> Why would AI be any different? The speed, the scale and the class of people impacted are all novel. AI will likely cause massive displacement in the span of a few years which prior advancements had spread out over…
Where do you imagine the power goes when you've taken it away from "the administrative state"? I can totally understand an argument that says a certain administrative function was not working well and needed to be…
Ya, the word "transplants" here seems to mean something very different than you're interpreting it as. This isn't a hospital procedure like an organ transplant. It's material placed into the recipients colon through an…
Cycling has a pretty rich history of people injecting themselves with things they bought on the internet- EPO, testosterone, etc. The bodybuilding subculture has been injecting testosterone, about 50 different…
"Authoritarian nightmare" is an accurate description. Calling this student's project a "harassment platform" is misleading, emotive language.
The payments are going to a government. They're not using bitcoin to hide the payments, they're using it because receiving USD or Euros or whatever would mean that a hostile government could seize the funds from the…
I'd rather live in a world where a student's website hosts an anonymous mean comment about me than live in the authoritarian nightmare of how the school officials, guards and police acted in this behavior. Tea is still…
I don't think the "broken windows" metaphor is very accurate for healthcare. A lot of healthcare spending is along a gradient of elective vs necessary and some continuum of quality of life improvements. For instance, I…
I consider it a small green flag, if the award is from somewhere semi-reputable. I've worked at places where employee surveys were done by the 3rd party to decide on winners. Companies that know they mistreat their…
Seems like the main reason it's gone up all these years is "Early adopters successfully evangelized to get more mainstream bigger-fools to buy from them at elevated prices". At this point, Bitcoin is fully mainstream…
And yet, millions of people work 40 hour weeks and take a couple vacations per year while working in razor-thin margin industries like grocery stores and low margin restaurants, manufacturing, agriculture, construction,…
Regulations will just make it easier for the powerful incumbents to control what content the platforms are allowed to host. Deregulation is the solution here- get rid of DMCA and all the other laws that are used to…
> with real world accountability So the government can neutralize every journalist, political opponent, whistleblower or whoever by whatever means are most effective in their particular jurisdiction (China- disappear,…
I smirked at the parent comment, and it didn't even slightly occur to me that someone might interpret its intent as serious and literal until I saw your comment.
Except, programs which give free books to children in households without books demonstrably improve reading. There's a correlation component, but also there absolutely is a causal connection of access to books and…
Texas has "Robinhood" rules where property taxes from affluent areas are taken away and given to lower income areas throughout the state, so that the schools have more similar budgets regardless of income level in the…
A minor improvement to your argument here- artificial dyes are legitimately harmful in many cases. There are good reasons why the EU had already banned multiple chemicals that were still allowed in the US, and it's a…
$260k is absolutely middle class, nowhere near "upper class", by any reasonable consideration of lifestyle, freedom, power or day to day experience. The median home price in SF is $1.3. Using the calculator at zillow…
Maybe other people's usage of the term is just different than yours without either being "correct". For at least half of America, "DEI" means "giving preferential treatment to some individuals based on their race,…
Not the point you meant to make, but, maybe Grandma shouldn't live in a place that requires constant use of an air conditioner to be survivable. Americans keep moving to places that are fairly inhospitable to humans -…
Surely the environmental concerns are the larger "tax on everyone". Fossil fuels appear cheap specifically because the benefits accumulate to the corporation extracting and selling them, while a substantial portion of…
I put in effort to brush my teeth every day. Everyone who sees my smile is stealing that effort and should be required to pay me.
> just don’t get how people are ok with “cheaters” gaming the system. This is a story about citizens being deported without due process, without access to lawyers, without access to healthcare. You don't have to be "ok…
Libertarian is completely the opposite side of the political spectrum from police state/authoritarianism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nolan_Chart
"Single" for the purposes of this just means "not married". They don't care if the man has a girlfriend, situationship or polycule. If a person isn't married, they're single for the sake of taxes, census data, etc.
