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by ksdale 6y ago
I agree with your assessment of unfairness. I personally see the solution as building way more housing. If you only make it illegal to build housing near pre-existing industry, then what? That's basically a let them eat cake argument
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My wife grew up near a naval base and I always thought it was funny how regularly you’d hear stories about people buying houses under the flight path and then complaining to the base. It seems useful to me to allow people to build houses in
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A great many of his posts are like that! I recommend all of them.
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As an aside, here's me totally getting hung up on the chosen analogy - I find it somewhat interesting how fervently some people dislike private toll roads. "Road I have to drive on and pay for" also describes public roads, it
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At this point it seems like Nikola is not at all what it seems, but I've actually been surprised in the opposite direction. For a couple days, news of Nikola being fraudulent were all over everywhere, and when I finally clicked on the
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I was under the impression that they went back to the car, and the road out appeared to go through the fire. The recommendation to go the other way would have meant hiking out, which, even though it was what they ended up doing, was not obv
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But the question is how you make the jump from tiny warring fiefdoms to bureaucratic administrative states. Neither Byzantium nor imperial China sprang into existence as full fledged empires.
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Ironically, I follow Bret's work over other, more famous people, because I prefer reading over listening or watching.
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And never mind the fact that just doing things well can be it's own permutation. Sometimes a field seems played out, and then someone comes along and knocks it out of the park by just executing .
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I work in the family business, and my mom is older and absolutely crucial to the business (and therefore to the financial health of both her and our households), so most of our decisions are based around preventing her from getting sick, th
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My wife and I have always felt this way, we could fit our rather large family in a much smaller space if it was designed around the way we spend our days. When we had 2 toddlers and an infant and went apartment searching, we kept getting
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I don’t think there’s any possible interpretation of my comment that lines up with what you said...
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Great, thank you!
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Does anyone have a link to the methodology they use to calculate the biocapacity of the Earth? It sounds very interesting.
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I wouldn't mind at all if tipping culture disappeared, but I think it's naive to think that costs wouldn't go up dramatically for customers. Customers are footing the bill one way or another, it's just a matter of whethe
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If you don't use gig services, will the gig workers become employees and make more money? Isn't it just as likely that the services will go away and the gig workers will not have a source of income at all?
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FWIW, I didn't downvote you for pointing this out. I think it's valuable to keep this in mind when selecting books to read. I downvoted you because you were super rude while you pointed it out. I even think the rudeness could have
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by ksdale 6y ago
Just fyi, a great many of these books are award winners or otherwise considered classics, so if you're looking for good sci-fi, you could do worse than just randomly picking a book from this list. Though as other commenters have mentio
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100 books in 2 years comes out to about a book per week, which isn't too many to enjoy for someone who reads a lot. But also, many of the classic sci-fi novels are actually very short, possible to get through in a couple days, even if
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For sure, I think everyone who's had kids understands, and a lot of people who haven't also understand. But I've read plenty of comments like the one above that refer to the disruption rather than the placation, and I think p
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These are very interesting points! Though, I don't really think it's the responsibility of individuals to maximize GDP, and people who die younger generally incur lower lifetime medical expenses than people who die older, which pl
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I understand that, I just don't think it's a problem. I've spent my life being obsessed with things. Sometimes the obsession lasts a few years, sometimes it lasts a few days, and the sum of being focused on one thing to the e
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What do you come out of chess with? I've spent a lot of time playing computer games, they sparked a love of history, geography, technology, new kinds of music, they've informed my taste and sense of humor, and helped me be more ci
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Is chess better than Minecraft?
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People shake their heads when the kids watch a tablet during breakfast, they'd also shake their heads if the child misbehaved and disrupted their own breakfast. Sometimes there's not a third option. Most parents would be delighted
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Costs are only borne by the taxpayer where the taxpayer pays for healthcare, but that's a choice as well. We could just as easily say that the taxpayer won't be responsible for the cost. We've chosen to have the taxpayer be
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Anecdotally, we don't exactly practice moderation with screen time, and we've been constantly surprised at how much our kids learn from even the crappy alphabet/number/animals/shapes videos on YouTube Kids. We'
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It doesn't seem self-evident that forcing kids to learn a little about all subjects has that much benefit. I do taxes for a living and we have a lot of tradespeople as clients, and their life histories are surprisingly frequently - do
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Interesting! Thank you for the link.
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I remember reading an economic history book and they mentioned that the Spanish bringing gold to Europe from the Americas stimulated the European economy, and it struck me all at once that basically none of the economic activity in Europe

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