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Why is something so essential, so basic, like the weather forecast being privatized? Why is everything becoming so shit?

I think that is part of the reason. Japanese zoning is very liberal and loose compared to the US.

There's just something about Japan that makes its simplicity so beautiful. Yes, we all know Japan has dealt with economic problems, lost decades, declining fertility, etc. But they…

There's an excellent book by economist Michael Hudson called "America's Protectionist Takeoff" that discusses how the US used tariffs to promote certain industries in order to comp…

> Who in their right mind would reject an offer of unlimited knowledge and worldly pleasures? Christ Himself rejected various temptations by Satan when he was in the wilderness.

I should've said the worship of the temporal (material reality, etc.) rather than the spiritual.

> As Wilson writes in his expansive and somewhat baggily written introduction, now—amid increasingly dire ecological and political conditions—we can see our own world in Faust more…

No offense, but you have to be an idiot to not even consider the possibility that your data was going to be sold. What do they think they were going to do with the data? Just keep …

Car payments have skyrocketed since the pandemic due to the massive increase in prices and the increase in interest rates.

The only people that do this are ones that have no understanding of marginal tax rates and progressive taxation.

Can someone tell me what the point of RTO is? These companies made insane profits during the pandemic and when everyone was WFH. Why rock the boat? Is it just corporate real estate…

What does that have to do with civil vs. common law? There isn't anything inherent in rule of law based on cases and precedent that should restrict infrastructure projects.

I am not talking about those with the lowest incomes. I am talking about a universal approach similar to most other OECD countries.

Why doesn't California actually do something productive with all its economic power? It now has the fourth largest economy in the world in terms of GDP. Why not experiment a little…

> implying that any tech conferences under the Assads didn't count. Why shouldn't it count exactly?

On the one hand, capitalists and business owners want people to have more children in order to keep the economy functioning. On the other hand, they want to make work as inconvenie…

> To get a detailed lay of the land, Frachetti and Maksudov equipped a drone with remote-sensing technology called lidar (light detection and ranging). Drones are tightly regulated…

There needs to be public funding of elections. That would go a long way. If we really want reform, the system should be changed from a first-past-the-post presidential system to a …

> The Japanese Fifth Generation project was a collaborative effort of the Japanese computer industry coordinated by the Japanese Government > In a sense, Japan's ability to stay th…

> This has historically been the philosophy of English linguists, but for many languages (Spanish, French, German…) there is a central institution that does indeed decide what is o…

How exactly can you "remove" the profit motive without outright taking control of private educational institutions? If you want public education to become more affordable, then sta…

Higher education has become too powerful and influential due to unlimited government loan guarantees. They used that to charge insane amounts and hired bloated administrations. Get…

They don't want to end homelessness because then so many activists and organizations will be out of a job. It's a perverse incentive. The key to tackling the housing crisis is to b…

This might be a naive question but what's to stop a company from telling a city or municipality that they meet the percentage? Not like there's any way the city can verify.

Yes, I didn't think I needed to add a disclaimer on Hacker News that explanation != justification, but alas.