TheCoelacanth

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by TheCoelacanth 3mo ago
I don't think you can plausibly claim that the US was a leader in technology until the 20th century, which is long after the US started having enormous amounts of immigration.
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by TheCoelacanth 3mo ago
Obviously they can do it. That doesn't mean it's good policy.
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by TheCoelacanth 3mo ago
That's not accurate either. If the royalties are 15%, for example, then covering a $15k advance would take $100k of sales. A typical book isn't making the publisher much profit but they aren't losing money on it either.
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by TheCoelacanth 3mo ago
Absolutely. Early engines were so inefficient that they could basically only be used in coal mines.
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by TheCoelacanth 3mo ago
It is insane that the people responsible for policing drugs get to decide what drugs are illegal. That's like letting the police decide if something is a crime or not. It's completely antithetical to democracy and the rule-of-law.
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by TheCoelacanth 3mo ago
People who are empowered to enact violence on behalf of the state must be held to a higher standard than random citizens. Anything other than absolute adherence to the letter of the law is completely unacceptable from any part of the govern
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by TheCoelacanth 3mo ago
That's more like having jurisdiction over the diplomat's property in the country than having jurisdiction over the diplomat themselves.
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by TheCoelacanth 3mo ago
By the time violins existed, then you are already 100+ years into the modern era and much of this article no longer applies. Centralized states were becoming much more common and developing much more administrative capacity. Literate bureau
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by TheCoelacanth 3mo ago
These Calvinball judges would never let logic or consistency control their decisions to that extent.
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by TheCoelacanth 3mo ago
Still "subject to the jurisdiction of". US law doesn't currently have a law allowing them to be conscripted, and it would be very ill-advised to do so and it would cause a lot of diplomatic backlash, but it certainly could pa
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by TheCoelacanth 4mo ago
Sparta is quite possibly the pinnacle of horribleness for civilization, which is why I think they emphasized that it particularly was a slave society (80%+ slaves and a majority of the remainder were non-citizens).
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by TheCoelacanth 4mo ago
It's a fool's errand to try to prevent criticism to that extent. It's mostly harmless and functions as a release valve for people's frustrations and helps to stop them from doing something more extreme than just complain
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by TheCoelacanth 5mo ago
It's pretty obvious that they are referring to a specific person and which specific person they are referring to.
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by TheCoelacanth 5mo ago
I'm aware but I don't see how that changes those devices being the most open 3D printers.
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by TheCoelacanth 5mo ago
As always, the real money in a gold rush goes to the people selling shovels.
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by TheCoelacanth 5mo ago
Isn't Voron/Soval more open?
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by TheCoelacanth 5mo ago
Fortunately insolvency in this scenario mean that they will only be able to afford to pay around 3/4 of promised benefits. Closing that budget gap is a problem that will need to be dealt with, but it's not impossible to fix and it
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by TheCoelacanth 5mo ago
That might have as much to do with their insane system for choosing a Doge, which many historians think did a lot to force compromise and reduce corruption. They took the full council, selected a random subset, had that group choose another
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by TheCoelacanth 5mo ago
This appears to be using "government" in American English sense, where "government" refers to anyone who works for the state in any capacity, including courts, not just the executive.
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by TheCoelacanth 6mo ago
That depends how you define "densely populated", but certainly most car trips are near where people live and work, not in wilderness camping areas you are describing.
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by TheCoelacanth 6mo ago
The ratio itself is less worrying than how fast the ratio is increasing. It was under 80% in 2019 and under 40% in 2009[1]. (This is excluding debt the government owes itself, which I believe WSJ is also doing). [1] https://www.p
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by TheCoelacanth 6mo ago
Obama also cut the deficit by more than half. It didn't get all the way to a balanced budget because of how bad of a mess Bush left to clean up, but it was moving in the right direction.
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by TheCoelacanth 6mo ago
You're describing places that have few people and hence few car trips. Most car trips, even in the US, take place in densely populated areas. The point of public transit isn't to handle 100% of all trips. It's to handle the m
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by TheCoelacanth 6mo ago
They literally did pass a law outlawing it in 2012. Enforcement has been very poor, though. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STOCK_Act
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by TheCoelacanth 6mo ago
This is a problem that has always existed in presidential systems. The US is extremely unusual in having made it work for this long.
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by TheCoelacanth 6mo ago
If anything it's the opposite. Extremely low interest rates drove housing prices higher by making it easier to afford a higher price.
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by TheCoelacanth 6mo ago
That's obviously not true. Camera evidence is used as evidence of crimes all the time. Security cameras would be utterly worthless if they couldn't. Right to face your accuser in that context means that you have the right to cross
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by TheCoelacanth 6mo ago
Regardless of what the Trump administration will tell you, that's not it's name. The executive branch is not empowered to unilaterally change the name of a department.
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by TheCoelacanth 6mo ago
Marijuana is one of the most effective things we have for some types of chronic pain and nausea.
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by TheCoelacanth 6mo ago
That's nonsense. DC has gone from 297k housing units in 2010 to 369k housing units in 2024[1][2]. Developments generally involve more units than what they are replacing. [1] https://www.census.gov/data/tables/

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