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This should be entitled “A Treatise on Why My Personal Infrastructure is Amazing”

Generally speaking Republicans tilt fiscally and socially conservative. I'd be fascinated (no sarcasm) to hear an argument on how party platform and most members are social liberal…

I agree that the dynamics you describe account for some of the reason Trump's base is primed to latch onto him. But as far as Trump himself goes, he's not really a Republican. He i…

This decision has zilch to do with whether it's good environmental policy or will create jobs. All it has to do with is Trump's desire to feel like Alpha Man of Action when he goes…

UBI still will have some short term profiteering effects. A slum lord who knows his tenants are uniformly $1K/mo richer is going to raise the rent short term. You seem to be assumi…

You are basically saying that what happens in the short term is not relevant, but as taxpayers, a lot of people will be upset by profiteering in the manner I described, even if it …

It feels ambitious to suppose an equilibrium state for schooling to be met within a year. I'd buy two or three. Is it the case that existing private schools have much excess capaci…

Long term this may indeed happen but in the short term, it seems unlikely. Like with school vouchers, if I ran a private for-profit school and knew my students suddenly had an extr…

Also today is the 23rd anniversary of the premiere of DS9.

Don't forget that as CEO, likely it is true that if he had a question about direction or implementation, a hundred engineers would almost immediately respond to him. This 100 hours…

What is juvenile is having policies that treat adults as a whole as incapable of making their own decisions about who to get into relationships with.

The idea that a company can have values is absurd. A company isn't a person. It cannot have values any more than it can have a religion. What the term really means is more like "th…

It is totally fine to take action against a business; that the business is comprised of people who have no direct input into the actions of the entity and may face consequences of …

Boycotts are designed to force a _business_ to change behavior. If we extend this into the realm of the individual and political speech, it is a totally different animal with clear…

Fair enough re: employment, but if we shift "employed by" to "do business with" it's still the same discussion. A theme going on here is a binary state regarding how we should trea…

Almost nobody will agree with the idea that in an ideal world built upon the "marketplace of ideas" that someone should be constrained from expressing political opinions for fear o…

Occam's razor _supports_ my take. Regarding Stern, CNN had as "BREAKING NEWS!@ ! " that Trump told Stern it was OK to call Ivanka a piece of ass. Possibly CNN was lying about prese…

I find it preposterous that it took this long to hear that Trump bus tape as well as the Stern recordings. If you were connected to either of these shows, wouldn't the first thing …

The ego hit risk is only an issue because you have mentally internalized them as being on a pedestal. Don't do that. They are not final arbiters of either talent or success.

There's nothing wrong with any of that, but you can't complain if your audience follows your lead. Not that Musk was complaining (to the best of my knowledge) but others on his beh…

Well, this is coming from a guy who apparently thinks the height of subversive humor is naming cars to spell SEX and sending people into fits of giggles that it's called the BFR. A…

In the same way nerds got beat up because the jocks are just jealous of their brains? There can be criticisms of a plan to send a few people to die in a metal box millions of miles…

Ask yourself what the real subtext is; what most people are going to think when they read "But actually almost all my time, like 80% of it, is spent on engineering and design". Is …

This situation highlights the elephant in the room- People are not much interested in paying for online services, even one as large as FB. Their growth and DAU would suffer dramati…