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by asoneth 5y ago
The alternative is to maintain the foreclosure moratorium and lockdowns indefinitely, correct? This will eventually have the long-term result of causing more human misery. Whether we are actually reaching that tipping point as the author cl
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To be clear, I am not arguing in favor of teachers unions or short-sighted politicians. I am not arguing that our education dollars are being well-spent since it is clear that we are spending more to get worse results. I am not arguing that
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by asoneth 5y ago
With respect to cost, I'm not sure any of these points refute the hypothesis that charters cost less per pupil primarily because they are able to offload the most expensive students. And if that is true then increasing the number of
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The primary goal of taxing a negative externality is to discourage it. Using the funds for mitigation would be a secondary benefit. If you object to using tax policy to shape public behavior because politicians cannot be trusted to efficien
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That's rough. Some of the discussions here also got heated and a couple people on both sides of the debate did sink to leveling personal attacks and questioning others' motivations, patriotism, intelligence, sincerity, empathy, et
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I have not read Sowell's book. Do you know how he addresses the issue of self-selection? For example, with cost: Some kinds of students require orders of magnitude more resources than others due to health/behavioral/developme
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> was also something that could not be disagreed with. At the time I recall significant disagreement on this point between politicians, the news media, the school boards in my area, and my neighbors. After much debate, our local public s
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For the reason you give, a Pigovian tax on the externalities themselves is a better approach than specific regulations or pre-defined taxes on each class of consumer product. Another benefit of this approach is that it provides price signal
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I think everything should be allowed, but we should do a better job of making people pay for what they use by pricing the externalities into the consumption of a product. Once those price signals are in place then you let people make their
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Of the vegans I know in real life, none take such a hard-line approach with respect to products such as vaccines that were initially cultured with animal tissue, or even tested on animals. [1] I assume cultured meat would fall into a simila
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> as a society we need to prove that we are smarter than these companies ... I agree that this is a test of our society. > ... and are capable of discipline and self-control These organizations have enormous resources dedicated to exp
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The "charitable interpretation" is that the people involved in the decision truly believed their stated rationale. In that case the fact that the symbol has actually confused consumers in practice and has caused unrecycleable plas
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The charitable interpretation is that their original intent of using the well-known recycling symbol around the resin code was to provide consumers with information to help them recycle more effectively. However the fact that recycling prog
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> by [19]88 there weren't many products using the recycling symbol on their labels. My understanding[1] is that in the 1970s the paper industry was the first to adopt a three-arrow symbol for paper products that could be recycled an
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Clearly the resin identification code and the recycling symbol are causing consumer confusion due to the fact that almost everyone confuses them. The US Society of the Plastics Industry designed their resin identification code in 1988 and m
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by asoneth 5y ago
A lot of postmodern/neo-pop art is very pro-commercialism. And there are successful pro-capitalist artists such as Jeff Koons and Andy Warhol. Having said that, many pro-capitalist artists who don't make it big in their twenties s
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I don't think it's about "just" or "unjust" centralization, since (nearly) everyone is opposed to "unjust" centralization and in favor of "just" centralization. And I do not interpret "
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The "solarpunk" ideology seems to include things like decentralization, local governance, and anti-authoritarianism. In this respect, China seems like an ill fit.
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I felt the same way about Google Reader -- I stopped relying on new Google products after it was sunsetted. But Reader has also come up in discussion as a cautionary tale. Because if we do build niche but well-loved capabilities and later d
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by asoneth 5y ago
It was certainly not known by that name[1] but the tension between designers with a cognitive/ergonomic/human factors/HCI/research focus and those with a visual/aesthetic/artistic focus goes back a lot further.
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Agreed. Excel is an interesting case. Most of the power and expressiveness was added to support professional use cases but because it's bundled with MS Office it's available to novices as well. At least in my experience, making pr
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Flexible products cost more to design, implement, and support than simple ones. Outside of expensive tools for professionals (and web browsers oddly enough) the market seems to have spoken that not enough consumers are willing to pay for th
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In my experience, "dribbble designers" sometimes take a "cargo cult" approach to design that apes the appearance of good design without understanding what actually makes a design good in the first place. I agree with mos
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by asoneth 5y ago
You are correct, thank you!
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One of the best decisions I made with respect to my language learning was to give up on fluency. Oh, I can muddle through pleasantries and transactions when traveling and I continue to enjoy learning new words and phrases. But when I finall
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by asoneth 5y ago
The "dribbilization of design" (in reference to Dribble.com) seems to have gotten especially bad in the last decade or so. I used to teach Human-Computer Interaction, and it was exciting to me when many companies started hiring UX
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Bloomberg Connects[1] is an attempt to do something like this. An institution connects their CMS and then visitors can access additional text, audio, video, images using triggers in the museum space. However, to my knowledge it does not sup
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I recall projects that did something like this. Besides museums and historic neighborhoods, one memorable application was at a graveyard. Reenactors read letters and diary entries written by the deceased. The closer you were to the writer&#
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> Most manufacturing jobs is done on a conveyor belt. More time is more stuff. The 40 hour work week actually comes to us from research on the original assembly line. Henry Ford's analysts apparently concluded that 40 hours was opti
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Note that this is written from the perspective of someone coming to interaction design by way of design and interactive art. Understanding cybernetics can provide some helpful concepts, but it seems odd to treat it as the foundational the

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