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by settrans 4y ago
Well I have good news for you: the next time you’re feeling that ineffable fondness for upstate New York at a point of sale machine, remember that 12345 is a real zip code from Schenectady.
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by settrans 4y ago
In effect it already is: we lack allodial title in the United States anyhow, and all land is subject to taking by eminent domain and taxation by local governments.
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by settrans 4y ago
Are the developers of apartment buildings financial vampires too? The people who literally are adding supply to the market (and therefore lowering prices, because supply and demand)?
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by settrans 4y ago
Housing being an investment is the inevitable consequence of a free market around real estate. Land is scarce. Land near job centers is scarcer. There are far more people that want to live in nice neighborhoods near high-paying jobs than co
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by settrans 4y ago
Even $500 is rich, now, for a laptop. iPads and Chromebooks can be had for half that, and could run circles around the laptops of yesteryear. Hell, MT8183-powered Chromebooks cost $170 and still come with FHD touchscreens, 12-18 hours of b
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by settrans 4y ago
Indeed! What we need is a wealth transfer from new residents paying _even higher_ market prices to legacy tenants grandfathered in to apartments that landlords have no incentive to maintain.
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by settrans 4y ago
Awesome! How do you plan to monitor and enforce this?
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by settrans 4y ago
I'm not sure I understand. I'm using simple arithmetic to show that UBI can't replace welfare except at unfathomable expense, based on real welfare expense and GDP numbers. Do you disagree?
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by settrans 4y ago
The thrust of the (financial) problem is that all of those savings, the bureaucracy and the more efficient capital allocation, is completely eclipsed by the massive waste of paying UBI to everyone who doesn't need welfare. If 10% of ho
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by settrans 4y ago
I'm familiar with the idea - but the biggest challenge with UBI is not that it's inherently a bad idea (as you note, it effectively adds a negative intercept to the marginal system), rather that it is unlikely to replace welfare s
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by settrans 4y ago
Perhaps if we weren't subjecting the tens of millions of Americans in the $15,000 - $40,000 income range to effective marginal tax rates of up to 103% [0], we would see more labor force participation. Between income tax and benefit pha
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by settrans 4y ago
This isn't obviously the case (if you consider gun homicide, which is arguably more important since strictly more people are killed than just in mass shootings): https://hwfo.substack.com/p/everybodys-lying-about-
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by settrans 4y ago
Surely then, we ought to ban pools, wall off access to the beaches and lakes, and generally prohibit human contact with water, as drowning is 100x more likely to kill than school shootings. And any parents of innocent children who have drow
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by settrans 4y ago
Let's see what happens when you apply critical analysis and derive conclusions from data instead of rhetoric: Real Talk about School Shootings – where show how school shooting numbers are a terrible thing around which to craft policy.
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by settrans 4y ago
You and I have different definitions of "billionaire".
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by settrans 4y ago
According to my testing, SSDs would greatly reduce the contention but were not a complete fix.
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by settrans 4y ago
I never understood this attitude (assuming it's serious). If a job is created in a city that wouldn't exist in the country, where is the stealing? To me this sounds like the city is creating value _ex nihilo_, and the "paymen
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by settrans 4y ago
Things worked well at the outset, especially in local development against my NVMe drive for my small CRUD application. Then, with a little traffic, things continued to go well in production. But as traffic scaled up (to 1-5 QPS, roughly 25%
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by settrans 4y ago
Even the most collectivist public-transit apologist should be celebrating Robert Moses. He greatly expanded the predecessor to the MTA, and secured its legacy by building the toll bridges and tunnels that subsidize the wildly expensive New
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by settrans 4y ago
"You can’t say something important about anything ever, without offending. Important speech about important issues, especially contentious issues, is instantly offensive."
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by settrans 4y ago
Might I caution you away from any tools built with the Abseil flags library.
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by settrans 4y ago
That's obviously not how property rights work. Sam Walton was entitled to bequeath his wealth to his heirs however he saw fit, subject to any applicable estate and inheritance taxes.
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by settrans 5y ago
Oh, that's great news! (I last used evaluated them in August 2017)
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by settrans 5y ago
Indeed, they perform much better, but caveat emptor: hash index operations are not currently WAL-logged. That means that: 1) if you crash during a hash index update, all bets are off and you'll have to rebuild, and 2) they will just be
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by settrans 5y ago
OK, then how do people commute to their jobs (restaurants, shoe stores, or schools) in the small towns that support farms, mines, factories or mills?
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by settrans 5y ago
Got it. So how should people get to their jobs at the farms? Or the mines? Or the oil fields? Or the factories? Or the mills?
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by settrans 5y ago
Sadly not, as all Pixels have DisplayPort / HDMI out turned off in software. Google expects you to use Chromecast or buy an expensive DisplayLink adapter.
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by settrans 5y ago
Despite being (ostensibly) state-of-the-art technology, I feel similarly about my 2021-vintage MediaTek MT8183-powered Chromebook. Despite costing sub-$300, its CPU is comparably powerful (according to Passmark) to the Vaio VGN-P588E's
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by settrans 5y ago
"No one has Borgmon readability."
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by settrans 5y ago
Is there any evidence that, on net, state welfare programs deter crime in any significant way?

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