clairity

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901.
by clairity 5y ago
you offer a largely technical[0] answer to a business (and a politicoeconomic) problem. this is a common perspective bias of tech-focused folks of all stripes, and leads to incorrect, or at least incomplete, solutions to the problems faced
902.
by clairity 5y ago
i totally agree on more frequent and more rigorous certification, but there's much more to traffic collisions than fatalities, and focusing on speed (a factor in fatalities but not really in collisions) tends to take attention away fro
903.
by clairity 5y ago
i actually saw one of these accidents a few years ago. a woman a few steps behind her companion got thrown over the hood and to the side (miraculously not seriously injured though). the car started from a stop light, and probably hit her at
904.
by clairity 5y ago
perhaps democracy gives the people an (outsized) illusion of control, but i'd disagree that democracy itself is the opiate. democracy is more open to a diversity of rhetoric, which can facilitate ideologically-driven diversions used by
905.
by clairity 5y ago
sure, the scales of various industries can be very different, but that doesn't imply that economies of scale (or other economies, like scope) will necessarily dictate winner-take-all dynamics in any of them.
906.
by clairity 5y ago
yes, non-agile organizations try to bolt on agile at the 'bottom' of the hierarchy, and that's a sure recipe for failure because of the significant impedance mismatch that causes. the c-suite wants to hand down directives, an
907.
by clairity 5y ago
> "... The law doesn’t protect fairness; it protects property. " ah, the crux of the problem. we've veered much too far in this direction, and that's why we get absurdities like corporations stealing millions being pu
908.
by clairity 5y ago
street parking is a subsidy when viewed through a wider socioeconomic lens because it externalizes a cost onto society in both space and time. in this case, there's a particularly high opportunity cost for that space, most obviously as
909.
by clairity 5y ago
there's no intrinsic reason a capital-intensive industry can only be winner-take-all. capital-intensiveness is primarily a financing issue, and assuming capital finance has been corralled into being a competitive market, it isn't
910.
by clairity 5y ago
economies of scale taper off because other effects (like coordination problems) tend to overwhelm it with scale. also, capital becomes less efficient at scale due to opportunity costs and the innovator’s dilemma, for instance. there are man
911.
by clairity 5y ago
it's a truism that free speech undergirds democracy, but you get to it via a false dichotomy (left vs right) handed down to us by surrogates of power (political scientists, in this case) to distract and divide the populace. the only us
912.
by clairity 5y ago
> "It’s a more interesting question to ask if this would be more economically efficient." it's almost self-evident that it would be more efficient. the more interesting questions are how and why. fair and efficient markets
913.
by clairity 5y ago
you're not fixing the distortive incentives with this scheme, just transforming them. 'capitation' incentivizes hoarding of patients, most obviously by incentivizing the minimization of treatment times and associated costs bu
914.
by clairity 5y ago
while LA (city) is denser than most people realize, LA (the region) is decidedly not dense overall, as large portions are low-to-mid density, choked by a tangled glut of roadways, and pockmarked with mini-downtowns intermittently. (poor) zo
915.
by clairity 5y ago
to some extent, but that doesn't matter since the point is that we have plenty of schools and the money to build enough new schools, even if we built ten high rises in my neighborhood. sure, at the theoretical limit it could be a probl
916.
by clairity 5y ago
> "Personally, I rather like this interstitial time where the scared remain home and I am free to roam with my friends." i've been saying all along that the default policy positions should have led directly to this outcome
917.
by clairity 5y ago
they’ve been continuously building schools in LA because of the luxurious funding. at least 3 new schools within walking distance have gone up in my neighborhood over the past decade. schools just aren’t a problem for densification here.
918.
by clairity 5y ago
because of a series of ballot measures over the past 2 decades, CA/LA has plenty of money to build schools, so that’s not a problem here (e.g., our billion dollar high school).
919.
by clairity 5y ago
> “This plex stuff seems like political theater.” it absolutely is just political theater, at least for duplexes and accessory dwelling units (adu), two laws recently passed here in CA. it’s a show of ‘doing something’ while not changing
920.
by clairity 5y ago
as with many man-made constructs, we inadvertently introduced discontinuities into an otherwise continuous function: artificial governing units (city, county, state, country) when governance ranges continuously from the individual to the wo
921.
by clairity 5y ago
there’s only one truly dedicated busway here in LA (orange line in the valley). some other buses (like silver line) have sections of busway, but are mostly traveling on shared streets. there’s been a back-and-forth on dedicated bus lanes an
922.
by clairity 5y ago
that cost overstated by an order of magnitude. last i looked, it’s on the order of $30K/space, and roughly doubles/triples for underground parking (depending on depth). i’m a huge advocate for putting all parking underground and l
923.
by clairity 5y ago
that’s a very good point about pricing happening at the margin, but consider that housing isn’t nearly as fungible as laundry detergent, so there is still a fair bit of pricing friction in housing. that’s because the marginal pricing mechan
924.
by clairity 5y ago
you’re making a reasonable initial point and then veering into an unsupported conclusion. it’s reasonable to say that static analysis (upzoning reducing prices ‘overnight’) can’t capture real-world dynamics (prices will change more graduall
925.
by clairity 5y ago
it’s not just ignorance. many people find the idea that ‘exposure to a little viral load trains the immune system without overloading it’ to be a very dangerous one worthy of suppression, even though it’s common and natural, because it thro
926.
by clairity 5y ago
all of those companies, including ms, have faced numerous fines and sanctions for anti-trust/anti-competitive behavior. these are some of the worst examples you could have raised. they all cheated , heavily and brazenly.
927.
by clairity 5y ago
no, winner-take-all markets being natural is one of those fibs economists have been incentivized to 'discover'. it's shrouded in numeracy to make us shrug and accept our poor lot in life. even with capital-intensive markets,
928.
by clairity 5y ago
i specifically used 'progressivism' rather than 'progressive' to avoid that exact identity issue. identifying with an ideology, particularly with an amorphous one, devolves into tribalism and partisanship. progressivism
929.
by clairity 5y ago
so people still kicking dogs makes it ok? note that a right isn't a passive trait, but an active assertion. every time we give in to what's easy, we lose a little bit of our rights. you maintain rights by speaking out and living b
930.
by clairity 5y ago
no, not just the constitution, it's inalienable because it's intrinsic to being civilized people, not because some piece of paper says so. on the contrary, companies have no right to spy on us.

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