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by provolone 8y ago
Aside from the risks of smoking (tar etc. like you said) nicotine has some health benefits. To the extent that it is used as a supplement by some. https://examine.com/supplements/nicotine/
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by provolone 8y ago
Perhaps I observe this bias based upon the articles I have chosen to comment on. Or maybe it is an accurate assessment. I can only speak from my own experience. However, I would expect that entrepreneurs would generally have a free market b
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by provolone 8y ago
Which is more practical? Tackling your lack of self discipline and perhaps growing as a person, or appealing for the government to punish the sellers of the product you enjoy?
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by provolone 8y ago
HN, a website purportedly about tech entrepreneurship generally favors the 'government knows best' model. Whether it is a health related choice or not is immaterial. 30 minutes of cardio per day is generally regarded as a healthy
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by provolone 8y ago
Compare Dupont Circle to Connecticut & K st. Down at K & Conn. they need to use at least 5 traffic officers to direct the flow during peak times. Meanwhile Dupont circle handles P street, 19th street, Connecticut avenue, Massachuset
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by provolone 8y ago
It is nice when they throw in some diagonals and roundabouts for variety. Gives you more options when moving across the city.
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by provolone 8y ago
Yeah, but where is the hype in that?
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by provolone 8y ago
As opposed to a centrally planned model of utopia?
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by provolone 8y ago
We might have some common ground here. I don't drive and I don't want to pay for it either. For me the bigger negative externality is in foreign policy. I don't want any part of overseas adventures for oil. The financial cost
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by provolone 8y ago
Seems like we went everywhere from age 8 via bicycle. No supervision, just be back for dinner. Worked out fine and there were no designated bicycle lanes.
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by provolone 8y ago
Books are also inanimate and have been banned throughout history. Cannabis is another interesting one. Lots of data and settled science about how terrible it was... Lately western nations have been walking that one back.
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by provolone 8y ago
Competence builds confidence. Seems like most of the safety complainers don't want to cycle and are looking for excuses.
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by provolone 8y ago
Controlling violence is one of the primary justifications for government. You're comparing apples and oranges - Violent acts and prohibition of inanimate objects don't fit in the same scope. Prohibition of alcohol would be a more
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by provolone 8y ago
I don't like the idea of the government banning stuff. I'm a lifelong cyclist, ex-bike courier. Cars don't offend me. Bad drivers do. I always loved the freedom of cycling. The lack of regulation and traffic stops is one of m
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by provolone 8y ago
It is sacrilege to question the anointed priests of scientism.
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by provolone 8y ago
Humanity has endured all manners of hardships. Is your life optimal? Think of what your ancestors went through to bring us to this point. Should you throw all of that away because of your fears?
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by provolone 8y ago
Doomsaying is frequently accompanied by monetary schemes.
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by provolone 8y ago
Maybe the taxes are the problem. Laws are written by politicians and bureaucrats. Naturally as officers of the government, they rationalize an ever expanding government. Speaking of a conflict of interest...
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by provolone 8y ago
My impression has been that HN's audience generally wants government mandated solutions.
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by provolone 8y ago
Oh, I see. This time is different. Human nature has fundamentally changed. Anyways, I always read the flat earth argument as an exercise in rhetoric. From that perspective the outrage over it speaks volumes.
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by provolone 8y ago
The goal is not to make it illegal, just inaccessible for entities without an army of lawyers. AKA regulatory capture.
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by provolone 8y ago
If people are so easily swayed then perhaps they are just idiots? There are some cold & hard facts advocates of democracy need to look at. These problems can't be legislatively swept under the rug.
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by provolone 8y ago
Analytics, webmaster tools, gmail, google news - all of these sites are bloated. Meanwhile Google wants developers to use AMP because...
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by provolone 8y ago
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by provolone 8y ago
Just as Malthus observed that the land in the British Isles was a finite resource. Malthusianism is a trope in macroeconomics.
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by provolone 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Robert_Malthus Historical analysis tends to disagree with the underlying philosophy of peak oil.
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by provolone 8y ago
He spends a fair amount of time complaining about spring. I've never used spring. I recognized it as bloat from the beginning. The base servlet API + commons dbcp is good enough for me. If writing SQL queries is too much to ask, then p