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by lotsofpulp 1mo ago
That’s laughable. The number 1 cause of climate change is spread out living. The 0.1+ acre lot with a detached single family home that results in enormous distances required for all the mass to travel. There is no way people would have or
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by lotsofpulp 1mo ago
>I'm not in that debate at all (this was actually the first time I heard there is an "anti-daycare movement" at all) but I found the section on cortisol to be extremely unconvincing. It’s 2026, the commons are flooded with
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by lotsofpulp 1mo ago
These side effects of these dynamics are not going to be evident or resolved in the short term. It took decades for prop 13’s (and other effects) to compound and become visible, and it will take decades to undo. There is no shortcut though,
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by lotsofpulp 1mo ago
Prices are a signal, and price changes are how market participants can determine which way supply and demand curves are moving. By legislating prices and price changes, the signal is muddied, and market participants cannot take action to ma
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by lotsofpulp 1mo ago
In that situation, it depends how much physical force the government has to compel the tech leader, and how much physical force the tech leader has to counter it. Usually, the number of bodies who will comply is the proxy for power, but wit
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by lotsofpulp 1mo ago
They might incentivize, but the problem is with the public. If the people don't want to do the effort of typing in a few letters in to a URL bar and reading, then I can't blame the businesses. You don't get the benefits of a
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by lotsofpulp 1mo ago
Those places are staffed or closed between 10pm and 7am, dissuading vandals: >The vandalism happened between about 10 p.m. on Aug. 21 and 7 a.m. the following day, according to officials. But also, the lack of desire to spend money on st
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by lotsofpulp 1mo ago
>It also makes the assumption that these platforms are the only possible place on the web for minors to get information. That's only true because these platforms literally made it that way. The platforms cannot stop someone from pub
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by lotsofpulp 1mo ago
>Vertically integrated monopolies naturally have aligned in incentives for themselves, which allows more capture which turns out bad for customers. Apple's devices have resulted in a great increase in quality of life for myself and
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by lotsofpulp 1mo ago
Your claim could be shortened to: >The ultimate uncertainty is that regardless of who you are and what you do, a country always has the right to kick you out...Nothing is guaranteed ultimately. Which is what makes the actions of the gove
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by lotsofpulp 1mo ago
This gets mentioned a lot, but the most valuable companies, by orders of magnitude, have the most profit, by orders of magnitude.
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by lotsofpulp 1mo ago
Might make it more walkable.
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by lotsofpulp 1mo ago
If stuff is already being dug up for another reason, then the numbers can pencil out. But it’s pretty rare for somewhere that does not have fiber to gain access to fiber, at least on any reasonable timescale.
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by lotsofpulp 2mo ago
For a new build or overhead wiring, it's a trivial cost that is easily recouped. For buried infrastructure where the coaxial cable company already sells internet, you will almost never recoup your investment to bury new fiber and run i
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by lotsofpulp 2mo ago
>On the other end - yes, it will create massive vectors for abuse & fraud, since govt services are designed to have roadblocks to reduce usage. That the government collects taxes and then understaffs the department that distributes t
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by lotsofpulp 2mo ago
And when they get margin called in March 2020? Maybe they had the cash on hand, maybe they didn’t. Assuming they are in the family formation stage of life with young kids, an outlier risk appetite would be required to sleep well at night.
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by lotsofpulp 2mo ago
Because why would Sony go out on a limb and take all that risk for tiny hardware margins just so Microsoft could grab the lion’s share of margins with software licensing fees?
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by lotsofpulp 2mo ago
The problem is a small minority ruining the commons. https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2026/08/vandals-set-fires-i...
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by lotsofpulp 2mo ago
It is not crazy if you know that gas prices include taxes that can greatly vary by jurisdiction. The price at the pump may have little to do with cost of procuring it.
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by lotsofpulp 2mo ago
I feel like businesses could spend way less (money-wise and time-wise) on technical support if they just gave out MacBook Airs to their employees which could then remote into virtual Windows desktops for whatever legacy software they need t
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by lotsofpulp 2mo ago
> 1. The papers author's never claim causality. 2. There are other large macro forces at play, like firm consolidation, proliferation of NDAs, interest rates*, lack of growth (without Nvidia, the US economy would basically be in a r
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by lotsofpulp 2mo ago
No, anything that was being done that changed to not being done usually has a reason. Businesses don't spend money to put locks on bathrooms for the fun of it.
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by lotsofpulp 2mo ago
Infeasible for a government would mean it is sufficiently expensive that it is not politically popular to spend that much money on public bathrooms. Also, Buc-ees does not offer free bathrooms in urban, dense areas with higher proportions o
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by lotsofpulp 2mo ago
No, I am writing that supply and demand curves can shift such that the job you used to for minimum wage is no longer a job one can expect to hire for minimum wage in Aug 2026. >Its literally one of the lowest paid jobs there is. Today, r
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by lotsofpulp 2mo ago
This is wrong. Merchants can elect to only accept debit cards. In recent years, all of my utilities have added 3%+ credit card surcharges, so I pay most of my household expenses with debit cards/ACH now. Tmobile, Comcast, Verizon, ATT
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by lotsofpulp 2mo ago
It was $100k for a couple decades. The $1M threshold started just now.
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by lotsofpulp 2mo ago
Obviously, it is priced into operating a restaurant, where there have to be restrooms. In the context of the comment I replied to: >How is maintaining public restrooms a "massive liability"? Surely its an inconvenience but mas
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by lotsofpulp 2mo ago
I think it is infeasible because I saw restrooms become less numerous and more restricted over the past 4 decades. If it was feasible, the OP’s article wouldn’t be describing a real phenomenon. As for the class I was raised in, my parents
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by lotsofpulp 2mo ago
Obviously there exists a price at which people will do it. But if the government isn't willing to pay it, it seems unfair to expect businesses to pay it.
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by lotsofpulp 2mo ago
Cleaning up trash, wiping tables, mopping the floor is one thing. Cleaning up bodily fluids, which likely come from drug users, is a whole other thing.

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