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by hx87 10y ago
What if the cost remained but the hassle went away, say with a pay-by-phone app with good UX and no fees tacked on top of it?
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by hx87 10y ago
What if parking were plentiful but cost $16?
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by hx87 10y ago
> To say "yes, I still want that policy, but I want EXACTLY the bundle of goods that I want forced on everyone, not some other basket of goods" seems like special pleading. If everyone is pleading in this manner, then it isn&#x
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by hx87 10y ago
Then instead of asking questions about positions directly, take a page from the Elder Scrolls games and ask questions whose answer imply a certain thinking process.
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by hx87 10y ago
How do you determine which system of morality prevails in this particular case? Your intuition might tell you that deontology is the dominant mode here, but my intuition tells me the opposite.
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Gas turbines don't need to burn anything to work--any sufficiently high temperature source of heat can be used. Fusion can be the source of that heat.
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by hx87 10y ago
Fusion-heated gas turbines are certainly possible, so we may see combined cycle fusion power plants.
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by hx87 10y ago
If things are that fucked, any given government will have no qualms building fission plants everywhere. If you aren't super-duper paranoid about safety and radiation, fission is already pretty damn cheap.
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by hx87 10y ago
> From a moral point of view, Child pornography is de-ontologically wrong. From your point of view. You can't make an argument by just rejecting an entire perspective in moral philosophy. Otherwise I'd be equally right in fla
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by hx87 10y ago
Who am I stereotyping? People with "Calvin pissing on Ford/Chevy/Ram logo" stickers? The vast majority of truck drivers don't really care about brand--they just want the most appropriate truck for their situation.
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by hx87 10y ago
On a societal level, your guess is good as mine. Perhaps increased infrastructure spending so that high-skill, high-pay jobs are more evenly spread out and ideological segregation is reduced? On an individual level, being active in (non-pol
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by hx87 10y ago
The capital costs though...and if you ignore capital costs, sunshine is free.
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by hx87 10y ago
Natural gas would have to be really cheap in order to beat spot prices for solar on sunny days, especially in the southwest. It's still good for peaker plants though. Coal, on the other hand, I don't see being profitable unless Co
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by hx87 10y ago
Separate ideology (or whatever happens to be the object of bias) from identity, and you're halfway there. People are much more amenable to changing their minds if their identities aren't at stake. For example, most people can dis
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Trusts don't protect you and your heirs from the cost of long term care and end of life treatments. I suppose you could put all your wealth in a trust and claim poverty/declare bankruptcy, but that's a very dickish thing to d
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by hx87 10y ago
Given that the choice is between "torture leading to death" and "death", our laws are wrong.
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by hx87 10y ago
OP is probably using the term (very, very wrongly) as a catch-all for psychological problems.
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In addition, until recently those tiny apartments would have been illegal.
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> especially in the case of those who want to die to preserve or transfer their life-savings I don't know about you, but I think that that is a valid reason for someone to want to control when they die.
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Based on how often that happens, as opposed to people in pain who want to die but aren't able to take their own medication, I'm willing to risk that happening. Being forced to stay alive in pain is every bit as bad as being forced
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by hx87 10y ago
I'm not sure why you're assuming your downvoters are liberals. This is a private citizen donating his own money to conservation, so everyone from liberals to conservatives to populists to libertarians can be for it.
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by hx87 10y ago
Only in California though--most ocean beaches in New England are private. Limiting access to rich people does raise inequality, though it is very effective at keeping human impact low.
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Depends on how strong vertical NIMBY is compared to horizontal NIMBY. I hope the latter is stronger.
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True if the inflation is driven by supply shocks (mid-late 1970s) or savings gluts (today). Not if the inflation is wage-driven, as in the late 1960s and early 1970s in the US.
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by hx87 10y ago
The Mosuo ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosuo ) are the most well known, but many ethnic groups in the southwest operate in similar ways. I grew up in a family belonging to one of them, so it always seemed strange to m
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by hx87 10y ago
Hitler had a united party, a divided opposition including a party who didn't care what happened as long as the interests of a particular institution were protected, an actual Communist party to blame, and a pliant, senile boss with eno
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by hx87 10y ago
The problem isn't with the concept of privilege itself. The problem is that the concept and the word have been weaponized into an insult instead of the admonishment to recognize one's advantages that it should be. That, and too mu
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> so at worse you will see a lot of inflation Personally, I wouldn't mind inflation if all workers are paid a decent wage as a result. For far too long inflation has been too low and confined to precisely the wrong sectors (i.e. lan
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>Re-engineering the social brain so that status doesn't matter? Status will always matter, but you can change the signifiers of status. There are plenty of places in, for example, rural China where women do most of the work while th
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> Since the GOP now holds both Congress and the Presidency, with a likelihood of continued Supreme Court majority, they may enact some protectionist policies to appease the voters. That would ignite a civil war in the Republican party be

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