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by kansface 4y ago
I distrust the study itself, but I have zero misgivings in the results. We bought a house a couple years ago. I personally looked through several thousand listings over the course of a few months (across the country). The standard house
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by kansface 4y ago
Quite a few just so stories in here - I mostly disagree with most in favor of my own: We shed our colors because we lost the emotions expressed by those colors in our lexicon. We don’t put joy , awe , wonder , or whimsy on display. Th
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by kansface 4y ago
Presumably people weren’t wedded to colors in the past either.
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by kansface 4y ago
> What would actually change if you had certainty around one of these theories? Widespread political support for ending all public funding of gain-of-function research or outright banning it.
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by kansface 4y ago
Stainless steel is ~5x the cost.
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by kansface 4y ago
Turning the chief asset for retirement for the retiring crowd into a liability is a non-starter. Excluding them would be an enormous wealth transfer in their favor.
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by kansface 4y ago
Who puts up the money to do the projects? Which party eats the losses? How would this actually result in more housing?
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by kansface 4y ago
How do you solve it? Kicking off listings with a history of fraud is easy, but how do you stop new ones outside of direct inspections?
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by kansface 4y ago
That's well under inflation.
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by kansface 4y ago
That would severely misalign the incentives of the two groups which leads to trouble over time.
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by kansface 4y ago
I just ordered 40 SS J Bolts from them for my home project after spending a couple of weeks fruitlessly trying to get them from a local company. I placed an order on the website and they showed up in 2 days.
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by kansface 4y ago
> I don't think anyone would mistake that for a human life. I don't think many people claim a zygote is a person . I still don't see any plausible argument that human life begins at some time other than at the point of
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by kansface 4y ago
> Is a zygote more alive than the gametes that came together to form it? Uh, life sure, but human life ? If human life doesn't start at conception, when?
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by kansface 4y ago
Great, not your computer can have a thrombosis or a stroke!
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by kansface 4y ago
I’d prefer to have technocrats with accountability like generals in the military. Having said that, WW2 was the last time that we fired brass for incompetence.
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by kansface 4y ago
They aren’t his employees?
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by kansface 4y ago
My face was not recognized. I have glasses, a beard, and some crazy hair at the moment. Non-faced is far less normal than I expected.
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by kansface 4y ago
> Where's a profit in cheap housing/low rents? 1. The size of the housing problem grossly outsizes the budget of the public sector. Its not even close - this problem can only be addressed through private capital. 2. Private ca
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by kansface 4y ago
> What is legal != what is just, ethical, or moral. Yeah, I wholeheartedly agree. We can't organize society to run on what is just, ethical, or moral. We can only make laws based on our understanding of those things. Our understan
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by kansface 4y ago
No, it really depends on the issue - economics, speech, voting rights, gender rights, abortion rights. Of the later, Democrats are far to the left of Europeans. Also, I’ll point out that HN (and SV) has a little “l” libertarian streak (ent
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by kansface 4y ago
> Nobody in their right mind thinks that's a good idea in any other context, so why would it make sense here? We should give some deference to precedent, but the rule of law is paramount. Consider what the opposite of the rule of l
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by kansface 4y ago
> The difference between sugar and nicotine is that sugar isn't addictive ~40% of our population is obese and another 35% or so are overweight and we don't regulate it at all in any capacity (marketing to kids, packaging, etc).
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by kansface 4y ago
> Yes, they have to do this. We can imagine lots of alternatives to what the FDA currently does - a partial approval pipeline immediately comes to mind in which the degree to which a drug is approved is commensurate to our confidence in
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by kansface 4y ago
Ignoring Africa, Asia and North America more recently, sure!
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by kansface 4y ago
You'd lose control much, much faster than that at the sort of rates being proposed. Even 1% per annum would destroy control well within a career, let alone a generation considering exponential growth. edit: Just noticed that you are
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by kansface 4y ago
The percentage doesn't matter. You have to pay taxes on the stock you own (ie, your startup). You do that by selling the stock. As the value of the company increases, you are forced to sell off increasingly large chunks of your stak
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by kansface 4y ago
No one actually paid those rates, so it goes. The narrative is that part of lowering the rates was closing the loop holes...
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by kansface 4y ago
When I lived in SF, there was a chronically homeless guy with essentially a permanent residence in front of my apartment. He ran a highly ineffective chop shop whereby he would disassemble stolen bikes with a 3’ section of steel pipe. It
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by kansface 4y ago
> But the actual ticketing/PR system? Change requires control. The ticket system isn't for engineers. If it were for the engineers, they wouldn't be continually forced to use it. The ticket system is for the legibility
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by kansface 4y ago
What is the incentive for companies to put down meaningful/useful information? If that incentive exists, why weren't they doing it before the law was enacted? Alternatively, they weren't doing it before, so a priori I'

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