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by tchaffee 4y ago
Switzerland had a huge heroin problem. They fixed it by decriminalization and treating it as the medical problem it really is. You can now get the addictive drugs injected at your doctor's office. Both petty theft and addiction plummet
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by tchaffee 4y ago
> In my experience, the people who admit... Again, one person's anecdote is not a reliable way of measuring these things.
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Switzerland and Portugal are the counter examples that prove you wrong. Both decriminalized drugs and treat them as the medical problem that they really are. The heroin problem was especially bad in Switzerland and you could find homeless a
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by tchaffee 4y ago
Half the people in SF can say the same. Anecdotal data doesn't mean much.
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Here's a good place to compare to other cities, if comparing is even a reasonable thing to do [1]. Sort by Total for Property Crime. Notably Albuquerque, Spokane, and Memphis have higher total property crime rates. But perhaps wouldn&#
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by tchaffee 4y ago
The detail it deserves doesn't fit in an HN comment. But I'll drop some observations here. You really need to experience it to get it though. Body language and so many other nuances all come into play in any communication style. I
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by tchaffee 4y ago
> homelessness is caused by lax policies in regards to crime and drug abuse You don't even have correlation let alone causation. California is slightly below average with its incarceration rate so not really lax at all compared to
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by tchaffee 4y ago
And here you are virtue signaling that you're so much better. Even worse: with a false claim.
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Yes, of course there is no silver bullet. The point is that the parent comment thinks only an interupting culture can work which anyone who has worked in a functional waiting culture knows is false. There are pros and cons to both approache
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by tchaffee 4y ago
In a waiting culture people almost never talk at length like that. They are eager to listen to other ideas. In fact, meetings are usually shorter. It's also less stressful. And I almost never hear the kind of skeptical sarcasm you&#x27
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Companies with a waiting culture get things done on time. You might perceive interrupting as being more efficient but interrupting has its own set of inefficiencies.
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Yes. I switched careers for a while after being burnt out with tech and that helped me realize just how good I had it doing something I mostly enjoy. I do think the break itself also helped. Even the best musicians in the world sometimes ta
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by tchaffee 4y ago
Neither your source nor your list come close to justifying a €30k salary difference. And your source already includes your list.
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Only if you work with all people who highly value remote work. My office always has people there. And we have the option to work fully remote. Some people have never been to the office. Finding the right company culture for you is often ove
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by tchaffee 4y ago
You need to give the actual numbers, otherwise I don't believe it. The cost is not close when you consider US tech employees who earn almost double what EU and UK employees earn. Corporate taxes in the UK have traditionally been lower
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That makes sense and should have a smallish effect. But to compensate for such a large and sudden drop in life expectancy wouldn't the survivors need to be exceptionally more healthy than average and live significantly longer? That&#x2
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by tchaffee 4y ago
That's not how the math works though. The people who are dead brought the average down because they died at a younger age. The only way to compensate for that would be if those left alive live longer than average. There is no reason to
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by tchaffee 4y ago
In that the people who are already dead won't die again? Since they will no longer be counted I would expect numbers to simply return to average among those left living. I doubt the survivors are extra healthy or less susceptible to th
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by tchaffee 4y ago
> that sounds like more power in the hands of less people. Indeed. Fortunately the only person here that has a problem with that is the strawman you created. The strawman you continue to fight. From the original comment, with some emphas
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by tchaffee 4y ago
> How does one evenly distribute power without giving the same level of power to everyone? One attempt at this would be representational democracy. > When you answer that you cannot do so, you're admitting to asking for a direct
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> If someone tells you power concentrated in the government is bad and power should be evenly distributed, they're talking about a flat democracy (aka direct democracy). You're wrongly inferring that. No need to assume stuff wh
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by tchaffee 4y ago
> implication and conclusions don't need to be explicitly stated. But you would do well to ask, because you got it totally wrong. The commenter said that they are against this type of libertarian idealism. Because the result is th
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by tchaffee 4y ago
> they are the same "industrial policies" that japan, south korea, and the u.s (and many other advanced countries) used to develop rapidly and fully At a very high level yes. But when you look closer, not at all. Abenomics for
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by tchaffee 4y ago
It absolutely was not media hysteria. > Add "stupid and cowardly politicians" if you like. Do you expect the average politician to be highly educated about when a nuclear meltdown in progress becomes dangerous enough to evacu
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> still didn't kill anybody due to radiation leaks. So what? Solar isn't killing anyone due to radiation leaks either. The subject is death rate, not death due to radiation leaks. This is yet another example of you trying to ge
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> get back to me when someone actually builds one of your fantasy solar power plants at a competitive cost (which will involve multiplying the nameplate capacity by 9). Hey! I'm already back with proof positive results! NextEra ener
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by tchaffee 4y ago
So you need years and years to build nuclear don't you? Sounds like hopium to rely on an unpopular source of energy that has decades long contruction times. And the builder has to declare bankruptcy. Wind and solar are far faster and l
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by tchaffee 4y ago
Can you quote where they suggested a flat democracy? Looks like you are putting words in their mouth, also known as creating a strawman.
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> China was a 3rd world nation which experienced an industrial revolution Why did that happen? Why isn't it happening so rapidly for other "3rd world" nations? I mean it wasn't luck. Economists will point to specific
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All collusion is "just information".

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