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by gottorf 4mo ago
Yes! Almost every human problem boils down to an energy problem. I welcome the future in which we have so much nuclear power (and other power sources) that electricity is too cheap to meter.
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by gottorf 4mo ago
"The rest" is still quite wealthy, even by today's developed economy standards. Median household disposable income is higher in Mississippi, a state widely panned for its poverty, than Germany, the richest major EU nation. In
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by gottorf 4mo ago
More people will suffer and die over the next 50-100 years from efforts to counteract climate change than from climate change itself.
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by gottorf 4mo ago
> Alarming doesn’t begin to describe it. This is an existential crises for our industry. In my (admittedly vibes-based) opinion, this is just a result of there being a huge supply of CS grads in this country due to it being popularized a
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by gottorf 4mo ago
> the Supreme Court case where they found standing > nobody had actually asked for one and the person didn't even make wedding web sites > There was no actual case 303 Creative v. Elenis started out because the web designer so
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by gottorf 5mo ago
> conservatives eat up the dehumanization of it all One could argue that's really dehumanizing is the callous disregard the system displays for the victims of such repeat violent offenders.
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by gottorf 5mo ago
> pressure the representatives In the GP's case, it sounds like they were on a road show, and they do not live in Illinois at all. Of course, that doesn't prevent them from contacting a IL state representative for redress, but
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by gottorf 5mo ago
Considering the IRS mileage rate is 72.5 cents per mile, sounds like there's no way any kind of vehicle is going to get operating costs that low!
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by gottorf 5mo ago
> For one, when someone should not be remanded on bail because they are a danger to society, judges will often set the bail at eleventy zillion dollars, knowing that they won't be able to post bail Why can't they just deny bail
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by gottorf 5mo ago
> The assumption that all these people are stupid sheep probably won't be a productive way to approach this public policy question I agree, and I do not assume that these people are stupid sheep. However, having said that: > Data
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by gottorf 5mo ago
> Dubai to SFO is also a possible route Is there really that much premium traffic between Dubai and the Bay Area?
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by gottorf 5mo ago
> The ratio of jobs and taxes to local resources tied up has to be one of the worst possible trade-offs of any industrial use that you can envision Why? There aren't much "local resources tied up" since it's land that
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by gottorf 5mo ago
They're called hyperscalers for a reason.
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by gottorf 5mo ago
> Most Hispanic families and cultures are overwhelmingly socially conservative leaning. The idea that Hispanics and other ethnic minorities would vote Democratic was so popular that people wrote a whole book about it[0], until the idea w
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by gottorf 5mo ago
It's a very meaningful statement when people claim that thing X's purpose is Y which is good, and therefore thing X is good, even though the actual outcome Z is not Y and in fact may be diametrically opposed to Y. Happens quite of
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by gottorf 5mo ago
The "birthright" citizenship clause of the 14th amendment was intended to clarify the citizenship status of the recently freed black slaves. That intent is clear by contemporary written material. Now, you could absolutely argue th
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by gottorf 5mo ago
> Plenty of studies have made very clear that immigrants contribute more to the community and the nation, and have lower rates of crime, than people born in the country. You should distinguish between the American model of immigration, w
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by gottorf 5mo ago
Do you think the Biden-admin immigration shenanigans (2M illegal crossings a year, "temporary" protected status, CBP One, etc.) weren't predominantly aimed at a group of people who were deemed to be more likely to vote Democr
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by gottorf 5mo ago
> Without immigration, the US would have negative population growth, which is economically probably a disaster. Nobody knows what the population growth rate would be without immigration. The two are interlinked; ceteris is not paribus. &
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by gottorf 5mo ago
That America was founded as an economic zone open to all seems more ahistoric. The phrase "ourselves and our Posterity" appears in the first sentence of the Constitution. And you cannot deny that the founders were in fact white Ch
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by gottorf 5mo ago
To be fair, not many parts of the US higher education system can be accurately described as free markets or capitalism.
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by gottorf 5mo ago
> They may have incurred unlawful presence > The cruelty is indeed the point What's the difference between this and just outright saying that enforcing the law is cruelty? After all, nobody enjoys being punished, even if it'
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by gottorf 5mo ago
> Western countries have been utterly strangled by nonprofits To expand, there are two major problems with nonprofits in Western nations these days: 1. Governments use them as a way to do things that they themselves are not allowed to do
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by gottorf 5mo ago
American software engineers are paid commensurately more than equivalent roles in countries with strong worker rights. There is no free lunch. Besides, it's probably counterproductive in the long run to think of strong worker rights as
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by gottorf 5mo ago
> Maybe having just one euro/asian-style dense city with bike lanes in the US wouldn't be such a bad thing to try out? What do you call Manhattan? It would count among the ~10 most dense cities proper in the world.
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by gottorf 5mo ago
> This is real close to just “poor people deserve to be poor” No, I'm saying that there are reasons why some people stay poor. My further implication is that it isn't for the most part because society is keeping them down. >
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by gottorf 5mo ago
Would you trust your private files to a Claude-generated Dropbox/syncthing clone?
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by gottorf 5mo ago
> clever and lazy at the very top? I don't get it. Being clever and lazy forces you to determine what should not be done, as opposed to just doing everything because you can because you're clever and industrious. As you climb h
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by gottorf 5mo ago
> it’s really hard to climb out of poverty. It’s a function of opportunity, culture, society, and a lot more stuff I agree with you, but perhaps from the other direction. I think American society in particular gives an amazing amount of
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by gottorf 5mo ago
Are we disagreeing about the definition of "poor people"? I'm not sure why someone would find it so hard to believe that the poor, especially the long-term poor, have character traits that are not conducive to lifting themsel

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