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by mulmen 8mo ago
Your mayor and city council and maybe local judges and sheriff.
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by mulmen 8mo ago
If we didn’t want them then why did we capture them?
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by mulmen 8mo ago
Beware the vocal minority. Internet comment sections only tell you the sentiments of people who make comments. HN comments sentiment seems to shift over the age of the thread and time of day. My suspicion is that the initial comments are f
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by mulmen 8mo ago
We don’t tax wealth though so wouldn’t we expect the highest income to pay the most tax?
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by mulmen 8mo ago
I don’t see how either of those are relevant. The question is where you can legally drink in public. The answer is very few places in the United States. People break laws all the time.
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by mulmen 8mo ago
Is that true of everyone held by ICE? I see that Seamus declined to be deported to Ireland immediately but does that offer remain open?
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by mulmen 8mo ago
> Internment is long-term (see Wikipedia), The Wikipedia page for Internment [1] doesn't include the words long-term when I view it. Internment is the imprisonment of people, commonly in large groups, without charges or intent t
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by mulmen 8mo ago
The problem with billionaires is that they truly have more money than they need. The only thing left for them to pursue is power. Cheap labor only helps them get more money. Racism on the other hand can be used to justify the destruction
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by mulmen 8mo ago
I’m having a hard time understanding how the ICE detention facilities do not meet the Wikipedia definition of concentration camp: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concentration_camp . Can you help me out?
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by mulmen 8mo ago
The existence of concentration camps in China does not disprove their existence in the United States.
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by mulmen 8mo ago
The Germans ran work camps, concentration camps, and death camps. Right now the United States is only running two of the three. We have work camps (prisons) and concentration camps (detention facilities).
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by mulmen 8mo ago
> China or Saudi Arabia can wave their money around, but at least some people will be repulsed by the obligation to keep their mouths shut and praise the Dear Leader. I mean we are literally putting people in concentration camps right no
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by mulmen 8mo ago
It’s illegal to drink in public in Washington state [1]. I believe this is the case in most places in the United States. Las Vegas is a notable exception. [1]: https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=66.44.100
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by mulmen 8mo ago
“Common sense” is a red flag for me. Obama (who I voted for twice, don’t come at me) pitched revoking second amendment rights for people on the Do Not Fly list as “common sense”. My common sense says we shouldn’t use a secret, extrajudici
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by mulmen 8mo ago
How do they define productivity? How is it measured?
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by mulmen 8mo ago
> Do you think you have a general right to override people's resource allocation decisions when you believe they're being wasteful? Me personally? No, of course not. But I do think our government has the responsibility to g
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by mulmen 8mo ago
And everything I described was at one point legal.
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by mulmen 8mo ago
How does crypto make money laundering at scale easy?
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by mulmen 8mo ago
Yes, that appears to be their point.
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by mulmen 8mo ago
> If it's such a problem, why is it so cheap to do? Why would you assume it doesn’t based on price when externality by definition is not accounted for in price?
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by mulmen 8mo ago
The unaccounted externality is the wasted energy to create a thing and destroy it without ever using it. This may be profit maximizing because it maintains the exclusivity of the brand. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veb
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by mulmen 8mo ago
Try opening your eyes.
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by mulmen 8mo ago
> It becomes private property and (at least in the US) I'm free to destroy a thing I own. Only within the confines of the law. If I buy a skyscraper I can’t blow it up without permits. I can’t burn trash in my yard in the middle o
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by mulmen 8mo ago
What if I dump toxic industrial waste in the river upstream of your house? I pay for access to the river. Does that hurt you?
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by mulmen 8mo ago
Do you honestly believe this? Where did you study economics? This regulation is not about scarcity. It is about over abundance. Overproduction is a failure mode in capitalist systems. The market can’t correct for this because negative e
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by mulmen 8mo ago
By definition externality is not priced in by the market.
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by mulmen 8mo ago
Regulation is not about knowing better than the market. It is about correcting harmful externalities that markets would not solve on their own.
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by mulmen 8mo ago
> Yachts don't buy themselves, you know! No but open source rugpulls do!
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by mulmen 8mo ago
I’m not really worried about energy consumption. We have more energy falling out of the sky than we could ever need. I’m much more interested in saving human time so we can focus on bigger problems, like using that free energy instead of
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by mulmen 8mo ago
The problem is our primitive text representation online. The formatting should be localized but there’s not a number type I can easily insert inline in a text box.

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