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by xyzzyz 4y ago
My memory reaches further than February 2022, and I clearly remember the prices were going up already before then.
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
Google used to be like this, but now, though some isolated pockets remain, is not like that anymore. A good mental model of how Google internally works today is Microsoft, but with free food.
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
The OP’s point is that in US (and also almost certainly in Netherlands), you’re not getting the omicron booster, you’re getting original Covid strain booster.
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
No, I mean the suburbia. The entire shtick of Strongtowns is that suburbia is unsustainable, because it requires infrastructure that we cannot now afford to replace, despite being able to afford to build it in the first place.
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
All of this is true, but you’ve missed the biggest issue with the above argument, which is implying that we cannot afford to replace what our much poorer ancestors afforded to build.
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
If you’re a senior software engineer, moving from SF to Seattle will immediately increase your after tax income by $30k, even if you ignore difference in cost of living. This means effectively increasing your after tax income by 15%. That’
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
But “most people” aren’t leaving California, you need to look at the margin. A marginal mover might very well be swayed by high taxes to a significant degree. For example, when I was moving to the States, one major factor for choice of Wash
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
As a very rough approximation (just to get a proper order of magnitude), to make enough hydrogen fuel through electrolysis to run a car, you need about as much water as you would need gasoline. Compared to daily household needs, it’s insubs
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
CCCP won the war, using US equipment.
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
In fact, it would be even worse than you say, because it would not be applied in a principled and consistent way. In actual practice, it would be default-allow if convenient, and default-forbid if not.
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
> Women now have a right to defend their life with a gun but cannot defend their life with healthcare. You are just illustrating my exact point. Right to keep and bear arms is explicitly secured in the Constitution that it “shall not be
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
No, I strongly disagree. If elected representatives cannot agree on what is proper policy and pass it as law, I for one do not want some nameless bureaucrats be the ones calling the shots. Unelected bureaucrats creating policy as they wish,
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
The headlines aren’t entirely wrong. If you look at the conservative majority opinions, you’ll find that indeed, it’s about the relevant legal issues, ie. what the law actually says. On the other hand, if you read liberal dissents, they’re
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
Not many Americans realize that the original vision and the implementation of the political organization of the United Stated was very resembling that of European Union. The US states were just a bit less sovereign than EU member states (wi
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
Central and Western Europe have been farmed for thousands of years by that point. Farming in Southern France/Iberia was already well established around 7000 years BP (before present). By the time of Romans, the hunter-gatherer's l
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
If the politicians don’t like the process, why don’t they change it? It’s not like San Francisco Board of Supervisors is deadlocked 50-50 and requires filibuster-proof majority. If the construction can be blocked by a single complaint from
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
See eg. https://www.oecd.org/els/soc/growingunequalincomedistributio... which states that the United States has the most progressive tax system among developed countries. It has not fundamentally changed since 200
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
> It's conservatives who fight 1/ building low income/subsidized housing, 2/ putting that housing in any neighbourhood where they might be in. That’s why, I presume, cities that are thoroughly controlled by Democrats,
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
I agree with you, but I only have one lifetime, and by the time it plays out in its entirety, I’ll be long retired. Point is, government needs to first clean things up, and then the civil society will move back in, not the other way aroun
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
> And be ready to kick trashy people of course. Not going to happen in US cities. Literally every person actually living in a city knows this, which is why many people protest having public housing built anywhere near them. Many American
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
In fact, Caplan discovered the so-called Hajnal line, and when it was first suggested by Hajnal, being to its south and east was associated with high fertility, not low, like today. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haj
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
Bums will not leave public transit just because non-bums start using it more often. Only practical mechanism here to achieve the effect you predict is that non-bums are angry about terrible conditions in public transit they are dependent
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
Lee Kuan Yew, the founding father of Singapore, considered AC to be key to its success: https://www.vox.com/2015/3/23/8278085/singapore-lee-kuan-yew... From interview with him: Question: Anything else be
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
Ivermectin is an amazing drug all around. Very safe and useful in so many circumstances. It’s a great shame that it got politicized, first by people who took it unnecessarily because they didn’t trust the establishment, and then by the medi
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
> All the premium increases people complained about due to ACA are a fraction of the tax increases that would have had to happen for universal healthcare. So why would I ever want universal healthcare? I was being sold on it being cheape
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
We do want and produce ammonia in immense quantities already, so no, it’s not reasonable to bet on cost going down significantly.
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
> 75k a year is not affordable at all to a household making 150k a year. After taxes that's nearly all of that home's take home pay. Hopefully, American making $150k/year heard about savings, and can also predict the expen
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
Adverse selection is not at all why Vermont rolled back their decision.
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
Not just “Disinformation Bureau”, but also “Rumor Control Program”. It’s all in the released documents — though, shockingly , missing from the DHS Secretary testimony to the Congress. She must have just forgotten to mention it, surely noth
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
To expand a little on top of that, you can think of Picard group of a variety as a group of linear combinations of codimension 1 subvarieties. For a 9-dimensional variety, these will be a dimension 8 subvarieties. To connect this huge free

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