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by zanny 7y ago
You don't build a city without some kind of central planning. Even in the total absence of zoning someone needs to build the infrastructure to link it all together. That is in large part why "just deregulate zoning" alone isn
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by zanny 7y ago
Because they aren't perfectly good. Humans eliminate predators around the world because they threaten our livestock and public safety. If we actively wanted to cull deer populations with minimum effort it takes very little effort trap
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by zanny 7y ago
There are a lot of avenues for taxes, but right now the most ethical tax any western nation could implement is a carbon tax. Using a carbon tax to guarantee housing to citizens regardless of means, with development planned according to pres
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by zanny 7y ago
Japan and Korea have managed to build some of the densest cities in the world on active fault lines. For a first world world power economy like Germany reinforcing prime real estate in their capital in the 21st century is not an infeasible
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by zanny 7y ago
The shopping centers, offices, and hotels have political clout and organized professional influence on the government. Average joes, especially those who want to live in the city but cannot afford it, do not get a seat at the table.
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by zanny 7y ago
The solution is pretty basic and was proven to work for centuries before extreme zoning intervention by governments happened at the behest of property owners wanting their gentrification. To fund the program you institute luxury property ta
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by zanny 7y ago
Pretty much every western nation has systemically failed to recognize or support the insanely high demand for high density living in the 21st century. That is where the future of economics is, where the future of humanity in general pretty
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by zanny 7y ago
> a fad before cities become less popular again The only way this happens is if cities like Berlin putting rent freezes prevent construction that would increase capacity and lower prices to allow people to live in cities. There will be n
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by zanny 7y ago
People were fueling industries of creatively bankrupt content well before the Internet came around, just look at the long term existence of tabloids. Youtube is optimizing for the underlying psychological mechanisms that put people in that
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by zanny 7y ago
To be fair 8 core 16 thread Ryzen chips could be had for as little as ~$200 for years now. With this release the respectable 2700X will probably fall pretty low in price till stocks run out.
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by zanny 7y ago
I just listened to a Freakonomics episode about the business of the political party duopoly the other day. How federal politicians operate to preserve their institution first and foremost, and that the continued growth of the political indu
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by zanny 7y ago
It was a moral panic though, rather than a reflection on the legitimate bodily harm of consumption. The prohibitionists were not arguing to save alcoholics livers, they were arguing to ban perceived unchristian behavior.
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by zanny 7y ago
If I eat a strawberry thats non-added sugar. If I sprinkle sugar on the strawberry, thats added sugar. It would be pretty easy to deduce the distinction between added and not sugars - if you put a sugar in your food and list it in the ingre
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by zanny 7y ago
What is common or normal does not make it right or ethical.
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A big part of that story was that even knowing of a world outside the members of Huxley's theoretical future society choose to stay in it.
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by zanny 7y ago
The problem is that the public school environment is not reflective of real social engagement at all. You aren't forced to spend years with the same people without recourse like you are as a child, your time is not controlled as astute
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by zanny 7y ago
I like to look at this from the perspective of "how are we going to organize society given further technological advancement in the far future" and how do we get there. Ignoring the endgames that come after the cessation of tradit
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by zanny 7y ago
AGPLv3 is a superset of GPLv3. If you never expect your code to be hosted the GPL is all you need to guarantee user freedoms.
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by zanny 7y ago
Use what you think is right for the job, I have found many uses for grid in the last year that make web development a lot less migraine inducing.
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by zanny 7y ago
If there is anything these secret proprietary built in hardware backdoors are its that they are very poorly thought out.
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by zanny 7y ago
"Free free to ask minorities that have been living in cities with majorities for the last century how well that has been working out for them." That would be the "don't write it on a phone touch keyboard and try to abbre
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by zanny 7y ago
No villain wants to be the victim of another villain.
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by zanny 7y ago
Just because you have the most voters doesn't mean you have the most representation. Feel free to ask minorities in cities for a century how their majorities worked for them.
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by zanny 7y ago
They already built the damn thing, how hard could it be to land it in stable orbit 1.5 gigameters from the planet? This ain't rocket science, people. Wait a second.
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by zanny 7y ago
Starring Bill Nye and Neil deGrasse Tyson as Bill Nye and Neil deGrasse Tyson.
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by zanny 7y ago
You can use Widevine with Chromium if you install it as an extension.
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They aren't really dependent on Google with Blink, though. They have developer resources that can maintain a fork of it. If Google does something Microsoft doesn't like they can just remove it form their tree or implement an alter
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by zanny 7y ago
Even with the most theoretical CS degree you should still be qualified to get an entry level programming job. Maybe not at FAANG, but theres enough demand for programmers out there that having any related degree is often considered good eno
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They don't have the choice on older chipsets that ME Cleaner has been reverse engineered to work with. Hence why its practicality. Neither respects user freedom, but the community has reverse engineered the ability to disable the backd
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by zanny 7y ago
Theres no technical limitation preventing books online from either having an associated tags system to reproduce locality. Its more that online literature collections are hugely fragmented due to IP policy and are often treading on landmine

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