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by anamax 4y ago
As long as you're in town, the density of stop signs/lights is relatively constant, whether you're going 0.3 miles or 3 miles, so your hoped for "less efficient driving" is a fantasy you cooked up to try to save you
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by anamax 4y ago
There's no free lunch. You may not value the additional protection that credit cards have but other people do.
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> (3) could be replaced with better consumer protections or smoother small-claims process. Doing that doesn't actually depend on eliminating Visa/MC, so the fact that it hasn't been done suggests that there are other barri
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> Well, what's stopping you from e.g. lugging the groceries back on a bike instead and going twice a week to carry less each time Taking trips to get groceries isn't a benefit but a cost. I get that you like to go to grocery an
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by anamax 4y ago
> That's a nonfalsifiable statement that does nothing but show your own political bias. It's political bias to notice that people behave politically? Is it political bias to notice Republicans complain about the deficit when De
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> The United States has a nearly infinite amount of unoccupied land. What's required is the political and social will to incentivize people to build. The vast majority of that land is not where people want to live. Building houses
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> Because the actual data is sending mixed signals. People equate recessions with job losses, but job growth is still high and unemployment remains incredibly low. The definition of "recession" doesn't depend on what other
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by anamax 4y ago
When someone steals from me, they're saying that they value my stuff more than they value my life.
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Actually, your mention of campaign contributions and "give money" suggests that you don't understand Citizens United. I write that because Citizens United had nothing to do with contributions to a politician's campaign.
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It seems like you're arguing that ordinary people have a duty to lose money when things go wrong, things that they probably had no control over.
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The demand was always there. There was just no hope of satisfying it before.
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The NYT is not subject to said "rules or caps" when it advocates for candidates. Neither is Zuckerberg. Why should people who get together to do political speech be treated any differently?
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by anamax 4y ago
Zuckerberg has more resources than me. Not letting me get together with other people helps Zuckerberg. As far as the NYT goes, feel free to argue against the 1st Amendment. CU just says that the NYT isn't special, that the 1st applies
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by anamax 4y ago
While Casablanca is a better movie, the scene that introduces Omar Sharif's character in Lawrence of Arabia is better, as is the scene that introduces John Wayne's character in Stagecoach.
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Many people confuse expressive with empathy.
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Citizens United said that you and I have the same right to band together to engage in political speech as the New York Times.
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by anamax 4y ago
> Are you somehow implying Google and Facebook are run by Democrats Are you suggesting that they aren't? > and so supposedly Hulu is run by Republicans? That doesn't actually follow.
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How many people? What fraction of Dallas residents engaged in that behavior? That said, would it have been "Texan" to have turned them back at the city limits?
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I minimize the externally visible names even/especially when I'm the only programmer on the project. I do that so that "future me" has as little to understand as possible. ("reduce the number of files to search&quo
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by anamax 4y ago
There are many places in California where it's easy to build housing. However, those places are not close to where the "more" or "less expensive" housing demand is. To be a bit more precises, those places are at lea
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by anamax 4y ago
> But they all really have just one secret to getting rich quickly: aggressive investing. Ramsey doesn't talk about getting rich quickly. He talks about getting out of debt as quickly as possible. That frees up money for investmen
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by anamax 4y ago
My father was arguably a self-made millionaire, even though he wouldn't have described himself that way. (He wasn't hugely wealthy, but he did live a couple of decades with FU money.) He was literally born in a log cabin, with an
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by anamax 4y ago
> Not really; yes, it reduces total volatitlity in property tax revenues asymmetrically, since tax assessments fall without restriction in downturns irrespective of turnover The only tax assessments that fall during downturns are the fol
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by anamax 4y ago
You forgot labor. A huge bagel store will use humans more efficiently than a small one. One big problem with "lots of shops" is that they require lots of retail workers, workers who spend much of their paid time not working. Pric
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Prop 13 also stabilizes property tax revenues. When housing drops 10% in a year, my property tax bill, like most people who bought a few years go, goes up 2%. Yes, my property tax bill also goes up 2% when property value jump 10%. But, the
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> I suppose illegal migrants are ineligible for public healthcare They're eligible in the US. > Else it's a little counter productive for people to block immigration enforcement isn't it? Public healthcare is rarely som
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by anamax 4y ago
> This is misinformation, the USB-C connector is designed to outlast it's cables. That's the wrong measure; outlasting cables is inadequate. The correct measure is how long a USB-C connector lasts. In my experience, the "t
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> The point is you'd be able to move to wherever is good if the world were free. Which pretty much guarantees that said "wherever is good" ceases to be good. > There are no probabilities, small or large, for black swan
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Visual C++'s debugger is so good that it changed how I wrote code. It let me debug things that I couldn't debug with a lesser tool. That's why I quit using it and went back to debugging with print. Print-debugging limits my
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That's an argument for more of the breakable stuff on the cable than on the phone. Call it Leo The Port. Connectors are non-trivial.

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