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> Whatever argument they make should be simply ignored and dismissed. This makes very little sense. People sometimes appeal to the safety of children cynically, but it's very often…

We almost certainly have opposing ideological views, but something I said a lot during this era (that I'm happy to see you hinting at) was that if you come into office as a progres…

> How did Uber somewhat break even? They lost $34b before making a profit. It took them ~14 years to lose that $34 billion. Some projections suggest that OpenAI has lost a third of…

> We can produce enough food for everyone on earth to eat, Who is this "we?" There's a kind of circular complaint built into all such endeavors that goes like, "we can do this, but…

> That’s a rare case where I support NIMBY. It's kind of darkly funny that NIMBY ever came to refer to housing in the first place. The term was originally meant to apply to stuff e…

Yeah, that's how I knew that he was born 13 years after the establishment of the city's modern borders and that your original claim is incorrect (and, incidentally, not corroborate…

> A good starting point for reading about this is "Harland Bartholomew". He's the architect of what turned out to be St. Louis's ring suburb design Bartholomew was born 13 years af…

I am of two minds about this. As a matter of human disappointment, I totally get it. They liked working there. Now they don't. It's not their choice. And it sucks. This is extremel…

In the United States we have a long, foundational legal tradition in support of Free Speech and free enterprise for this very reason. The bar is set very high precisely because we …

> Blue checkmarks "used to mean trustworthy sources of information," Commissioner for Internal Market Thierry Breton said. Obviously you can write a law that says anything you want…

> "In our information-saturated world, ads manipulate, but they don't inform" is an evidence-free assertion. It's worse than that in that it's just plainly wrong. I learn about use…

My primary computer, the one I'm typing on right now, is a 13-year old 2012 Mac Mini. It couldn't be more fine. It does everything I need it to do.

> I genuinely can't understand the thought process of a Yankees fan. There is very little free agency in American sports fandom. People are (for the most part) fans of the team loc…

> We have the advantage that we can take good ideas from each other, because people can travel easily and observe that certain things work well. True, but, interestingly, we can tr…

In order to rethink Bachelor Degrees, one must first rethink high school. It is routine in the US to see schools where 1) If that's high school, then it's useless, both as a signal…

> Your solution to crime isn’t working very well That's correct. We should have a lot more people in prison than we do. We are far too soft on repeat offenders and we've allowed co…

What this back-and-forth, and this thread more generally, demonstrates is that these words are not very useful. They almost never clarify. What they do is produce silly arguments l…

You'll save yourself a lot of time and confusion by accepting that neither side is jealous of the other. I don't want the lifestyle Europe is selling.

What you're describing is called "agreement." I'm very plainly arguing that if the distinction between "city" and "suburb" is to mean anything at all, then it can't just be about w…

Speaking only for myself, I think Europeans, in general (and most people in this thread) have no real sense for how violent the US really is, how much more crime we have than Europ…

Some US cities incorporated their lower-density "streetcar suburbs" over the years and other US cities didn't. This is why "Kansas City" proper has literal farmland [0] within its …

You're right that people in practice use the word "suburb" to talk about all these different things, but that just reinforces that the word isn't very useful. Oak Park and Napervil…

> This emphasis on single-family homes in their data sources affects the generalizability of their conclusions about the impact of supply constraints across different types of hous…