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by xyzzyz 4y ago
This is also why we have more fires now: because public forests are not logged anymore, so fuel accumulates.
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
People regularly die by hitting their head on a hard surface when falling from a standstill.
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
If you read carefully, you’ll find that I indeed said “poor municipalities ”. I don’t know why you bring up “larger state’s funds”.
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
If you need it spelled out, the second sentence points out that you can have working water supply with little funds, and so if the failing US municipalities cannot manage to have working water supply despite having a lot more funds than oth
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
This is not about lack of funds. Places around the world much poorer than poor US municipalities manage to have working water supply.
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
There is basically no significant correlation between school spending and performance. If anything, worse performing schools tend to be better funded on average. Thus, there is no reason to expect that increased school funding will translat
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
> and plenty of Texans who moved to California excepting tax shock and were pleasantly surprised when their total tax bills were several thousands lower in CA. Can you explain to me how is this possible? Like, an realistic example scenar
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
> Oregon does with the infamous kicker rebate. Haven’t heard about it before, but this sounds great, not sure why it’s infamous. Sadly, though, things like that overall very rare, hence why I said “ almost never”. > But my point is m
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
> This is trivial from the fact that the government is not a for profit entity. This is not so. Government could use the surplus revenues to pay off debt early, or to reduce taxes. It almost never does these things.
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
You literally cannot imagine that someone might not care that much about outdoors? And you’re posting on a site mostly frequented by computer people? That’s pretty closed minded.
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
The government spending grows to fit available revenues, and available revenues grow to fit whatever the taxpayers can still bear.
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
What is “corporate interests”, exactly? Biggest corporations today are overwhelmingly aligned with the Democratic Party, though in fact the oil industry is pretty much the only exception. Look at who they donate money to. At best, you might
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
Do you have some data on how much tax money actually flows from coastal states to red states?
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
That contra articles is very deceiving. The cited data most certainly do not say that “Texans actually pay more in taxes than Californians do”. This is very much false, so false and contrary to common knowledge in fact that you should hav
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
> So you should be punished for a crime for more than the harm/compensation/individual deterrence, just so that you can stop future crimes by unrelated people by you being a peg that others can consider if they might commit a s
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
California has power outages way more often than Texas has, in fact it has widespread rolling blackouts right at this very moment . If Texas is a glass house, then California is really a soap bubble. But this is beyond the point: none of t
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
I can only say that I thoroughly disagree with this, and I have every single society that has ever existed behind me.
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
Why would we not want to stop others? Why not consider a positive side effect of deterring others? Sorry, what are you saying here does not make any sense to me at all. It seems like that you are suggesting that we could simply not punish
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
God forbid your city becomes like Houston. Nobody wants to live there, everyone’s getting out of there and moving to California.
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
> Both of these quotations are very clearly statements of "fuck you courts, follow the law", which the court has summarily ignored This is very classic for Californian courts and for Ninth Circuit.
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I looked at this neighborhood. It’s around 1 mile in diameter, and there are many restaurants at its north edge, and a Walmart at the south tip. This means that residents can reach it in less than 20 minutes walk, or 2-3 minute drive. This
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
Suburbs in US almost universally have these things, even suburbs of decaying cities like Detroit or Cleveland (which often offer more facilities than than the city cores themselves).
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
What you described (strict building requirements) is, in fact, a sociopolitical problem, not a technical one. We used to build houses for much less. They were worse houses. Many people would not like them today. Others would. They are not a
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
I went to a school you never heard of, in a former communist country, and Jane Street was happy to interview me for internship (I didn’t make it, sadly, but I can only blame my own lousy performance).
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
Only if you assume that having learn as fast as they are able to is a goal in education policy. In fact, it is not. Having some kids ahead of the others is not a desirable outcome of public education as it actually exists. Instead, it opera
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
So you're already heavily subsidized by legislation. Power plant operators sell electricity for something like $0.05/kWh on average, which is 15-20% of what you're getting for it. They'd love to be able to sell it for
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How much are you selling for? What’s the price? How is it determined?
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18th and 19th century Brits who first built these systems were not very educated by our standards. Many of them, in fact, were uneducated tinkerers.
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Literally nothing public health officials recommended had any measurable impact on the numbers (other than vaccination, which did measurably reduce deaths among the elderly, though contrary to public health officials’ statements, did nothin
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
For the same reason you hear so much talk about "diversity" in the US: it's because of arcane legal arguments in Supreme Court. It's really long and boring, to be honest, but if you are interested, I recommend reading ab

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