epistasis

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by epistasis 18d ago
That infrastructure was still built, just out in the Inland Empire, at a far far higher cost per capita than if LA had stuck to its "theoretical back of the napkin number." (That's how zoning works, it's theoretical bac
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by epistasis 18d ago
It only seems like that because every other type of housing is literally banned. If apartments, even small buildings, were legal in LA, they'd be building them everywhere and they'd immediately fill up. The Mayor, Karen Bass, acci
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by epistasis 18d ago
This is such an amazing video. It collapses about three years of my casual research into housing down into just a few minutes. Thanks for sharing.
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by epistasis 18d ago
Dense, newer housing needs a lot less water. If Los Angeles had densified rather than sprawling into the Inland Empire, etc. overall water usage would be far lower. As it is, water usage in Los Angeles has had flat water usage for decades,
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by epistasis 18d ago
There's a really great way to think about this that doesn't get enough attention: land rents. Some plots of land are very valuable due to their location, what you can access, etc. It's pretty straightforward to find out what
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by epistasis 19d ago
It's amazing how little has changed in recent years in LA. The massive downzoning of the 1980s had its effect: prevent efficient land use, and channel money into the hands of landlords and homeowners from all newcomers. LA is a ridicul
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by epistasis 19d ago
Obviously? Just because a fish doesn't see water doesn't mean it's not there. They're just so used to it that they don't have the concept of "not water." Look at this entire thread: Holmes was widely ackno
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by epistasis 19d ago
> uncritical media coverage and general buzz really "wanted a female Steve Jobs". And all the ways that Holmes emulated Jobs in style but not substance went along with that. Even if you're right, so what? Nobody signed ove
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by epistasis 19d ago
No, that's just sexism backfilling which things to discriminate against. She was sold as a successful Stanford dropout, a genius who had a simple idea and assembled a very powerful group of people to push the idea and a ton of funding.
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by epistasis 19d ago
Interestingly you won't find this for well connected white males. Sam Bankman Fried didn't hurt anybody else in his gender class, but somehow now all women have to carry the baggage of Elizabeth Holmes.
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by epistasis 19d ago
Uh, let me tell you that that behavior is ignored in high profile scientists regardless of disability. It is only in the last couple years that outright sexual abuse of employees and trainees has become something that could discredit a high
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by epistasis 19d ago
Of all the ways Theranos was a scam, the gender thing was pretty much the last. She was wealthy, stacked the board with all the wrong sorts of people but the right sorts of people for corrupt contracts.
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by epistasis 20d ago
I was very specific in the failings of Sunrise and XR and they contrast greatly with efforts like energy star or the Paris accords, and their members would say they same thing in that they tried something very different. My comments have be
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by epistasis 20d ago
Renewable energy and replacing carbon emitting industrial chemistry with carbon neutral processes are the sum entirely of climate action. There might be a tiny bit of nuclear built, but we don't have the capability to build enough to m
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by epistasis 21d ago
You're missing the third thing we pay with: T-bills. We literally print money. That's it. We didn't give up anything we own. We didn't give up anything we made. We printed money, because there needs to be enough currency
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by epistasis 21d ago
That would be a necessary condition for manufacturing-based reduction of inequality. But manufacturing is not a way to decrease inequality unless there's massive massive other sorts of changes going with it. In fact destroying the high
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by epistasis 21d ago
The Paris Accords are the exact opposite of the 2020s movements I criticize, Sunrise and XR.
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by epistasis 21d ago
No, look at the numbers in the IPCC reports. Cutting emissions in half is not enough. We need to get to zero by 2050 then have interventions to sequester CO2 at a low level.
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by epistasis 21d ago
I mean this: https://www.climaterealityproject.org/blog/why-clean-energy-... Technology did that. With lots of government subsidies, and in particular with Germany kick starting a ton of solar industrial development. E
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by epistasis 21d ago
https://www.irena.org/News/pressreleases/2025/Jul/91-Percent... https://www.climaterealityproject.org/blog/why-clean-energy-... https://www.lazard.com/news-announcem
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by epistasis 21d ago
The straw man is claiming that "strict vegan diets" are necessary. People bring up "strict vegan diets" to sabotage climate action. It's a hindrance to achieving the very possible change we need.
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by epistasis 21d ago
I push back heartily on anybody bringing up "strict vegan diets" because it is itself a massive straw man, one that mostly promotes inaction and idleness. Michael Mann's 2021 book, and all the interviews around that time, are
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by epistasis 21d ago
A) I didn't say you're a millenial. B) Having kids is not an excuse for saying "don't have kids for the sake of the environment!" it's an awful, anti-environmental thing to say no matter what. C) Not having kid
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by epistasis 21d ago
> Having kids is also the worst single thing you can do for the environment. No, just no. You can't show that. You don't understand environmentalism. You're just a Malthusian. It's an assertion that human existence is
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by epistasis 21d ago
I guess I'm not seeing anything tying the trade deficit to the destruction of unions, to the massive reduction in top tax rates resulting in higher CEO compensation, etc. The piece puts increasing trade deficits next to lots of stuff a
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by epistasis 21d ago
Reducing population will not do anything to help with climate change. Look at the time scales of action. Look at what needs to done. Advocating population reduction has nothing at all to do with climate action. Please stop. You're ju
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by epistasis 21d ago
I find almost nothing to agree with here. Renewable energy will power places like Bangladesh towards far greater wealth and prosperity. Aside from the distastefulness of using the term "leftovers" on any group of people, I think i
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by epistasis 21d ago
Hah! https://terrybisson.com/theyre-made-out-of-meat-2/ Many vegans I know were in fact motivated to that choice by realizing that meetings of humans were in fact "meat space."
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by epistasis 21d ago
Nothing there explains why it's a bad deal for the middle class. The middle class actually benefits the most from this situation! More goods, more government services, etc. How much more? Just add up all the trade deficits, that's
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by epistasis 21d ago
My supposed "personal belief" is not normative it is descriptive. Misconstruing this as normative, and attributing it to a political belief, is your cognitive dissonance trying to reconcile where actual climate action is coming fr

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