referendums because London had seen how much of a clusterfuck the "no, let's ignore the desires of this not-a-colony" route could end up being.
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by DuskStar 7y ago
> There should be a special word for the moral delusion that markets exist in an abstract philosophical vacuum and price signals are somehow more important than people's lives. From my perspective, there should be some word for the
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by DuskStar 7y ago
Most of Europe has constitutional rights... Unless those rights are icky. For instance, freedom of speech - unless it disparages a religion, or denies the Holocaust, or...
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by DuskStar 7y ago
By making a new handle every day, apparently.
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by DuskStar 7y ago
That's a very fair point.
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by DuskStar 7y ago
At that point though, you should be asking if we shouldn't ban private ownership of airliners. After all, they do demonstrably more damage...
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by DuskStar 7y ago
"I was in a self defence situation and needed to kill someone" and "almost nobody needs to own a gun privately" seem to be incompatible statements to me. As for the difficulty of killing large numbers of people, I&#x27
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by DuskStar 7y ago
The thing is, the WORST case for an asshole with a tank is a few dozen deaths. Tanks are designed to be operated by more than one person, and so a loner operating a tank gets at best the driver's seat and a machine gun. And when it com
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by DuskStar 7y ago
> while The Troubles didn't induce the UK to give any concessions it wasn't already willing to give beforehand. You're saying that the Brits would have agreed to let Northern Ireland vote to join rejoin the rest of Ireland
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by DuskStar 7y ago
> Do these not have modern radar? The article said they were being purchased without any downgrades from their time flying with the RAAF. They have something that would be considered a nice radar for a 4th gen fighter, 20 years ago. Whet
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by DuskStar 7y ago
You do realize that there's a ton of precedent for privately-owned heavy weaponry in the US, right? As the 2nd Amendment folks would point out, there used to be US citizens who owned warships . F/A-18s without guided weaponry are
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by DuskStar 7y ago
Clinics?
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by DuskStar 7y ago
I mean, that's a better description than calling it "Save Our State"... but yes, the goal of the amendment was to reduce the services provided to illegal immigrants. Perhaps I should have said "let's check if people
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by DuskStar 7y ago
Not like Florida Republicans are the only offenders there. 59% voted in favor of California's "let's check if people are illegal immigrants" amendment back in 1994 [0], but then the incoming Democratic governor refused t
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by DuskStar 7y ago
At the same time, the opposing strategy of "everything is a scandal", "nothing good comes from anyone with an R by their name", etc has made people with an R by their name care less about actually being involved in sca
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by DuskStar 7y ago
Letting masks sell for $25/ct now so that companies can afford to go to 24/7 production NOW and not have to worry about paying unemployment in 2 months might be, though.
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by DuskStar 7y ago
And this factory makes surgical masks, not N95s. The material is not a bottleneck as far as I'm aware.
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by DuskStar 7y ago
Free market solutions break down when demand AND SUPPLY are BOTH inelastic, and that's only if you count 'price goes up' as market failure. Think of it this way - the demand for food is inelastic. Does this mean free market s
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by DuskStar 7y ago
Yeah, gun brandishing incidents is a really weird thing to get worked up about. Gun homicides, sure - but those have been going down in the US since the 90s. (Despite the assault weapons ban expiring. Funny, that)
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by DuskStar 7y ago
And driving isn't the only way to die in an auto accident. What's your point? Look, driving kills people, and we accept it because it brings huge benefits. Going to work as normal in the current environment would ALSO bring huge b
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by DuskStar 7y ago
As with iso1631 there, I disagree. The lockdown will only save significant numbers of lives if it lasts until we have a way to reduce population death rates (either via better treatment, prophylactics, or vaccines) OR if we can exterminat
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by DuskStar 7y ago
The idea that many of them would have died anyways within a year or three is rather better supported, though. As is the idea that we need to run a cost-benefit analysis here.
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by DuskStar 7y ago
> What benefit does the Covid-19 epidemic confer that you can compare it to road travel? Well, going out and working has rather large economic benefits.
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by DuskStar 7y ago
That's not what is generally meant by dumping money into education (normally it refers to primary/secondary education), but I think it holds true here too. After all, we're putting FAR more money into colleges than we did 20

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