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If I used a locksmith to get in to your house without your permission, it would be "breaking in" in colloquial language. Your reply is overly pedantic, when taken in the best light…

If I had a pet dragon, I could fly to Europe without paying the airlines. Clearly, it's reasonable for people not to expect to have to pay airlines for travel to Europe.

The government currently kills people as part of exercising its policing powers, which most people agree are overly aggressively used. If this lowers that rate, it's possible that …

These same people seem awfully shy when I ask to go through their photos, just to see if they have any using drugs. But that's exactly it: if you leave a gaping hole for the feds t…

That model oversimplifies the question to the point of not having anything to say about the real world. It doesn't, for instance, counter-balance the trade benefit with an assessme…

I mean, there are other substantial factors that make this not an ideal free market: - The time to set up certain kinds of facilities, eg, good physics labs or mechanical engineeri…

> lists internet access as one of the boondoggles of the education system, to be slashed and feared, and veered away from as it detracts from our books! and our socialization! > sa…

I only find them more productive until about 300-500 LoC. It's about at that point, particularly if there's multiple files, that I find myself suddenly wishing for stronger type sy…

> I find projections of viable sustained fusion nonsense given 62 years of failure to achieve it. Every last single other energy source tapped by humans, sustained nuclear fission …

Neither of those were examples I cited, and I cited two other, specific examples. I have the feeling you didn't read what I wrote.

Some of your problem predictions are 100+ years in the future. I generally regard these as nonsense. Looking at the relative rates of technical growth and computing power, it's inc…

> One possibility: global warming, war, and desperate overexpansion of agriculture causing complete terrestrial desertification. I'm considerably more worried that a giant space ro…

I don't think your evaluation of human ability to cultivate environments realistic. The vast majority of the external effects of forests and wildernesses is the effect of a few maj…

My number is high partly to account for humans being more spread out. A lot of our bottle necks occurred at times before we really spread out all over the place.

> a world with just farms and cities and the animals that can survive within is not going to bode well for us or any other species In what way? The main threat is disease if we shi…

What, specifically, do you think is going to collapse in the ecosystem that not just kills billions of humans, but actually poses an existential threat to humanity? To be an existe…

We're watching a second family of mammals adapt and speciate a bunch of new winners in this domain of man, in in our own homes! Even the human mass extinction has given life time t…

I used to work in retail. I charged people with your opinions higher mark-up (effectively) by declining to give them discounts because I didn't like their entitled attitude. Someti…

> Cost simply isn't how it works, the mutations are completely random. It has no direction other than chance as to if it becomes airborne. A random walk on a gradient tends to go d…

> The largest atrocities and cruelest of societies may happen due to the rule of law. I seem to recall these sorts of things being strongly correlated with secret police, etc, and …

The problem is that his analysis is weak: the reason that there are two choices are because of people like him disengaging and not supporting a third choice. Further, it's not the …

> makes it very clear that the new constitutional system must be designed so as to insure that the government will, in his words "protect the minority of the opulent against the ma…

The simple truth is this: Anyone who supports the war on drugs as it is currently being run has abandoned what the US stood for at its founding regarding liberty, freedom, and the …

Disclaimer: my views on this are still being formed, and I don't necessarily have good, concise explanations for some of the ideas the way I'd want. > I think that the fact that th…