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by dionidium 3y ago
IIRC the DC-10 went on to have a stellar safety record.
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by dionidium 3y ago
You'll sometimes see this dismissed almost derisively as, "people think they're in control when they're driving, but lack agency while flying, so that's why they fear the latter more." But that's completel
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by dionidium 3y ago
> Do I need 20 restaurants and coffee shops? That should be up to individuals, not central planners.
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by dionidium 3y ago
> Most of the time staying at a hotel is much more comfortable than staying at an airbnb. It's trivially easy to see that this isn't true: you probably don't live in a hotel (or a structure resembling one), for example.
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by dionidium 3y ago
Not only that, it's not even an attempt to reflect the market value in most jurisdictions.
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by dionidium 3y ago
They get cause and effect backwards. What they think is happening: investors are buying lots of houses, which is driving up prices, so getting them out of that business would lower prices. What's really happening: supply shortages are
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by dionidium 3y ago
What you’re sensing is that we’re very far apart on this issue, even down to some core assumptions. For example, an organization is not obligated to pay any particular individual an amount that you deem to be satisfactory to obviate the nee
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by dionidium 3y ago
You’re describing the labor theory of value, which you present as undeniable fact, but which of course is the subject of one of the most salient and contentious debates of the last century.
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by dionidium 3y ago
Obviously I reject the framing. I have never felt exploited by my employers, nor do I feel entitled to a share of the profits beyond what I negotiated when I took the job.
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by dionidium 3y ago
Of course anybody can start a co-op and nobody will object. It won't be controversial. It won't generate fierce online debates. Everyone will wish them well and that will be that. What's contentious about unionization is that
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by dionidium 3y ago
Human beings have to live somewhere and gathering them together in a small urban footprint is better for the climate, not worse.
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by dionidium 3y ago
What you're noticing is that I'm being charitable, a downside of which is that it's sometimes interpreted as weakness.
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by dionidium 3y ago
> On the whole people commit crime because they are desperate (for money, for drugs, etc.), occasionally because they have an anti-social personality disorder. Most violent crime is the result of interpersonal disputes. People get angr
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by dionidium 3y ago
They say that: > In 2021, The Markup published an investigation in partnership with Gizmodo showing that Geolitica’s software tended to disproportionately target low-income, Black, and Latino neighborhoods in 38 cities across the countr
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by dionidium 3y ago
We switched to glass recently and it's great. They're more durable. They don't stain. They're easier to clean. And, this is subjective, but they just feel more substantial; it's nice in a way that's hard to d
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by dionidium 3y ago
Not sure I see how it's relevant here, since we're granting that the spy agency in this case has every right to gather evidence. The point is that they don't get to unilaterally decide if that evidence constitutes a crime, wh
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by dionidium 3y ago
The easiest response to this is that I can be OK with a limited audience seeing private information about me in service of higher goals without assenting to unnecessary widespread distribution of the same material. For example, my doctor ca
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by dionidium 3y ago
There is a kind of sleight of hand at work in this counterargument, which is that nobody is advocating for a secret, extrajudicial, arbitrary set of rules about what is allowed and what isn't. Even if I say I'm OK with the governm
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by dionidium 3y ago
"Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded."
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by dionidium 3y ago
Markets solve these problems and that remains true even when you disagree with the results. If people don't want to visit places with tall buildings and sprawl, then it won't get built and where it does it will fail. What actually
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by dionidium 3y ago
> AirBnB flippers have wreaked small havoc in my city Cities have put themselves in this position both because they don't allow enough new housing and because they don't allow enough new hotels and VRBO-like options in the plac
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by dionidium 3y ago
I think, in fact, "not being around other people makes lots of healthy, ordinary people feel depressed and anxious" is just about as robust a finding in human psychology as you're likely to find.
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by dionidium 3y ago
Nobody can make you work in an office if you don't want to. Organizations should obviously be free to demand it and you should be free to work somewhere else if you don't want to.
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by dionidium 3y ago
> That sounds unhealthy. This is kind of risible. No, it does not sound "unhealthy" to express a desire to spend time around colleagues as part of the work day. I can hardly imagine a more natural or healthy desire.
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by dionidium 3y ago
Yeah, what seems to actually happen is that 1) most small cities lose people; 2) otherwise attractive small towns with weak job markets get way more expensive; 3) lots of people gather in the largest cities, anyway, because it turns out tha
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by dionidium 3y ago
> This way, we could actually improve the housing situation across the country, because otherwise, it all concentrates in the biggest cities. When people are allowed to live wherever they want they choose the biggest, best, most expens
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by dionidium 3y ago
> Unless you're one of those morons who can't tell apart psychological symptoms from physiological ones. You're about 30 years out of date with the addiction literature. Basically every modern addiction organization defi
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> I'm not sure how that flies with this: "An article published in The Journal of the American Medical Association found there was no increase in cannabis use among the general population or among previous users after their sta
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by dionidium 3y ago
> prohibition does more harm than good. According to our shared oral mythology about bootlegging gangsters, yes. According to all available crime and health data from the time it was an incredible success. Crime fell. People got health
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by dionidium 3y ago
I accept the responsibility and all that it entails.

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