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I never said regulation should never happen. But if I was literally trying to come up with a strawman for “market regulation bad” and using a caricature regulation as an example, c…

My state minimum wage is $17.13/hr and city is $21.30. There is a ton in that range…

Or just don’t buy shitty mass produced chain products? The non-chain restaurants in my area are significantly better than 30 years ago. So are the breweries. Dive bars have gotten …

This works with some people and not with others. I’ve found once you have no epistemological common ground or rigor it becomes pointless and not worth having. Like what do you do i…

Motte and Bailey. That again presupposes no one is or has done that. It’s like “I declare we need to check the batteries and maintenance!” because the previous maintenance reports …

Did you not read the point? We. Have. Checked. Over. And . Over. We have multiple layers of checks. We have cross checks. We already invest a ton into this. You are proving my exam…

So much of this noise tho bakes in the assumption that we weren’t already doing voter fraud detection. If my parents are a decent gauge, this is the entire lie the right wing is tr…

$9 Billion was not created, just exchanged, with some intermediary institutions and people making money for facilitating the transactions. It's actually more like 1 trillion of val…

Absolutely. It’s just the very anti city people never ever seem to use excuses that are actually valid. Like if “the things that brings me most joy in life require owning lots of l…

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Most people who live in dense cities don’t live in high rises… It is very clear you have never lived in a well functioning city before, and just have no idea what you are talking a…

Houston is not a free market for housing at all. They don’t have “zoning” because they call it “land use covenants” and “parking requirements” instead, and it ends up amounting to …

I am liking the term “car brained” more and more for this type of attitude. Have you ever heard of trains, busses, bikes? The options for transportation are not binary car or no ca…

Literally not a single one of those numbers is above the 25th percentile. 18 < 20.

Median income in the US is much higher than $12-18/hr, it is about $30/hr. 25th percentile make $20/hr. 10th percentile make $15.58. https://www.bls.gov/news.release/wkyeng.htm So,…

Statistically parents spend more time with their kids now than in the 1900s, and the trend seems towards more and more time, especially among fathers. There’s some “well we have no…

Robots? I agree in some sense, I think the runway on human physical labor is measured in decades. But it’s likely not infinite, and likely not 100 years. I expect my children will …

This requires an assumption that humans have some capacity that LLMs/machines can not fundamentally match (or match cheaply, or we’ll make matching it illegal). That’s fine, but on…

The window of uncertainty is absolutely massive. I could also equally see a world that looks mostly like ours today because it becomes illegal to use sufficiently intelligent AI (M…

I think you have no idea what Jevons Paradox is if you think it is a retort to what I just said.

I don’t think the claim is that people will be less productive, the world will be far more productive. The claim is that the value of most human labor will be at or near enough to …

Have you not met Americans? The very first thing 95% of Americans will say if you propose public transport closer to their house is that you are bringing crime. Also if the transit…

Really? The modern ones I’ve run into lately are like 100x better than the old flows. “Press 1 for sales. Press 2 to know our hours. Press 3 if you have a ticket. Press 4 to hear o…

So 164,339,764 made it happen? I don’t like any direction this administration has taken, but acting like it’s not the completely legitimate will of the people is BS.