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by camgunz 1y ago
"Endless"? The proportion of housing near to not near airports and highways is infinitesimal.
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by camgunz 1y ago
> Anywhere you could build a hotel you could also build more housing Not really in practice. Ex: there's lots of hotels around airports and highways. Would anyone want to buy a house there? Definitely not. The markets and thus econo
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by camgunz 1y ago
A reasonable way to have this discussion is to acknowledge the competing concerns. On the one hand, people just want to get into an abortion clinic. On the other, people want to exercise their right to protest abortion. I'm an activist
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by camgunz 1y ago
This is a good example of what I'm talking about
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by camgunz 1y ago
The same people who decide what's defamation, slander, fraud, criminal intent, deceptive practices, etc. etc. etc.
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by camgunz 1y ago
The discourse I would trust here is: "hey it seems like there's a rise of literal Neo-Nazism; is this a free speech issue or something else?" Or maybe something like "misinformation in the social media age". 100% of
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by camgunz 1y ago
Maybe let's go back to this thing you wrote: > It seems apparent to me that your attitude toward individual level accountability is one that denies agency of the individual and ascribes their moral failures as a result of societal-l
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by camgunz 1y ago
I'm gonna do the point by point thing here, not because I think you really deserve it, but because I want you to really think about the arguments you're making. Will it work? I don't know. Do I know of a better way to do it?
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by camgunz 1y ago
This is my claim: the narrative that these programs incentivize and facilitate freeloading is false. Let's use your example: NPR's exploration of Hale County [0], which I'm not sure you've read/listened to. The firs
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by camgunz 1y ago
I posted about it in a different little branch: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43903848 TL;DR: the average disability recipient age has hovered ~50 (stddev 1.54 years) since 1960. The theory of "baby boomers are
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by camgunz 1y ago
> Why are these health problems growing so fast? The obvious explanation is that the stigma against faking disability is evaporating in places like Hale County. You can just look at what Social Security says about this [0]. TL;DR: - Baby
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by camgunz 1y ago
I literally googled "what do people buy with ebt" and got a list [0] with actual information that seems very reasonable. If you're gonna participate in the conversation, please do better than this. [0]: https://epi
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by camgunz 1y ago
> For every story about it being difficult to claim, there are plenty about people who haven't worked for 20 years who have received over £400,000 in welfare This is perfectly accurate: the stories you hear make these issues out t
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by camgunz 1y ago
This is exactly why I stake out such a strong position, so that positions like this poke their heads up. Individuals getting benefits when they're ineligible accounts for tiny amounts of the total fraud in these programs. Time after ti
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by camgunz 1y ago
The list of "we used the MIT license and now super regret people are using it exactly as intended" grows and grows. It's wild how (A)GPL took such a bad rap, which it's (seemingly?) exactly what projects like this wanted
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by camgunz 1y ago
There are no moral hazards when it comes to social welfare programs. People really think there are, but every time we look we find practically no freeloaders. This idea that we have to threaten people with literal starvation to get them t
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by camgunz 2y ago
> Are you a moderate who has a better plan? I wouldn't say I'm a moderate, but I do have a better plan: https://runforsomething.net/
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by camgunz 2y ago
I grew up working class in Indiana, and can confirm. My in-laws were reeling after the 2016 election and they just couldn't understand how people could vote for Trump, basically. My answer was "you're polite, highly educated,
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by camgunz 2y ago
I'm pretty sympathetic to people who are hawkish on immigration: the right's been demagoguing it for... forever? You hear all kinds of total bullshit like they drive down wages or they eat fuckin dogs or whatever. The real tragedy
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by camgunz 2y ago
I love this use of texture; will steal ;)
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by camgunz 2y ago
I do the same thing in Vim, which has turned me into the "please wrap to 80 cols" person, which I'm completely fine with haha.
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by camgunz 2y ago
There are no laws that will constrain a regime defined by its lawbreaking. Your argument applies to all laws.
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by camgunz 2y ago
Not for nothing, but slippery slope reasoning is a well-known fallacy and more or less an argument against all laws ("first they told me I couldn't kill anyone, now I can't hit anyone, now I can't talk about hitting anyo
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by camgunz 2y ago
(First, I appreciate you engaging!) > I believe that would be very difficult, it would likely create some additional interesting cases (are adblockers now fraud?) I don't know if companies consider it fraud, but for example Telly is
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by camgunz 2y ago
Ugh, the point is that your argument "if there's a market for something there's no point banning it" is special pleading for advertising. If you put other powerful things in there (plutonium, human organs) you quickly se
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by camgunz 2y ago
Fairly, as in if everyone opted out the amount of money the platform made is unchanged.
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by camgunz 2y ago
Someone with your eye for detail would probably be embarrassed to learn that while their entire argument rests on me referring to "engineers" I never wrote the word once. It seems like you're one of those HN people who thinks
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by camgunz 2y ago
Would you support a regulation that all ads must offer a paid opt out?
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by camgunz 2y ago
I'm confused by your comment, the posts are both mine? Even if I take what I think is the most charitable version of your "argument", which I think is "tech thinks things should by default exist and be permissible unless
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by camgunz 2y ago
This law is no different than any other prohibition. It's not like we have to go back to the legal lab to figure out precisely what advertising is because, unlike things with clear definitions everyone knows like fraud, discrimination,

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