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by natrius 13y ago
"If there was actual demand for denser housing or office space you'd see it sprouting up across the river in Virginia or outside the southeast of the city where land is dirt cheap." This is untrue. If housing desirablility
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by natrius 13y ago
It's about both of those things. Luckily, I don't think corporations and lobbyists are boogeymen. Why shouldn't they be allowed to work in convenient locations? The most successful, established firms already do work in th
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by natrius 13y ago
Because we live in a market economy. You build stuff where people want to be, not where you hope they'll go. Unless you don't care if your building stays empty.
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by natrius 13y ago
Personifying the companies that create buildings is a cute rhetorical trick, but people are the ones with the desire to live and work in those places. The height limit prevents them from doing so.
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by natrius 13y ago
Making it impossible for poor folks to live in a place does tend to reduce crime. Is it moral?
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by natrius 13y ago
Limiting housing supply in desirable locations is the new redlining. I understand liking the character of a place, but it seems morally problematic to use the police power to enforce that character at the expense of those who will no longer
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by natrius 13y ago
"Can you give an example of an intrinsic reason something would be limited to the elite?" Scarcity. Sanitation and plumbing are cheap and easy if a government isn't corrupt. We're not waiting on advances in technology
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by natrius 13y ago
As a Google Voice user who gets to experience life without MMS support, I can tell you that MMS is very alive. I've missed several social engagements that people coordinated via group texts, and a couple of sensitive images that had
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by natrius 13y ago
Those things are available to the vast majority of the planet. Clean water, for example, is available to seven of every eight humans[1]. In the places those things aren't available, you'll usually find a corrupt government getting
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by natrius 13y ago
Can you name something that was only for the elites fifty years ago that isn't available to pretty much everyone today? This is what progress always looks like.
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by natrius 13y ago
An isolationist policy leads to a neutrality that doesn't necessarily involve working with the winner.
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by natrius 13y ago
Without the acquisition culture, many of these companies would never exist or be able to raise the funds to grow to the point where they could have so many happy customers in the first place.
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by natrius 13y ago
The stated goal of military action in Syria isn't regime change. It's creating a powerful disincentive against the use of chemical weapons, agents of mass murder that kill indiscriminately. I didn't completely understand the
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by natrius 13y ago
Several wise men have pointed out the potential foolishness of trading liberty for the pursuit of security. It's not that other countries are morally superior. It's that the government is committing morally dubious acts in my name
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by natrius 13y ago
The American government is collecting as much data about as many humans as it can, which I find morally repugnant. I support efforts to make that more difficult, even if it weakens the American government.
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by natrius 13y ago
My argument is that of the American colonists seeking to throw off the shackles of their British masters. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unaliena
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by natrius 13y ago
"Speaking of garages, any reason you can't build the garage on levels 1-2 and put apartments on 3-5?" Most cities regulate building heights, so then you're choosing between parking space and living space. Here in Austi
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by natrius 13y ago
"No, if you decide you don't want to do business with that entity anymore then you have to get off that entity's land." Not if you believe that governments derive their power from the consent of the governed.
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by natrius 13y ago
User data is commonly used to improve relevance.
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by natrius 13y ago
Besides the sodium, Chipotle isn't that bad, especially if you skip the tortillas and sour cream.
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by natrius 13y ago
A plain reading of the Fourth Amendment clearly prohibits this sort of mass surveillance. Constitutional arguments tend to degenerate into semantic ones, so let's ignore that argument for now. The threat to privacy and democracy is tha
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by natrius 13y ago
No need to interpret ill will here. I clearly think you're wrong. The conditional there was to highlight the values I aim to protect that you likely share.
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by natrius 13y ago
Congress and the NSA believe it is both constitutional and acceptable to collect and store any data they can get their hands on. They supposedly draw a fuzzy line to exclude most Americans when searching the stored data, but storing the c
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by natrius 13y ago
One day, a dialog popped up on Facebook suggesting people to put on my Acquaintances list, which hides most of their posts from my news feed. It improved my life. https://www.facebook.com/help/209850012449913
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by natrius 13y ago
"Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto probably didn’t think that even the U.S. government would treat it as a currency and try to regulate it." Citation needed. From the opinion: "The question currently before the Court is whe
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by natrius 13y ago
It should be noted that the Washington Post owns Kaplan, which is effectively a Khan Academy competitor.
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by natrius 13y ago
This is how WiFi-enabled printers and bathroom scales work, too.
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by natrius 13y ago
"As you get older the appeal of a bike for transportation to all but the most devoted geriatric athlete diminishes." This just isn't true. The reason that Americans give up cycling as they get older is because it's inc
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by natrius 13y ago
The Verge seems like a candidate. If you name a tech publication after an aspect of technology itself, like Wired, the name is destined for quaintness.
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by natrius 13y ago
Referer headers would make that sort of thing easy to filter out, so chances are that they're already doing so.

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