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by bpt3 1y ago
Stupid is an insult, but there is a clinical equivalent that all of the people you mentioned would meet (unfortunately). The author seems to be pretending these people don't exist, and I think you made a good guess as to why.
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by bpt3 1y ago
I said your list was not relevant if you didn't believe the items on it should not exist, but that's not the case. Frankly, the inherent contradiction of your vehement support for something you think shouldn't exist has confo
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by bpt3 1y ago
Are you saying you also believe video games, alcohol, and guns shouldn't exist? If so, that's a pretty radical position, and if not I don't understand how they're relevant.
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by bpt3 1y ago
How can you both think TikTok shouldn't exist and think that it's useful to its users, without using a pretty unique definition of useful?
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by bpt3 1y ago
Because it allows him to handwave away the harms produced by something he strongly supports. People advocating for drug legalization do the same thing for example.
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by bpt3 1y ago
I wrote a separate comment about this, that using your language can be summarized as: I think the distribution of ignorance is decreasing, and I think interactions across that distribution are also decreasing, and I think that's a prob
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by bpt3 1y ago
I think we're uncovering the reason why we say most people are stupid...
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by bpt3 1y ago
There's the objective definition of stupid, which can approximately be defined as: is your measured IQ too low to be acceptable to the US military? Then there's the more subjective ones, such as: 1. Does it appear this person has
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by bpt3 1y ago
A major distinction is that someone has to actually produce the content you want to consume, unlike air (though we are trying to make clean air more scarce), which is why no one owns air. How is software, music, or any other easily copied p
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by bpt3 1y ago
What on earth are you talking about? Is your argument that the Chinese will win a propaganda war concerning the surveillance state?
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by bpt3 1y ago
I believe most states (mine definitely does) are applying a use tax at registration. I would be fine with the mileage being tracked at the annual inspection and getting a bill based on that, but it seems like I'm in the minority there.
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by bpt3 1y ago
That's only for state and local government from what I can tell, and they could offset increases in fuel taxes by reducing things like property taxes if desired. Federal highway spending has almost entirely been covered by federal fuel
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by bpt3 1y ago
Maybe try running candidates that aren't highly unpopular? Or ones who don't call a significant percentage of the population "deplorables"? Or ones who don't refuse to state consistent policy objectives or provide c
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by bpt3 1y ago
What is interesting about a quote from someone who is obviously ignorant unless it came from a highly advanced life form from another planet?
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by bpt3 1y ago
> So how do you thing roads are build? Is that not a subsidy? No? In my area, new local roads are normally built by developers and maintained by HOAs, with fuel taxes covering most state and federal road work (I think it should all be co
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by bpt3 1y ago
First of all, I don't know who is comparing the two and ignoring cost, so you can put away that strawman. Secondly, road costs are mostly paid for by fuel (i.e. use) taxes, and I think the fuel tax should be increased to pay for all of
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by bpt3 1y ago
It is built in major metro areas, and requires endless subsidies to stay afloat in all but one of those areas. Public transit cannot compete with private transit outside of cost unless you have a very, very high population density, which ma
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by bpt3 1y ago
I came here to say this as well. I don't know why public transit nerds can't accept that their preferences are wildly unpopular with the American public at large, why they can't understand that public transit is a substandard
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by bpt3 2y ago
That is a poor argument, regardless of the salary. Juniors are a net loss for at least the first year in almost any environment.
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by bpt3 2y ago
Look up what they said about NFTs and web 3.0 in general for starters.
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by bpt3 2y ago
When can we escape a16z ramming worse than useless concepts down our throats and telling us how great they are in a sanctimonious fashion? That will be the greatest advancement of the millennium for humankind.
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by bpt3 2y ago
I hate to break it to you, but people working as gas station cashiers as adults aren't going to produce much innovation no matter what. They work those jobs because they need resources to survive and they can't make more money els
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by bpt3 2y ago
If you look around and think most jobs are made up, most goods are worthless, and you have no choice but to make discretionary purchases, I don't know what to tell you. Communism makes no sense until we reach a post-scarcity economy, w
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by bpt3 2y ago
You need money to buy food, shelter, etc. to survive. How do you get money when you are unable to do so without an entity (e.g. a company) providing direction and resources?
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by bpt3 2y ago
Market economies have gotten us to the point where true needs are made available to all in the developed world. That's because money lets people efficiently deploy resources where they feel it is needed. What makes you say it's &q
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by bpt3 2y ago
Their population is declining in absolute terms. They have been projected to pass the USA in GDP for a long time now. We'll see if it happens. Their demographic trends are not favorable, but the US seems to be testing out how many self
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by bpt3 2y ago
Why on Earth would taxpayers give their hard earned money to other people to work on their "projects of interest"? Scarcity is very real, I'm not sure why you would feel otherwise. Fortunately, we have largely eliminated scar
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by bpt3 2y ago
China hasn't changed, as their new "partners" will be reminded of soon enough. I suspect they will squander the opportunity the US unforced error has provided, but we'll see.
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by bpt3 2y ago
The US labor pool is far from stagnant thanks to immigration, though Trump is trying to screw that up as well. And those children will be burdened with caring for their elderly parents, often alone, continuing to keep internal consumption l
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by bpt3 2y ago
Their population is declining, and they are a long way away from parity with the west on a per-capita basis. I think China missed their opportunity. Also, the UK hasn't dominated finance for a century and has never been dominant in ser

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