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Why do we need a solution to a non-existent problem? Middle class is doing just fine e.g. https://economistwritingeveryday.com/2025/05/07/the-middle-w...
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I wish these kind of comments were backed by some numbers. European welfare states are paid for by taxes on the middle class. The wealthy already pay taxes disproportionately and taxing the wealth itself has an obvious problem, it's st
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As someone who grew up in 5th percentile or higher of Soviet citizens (Moscow, 2 engineer parents) I can tell you that American poor live much better. Think 700sqft flat considered good for a family with 2 kids, not really being able to aff
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One nice thing about basic economy and price discrimination is you actually get a better experience if you pay more. Instead of free exit row seats distributed via luck and timing, trying to get in early to ensure overhead bins are not full
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What I wonder is (from someone who has been in a room like that, not speculation), how do these decisions go down? My other favorite example is un-disabling telemetry, resetting default browser, etc. Some PM or VP is in a meeting saying we
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So, does that mean that everybody who helped elect everybody who shaped FDA is responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths? I mean I sympathize, but seems a little extreme https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevoluti
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Red state policies (or at least a subset) appear to be popular based on the most important form of voting - with one's feet https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/how-...
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I dunno, I thought that it used to be common knowledge in these circles that "we need this to protect the children" meant the government-critter was malicious. I.e. approximately the reverse. I'd say if anything, these days t
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Citation needed The number of pages in the federal regulations only grows over time (admin to admin). Construction of any kind, including housing, education and childcare come to mind as things you missed. I.e. - everything that people comp
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Western empires et al. The trading also allows limited bluffing (you'll get what you want but also probably smth negative). But it takes all day in no small part due to open trading.
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"Oh, so you're from that other universe." yeah, the reality-based one, not "random outrage machine" one. It is characteristic how random (and tangentially related to your assertions in the previous post) your source
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You are a forced customer of a bureaucracy, so the standards are a little bit different. Corporations are accountable to their paying customers. Not perfectly. However, your ability to hold Meta or Amazon or whatever to account for things y
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I think Airbnb is net better than hotels, including places with agents that are basically condo hotels. Much more variety.. hotels are OTOH more predictable and reliable. If I don't need variety (a kitchen? A place very close to some o
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Well, how do you feel about the aggregated will of citizens currently being enacted federally? Even on major issues, current govts are imperfect proxies at best. Bureaucracies are even worse and less accountable. On minor (in the eyes of th
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My internet access is great, healthcare is one of the most regulated and special-interest/union (AMA) captured industries in the USA and that is why it's broken, airplane crashes are extremely unlikely and in any case are more lik
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That to me seems like amazing mental gymnastics. It would eliminate the right of distant citizen proxies to take away the actual rights from actual individual citizens. The proxies who, especially in single party states, can do whatever the
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They are all much more dense than the bay area, and I don't get the sense that many people want them to be denser other than, again, for affordability reasons. I don't have data but in Moscow where I'm from the typical well t
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Where do individual citizens come in here? This is a transfer to corporations and citizens, from governments and bureaucracies. The latter, when allowed to regulate, mostly prevent things from happening - housing, for example. Or new meds.
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I'm not doing that. I am equating on a spectrum not being able to, as a society, afford running water infrastructure to not being able to afford cars and infrastructure. Note that this includes environmental arguments - saying that 8bi
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Very poor countries also have exceptional public water wells where people can draw water with buckets. That is because those are inconvenient, slow but necessary amenities in the areas where most people are poor. And that is why US currentl
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$100 per person per year is an insane amount of spending on an information outlet controlled by the government. The value of public broadcasting to me is 0, but I do occasionally get exposed to NPR thru other people listening to it and it a
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To be clear, I think what they are doing is dumb and malicious. Anti-DEI push is pretty much the only trump policy I agree with and I'm dismayed at its poor execution and massive unnecessary collateral damage. However, I wonder, which
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I don't think in terms of forgiveness, there's nothing to forgive for. I've greatly enjoyed smoking, being well aware of its ill effects. After some time I have reevaluated and decided the benefits (that I still miss) are no
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I wrote JavaScript before libraries, I remember when prototype.js came out and was a cool new thing and actually useful after "client side validation and snowflakes chasing mouse cursor" era. I think there was a short period when
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I dunno, I think it was a net negative by a large margin. 1) html only Gmail shows that pretty advanced, well made apps are possible without scripting; 2) There are very few web apps that without JavaScript wouldn't just be implemented
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Yep, I used to smoke too. I wanted to smoke and i still sometimes miss social and contemplative aspects of it 17 years after stopping, even though any chemical cravings stopped in a couple months On the later part, your comment was very ins
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Climate change can near certainly be served with technology, if society didn't stand in the way. We could all switch to nuclear - France did it decades ago, technology is not a problem, society is - hence the subjects of these articles
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Are you sitting in a room while typing this? At the margin to reduce the odds of heart attacks, you should be at a walking desk outdoors, or ideally not arguing on the internet at all. Someone trying to "help humanity" should deci
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Not a trump voter or supporter by any means, but you can reflect on what made this action possible from the pr perspective (even considering the above quoted unnecessary own goal - they could have done the same thing with even more plausibl
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The title is, basically, a lie. “no longer target virtual currency exchanges, mixing and tumbling services, and offline wallets for the acts of their end users or unwittingly violations of regulations.” is by far not the same as not prosecu

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