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Well, yeah, but isn't the EU also responsible for all the trash cookie-consent notifications I get from every website now? Overall, I'm happy they're actively involved. The hands-o…

The issue with the Sherman Act is that it is broad and sweeping and leaves discretion up to the government. So the answer to your question is: monopolization is illegal according t…

I shouldn't have said "eliminate". I'll defer to: https://electionscience.org/library/the-spoiler-effect/ or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_electoral_system... I don't…

If you look at the policies these parties are actually backing, they're all about democratic reform: * campaign finance reform * voting reform * legislative transparency "Civility"…

I don't disagree with you about the problems related to wealth distribution. (I just watched the documentary "Capital in the Twenty-First Century" about 2 days ago and so I'm feeli…

Electoral reform is actually one of the biggest issues that the party seems to back. (For exactly the reason you mention.)

Today I learned: Electoral reforms are one of the goals for the Forward Party and the Common Sense party. If you're a voter in California, you can help them with this by changing t…

I would really like to see some form of electoral reform passed that would reduce spoiler effects, make third party movements more viable, and change the incentives for politicians…

I think you're oversimplifying animal behavior. Some thoughts: There's a famous study involving capuchin monkeys that shows they have a sense of fairness. I think many animal speci…

An August 2022 Gallup poll showed that US approval of labor unions was at its highest point since 1965 (71%, up from 48% in ~2010; comparable to levels of 70-75% in the 1940s-60s).…

Cool. Did you buy the $10,000 feature that will let you summon your Tesla from across the country sometime in 2018? https://www.consumerreports.org/cars/autonomous-driving/time...

I agree with the sentiment about media sensationalism but I don't think "space junk" is an issue we should be so quick to dismiss. Just because the problem hasn't gotten too bad ye…

The bill is opposed by the Hindu American Foundation. They give their rationale for opposing the bill in: https://www.hinduamerican.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/HAF... They state…

My impression was that Anduril wanted to own the software for multi-(thing) coordination. i.e. consume information from multiple sources (satellites, ground stations, planes, drone…

I was going to say, "hey, maybe nuclear winter can help too!" but it sounds like maybe that whole thing was overstated https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_winter

This one is called a circumstantial ad hominem. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem#Circumstantial

I'm not sure what you're arguing, but I don't think its true that the claim "we want to secede because of injustices against us" was retroactive. see: https://www.battlefields.org/…

The bill is opposed by the Hindu American Foundation. They give their rationale for opposing the bill in: https://www.hinduamerican.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/HAF... They claim…

"So strong is this propensity of mankind to fall into mutual animosities, that where no substantial occasion presents itself, the most frivolous and fanciful distinctions have been…

This reminds me of how historians trying to find out about the historical Jesus have come up with some (objective?) criteria about what to accept as true. Examples: * Multiple atte…

Tyler Cowen gave a great TED talk on a related topic: "Be suspicious of simple stories" (2009) https://www.ted.com/talks/tyler_cowen_be_suspicious_of_simpl... (Because it's such a …

1. The first part here doesn't argue against my claim that "blockchain is only good for evading regulation", it argues that evading regulation is sometimes a good thing. That's fin…

What I like about SICP is how it shows how several different moderately-advanced (for an undergraduate) programming concepts are all related by a basic model of computing that's de…