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by hx87 10y ago
If the choice is between driving to the store 1x a week vs 7x a week, then you have an excellent point, but if the choice is between driving 1x a week and walking 5-7x a week, in the long run the latter is much better for my health, and it
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by hx87 10y ago
If what the central planning authority does is mainly pre-empt more restrictive planning, that might be worth a shot.
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by hx87 10y ago
Exactly that sort of libertarianism. According to such a view, a world wide state would be less oppressive than a nation state because the center wouldn't have the sort of local knowledge to make repression truly effective, it wouldn&#
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by hx87 10y ago
Tow them on a sled?
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by hx87 10y ago
Think about it this way: in an area with a given population, raising the population density of a subset of that area lowers it somewhere else, and you can live in that somewhere else. That being said, better sound insulation in walls, windo
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by hx87 10y ago
> Huh? If you limit supply, demand goes down? It works for cars, since there are acceptable alternatives (biking, walking, carpooling, Uber, etc). It works less well for housing, as leftist NIMBYs often advocate, since one alternative (h
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by hx87 10y ago
I wonder if it would be feasible to train a neural network on a large corpus of test cases where legality/illegality have already been defined, then release this neural network to the public. Sure, the process will be opaque, but it wi
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by hx87 10y ago
GPS repeaters have existed for at least a decade.
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by hx87 10y ago
If I'm hungry, I grab more food when I drop by the grocery store. Unless my hunger pangs are randomly distributed in time and unrelated to my eating schedule, how is that a massive inconvenience?
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by hx87 10y ago
Productive assets aren't necessarily high-risk, high-return though: that's what blue chips like IBM and GE are for, and they're far more predictable than, say, the Florida real estate market.
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by hx87 10y ago
It's a branch of libertarianism that believes that if laws and regulations must exist, they should be implemented at the highest possible level in order to ensure consistency and insulation from provincial arbitrariness.
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by hx87 10y ago
London is libertarian, or old school liberal, not left-wing, and Boris Johnson did just fine as an old school liberal mayor before he started agitating for Brexit.
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by hx87 10y ago
By that time, open books may be less useful than the effort it takes to open them.
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by hx87 10y ago
In my personal fantasy, Grandma would keep her 1975 property tax level, as long as her municipality allows her and her neighbors to build or convert her house into apartments. Low property taxes should be rewards for a lack of NIMBYism.
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by hx87 10y ago
Most Texans, let alone Californians fleeing high prices, don't have to worry about such things. Besides, the death penalty isn't exactly a negative if the alternative is life in (a Texas) prison.
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by hx87 10y ago
"California leads, the nation follows" and "tired of people from CA moving to their areas and trying to change it politically" don't exactly contradict each other.
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by hx87 10y ago
If it is a monoculture now, it's because the engineer culture took on counterculture values while pricing the actual counterculture out of the region. The engineers still have their conservatism in that they tend to think of as many po
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by hx87 10y ago
I doubt the newcomers will be voting for NIMBYist ordnances though; that tends to be something existing owners do.
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by hx87 10y ago
Sousveillance seems to be happy medium: it's more secure than surveillance since the work is crowdsourced and there are no privileged actors (i.e. the watchers) that are free of surveillance. It's less prone to abuse of power beca
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by hx87 10y ago
> beans, potatoes, rice, even corn - those things are much more broadly appealing, filling Far more bland and full of carbs, too, so they may be more polarizing than you think.
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by hx87 10y ago
Not to mention pork as well--it seems like in a lot of places with arid climates and Islamic influence, people don't eat pork even if there is no religious prohibition per se. That's why I like Greek, Goan and northwestern Chinese
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by hx87 10y ago
MHD generators powered by decelerating nuclei fragments are possible and aren't subject to the limits of the Carnot Cycle, but they're still uneconomic at this point.
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by hx87 10y ago
> which means, in other words, you are rich Or it means I'm not planning to sell for a very very long time and thus appreciate the tax break a lower appraisal gives me. The same logic applies if I am a landlord--as long as the rent
954.
by hx87 10y ago
That's an unfalsifiable claim, since no amount of evidence would reduce, much eliminate that skepticism.
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by hx87 10y ago
They don't guarantee corruption, because if the corruption shows up on the prediction market it has occurred (or will occur) elsewhere already, and if large amounts of money are betting on a certain outcome, others will follow, and thu
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by hx87 10y ago
With the vast majority of chip and pin schemes the liability for fraudulent transactions still falls on the bank, unless the merchant/processor hasn't implemented chip and pin, in which case it falls on them.
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by hx87 10y ago
The extra few seconds or so for a chip transaction don't really matter, as long as I have the ability to insert the card whenever I want, such as before an item is scanned. It's really annoying and unnecessary for a POS to reject
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by hx87 10y ago
Honestly though I'd rather enter a PIN than use a dull piece of plastic to make an unreadable signature on a feedbackless screen. I punch keys all day but rarely write by hand.
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by hx87 10y ago
Sounds like a two-tier property tax with a higher tier for unoccupied housing would be a solution.
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by hx87 10y ago
The solution to that problem is to vote out said politicians, not impose a property tax cap.

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