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by anamax 4y ago
Which statement do you disagree with?
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by anamax 4y ago
The 35-75k deaths/year isn't just influenzas. Do you really want to argue that the public health community was saying "hey, we're only interested in influenza" when they used various pandemics to argue for funding f
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by anamax 4y ago
default __slots__ breaks a lot of monkey patching. An "easier" change would be to add a class attribute "no__dict__", which says that the __dict__ attribute can't be used, which lets the implementation do whatever
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by anamax 4y ago
Coronaviruses ARE one of the flu types. Note that Covid-19 is SARS2 - SARS1 was 10 years ago.
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by anamax 4y ago
Ah yes, the CDC. They've been saying "Spanish Flu - give us money" for years and we find out that they didn't bother to research how any of the flus are transmitted. It's not like flus haven't been killing 35-7
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by anamax 4y ago
At least in the US, govt art is not art in any meaningful sense. Even the horrendous corporate art is better. The closest thing to good govt art in the US is the tax-dodge stuff such as opera.
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by anamax 4y ago
I wonder why bother. It's not like the border controls are strict. It used to be that you didn't even stop when crossing from Detroit to Windsor.
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by anamax 4y ago
> If you can agree that land speculation is bad you can agree that LVT is good. Why should I agree with something that is so clearly false? Speculation is betting on a better tomorrow. That's clearly a social good. > People shou
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by anamax 4y ago
> People adjust - paper straws are servicable for most purposes What purposes are "most purposes"? They don't work for shakes, they don't work for anything that takes more than a minute, etc. Given a choice, people p
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by anamax 4y ago
Why would they do that? You've already stated that an essential part of your plan is eliminating parking lots. You think that a world without parking lots, a world where people mostly carry stuff and otherwise rely on delivery services
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by anamax 4y ago
> Why is it difficult to reverse the transactions? Why should the transactions be reversed? If things had gone according to plan, Knight would have made several million dollars that day, some likely because of a mistake by someone else o
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by anamax 4y ago
> So the base of this [100 years] trash pyramid would be about 4.5 miles by 4.5 miles, and the pyramid would rise almost 3 miles high. > That's a big landfill but its just not true that its unsustainable. That is NOT a big landfi
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by anamax 4y ago
> But it's an odd hill to die on, given that basically all straws before 1960 were made of paper. The fact that all pre-1960 straws were paper does not imply that paper straws, let alone paper straws today, do not suck.
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by anamax 4y ago
> there are a number of people out there demonstrating that they can get about 50% of the conventional yield from an acre, but for 4 different crops, and a few other things thrown in to get over 2x the total yield. A lot of US agricultur
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by anamax 4y ago
> And this person is an "ethicist" somehow. In most cases, the role of ethicists in any field is to justify monstrous behavior by practitioners to outsiders. In this case, "ethicists" have taken it upon themselves to
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by anamax 4y ago
> It's like he doesn't realize that millions of people read his tweets. Do those millions of people have any responsibility for what they do after reading said tweets? I don't know about the rest of you, but whether Musk e
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by anamax 4y ago
And yet, shopping centers with parking lots do more business than shopping centers without parking. You may like a life where you're dependent on delivery services for anything you can't carry to where it needs to go but the rest
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by anamax 4y ago
Word games aside, I'd pay for land if I'd make money by doing so. Suppose that I own a building. I may, or may not, pay for the land it sits on. In the "land value is taxed 100%" regime, it doesn't make sense for l
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by anamax 4y ago
In some instances, "disrespecting a religion" results in considerable uproar and even violence. Said uproar/violence is committed by people but I'm asking if the cause is the people or the religion.
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by anamax 4y ago
> Ultimately it is a form of normalization Yes! Every piece of information that is in two or more places is wrong in at least one of them. That's as true of code as it is of data.
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by anamax 4y ago
I've found more success with DRY2x, that is, it's okay to repeat myself once, but when I run into something three times (second repeat), it's worth of some attention.
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by anamax 4y ago
> i’m not asking about the executives or the board. Since the executives and the board decide what a company does, it's absurd to ignore them. I get that you have a model of companies that isn't consistent with how companies be
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by anamax 4y ago
I'll repeat myself. If I own stock in a company whose executives do not work to keep the stock price up or even increasing, I will replace those executives with executives who will work to keep the stock price up/increasing. (Cor
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by anamax 4y ago
You do know that you're substituting expensive parking for cheap, right? However, you are demonstrating that Georgist "efficient land use" is not particularly desirable. (Moreover, "efficient" land use is rarely th
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by anamax 4y ago
> If the LVT is causing the owner to not be able to afford parking lots the area needs more buildings and less parking lots, even if that's just a parking structure. In what universe is "fewer parking lots" the solution to
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by anamax 4y ago
> If the land value tax is paid by the homeowner, the sales price of the land is zero (under a 100% LVT) I let that bit of bogosity slip by me. The sales price of valuable land will never be 0. Govt may not see the price, but it will be
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by anamax 4y ago
> I don't think people care when you start disrespecting their religion. That depends on the people, or is it the religion? > I would love to hear any scientific / fruitful / reasonable discussions about why my religion
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by anamax 4y ago
My point is that parking lots can easily be the best use.
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by anamax 4y ago
"Who pays" was relevant when the claim was that banks holding mortgages would pay. Let's review: "if the bank owns the land as in a mortgage, they are the ones paying the tax, not the people taking out the mortgages.&quo
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by anamax 4y ago
It's not okay to disrespect some religions but it is acceptable, praiseworthy even, to disrespect others. That will end well.

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