> Why would AI be any different? The speed, the scale and the class of people impacted are all novel. AI will likely cause massive displacement in the span of a few years which prior advancements had spread out over…
Where do you imagine the power goes when you've taken it away from "the administrative state"? I can totally understand an argument that says a certain administrative function was not working well and needed to be…
Ya, the word "transplants" here seems to mean something very different than you're interpreting it as. This isn't a hospital procedure like an organ transplant. It's material placed into the recipients colon through an…
Cycling has a pretty rich history of people injecting themselves with things they bought on the internet- EPO, testosterone, etc. The bodybuilding subculture has been injecting testosterone, about 50 different…
"Authoritarian nightmare" is an accurate description. Calling this student's project a "harassment platform" is misleading, emotive language.
The payments are going to a government. They're not using bitcoin to hide the payments, they're using it because receiving USD or Euros or whatever would mean that a hostile government could seize the funds from the…
I'd rather live in a world where a student's website hosts an anonymous mean comment about me than live in the authoritarian nightmare of how the school officials, guards and police acted in this behavior. Tea is still…
I don't think the "broken windows" metaphor is very accurate for healthcare. A lot of healthcare spending is along a gradient of elective vs necessary and some continuum of quality of life improvements. For instance, I…
I consider it a small green flag, if the award is from somewhere semi-reputable. I've worked at places where employee surveys were done by the 3rd party to decide on winners. Companies that know they mistreat their…
Seems like the main reason it's gone up all these years is "Early adopters successfully evangelized to get more mainstream bigger-fools to buy from them at elevated prices". At this point, Bitcoin is fully mainstream…
And yet, millions of people work 40 hour weeks and take a couple vacations per year while working in razor-thin margin industries like grocery stores and low margin restaurants, manufacturing, agriculture, construction,…
Regulations will just make it easier for the powerful incumbents to control what content the platforms are allowed to host. Deregulation is the solution here- get rid of DMCA and all the other laws that are used to…
> with real world accountability So the government can neutralize every journalist, political opponent, whistleblower or whoever by whatever means are most effective in their particular jurisdiction (China- disappear,…
I smirked at the parent comment, and it didn't even slightly occur to me that someone might interpret its intent as serious and literal until I saw your comment.
Except, programs which give free books to children in households without books demonstrably improve reading. There's a correlation component, but also there absolutely is a causal connection of access to books and…
Texas has "Robinhood" rules where property taxes from affluent areas are taken away and given to lower income areas throughout the state, so that the schools have more similar budgets regardless of income level in the…
A minor improvement to your argument here- artificial dyes are legitimately harmful in many cases. There are good reasons why the EU had already banned multiple chemicals that were still allowed in the US, and it's a…
$260k is absolutely middle class, nowhere near "upper class", by any reasonable consideration of lifestyle, freedom, power or day to day experience. The median home price in SF is $1.3. Using the calculator at zillow…
Maybe other people's usage of the term is just different than yours without either being "correct". For at least half of America, "DEI" means "giving preferential treatment to some individuals based on their race,…
Not the point you meant to make, but, maybe Grandma shouldn't live in a place that requires constant use of an air conditioner to be survivable. Americans keep moving to places that are fairly inhospitable to humans -…
Surely the environmental concerns are the larger "tax on everyone". Fossil fuels appear cheap specifically because the benefits accumulate to the corporation extracting and selling them, while a substantial portion of…
I put in effort to brush my teeth every day. Everyone who sees my smile is stealing that effort and should be required to pay me.
> just don’t get how people are ok with “cheaters” gaming the system. This is a story about citizens being deported without due process, without access to lawyers, without access to healthcare. You don't have to be "ok…
Libertarian is completely the opposite side of the political spectrum from police state/authoritarianism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nolan_Chart
"Single" for the purposes of this just means "not married". They don't care if the man has a girlfriend, situationship or polycule. If a person isn't married, they're single for the sake of taxes, census data, etc.