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by terminalshort 7mo ago
> There’s probably a huge case for corruption Yes > And of course he can be declared national threat and foreign agent There is no evidence of that he is a foreign agent and there is no legal procedure (nor should there be) for declar
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by terminalshort 7mo ago
The war isn't illegal. The president has that power. I don't like it either, but since the Korean War this is simply a statement of fact.
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by terminalshort 7mo ago
That is the state of nature. It's not an argument. I don't argue in favor of "forever wars" for the same reason I don't argue in favor of gravity.
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by terminalshort 7mo ago
Just look through the comments on any post about housing or immigration and you will see hordes of them.
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by terminalshort 7mo ago
My heart breaks for those poor people whose houses became worth multiple times what they paid for them. A true tragedy. I would be devastated if my house became so valuable that the property taxes were more than I could afford.
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by terminalshort 7mo ago
Starbase TX isn't a city in any sense other than a legal designation. It's a massive SpaceX industrial facility that has its own municipality similar to the way Disney World has one for its park.
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by terminalshort 7mo ago
Housing and immigration are two areas where people just can't accept basic economics. You can see some olympic level mental gymnastics routines all over this comments section.
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by terminalshort 7mo ago
The specific reason is that William Shockley's mother lived in Palo Alto. Stanford gets the credit but in reality it had nothing to do with the decision.
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by terminalshort 7mo ago
Super easy unless you have moved recently, then you don't get the bill and end up years later in collections for the original amount plus a million late fees added on.
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by terminalshort 7mo ago
Hate to be the bearer of bad news here, but the boomers will never die. Gen X will become the new boomers, and then the millennials after them. Individual people die, but interests stay the same.
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by terminalshort 7mo ago
Affordable housing is the only type of housing that will ever be built. Builders aren't so stupid as to build products that their customers can't buy. Government intervention is not needed.
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by terminalshort 7mo ago
Because home builders don't make money by buying and selling houses, they make money by building them and selling them.
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by terminalshort 7mo ago
If that were true then nobody would show up to trade during the extended hours and therefore absolutely nothing will change.
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by terminalshort 7mo ago
Makes no difference unless you are a daytrader
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by terminalshort 7mo ago
Your comment contains nothing of value. If you have a better way to allocate scarce resources please state it.
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by terminalshort 7mo ago
The same government that writes these regulations also has a department that rounds up and kills stray dogs so this regulation is stupid at any scale.
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by terminalshort 7mo ago
We do let them do that if you are willing to pay them for it. The fact is that if you "let doctors do medicine" without any cost benefit analysis, then you really aren't going to like the cost.
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by terminalshort 7mo ago
What blood is the regulation that doctors can't see patients in other states written in?
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by terminalshort 7mo ago
That's the great part of getting rid of government bureaucracy. You save a bit on that and a fortune on all the internal company bureaucracies that can be removed in response.
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by terminalshort 7mo ago
Please show me the blood that zoning regulations are written in
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by terminalshort 7mo ago
They're called solid fuel rockets
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by terminalshort 7mo ago
Another bureaucracy to help people navigate the existing bureaucracy? Are you missing a "/s"?
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by terminalshort 7mo ago
Not all corruption is crime either as any ex politician earning mid 6 figures for a speech could tell you.
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by terminalshort 7mo ago
At some point the process to prevent corruption costs more than the actual corruption. The process to award the contract for the Obamacare website wasn't corrupt, but it cost $700 million and the app didn't even work. In a corru
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by terminalshort 7mo ago
Your example isn't corruption. That's just crime. But it does do massive damage.
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by terminalshort 7mo ago
> For what it's worth (which is very little), I was employee #2 at amzn Reminds me of a quote from some otherwise forgettable movie I saw: "My father left me with very little, except for all his money."
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by terminalshort 7mo ago
I find your claim that there is a monopoly on computing laughable. No other technology has improved in quality or dropped in price as much as computers over the last 40 years. If this what you get from a monopoly, then we need more monopo
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by terminalshort 7mo ago
> any restrictions must be demonstrably necessary and narrowly tailored to a compelling public safety or health interest This should be the default policy on regulation. We shouldn't need a specific law to enact it.
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by terminalshort 7mo ago
Yeah, I have relatives in Ashburn VA with over 200 data centers running and it's practically uninhabitable /s
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by terminalshort 7mo ago
What fictional universe do you live in where people are not getting water because they have been outbid by some data center? As for commercial use of water, we absolutely should do it that way instead of the archaic water rights system we

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