strawhatguy

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by strawhatguy 3y ago
> the problem is that this particular regulatory agency was corrupt and failed in its primary duty. What regulatory agency isn't captured? If you make a regulatory body, you want to staff it with those who 'know' about the
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by strawhatguy 3y ago
The 'loser' comment wasn't the best choice, true. It's also interesting that you separated 'relevant talent' from 'socializing', as if socializing is ever not relevant. People do have to at least know
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by strawhatguy 3y ago
that’s my point; approval processes are always gamed around because of the cost such processes impose. You can’t just say oh the rules ought to be perfect and perfectly implemented for it to work. That’s not a world in which we live in. In
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by strawhatguy 3y ago
Must be fairly young yet.
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by strawhatguy 3y ago
Oh government likes to step in alright. Doesn't mean they should, or that it helps as much for 'safety' as people would like to believe. Just as often rules can cause safety issues as not. But always more expense.
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by strawhatguy 3y ago
Yes, 100% agree. What I find unbelievable is how many people casually throw around the idea of approval process to prevent bad thing X that just happened, that few even knew existed. We have laborious and very expensive approval processes f
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by strawhatguy 3y ago
Can't make decisions on what everyone else says. Drink what you want!
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by strawhatguy 3y ago
Personally, I think there should NOT be a prosecutor's office and a public defender's office. It should be the same lawyers, and randomly get the cases for or against. That way the resources are in the same 'pot' if you
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by strawhatguy 3y ago
jury nullification is a thing, something the court tries to convince you that it isn't.
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by strawhatguy 3y ago
The other bill mentioned is more sweeping however, I don't think CA has a cap on building codes for example, nor limits public comment to only the beginning of a project. These are nice changes, good news too: zoning is an affront to s
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by strawhatguy 4y ago
Nationalize it? No way. Besides I like rich investors ponying up money so my ride/food is more convenient and cheaper! It won’t last, but then what does?
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by strawhatguy 4y ago
I would actually agree with you. Although this is almost trivially true: any single gov spend inflation effect is 'pretty much zero'. That's not the same as 'free' though. All spend together adds up to at least 2-3%
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by strawhatguy 4y ago
Certainly the FDIC-insured accounts to that level ($250k) should be guarded, as that is part of the calculus. That does cover most ordinary individual accounts, and most certainly all of the 'little people'. If we want to talk abo
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by strawhatguy 4y ago
I know, but no action is better, in the long term. As it is, more inflation at least is likely
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by strawhatguy 4y ago
Large banks do better with more rules, but that's not necessarily the outcome actually desired, or at least I'm tired of the Goldman Sachs running the sector with little to no risk of any challengers. The main problem is that the
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by strawhatguy 4y ago
Not too surprising, almost inevitable: the government demanded it to help the corn lobby, the excuse was it was greener. Bet we can't get rid of those regulations for years to come too, especially since new regs seem to be heading in t
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by strawhatguy 4y ago
Tech is interesting in that it’s one profession that’s trying to automate itself out of a job. I think automated emails for layoffs are par for the course; we don’t complain about tools like AWS that have automated whole swaths of stuff w
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by strawhatguy 4y ago
*when what they want jives with what I want, of course.
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by strawhatguy 4y ago
No kidding; in one of the most sought after jobs at one of the most recognized companies and get laid off after 16 years? The blogging on this like it’s new is crazy. I’m mean the automated email is bad, but hey, that’s the automated brave
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by strawhatguy 4y ago
What I immediately thought of. Coal ton is a pretty awesome project
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by strawhatguy 4y ago
Yes, zoning is a terrible idea, a way to insert politics literally in our homes, or at least the land the home sits on.
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by strawhatguy 4y ago
Yeah, no kidding, no residential zoning at all? Hard to believe it's CA, but good for them! This will vastly improve the housing situation, if CA has sense enough to keep it this way.
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by strawhatguy 4y ago
I’ve also worked in gov. And they’re not very good at it either, OPM breach especially was pretty bad, and that’s it’s own workforce: the most protected set of people under any government. Gov does default to classifying documents, if that
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by strawhatguy 4y ago
There was an article a few years ago saying that in Manhattan women outnumber men, and that led to men needing to compete less there, so yeah probably economics related. But a gov-sponsored app? No way. It's bad enough they have your w
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by strawhatguy 4y ago
Didn’t see the response til now. It’s odd though: the lead comes from the planet, there’s a set amount of it. the most humans do is increase it’s entropy. So I’m not sure talking about lead levels in the planet makes sense: they’ve been abo
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by strawhatguy 4y ago
I think property prices actually dropped as more people left SF during the pandemic timeframe, so it doesn’t appear to contradict the point: cheaper housing leads to less homelessness, and sf gov is mostly still in the way from that happeni
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by strawhatguy 4y ago
Only silver lining that can come from this is that this offers a path to fold wait staff into this service charge, and maybe we can drop the tipping culture nonsense in the US (still may need to drop the income tax in order to do so, though
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by strawhatguy 4y ago
Some might have, I don’t think it’s a lot
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by strawhatguy 4y ago
It’s certainly the policies SF pursues that lead to crime/homelessness increases. While the state of CA tacks on a few more that’s harder for a mayor and council to overcome, still no excuse not to correct what they can. The various ve
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by strawhatguy 4y ago
Yes, perfection is the enemy of the good. In fact the most sustainable mentality is for the epa to provide information only, and allow people to choose how risky they wish to behave.

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