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by kapuasuite 6y ago
To be fair, land use restrictions began tightening much earlier than 1948 - NYC’s first zoning code was passed in 1916, for example.
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by kapuasuite 6y ago
In the United States municipalities are not sovereign - they basically exist at the whim of their respective states. So no, nobody is “owed” local governance.
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by kapuasuite 6y ago
> Because rent has a tendency to always increase, as supply is necessarily limited. Even the very highest density cities like Hong Kong have extraordinarily high rents. Hong Kong tightly controls land - only something like 25% is develop
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by kapuasuite 6y ago
The US has public television - PBS - it's funded by tax revenues rather than a "TV license".
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by kapuasuite 6y ago
>It's just an absurd, transparent rationalization for selfishness to try to justify being a parasite on all that by not contributing to it and being responsible for making it work. But we have an entire institution dedicated to solv
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by kapuasuite 6y ago
The UN isn’t the arbiter of what constitutes a human right.
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by kapuasuite 6y ago
> Railways and telecoms worked out just fine. Sure, in many countries, train tickets have been getting overly expensive under government control but high costs are not such a huge concern in the grand scheme of things. On the other hand,
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by kapuasuite 6y ago
We should do that right after nationalizing every cellphone provider for letting their customers call each other and lie.
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by kapuasuite 6y ago
This sounds like a lot of ridiculous limits for very little, if any, positive impact.
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by kapuasuite 6y ago
To do what with, though? Use it to blackmail you? Use it to track you down and murder you? That’s harm - collecting and analyzing data is not.
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by kapuasuite 6y ago
> Data should be legally made in to toxic waste we all know it should be treated as. The vast majority of people do not care about privacy though, at least not to the extent that “tech” people seem to.
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by kapuasuite 6y ago
You haven’t actually articulated any harm here - the “dangerous” actions that could potentially happen with the aid of aggregated data, like blackmail or stalking, are already illegal.
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by kapuasuite 6y ago
> I have promised myself never to build weapons unless the United States is attacked The issue with this is that by the time we are under attack it’s already too late to develop weapons. Most of the naval and air assets we used to fight
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by kapuasuite 6y ago
Turning 8(?) pounds of gasoline into 20 pounds of CO2 makes absolutely zero sense.
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by kapuasuite 6y ago
How does the number of new units stack up to what was being built in the 60s, 50s, 40s, 30s, etc.?
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by kapuasuite 6y ago
Now compare the cost of what you mentioned in monetary terms to the cost savings for consumers (which is essentially everyone) - which is larger?
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by kapuasuite 6y ago
“ So years ago this came up with Eric Schmidt, who was CEO of Google through the GFC. After 2007, Google had selective layoffs (probably not in engineering) and slowed hiring. They also paused construction projects in Mountain View and prob
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by kapuasuite 7y ago
Same thing with government trademarks being used in things like video games - there’s a reason why Call of Duty doesn’t use the real crests of the USMC, USN, SAS, etc. and why they went in and reskinned all of the NYPD and FDNY vehicles in
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by kapuasuite 7y ago
Malthus doesn’t make any more sense at a micro level than a macro one - you can’t keep people out.
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by kapuasuite 7y ago
Why not loosen copyrights and other restrictions that make third party services impossible or impractical?
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by kapuasuite 7y ago
Regulation and price controls aren’t the same thing, which you seem to be implying.
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by kapuasuite 7y ago
“ Proponents would say that that a good central plan adds value more value to the city as a whole than it costs in local inefficiencies.” This seems...unlikely.
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by kapuasuite 7y ago
And somehow this all passes Constitutional muster...
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by kapuasuite 7y ago
Does by right even exist in San Francisco? My understanding is all land use is subject to review and approval at the discretion of the Board of Supervisors.
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by kapuasuite 7y ago
Why does a business need to appease one agency or another for the privilege of operating? If it’s dangerous to have them in that location they should be prohibited - if it isn’t, they should be allowed to operate their business without prec
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by kapuasuite 7y ago
There’s a difference between Somalia and states that tax lightly and derive that tax revenue in economically efficient ways.
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by kapuasuite 7y ago
This - although easier said than done in a liberal democracy.
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by kapuasuite 7y ago
Literally this - doctors are gatekeepers and are paid handsomely for it.
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by kapuasuite 7y ago
These are the same elected officials who let taxi companies rip off passengers for the better part of a century by limiting competition through the medallion system, and protect hotel interests because they’ve been able to tack a ton of ext
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by kapuasuite 7y ago
As opposed to farms, banks, utilities, service providers of all types, manufacturers of just about every good in existence?

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