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This largely mirrors my thought. I was unpersuaded that non-technical management grasps the technical aspects well enough to leverage them as described.

The clear solution should this stand is to include a Terms of Incorporation when a business is created stipulating that they waive their right to a trial and that any labor dispute…

Okay, but the workers' pay was not adjusted upwards to match those best years, so if not now, when?

Thank you, I was composing a reply along these lines as well. The essay is pseudo-erudite, using a lot of words to convey an impression of depth but in actuality saying very little…

Regulatory capture is a real problem, but are you suggesting we'd be better off if the same Big Pharma could just market and sell whatever it pleased?

Thorough and enforced training requirements for gun ownership I think would shift a lot of opinions from the somewhat opposed to the accepting column.

Sure, it is hard. But there's a gigantic middle ground between "no photographs ever that contain any part of your house" and "permanent digital video camera whose footage is invisi…

The irony is well-taken but it goes a little deeper. Even for someone who bought a house 20-30 years ago and could sell far below the current market without losing money...that per…

Sure, in the same way that when I'm trying to lose weight and want a snack I will make a choice between a celery stick and a cookie, or I can forestall the choice by not having a c…

I have lived both in suburbs and cities and there are just as many poorly-kept and dangerous dogs in one as in the other.

Said elsewhere previously[0] but the reason is simple: because the only way we as a society have to distribute a stable supply of food and shelter is for (most) every individual to…

Well, second problem is that we don't have any rules for access to the raised material standards for anyone who's not providing inputs to the system elsewhere. In plainer words you…

That's fair, and as I said they have a place, but I think we can agree it's not a majority case.

Yes, but AirBnB units are not that. The prices are an order of magnitude higher than prevailing monthly rates, if they're even available on a long-term basis. And yes, short term, …

Charging more because your costs are higher is not really gouging. Obviously there's no precise definition -- it's a social judgement -- but generally it's taking more profit than …

Almost no reasonable regulation will be effective if this is the standard of behavior. To punish a cheater when cheating is part of the game, you need incredibly strong rules and a…

Tempting, but then maybe you're escalating blindness into a head-on collision...

But they operate in a democracy, and part of a healthy democracy is having policy debates in public, exactly like this.

There's, uh, a large middle ground between "no humans, zero impact" and "so much impact that we're altering global weather patterns".

A policy change to allow people holding these visas who get laid off -- not fired for cause, not quit -- extended time to find new employment seems like a no brainer to me. An H1B …

What measure are you using for "largest"? The US is 3rd in the world by population and 1st by GDP, so in absolute terms it's to be expected that they would be "large" in many categ…

This is a convincing argument to me, but there's no telling whether it is enough to convince five+ of The Nine.

You...understand that was a fictional event, right? In fact it was specifically conceived by its author to be shocking, horrifying and extraordinary.

> people out there are not qualified to make a medical assessment for themselves about the severity of synthetic substances You'll be pleased to hear then that the law we're discus…