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by prottog 4y ago
How about the notion that the federal government is doing way more than it should given its remit under the Constitution? That's my point, not that it can and should cease to exist.
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by prottog 4y ago
I read somewhere that an example of the level of disability that someone with an IQ of 50 shows is that they couldn't be taught to reliably fold a piece of paper into thirds (i.e. to fit in an envelope).
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by prottog 4y ago
And what an example of the "worse is better" theory the whole time! ;-)
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by prottog 4y ago
> instead of actually governing And what do you suppose should be the priorities for the federal government? What needs actually governing that can't be better done at state and local levels at the moment?
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by prottog 4y ago
I'm sure the GP would be happy if his tax dollars went to building roads and bridges, and not the thousand other things that are of dubious worth to the nation as a whole.
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by prottog 4y ago
> since the fundamental ideology is actually opposed to the idea of well-functioning social institutions with mutual accountability A charitable interpretation of Republican "fundamental ideology", as it were, would be that the
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by prottog 4y ago
> that'd be $0.15/kWh. A good portion of America doesnt even have power to the home at that rate. The majority of Americans pay less than that for retail electricity to the home: https://www.eia.gov/electricity&
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by prottog 4y ago
To be fair, a lot of cloud deployments are not optimized for cost, and it's easy to rack up big bills without really needing to.
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by prottog 4y ago
> ("The Office will not prosecute the following charges...") It's absurd that a sitting DA can just choose not to prosecute whole sections of the law. I get that prosecutorial discretion is a thing, but that has to be on a
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by prottog 4y ago
> Society starts failing when the answer to every problem is call mommy and daddy (the police) and stops enforcing basic societal norms by itself. I cannot emphasize this enough. There is no amount of police presence that will make socie
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by prottog 4y ago
Funny. They closed stores and put in annoying security measures in high-theft locations and shrinkage dropped, and now they're walking it back a little bit because the additional security measures are costing them money in expenses and
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by prottog 4y ago
3x leveraged ETFs could indeed get wiped out if the market crashes, but XIV and TQQQ will behave differently, since the former holds actual underlying stock of the Nasdaq 100 Index components plus some derivative sauce for triple the levera
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by prottog 4y ago
According to the Federal Reserve[0], the median household net worth (that is, the assets that a family holds minus its liabilities) in the US is $122k, which means that owning free and clear even a modest home in a modest area -- like in th
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by prottog 4y ago
The citation for that sentence in the Wikipedia page is given as this news article: https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/2014-12-17/ty-article/.p... Curiously, that article only mentions olive oil, which is no
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by prottog 4y ago
A glut in the supply of high value developments would lower the market price of existing lower value stock, as well. Plus, in a lot of places developers are forced to focus on "luxury" housing because their margins are hamstrung b
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by prottog 4y ago
LVT is economically simple, just politically impossible, especially at a scale that would make a big difference (i.e. replacing income tax with land value tax). > But it also creates a huge incentive to block development on a town level
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by prottog 4y ago
Why do you capitalize black and not white?
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by prottog 4y ago
> They're focused on things like rent control, just cause eviction, foreign/institutional investor boogeymen, and preventing even substantially or fully below-market housing developments Which is funny, since every single thing
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by prottog 4y ago
> to keep the growth and lose the distributional problems, rather than the other way around. Historical evidence so far shows that this is very difficult outside of monoethnic cultures with strong productive inclinations, i.e. Northern E
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by prottog 4y ago
It's a very common mindset -- one of wealth being zero-sum. If you believe that for whatever reason, it's very easy to be against growth, because you think growth will come out of your own pockets.
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by prottog 4y ago
I'm a big fan of the German style of federalization, where federal agencies are spread out around the nation, instead of all being headquartered in one federal capital. The Ministry of Defence is headquartered in Bonn; the BfV in Colog
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by prottog 4y ago
The article doesn't support your claim. What it supports is the idea that for Walgreens as a whole, shrinkage isn't a make-or-break issue. It says nothing about whether Walgreens will choose to place or keep a store at a high-thef
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by prottog 4y ago
> So there really is no "good" way to solve the "decision making" problem. Insofar as humanity hasn't yet figured out how to make good decisions all the time ;-) that's true. However, I posit that keeping de
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by prottog 4y ago
> the only bottleneck is the human processing said communication You said it yourself. I don't care if the ansible lets you communicate faster than the speed of light; the capacity of leaders at the top to understand lower-level fac
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by prottog 4y ago
You jest but arrive at precisely the point I want to make. When there are actual "artisans" who are violating civil rights with their "hands" (i.e. real police officers, judges, district attorneys), wrongdoers can be bro
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by prottog 4y ago
I'm in a midsize city in the Gulf Coast region. Not exactly the boonies (though that is very accessible from where I am), and not exactly a bustling metro. One can buy a serviceable house under $100k in a not-so-great part of town. $12
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by prottog 4y ago
I'm doubling down because you haven't offered an explanation of what your counterfactual is. As best as I can guess, are implying that were something to be different, the outcomes will be different, whether that is that people who
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by prottog 4y ago
Clearly, a New World country borne of immigration is different than an Old World country in this regard. Besides, Australia doing well is hardly an example of anything other than how blessed they are in a number of ways[0]. [0]: https:&#x2
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by prottog 4y ago
I'm not making a personal judgement here. I myself have lived in multiple countries and am a visible ethnic minority in the country I live in now. But you hit it on the head: > Both of us speak Swedish are fairly integrated into the
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by prottog 4y ago
The GP already pointed out that the "month's travel" rule doesn't apply in all cases. The poster you're replying to does have a point about increasing amounts of decisions being made at the federal level in this cou

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