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by supergauntlet 7y ago
Sure. I'd also be interested in any kind of incentives for poor people to get in fuel efficient small newer cars. A carrot rather than a stick, if you will.
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by supergauntlet 7y ago
Well even ignoring all that, flat tax rates are regressive. This sounds counterintuitive, but 5% of someones income is a very different thing for someone who makes 30k and someone who makes 300k. Everyone has some amount of fixed costs in c
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by supergauntlet 7y ago
Gas taxes disproportionately affect the poor though. I agree with your premise that we have too many large vehicles and there's no good incentive to pick a vehicle that's "just" large enough for your uses (so of course e
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by supergauntlet 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deterministic_finite_automaton https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nondeterministic_finite_automa... Said another way: a state machine. True regular languages can be define
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by supergauntlet 7y ago
> And it's chic and cyberpunk af I actually can't think of something more cyberpunk dystopia we-are-the-bad-guys than mindless killing machines that uphold imperialism. > They better be smart and unhackable and free of bugs
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by supergauntlet 7y ago
I've been thinking about this a lot, actually. Advertising doesn't have to be terrible. We already have basically everyone on youtube sponsored by SquareSpace or nordvpn or something, right? Because the ads on youtube are shit pay
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by supergauntlet 7y ago
I really think planned obsolescence is the future for everyone. Why build things to last when you can 1. save money by cheaping out and 2. ensure a future customer by cheaping out? There's no reason for them to build high quality, long
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by supergauntlet 7y ago
Ah, you mean why did they originally do it? Sorry, I misunderstood. The original reason was that the 737 was designed that way so that it could be boarded with just stairs instead of a skybridge: https://simpleflying.com/737
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by supergauntlet 7y ago
The engines on the original 737 design were quite small by modern standards, and the wings were low as well. As such there aren't really a ton of places to put new, larger engines. They basically have to be placed further forward and h
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by supergauntlet 7y ago
This link isn't terribly blogspammy or anything, but the original article has more information: https://fullfact.org/blog/2019/mar/does-backfire-effect-exis... And the original paper: https://
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by supergauntlet 7y ago
Very much this. Markets are OK at these things when there's symmetrical information, because it forces everyone to play nice. When one side gets to obscure facts like this and honestly just be downright deceitful, it's time to get
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by supergauntlet 7y ago
Most sites with soft paywalls you can just open in an incognito window. They're doing it with cookies.
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by supergauntlet 7y ago
I mean this is the core of adtech right? It's built on using psychology to sell things. That's basically always going to mean some sort of deceit or asymmetrical information. When your whole industry, your day-in-day-out work is b
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by supergauntlet 7y ago
Sure, I just meant the fiduciary responsibility doesn't necessarily always mean "short term profits at all costs." Why does it seem to always be that way, though? Most every company I see appears very shortsighted with no tho
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by supergauntlet 7y ago
California is full of the worst kinds of "crony capitalism" (that is, regulatory capture, a feature and not a bug of capitalism unfortunately), what do you mean?
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by supergauntlet 7y ago
Perhaps it's a culture thing? IIRC, you don't actually legally have to bring more value to shareholders every quarter at the cost of everything else. Maybe Toyota's execs and shareholders have some sort of "gentlemen&#x2
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by supergauntlet 7y ago
Is your argument that because people can evade taxes that we shouldn't collect taxes?
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by supergauntlet 7y ago
Sounds just like Warren Buffett: http://money.com/money/5636661/buffett-wants-to-tax-rich-mor... Reminder that during the time generally pointed to as 'the good old days' (the 1950s) the top tax bracket
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by supergauntlet 7y ago
Of course they are. You think they raised 2.1 million in their seed round and didn't pay for any lawyers? A lawyer 100% told some exec how to craft their legalese to appear to cover theft, but would not actually make KitSplit liable in
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by supergauntlet 7y ago
The core idea of 'move fast break things' is fast iteration time. This is actually really good because it means that even when there are issues, they get fixed. The problem is when you move fast, break things, and then don't
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by supergauntlet 7y ago
Yes, but we're already paying that and we're spending more than everyone else. [1] Universal healthcare isn't just morally justified, it's also financially justified. The only justifications for our insane system are r
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by supergauntlet 7y ago
>I know how much $$$ they spend on acohol a week. Are poor people not allowed to have fun? >I know how they got fired from their job for not showing up. Are depressed people not worthy of keeping alive? Do they not bring enough value
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by supergauntlet 7y ago
I mean it depends on the context, right? I just mean that generally speaking, when there is nothing forcing people to be decent, it is clearly not simply enough for "wow this is morally reprehensible" to be a deterrent. For profit
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by supergauntlet 7y ago
Defense need, sure. But remember that warmongering and imperialism are fed by the war machine.
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by supergauntlet 7y ago
All politics is identity politics. Putting "identity" in front of it is a weasel word to deflect, as you've just done. My point still stands. Remaining civilized at all costs in the face of incivility is as insane as trying t
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by supergauntlet 7y ago
The entire military industrial complex is predicated on murder for profit. Remember this every time someone tries to sell you the lie that we need to airstrike Iran because they shot down a drone. Guess who's really winning there? Lock
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by supergauntlet 7y ago
>No matter how fucked up these things are you don't want to lower yourself to their standards, you'll lose all grounds for discussion. This is the classic centrist liberalism argument that we have to maintain civility at all co
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by supergauntlet 7y ago
Helicopters are hard as hell to fly. Just look up vortex ring state: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vortex_ring_state It's basically the rotors losing power because of their own turblence. Helicopter pilots amaze m
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by supergauntlet 7y ago
Show me a real, evidence and facts based solution to homelessness that Republicans have come up with and I'll edit it into my comment and remove that part.
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by supergauntlet 7y ago
It just doesn't seem like a useful metric to me. Even if we agree that both Democrats and Republicans want to, say, end racism... what does that get us? That we both have a basic moral compass? The problem is the high level interpretat

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