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by prottog 4y ago
> maybe it is my European arrogance It could be. Social cohesion is a lot easier in monoethnic countries, for better or for worse; and in countries where the monoethnicity is changing like Sweden (where a full quarter of the population i
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by prottog 4y ago
The proponents of the Green New Deal in the US, for example, rarely mention maintaining or improving the standard of living as an imperative goal of the project, at least from the side of the carrot; there's plenty of talk on the stick
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by prottog 4y ago
I fully agree with you when it comes to him standing between you and your young son, but we should realize that sometimes people might get lost or be looking for a different house or something and accidentally trespass. If that happens with
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by prottog 4y ago
> they performed their duty that day and possibly saved that individual’s life Let's not neglect you and your son's right not to be harassed in your own yard! A person's life is important, yes, but if their deranged behavi
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by prottog 4y ago
I suppose nobody would argue that, but in practice it happens all the time, because the people who benefit from the policy aren't directly paying for the costs of those negative net social effects.
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by prottog 4y ago
This is a gross and dehumanizing view because you built a gross and dehumanizing strawman. Do you connect on a personal level with American conservatives in real life? The many I know are compassionate people at an individual level, and you
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by prottog 4y ago
> How many of these people would still be out on the street if housing was abundant and affordable? What if the housing was abundant and affordable but came with strings attached, like not being able to do drugs or engage in other antiso
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by prottog 4y ago
> most readers, who will just ignore the "same standard of living bit" and feel they are being oppressed. I think this is an uncharitable view, but that aside, is that not a reasonable assumption for "most readers"? T
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by prottog 4y ago
Sure does seem like that the world in which "you will own nothing, and you will be happy" is approaching rapidly. It's not sufficient that your emails are being read and your cell phone is being tracked; now your own car will
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by prottog 4y ago
Supreme Court decisions can be wrong; it doesn't make later decisions "revisionist". Nobody would say Brown v. Board of Education created a right from thin air that disagrees with the history of Plessy v. Ferguson and Dred Sc
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by prottog 4y ago
Exactly. One man's bad faith actor is another's torchbearer. I personally know some reasonable people who would call AOC a bad faith actor, and also some other reasonable people who would call Tom Cotton a bad faith actor; it&#x27
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by prottog 4y ago
Being worried that they will base their vote on incorrect information is really, really close to being worried that they will vote incorrectly, period. Very few things in politics are so cut and dry that there's one "correct"
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by prottog 4y ago
> with about a million and a talented team you could build a pretty decent Figma alternative This seems like a scaled-up version of "I could build a working clone of X in a weekend". It's possible Adobe overpaid, but most
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by prottog 4y ago
Only theoretically. In practice, it takes a lot of know-how unseen by the public to make a product in a manner that is price-competitive against other players in the market. Europe is obviously technologically capable of building chips and
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by prottog 4y ago
I would rather the value be sucked up by those who contribute towards creating it.
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by prottog 4y ago
For what it's worth, I always have issues with UPS and never with FedEx. It could very well be a local thing.
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by prottog 4y ago
You're right, but it's going to take either a while or actively lower prices before people will stop feeling like everything is more expensive than it should be. Psychology matters for the effects of inflation on the macro economy
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by prottog 4y ago
> Inflation isn't high any more. The CPI was 255.7 in 2019 and estimated to be 294.4 for 2022. That's a 15% increase in three years in an index that's acknowledged to somewhat under-report inflation. CPI could flatline (ze
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by prottog 4y ago
Thanks for the trip down memory lane. :-)
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by prottog 4y ago
As they say, hedge funds with a degree-granting school attached.
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by prottog 4y ago
Usually when they "found no evidence that other systems were compromised", they mean that their auditing and logging is so bad that they literally cannot tell ;-)
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by prottog 4y ago
From the point of view of my new city, there's typical banter about how silly/crazy/whatever "those people over there" are, though there is a general consensus that the people of my old city are richer. There's
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by prottog 4y ago
The Mirage's top speed is supposedly 107mph, though I personally would not drive a car more miles per hour than it has horsepower.
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by prottog 4y ago
Plenty of places around the US where the population density is so low you could go 100mph all day on the highways with no problems. Though I will say, it's wild that even what were once considered budget cars like the Honda Civic or To
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by prottog 4y ago
The real estate trilemma: affordable, high quality of life, near good jobs; pick no more than two. (Or have the government mandate that it's all three, somehow.)
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by prottog 4y ago
Maybe it's time for governments to stop relying on taxes so much, period. Maybe they can reduce their scope a little bit. I do wish that land value tax would replace other forms of taxation in many jurisdictions.
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by prottog 4y ago
I won't name them out of privacy concerns, but I went from a major coastal city (metro population over 3 million) in a state that reliably votes blue to a small city (metro population under half a million) in a state that reliably vote
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by prottog 4y ago
> Interest rates have been declining for 400 years This is surprisingly easy to explain: interest rates are a combination of the time factor of money (a dollar in hand is more useful than a dollar tomorrow) and the risk of default. Geopo
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by prottog 4y ago
Civilization is really just higher-order consumption of energy per capita.
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by prottog 4y ago
I don't think wear-and-tear (or even outright damage) from tenants is the big concern. The real danger is someone who truly wrecks your property, doesn't pay rent, in a legal environment where it takes you two years to evict such

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