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Citizens having a say in what is going on in their neighborhood is why housing in the bay area isn't expensive, they use that say to prevent the construction of new housing.

Opposing new housing construction is bad in basically the same way that opposing data center construction is bad; and I'm happy to use the same word to describe both groups of peop…

> The problem with H-1B visas is that they are effectively golden handcuffs - tolerate whatever abuse we give you for X years and you get permanent residency. Right, people on H-1B…

Some people are noisy on public transit, and if they aren't policed to not do this (i.e. threatened with violence by armed agents of the state and/or physically removed from the tr…

I forget the exact brand, whatever was cheapest on Amazon at the time.

Health insurance is so regulated and so intertwined with public policy aims, that ostensibly private health care companies are themselves essentially an arm of the government. Inde…

It's easy to give businesses a pass on internal inefficiency because you don't typically need to do business with any particular company in order to live your life and businesses d…

I bought some of the new Ikea smart lightbulbs that use Matter-over-Thread instead of zigbee. When I tried to use them with my home assistant setup, I discovered that the pairing p…

I checked out the page on Caesar's The Gallic War and looked at its famous opening line "Gallia est omnis diuisa in partes tres , quarum unam incolunt Belgae , aliam Aquitani , ter…

I was always interested in human linguistics, including but not limited to understanding the classical languages of the Western tradition. In high school I taught myself some Latin…

Increasing potential punishment if caught - or making it more likely that you will get caught - dissuades thefts.

Well, we're all going to die of something unless we invent radical life extension technology. I personally hope that artifical intelligence makes progress on this before I myself g…

The difference in attitude between cell phone conspiracy theories and data center conspiracy theories is almost entirely driven by the media reporting on them. The media (correctly…

The entire point of cryptocurrency is to be money that is independent of any government's ability to enforce its laws. I would personally vote against polticians who enacted those …

Certainly the fact that Proxmox heavily uses perl is a strike against it. I'm genuinely curious what some reasonable alternatives to it are.

Assertions that Twitter/X was surely going to shut down after the Elon Musk acquisition were wishful thinking on the part of two groups of people: 1) political progressives who lik…

I don't see how this is any different than the United Kingdom and its monarchy.

What are you migrating to?

So, uh, was the guy planning on bringing the vehicle back to the logging camp? It's not obvious to me that this wasn't in fact vehicle theft.

> It doesn't really make sense to unjustly punish the employees for the employers' mistake, does it? Those foreign employees followed the process. It's not their fault that their e…

Wikipedia has articles on the general concept of races of humans: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_(human_categorization) , as well as on specific racial groups such as white peo…

One of the most important ways to make a train network that doesn't suck is to aggressively police the sorts of antisocial behavior on public transit committed by the most marginal…

> Car quantity overall goes down unless you can 20x current utilization, which is a lot of trips and fuel. Pretty much every self-driving car will be electric; battery charge has a…

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