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by creddit 6y ago
If you read closely their response is basically a Luddite, anti-tech response. Their problem with the parent was that it suggested using technology.
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by creddit 6y ago
45yrs ago
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by creddit 6y ago
How so? What is the measure by which an employee of the government could point to in which improving it directly increases their livelihood? If I’m a Google employee and the way in which Google’s success is defined is Google’s stock price t
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by creddit 6y ago
> My perspective is that California got eaten by NIMBYs and an ideology of trying to freeze in time to about 1970ish. Yes, CA’s major problems are pretty directly derived from this, IMO. The public infrastructure issues are driven by ext
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by creddit 6y ago
> In California, yes local government hands are tied by prop 13, as is, in a sense, the state government. Prop 13 stops state and local governments from working towards affordable housing how? Even if you can establish a link between the
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by creddit 6y ago
Do you honestly believe that it’s a good faith argument that housing affordability is not under control of local governments? Almost all of the “other states send their homeless to SF” stories are primarily tall-tales. I’ve yet to see anyth
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by creddit 6y ago
Yes, agreed on all points. The parent’s post is exactly what you expect to see happen when the point gets read strictly as being made through the lens of the false dichotomy of left/right, Democrat/Republican, etc. They construct
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by creddit 6y ago
Very many of them, yes. This is broadly my point :)
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by creddit 6y ago
Except that Google’s stock price is both in the hands of its employees and directly benefits its employees. They have a clear stake in it. Besides, this idea is separate from the idea around purpose in terms of values/ideals. This is p
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by creddit 6y ago
I think everything noted here is well under their control: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23717729
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by creddit 6y ago
“If being the largest economy in the world and extracting from its tax base the largest governmental budget in the world is dysfunctional, that sounds pretty awesome.” If this is the logic that defines a functional government, then the Fede
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by creddit 6y ago
This is an idea often trotted out in these discussions but then you should ask how regions of the country such as California which for decades now have had essentially none of that assault in meaningful amounts and yet still is a largely dy
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by creddit 6y ago
That the Constitution defines it as such is simply a matter of documentation of a purpose. You have to actually internalize a purpose and values system for it to be useful and “real” in the sense that it drives what you do as an organizatio
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by creddit 6y ago
Because many people see the prevalence of the cultural phenomenon know as “cancel culture” to be a new means of societal control in opposition to the values of Liberty Mill espouses. That’s my guess at least. Can’t say for sure why anyone u
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by creddit 6y ago
Ha, I really like this analysis. Has a Venkatesh Rao feel to it.
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by creddit 6y ago
Easily biggest US antitrust issue in tech.
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by creddit 6y ago
Maybe the major point they’re conveying is that in contrast to the George Floyd murder which could be construed to show isolated issues with cops, it’s unavoidable to paint with a broad brush in the Buffalo incident? But still, feel free to
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by creddit 6y ago
YouTube: censors any conversation about topic. HN Commenter: claims no one YouTube did anything to help change conversation about topic. Uses this to validate YouTube censorship. That’s some Catch-22 type stuff.
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by creddit 6y ago
Why should we disincentivize saving? It's clear why we should tax land, the value of land is not driven in almost any way by ownership of land so the returns to land are unjustly gained AND it's economically efficient to tax land
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by creddit 6y ago
> Taxes are not punishment. Taxes exist because a certain amount of wealth is required to maintain a state. Who is saying taxes shouldn’t exist here? I’m advocating for a specific form of wealth tax. I clearly believe taxes are necessary
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by creddit 6y ago
Depends so much on what deregulation you mean. If you mean deregulating from an antitrust perspective, sure that could be blamed. I don’t know specifically of him doing so, though, it’s completely possible. However, have you ever tried to o
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by creddit 6y ago
But then if you want to help people build wealth that don’t have it, you make it much harder. I really feel like people need to look into land taxes a la Henry George: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_George Taxing
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by creddit 6y ago
Zuck walked right into that trap.
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by creddit 6y ago
Not starting in 2019: https://la.curbed.com/2019/9/24/20868937/california-rent-con...
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by creddit 6y ago
Building needs to be 15yrs old
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by creddit 6y ago
It is exactly describing neutrality on truthiness. There literally is no other definition. You take no side on truth. I wouldn’t, nor have I seen anyone, suggest that this is something to push for on every private business/platform&#x2
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by creddit 6y ago
“Neutrality” seems pretty obvious: don’t assume as the platform that you are able to tell “facts” more accurately than those participating and thus take no stance on the truth of the statements made by participants. It’s comical to think th
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by creddit 6y ago
Unsurprising that this is being downvoted. Any call out of far left views specifically gets that treatment. Does anyone who is downvoting this want to provide counter arguments or reasons this content shouldn’t be viewed by others? It all s
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by creddit 6y ago
Why are we rehashing this for the 1000th time??
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by creddit 6y ago
I highly doubt you and I are socially or professionally connected and yet here we are.

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