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by babesh 6y ago
You mean we should ban encryption on the physical hardware of the Internet? Once there is a mechanism to verify the identity of the other party, those two parties don’t need the platform to do end to end encryption. Each party generates a p
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by babesh 6y ago
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6956033-Lawful-Acces... Lawful Access to Encrypted Data
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by babesh 6y ago
The narrative is being set to end end to end encryption. Expect more hypothetical articles like this going forward. The powers want to control the narrative. I would bet that there will be laws rolled out in the next few years.
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by babesh 6y ago
I never claimed that suburbs were cheaper. Look at the comment by another party above. It conflicts with what you just said about suburbs being more expensive per capita. It would be better to have better data on this. Links please. I just
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by babesh 6y ago
You have no idea how state, county, and city governments work in the US do you? None of those entities can print money. Those parts of government raise money through taxes. Only the Federal Reserve can print money. The way the rest of the f
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by babesh 6y ago
It feels like we are living in Atlas Shrugged.
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by babesh 6y ago
My assertion is that some progressives just want people to live in cities even if those people are willing and able to bear the supposed additional costs of living in suburbs. They see any extra consumption by another as an attack against t
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by babesh 6y ago
It will be interesting to actually determine infrastructure costs in urban vs suburban areas. I think it is a complicated answer. Is it more expensive to build Are there other alternatives beyond these two choices?
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by babesh 6y ago
You mean the same exact problems urban areas have? Read about San Francisco’s sewer issues, state of roads, and how 1 mile of tunnel costs over 1 billion dollars. Read about NYC’s water issues and how one tunnel supplying water to the city
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by babesh 6y ago
What subsidies are you imagining and how is it unsustainable?
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by babesh 6y ago
Government gets its money comes from taxes. What percentage comes from suburban versus urban areas? What is that money actually going to? In California, over half goes to school funding and suburban schools get less since the state gives mo
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by babesh 6y ago
There are a lot of laws and taxes designed to promote progressive behaviors already. They aren’t meant to raise money or because of scarcity. They are designed to coerce behavior. The assumption is that you are stupid and need to be coerced
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by babesh 6y ago
The institutions are seeding a narrative. This is one such seedling. It doesn’t matter if it is true or not. In the near future, this narrative will be advanced, and governments will begin forcing people to move to cities.
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by babesh 6y ago
Like you said, it’s the result of many years of various effects. But it wasn’t just subsidizing. You may not want to hear it but I think it was also the effect of personal choices. Not everyone wants to live in or have their kids grow up in
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by babesh 6y ago
Why bury them? Build more things from wood instead of plastic.
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by babesh 6y ago
Big tech is actually still mostly in the suburbs. By big tech we mean Facebook, Google, Apple, Netflix, etc... It is only the newer generation of companies that are HQ’d in SF. The older generation employs far more workers and are still a l
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by babesh 6y ago
You just made an unwarranted assumption that I live in a suburb that is trying to make itself a tech fish trap. That isn’t the case at all and shows your bias. The suburb I live in has few tech jobs. In fact it has relatively few jobs at al
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by babesh 6y ago
The hope is that Darwin will select for the corporations that do this better.
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The definition of high percentage doesn’t matter much here just as it doesn’t matter much if a coin is a little head or a lot head. You can also measure the probability of murder doubling for each city using statistics if you are so incline
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by babesh 6y ago
Yes agree. That attitude is definitely part of the history of SF and it didn’t occur just once.
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by babesh 6y ago
This take is just wrong statistically. First, there are far more than a few murders in large cities. Second, murders rising in ALL large cities by a large percentage is unlikely. Third, the total murders across the large cities rising by a
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by babesh 6y ago
I live in a Bay Area suburb with mostly single family homes. One would think that people would form communities but you would be surprised. Many of the newer tech people just treat it as a bedroom whereas some parents and older residents tr
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by babesh 6y ago
Yes. That is the point. It could even be more nuanced.
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It’s not like most people don’t do that either. Ha!
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There isn’t enough to tell based on the information provided. You are just viewing partial data with your biases. Haven’t we had enough of snap decisions based on personal biases?
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by babesh 6y ago
My classmates who went on to become medical doctors were no smarter and possibly less ethical. What they had was the family circumstances to delay gratification. Sometimes this was family wealth to support them for years, other times it was
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by babesh 6y ago
Nope. As long as there is potential for other powers to grow or counteract it, you have a chance to course correct. Isn’t that what a vote is good for?
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by babesh 6y ago
That is why you need an educated populace. By educated, we mean one that can think critically and independently rather than a college credential.
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by babesh 6y ago
Yeah and I think it is on a negative feedback loop. Look at Cuomo and his complete flip flop except for the punitive and controlling attitude.
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by babesh 6y ago
This reminds me of how the Israeli military supposedly works. Top level goals and being flexible and creative at the operational level. See https://www.jstor.org/stable/4531385?seq=1 In my opinion, the US’s top level g

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