bobbydroptables

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by bobbydroptables 6y ago
Some bad Yelp reviews and wasting the time of a minimum wage employee? Not exactly the apocalypse or "a cluster bomb" or whatever you called it. Yes businesses have externalities. No, this cute story does not make me question sili
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by bobbydroptables 6y ago
No, I'm sorry, because you are the one who complete misunderstands the law and the US system of government. >Congress is the ONLY branch of the government which gets to shape the boundaries of constitutional law. Yeah, no. Not eve
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by bobbydroptables 6y ago
The Doordash externality that you posted is not really a problem for anyone except Doordash. Both the restaurant and the consumer benefit from the arbitrage. Airbnb is profitable so I'm not sure why you included it. If you don't l
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by bobbydroptables 6y ago
You misunderstand the law completely in your comment and your edit. Congress (with good reason) doesn't get to shape the boundaries of constitutional law (for example the doctrine of qualified immunity we're discussing here). That
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by bobbydroptables 6y ago
You and I have very different definitions of "sustainable". Absolutely nothing about the modern global economy is "sustainable" for the planet. Infinite growth is not a realistic goal. We need to start putting a sustaina
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by bobbydroptables 6y ago
>"go vote if you want to see change". >It strikes me as awfully out of touch because that's exactly what we've been doing all along, Well this is not quite right. Many people (especially young people) actually don&
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by bobbydroptables 6y ago
Capitalism might be broken, but I don't see this as evidence. This might be evidence that some investors have more money than sense, which has always been true and will always be true. If you think a company or asset is overvalued, don
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by bobbydroptables 6y ago
>if you really just want to "set it and forget it", there's virtually no situation where someone would hold a 20% tip against you. Great strategy if you have money burning a hole in your pocket and want to subsidize busine
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by bobbydroptables 6y ago
Problem with this idea was twofold: 1. It completely misunderstands the supply chain. By the time this message was out there, masks were already mostly sold out in retail places. Even a slight increase in demand will cause that because of J
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by bobbydroptables 6y ago
>Yes please. I'll be pretty grumpy if my care providers were misinformed or worse. The evidence is plain. Masks work and they save lives. This has been an unfortunate misinformation campaign that they don't. The intention was t
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by bobbydroptables 6y ago
>Transplant when I was a kid. For 30+ years, I had it pounded into my head that surgical masks will not protect me. Especially if I share a space with others for longer than 30 minutes. Because exhaled water vapor saturates the mask and
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by bobbydroptables 6y ago
The asymptomatic point goes to both directions. I don't know who I need protection from as an uninfected person and I don't know when I need to wear a mask to protect others as a potential asymptomatic carrier. Which more nuanced
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by bobbydroptables 6y ago
It doesn't seem very nuanced to me: > However, there is currently no evidence that wearing a mask (whether medical or other types) by healthy persons in the wider community setting, including universal community masking, can prevent
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by bobbydroptables 6y ago
It should have been, but strangely even public health officials were very recently advocating strongly against masks unless you had symptoms. No one has ever able to explain to me why symptoms were relevant in any way given that many or mos
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by bobbydroptables 6y ago
The headline is not fine and bears have not quadrupled. A random hotel employee is seeing and hearing about more bears because there are less humans and bears have stopped hibernating. Some bears may be encroaching on human areas more ofte
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by bobbydroptables 7y ago
The government can only do so much to change culture, though, right? It needs to be made unambiguously clear that you do not eat or recreationally touch bat or pangolin. Government needs to outlaw it yes, and culture also need to shun it. A
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by bobbydroptables 7y ago
I'm not an expert but I'm guessing the downvotes are coming from your comment being super political and unfactual. Keep in mind this is not Twitter so the sorts of comments that appeal to Joe Sixpack and Donna Doublewide don'
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by bobbydroptables 7y ago
>Fatalist because you don't seem to believe that developed-world standards of living are globally possible I don't know about the rest of your comment but there's no question that current first world standards are not poss
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by bobbydroptables 7y ago
It's a complex problem but the value of NYC real estate for foreign investors assumes scarcity of NYC real estate. Foreign money or no, if you have a very desirable city with a growing job market and stagnant construction, prices will
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by bobbydroptables 7y ago
I probably could have made my comment clearer. I'm not assuming anything. It's well documented that NYC is building frighteningly little housing per capita. I was just pointing out the the linked post shows how NYC construction is
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by bobbydroptables 7y ago
It's really hard to wrap your head around whether a city is building a lot by looking at a raw number. But fewer than 7,000 building permits in a city of 8 million is frighteningly little. You need to compare it to population growth, d
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by bobbydroptables 7y ago
>I don’t see how squatters make it any different. Because one person is using it for it's legitimate intended purpose and one person is using it as a speculator (and blocking legitimate use without paying a toll). Should someone be
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by bobbydroptables 7y ago
The fact that they can pay for it doesn't mean they're entitled to it as a logical matter. I'm not saying a fix is or isn't needed, but there are all kinds of things we restrict despite ability to pay. For example, you c
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by bobbydroptables 7y ago
Yep. Restrict their access to countries, markets, permits, approvals, private jets, the list goes on. There's a lot we can do short of jailing. And we can and should jail.
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by bobbydroptables 7y ago
Option 3: start jailing these fraudsters for criminal fraud. Jail corporate profits for 6 months. Claw back any and all executive pay since the fraud began and distribute it to low level employees or other victims of the fraud. If you can&#
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by bobbydroptables 7y ago
>people say this all the time but poor people are having kids at a much higher rate than rich people so the theory doesn't pan- if your goal was to have kids you'd stay with your high school sweetheart. The theory definitely p
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by bobbydroptables 7y ago
Moneygathering is highly rational for essentially anyone but especially for the banker whose entire social sphere is structured around his skills as a moneygatherer. Active men are active because they know and enjoy activity. The thrill of
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by bobbydroptables 7y ago
I don't follow the distinction you're making about GDPR. I don't think anyone is saying they shouldn't have this information, just that they should make at least some minor modicum of effort to secure it. GDPR doesn&#x27
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by bobbydroptables 7y ago
It's not a sound system. It's round the clock house help in a country like India. A driver (instead of working your way through mind numbing traffic every day, twice a day), a chef, a maid, etc. It's buying real estate to sec

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