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by hx87 10y ago
We can't effectively legislate thought yet, although that hasn't stopped legislatures from trying and lawyers from making loads of money arguing over intent. It's incredibly difficult, inefficient and expensive to determine w
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by hx87 10y ago
I'm not arguing for unionization here, although it does have its advantages; I'm arguing that: 1) Unionization is easier and more effective when defection is difficult (or impossible, as in some German unions) and heavily punished
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by hx87 10y ago
> 3-4k is easily rent in NYC Only if you insist on living by yourself, or renting a luxury apartment with your friends/family in Manhattan. Going under $2k a month is easily possible if you have a large, multiple earner family or ro
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by hx87 10y ago
Older buildings weren't built to last either--the ones we see today are those that were extraordinarily well-built.
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by hx87 10y ago
> most people are horribly risk-adverse Free market socialism (i.e. a large UBI + single payer healthcare + low regulation) would largely mitigate that risk aversion, especially when combined with low levels of personal debt, since if yo
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by hx87 10y ago
High level executives at large corporations are a small enough group with enough common interests that they might as well constitute a union, and they have an exemplary record of preserving value for themselves.
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by hx87 10y ago
A similar issue exists with respect to illegal immigration and low-pay, low-status jobs such as crop picking, meat-packing, and janitorial services: if there aren't enough Americans willing to do the job at prevailing wages, then aren&
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by hx87 10y ago
The reason is simple: Uber did not know the business well enough, at least not in China.
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by hx87 10y ago
> the very rare male that has two X chromosomes because the SR-Y gene was transposed Isn't Klinefelter's Syndrome (XXY) more common than that?
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by hx87 10y ago
Ah, my least favorite part of reading 19th century literature.
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by hx87 10y ago
Besides, population decline could very well be a large part of the answer to the problem of automation and labor redundancy. Who cares if you have less workers if you /need/ less workers?
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by hx87 10y ago
It means that the pilots shoot at foes and avoid shooting at friends before they are aware that they are doing so.
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by hx87 10y ago
Providing a strong disincentive to the perpetrator (and in the mean time, locking them up) improves society, whereas doing so to the victim does not. That makes all the necessary difference.
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by hx87 10y ago
Victims or not, people need incentives to not harm other people, and when these incentives fail society needs to be protected from the offenders. Once retribution is out of the picture (as it should be), free will doesn't matter with r
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by hx87 10y ago
You can also put panels on walls as long as they have adequate solar exposure.
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by hx87 10y ago
> I know for sure that my Eastern-European city (population: ~1.8 million) has enough problems as it is when in the summer heat people turn the AC on at the same time. I assume though that your city has a district heating system that wor
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by hx87 10y ago
It's scary in that any ICBM is scary--there's nothing the Sarma can do that 2-3 Minuteman IIIs or DF-31s can't do, except maybe better missile defense evasion, and it's not like there's any missile defense available
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by hx87 10y ago
Ugh, this was the part I hated most about commuting on the MBTA in Boston. It's not too bad in the winter (cold) or summer (AC is on all the time), but the shoulder seasons, when humidity is high but temperatures are moderate so the AC
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by hx87 10y ago
If we're willing to deal with the (technologically but not politically manageable) consequences, nuclear rockets are a proven technology and can reach most of the solar system within a year's traveling time.
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by hx87 10y ago
Unless the wealthy somehow manage to consume all the excess production the average can't buy because they're too poor, wealth will have a hard time increasing without general economic growth. There is a pretty hard limit on how mu
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by hx87 10y ago
It's difficult to make construction in the USA cheaper without greater acceptance of prefabrication and panelization in the residential sector and lowering of permitting costs.
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by hx87 10y ago
It has been of questionable utility since the decline in fertility began before the policy was implemented. In fact, the policy was conceived to counteract Mao's pro-natalist policy where a large(r) population was supposed to be a hedg
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by hx87 10y ago
> air conditioning It's just a pet peeve of mine, but why is so much blame placed on air conditioning, when heating uses an order of magnitude more energy?
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State capitalists behaved like state capitalists?
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It takes me about a week to get the feeling of a currency. It's more problematic if exchange rates fluctuate by large amounts, but a daily lookup takes care of that.
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by hx87 10y ago
Given that armored IDF Caterpillar D9s can survive 500-1000 pound IEDs, which is larger than the explosive charge in any WWI artillery shell, getting mine clearing machines to survive isn't the problem. Finding said shells, which are d
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by hx87 10y ago
> work vs family vs sleep If I have to make a choice, I always choose sleep. Why? The other two priorities have a one-way dependency on it. I can sleep well while neglecting work or family, but I cannot make a decent contribution to work
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by hx87 10y ago
> So are the carrots you buy ecpensive? Not a difficult problem: I just look up the latest local-to-USD conversion rates and do the conversion. If you have a largely cash economy, sure, multiple currencies are a bit of a hassle, but with
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by hx87 10y ago
> plea bargain it down to life Life with the possibility of parole, i.e. you still have a chance to live a free life, no matter how small and short. There are few if any cases of someone trying to bargain down to life without parole.
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by hx87 10y ago
Thanks to the magic of currency markets, I don't have to care about currencies either when I travel in Europe, even though I am American. Whenever I buy something, I use my credit card, and the charges are automatically converted to US

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