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by lux-lux-lux 17d ago
Have you ever ridden an Uber? Then yes, they absolutely can. You agreed to it when you installed the app.
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by lux-lux-lux 18d ago
When I saw Ratsphere types pushing these kinds of markets years ago getting insider information was the primary selling point. It’s not inherently stupid - I’d much rather that some lowly analyst sell out an impending stock hit for a few gr
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by lux-lux-lux 18d ago
‘It’s different today.’ Buddy, the Me Decade was 50 years ago.
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by lux-lux-lux 23d ago
If you go far into the user you’re replying to’s post history, you’ll find them unambiguously referring to the Jan 6 crowd as terrorists. They are very aware . I know there’s a pretty strong norm against dragging people for their posting h
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by lux-lux-lux 27d ago
Not just massive, they were the largest single-day protests in US history, each exceeding the last. The problem is that they didn’t move the needle at all, politically - the Oct 2025 protest, for example, was followed immediately by the emb
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by lux-lux-lux 1mo ago
> Well, we defunded the police, and let political axe-grinders fill our DA seats with hyper-progressive activists. When did this happen?
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by lux-lux-lux 1mo ago
The fare gate redesign was cost-neutral; that’s the kind of solutions that should have been on the table, not setting money on fire with cop salaries.
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by lux-lux-lux 1mo ago
I much prefer targeting more pressing antisocial behaviors while not excessively wasting public funds, something the Mamdani administration has been doing quite efficiently e.g. with the pied-à-terre tax. You seem angry about that, for some
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by lux-lux-lux 1mo ago
Per dollar recovered. Paying law enforcement officers overtime and directing police attention away from more significant criminal behavior (as opposed to redesigning turnstiles or pursuing alternative strategies like no-fare systems) is ex
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by lux-lux-lux 1mo ago
NYC ended up spending $1,440 per dollar in fares recovered on stopping fare jumpers, which is probably why the decree came about in the first place. Is there a particular reason why you think setting gargantuan amounts of money on fire over
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by lux-lux-lux 2mo ago
“Every news source lies equally and is equally untrustworthy” does not sound like grown up analysis, Mr. Caulfield
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by lux-lux-lux 2mo ago
I feel like drawing an equivalence here is morally dubious
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by lux-lux-lux 2mo ago
Going back over every president over my lifetime the deficit has trended down during Democrat presidents and up during Republican ones, so I’m not sure this is true!
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by lux-lux-lux 2mo ago
There’s a difference between the abuse potential of ‘a car’ and ‘a nationwide surveillance network that tracks your location any time you’re on a public road’
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by lux-lux-lux 2mo ago
Then that danger is going to have to be balanced against the reduced danger to the general public
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by lux-lux-lux 2mo ago
Unfortunately we’re not real good at rescinding bad laws, so you just get tyranny (and a lot of mysteriously voided tickets for cops and politicians)
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by lux-lux-lux 2mo ago
Systems should be built so abuse isn’t allowed in the first place, in addition to monitoring for compliance.
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by lux-lux-lux 2mo ago
Offering ‘just don’t use modern communication’ as a solution when ‘ban data collection and retention’ is right there feels like a way to derail the conversation rather than an honest proposal.
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by lux-lux-lux 2mo ago
That cellphone and car and television and most other things that spy on you were most certainly not free.
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by lux-lux-lux 2mo ago
Setting aside any utility it might have, crypto has lots of negative externalities besides energy usage. The event under discussion, for example.
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by lux-lux-lux 2mo ago
There’s a lot of nerve endings, probably the same reason spankings are a thing.
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by lux-lux-lux 2mo ago
That’s…the exact opposite of what the data says?
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by lux-lux-lux 2mo ago
The shoulder is a very easy place to be tattooed, which is why that area gets recommended for first-timers. Places with less flesh and more bone are much worse; I have tats on the tops of my feet, and those were agonizing .
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by lux-lux-lux 2mo ago
The majority of voters who pay no income tax are (heavily Republican) retirees.
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by lux-lux-lux 3mo ago
I’ve interacted with a number of rationalists that are just as crazy as Ziz but managed to not implode with the help of money (either lucking into it via family/crypto or a tech job). My personal hot take is that if she’d been cis a nu
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by lux-lux-lux 3mo ago
Well-educated young middle class white men, and with politics that generally flow entirely predictably from those demographics. The only real outlier is the openness to HBD/scientific racism stuff.
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by lux-lux-lux 3mo ago
And big tech market cap is 5x what it was in 2019, yes. I’m not hearing wild overhiring in these numbers, quite the opposite.
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by lux-lux-lux 3mo ago
We’re going to be well into the Diamond Age before people stop attributing layoffs to ‘Covid overhiring.’
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by lux-lux-lux 3mo ago
100% of what everyone hates about AI is what other people do with it, so “dont like it, don't use it” is fully unproductive here.
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by lux-lux-lux 3mo ago
It’s always fascinating to see when “this is hard and expensive to do, so we shouldn’t even try” is considered a compelling argument (housing, health care) vs. when it isn’t (defense, policing, the modern panopticon).

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