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by pasabagi 3y ago
In Europe there are very many successful examples of national housing projects, indeed many countries have large portions of the housing stock in public hands to this day. This was generally instituted after WW2, which left the EU housing s
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by pasabagi 3y ago
> I think you are advocating for some kind of government reallocation or loosening of property rights I'm really just drawing attention to the fact the relevant property rights (what you can build, who can live there, how much it is
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by pasabagi 3y ago
While there are legitimate planning problems (does it make sense to run utilities out to serve yet another suburb?) that are separable from pure politics, I think you're sort of burying the lede when mention the 'cost of the land&
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by pasabagi 3y ago
Rent is income that the government enforces your right to collect. A distinction between 'rent-seeking' and government is meaningless.
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by pasabagi 3y ago
Well, it's really hard to find a place to put them because of planning regulations, and because of land costs. If you, for example, nationalized all inner-city land, you could easily find plots to build high density housing. At which p
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by pasabagi 3y ago
The facts aren't in question, although the police say they 'evacuated' the camp (at four in the morning, with force) - and they've done so four times, destroying everything in the process. https://www.rfi.fr&#
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by pasabagi 3y ago
The main question is, why are houses not like every other commodity? You never see anybody who is literally too poor to afford shoes. A car, despite being an industrial miracle assembled out of precision parts, is far cheaper than a house.
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by pasabagi 3y ago
I guess there are two aspects to prison: the first is as you said, a deterent, an agent of rehabilitation, a place of punishment, etc - the ideal form. Questionable, but ultimately something a lot of people could agree to. Then, there is re
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by pasabagi 3y ago
The word 'house' is doing a lot of illicit work in your metaphor. A better analogy would be if a bunch of families had decided to install CCTV cameras, then got their neighbor Garry to watch them. Unbeknownst to them, Garry was st
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by pasabagi 3y ago
Bad safety standards create strong unions. Strong unions create good safety standards. Good safety standards allow stupidity. Stupid people allow safety standards to get rolled back.
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by pasabagi 3y ago
Calling the European conquest of the Americas 'immigration' is kind of like calling operation Barbarossa 'tourism'. I also think the anecdote is kind of ridiculous. There was no India when the Parsis arrived. There was n
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by pasabagi 3y ago
> Borders have two sides. Gaza controls one side of her border, Egypt and Israel control the other. No state has control over both sides of its borders, not even in the Schengen states or the US. Yes, but the kind of blockade that Israe
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by pasabagi 3y ago
Maybe you're just the wrong reader, or reading at the wrong time? I've noticed books get a lot worse or better depending on the age I read them, the conditions I'm in. That said, I read (and liked) Flaubert in translation, so
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by pasabagi 3y ago
> The people - and their suffering - are a means to an end to establish that state. I think this is really wrongheaded on a couple of counts. Because Israel as a state 'for the jews' is an ethnostate, it must keep a jewish demo
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by pasabagi 3y ago
> And Israel has been trying to pass off that occupation to an entity that would establish an independent state there for almost 30 years. I was thinking the other day, why doesn't Israel offer the west bank to Jordan? I think that
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by pasabagi 3y ago
I kind of take the opposite position. History is complicated, always. However, the basic problem of Israel and Palestine is that Palestinians either live under military law (the West Bank) or in a big prison (Gaza). That's obviously no
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by pasabagi 3y ago
Tbh, I also didn't find it a big deal. The only thing I registered as a personal problem during the pandemic was two of my grandparents dying.
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by pasabagi 3y ago
I don't think it's particularly careless: SBCL is short for 'Steel Bank Common Lisp', which is a reference to how the CMU university, named after Carnegie Mellon, could be respectively substituted with 'Steel'
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by pasabagi 3y ago
I figure that digital photography is by its very nature 'computational', both in the obvious sense, and in the sense that the camera from hardware up imposes a set of signal-forming decisions on what is essentially just structured
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by pasabagi 3y ago
People still do wood block printing - even though printing is commodified to the nines. At the moment, making 3d models is a lot of skilled, monotonous work, especially for stuff like scene furniture. I guess I'd be pretty happy if som
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by pasabagi 3y ago
That's true. On the other hand, people have been working with flint for longer than there have been people, and it remains fiendishly hard to make anything with it.
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by pasabagi 3y ago
I think it could be one of those 'grass-is-greener' scenarios. Steel is really nice to work with. It's strong and elastic and you can do all sorts of things to alter its properties, like even in a home shop. Titanium always l
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by pasabagi 3y ago
The idea is to have an opensource compiler (to avoid lock in) and a paid IDE-style tool.
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by pasabagi 3y ago
I guess I fundamentally don't think charity is the right way to solve social injustice. If you went around giving out blankets to antebellum American slaves, I guess you're helping the specific person you're handing the blank
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by pasabagi 3y ago
If you ask anybody who a) isn't part of EA and b) has philosophy training, they'll tell you EA is just utilitarianism with some new buzzwords.
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by pasabagi 3y ago
Tbh, I always thought the whole stuff about 'intelligence' was just marketing garbage. There are no really good rigorous descriptions of intelligence, so asking if a product exhibits intelligence is basically nonsense. There are t
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by pasabagi 3y ago
Most content creators are either doing it for free, or getting a percentile of a cent on the dollar. As far as I'm concerned, that makes it communication infrastructure, not service provision. Youtube is providing the infrastructure, t
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by pasabagi 3y ago
It's basically a line out of the Expanse series: if you make getting into orbit trivial, and if doing things in space becomes trivial, it becomes conceivable to redirect asteroids so they hit the planet, which would be bad for the peop
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by pasabagi 3y ago
> Math can be proven. Math maps to physical quantities. That's just wildly wrong. I think you should probably just try to deepen your understanding of fields you're interested in, and leave your prejudices at the door.
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by pasabagi 3y ago
How do you isolate the philosophy without engaging in philosophy yourself? My suspicion is that most people who don't like philosophy have lots of philosophical ideas - they are just really dogmatic about them and don't like to be

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