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by swalling 3y ago
The article itself cherry-picked France and Mississippi to compare income levels, which is why I continued the example. The additional data points are interesting and valuable, though speaking of cherry picking, Azerbaijan somewhat dubiousl
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China also benefits from the second mover advantage here because they have a state-sponsored program to steal every piece of R&D they can get their hands on. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/15/business&#x2
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Either way the point that America is very rich but we do a comparatively terrible job of ensuring our people have long, happy lives is still true. You can pretty much apply https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%27No_Way_to_Pre
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The easier method to do a more nuanced analysis is to use data visualization where you put income on one axis and lifespan on another. https://www.gapminder.org/answers/how-does-income-relate-to-... Interesting questio
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”Average incomes have grown much faster than in western Europe or Japan. Also adjusted for purchasing power, they exceed $50,000 in Mississippi, America’s poorest state—higher than in France.” The article casually dismisses the counterpoi
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My casual observation that drove that thought, which was admittedly off the cuff, is the people who really want to go back in-office are new grads who want to live in an exciting city, and NYC is way more livable and exciting than SF. That
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by swalling 3y ago
Yeah unfortunately for conservatives, the annals of history are generally a story of culture evolving more rapidly than traditionalists are comfortable with. We happen to live in a country where the core Constitutional answer to that proble
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It's almost LOL wrong to state that conservatives have gladly accepted that trans people are entitled to full and equal treatment under the law. Conservative groups have sued to get religious exemptions to Bostock ( https://n
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This is also the lingering effects of zoning and San Francisco business tax policy. De-regulating downtown zoning for conversion and tax breaks ( https://sfstandard.com/business/mayor-breed-introduces-tax-b... ) are both
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The mainstream liberal interpretation is that gender is a social construct separate from sexual identity/preference, and you can’t constrain the expression of either to the historical Western norms, because that’s an attack on Constitu
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Only if you're dumb enough to assume that all or most of behavior is biologically determined, instead of being a complex mix of biology, culture, and learned individual patterns that produces a spectrum of individual expression. The qu
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Right, it's useful, realistic, and mostly uncontroversial to assume that there are typical vs. atypical sex differences in behavior in basically any population. The problem is there are a ton of people who try to use that fact to jus
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It’s not true that biological sex is completely deterministic in the behavior of non-human animals. For instance: there are gay penguins where two males will adopt eggs to hatch and raise chicks. Homosexuality and associated behavior change
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You're totally correct at the demographic level. Probably the best trend for tigers is the fact that India and China are getting richer and people will consequently be having fewer kids. It will result in less pressure on habitat and h
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There are larger predators like lions featured heavily in cave paintings and other forms of the earliest human art for a reason. We have never hunted predators like bears and big cats as a primary food source, but a willingness to defend hu
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It should not be surprising that humans find it fun to do something that we did for survival for most of our evolutionary history. The evolutionary function of play is the practice of adult skills. What's actually bizarre is that the b
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Link to the study: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016028962...
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People who have the highest disposable income also have the most opportunity for mobility. It’s entirely possible that a disproportionate percentage of those moving away are people who care more about high property and income taxes vs. lack
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46.7% of the state's population is in the Portland metro area as of the last census. Multnomah County has the second highest tax burden in the country for top earners. If a new capital gains tax proposal is passed this year, it will ha
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by swalling 4y ago
How many years did Portugal’s approach take to work? Oregon decriminalized personal possession of basically all of these drugs in 2021. As of today, a large swathe of downtown Portland is basically one highly dangerous open air drug market.
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If you include Alaska, ~75% of the US coastline has meaningful public access protections. If you don't include Alaska, because people don't sunbathe topless there or whatever, it's like ~20% based on my napkin math? The origi
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Yes, you use taxpayer funds and volunteer trail crews. Having done trail volunteer maintenance myself on the PCT, I can tell you it works just fine. There are also low cost permits for thru hikers and trailhead parking, which offset some of
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There are more miles of coastline with legally mandated public access in the US than in France. It’s simply handled at the state level not the federal. https://beachapedia.org/Beach_Access
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France specifically seems to have a bizarre tolerance for "pay to play" culture and limited access in outdoor recreation. Countries all around them have shown how strong freedom to roam laws ( https://en.wikipedia.org&#x
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The standards of evidence in the justice system are universally pretty weak. From suspect lineups easily manipulated by police to phrenology-level bullshit like bite mark analysis, this is why fair estimates are that up to 10% of convicted
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NYC in the late 70s had a major branding problem. It was widely thought of as a dying, crime-infested shithole ( https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/10/t-magazine/1970s-new-york... ) Like per the 1975 headline
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This is a key example of the paradox of tolerance ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance ) Saying we should tolerate the influence of a totalitarian state over a major communication platform ( https:/&
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Just works: fast to load, works offline, I don’t have to think about sync Just notes: It’s not trying to be a programmable networked knowledge engine or a no code app builder or a toaster. Not ugly: You can technically change fonts and crap
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From the USDA source I cited: “While recreational hunting for feral swine is popular in many states, it is generally not considered an effective management option. Significant population reductions typically do not occur and feral swine beh
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The open hunting season in states like California and Texas actually creates a perverse incentive among hunting guides and private land owners to deliberately introduce and maintain feral pig populations, in order to act as supply for their

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