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You can’t reform it because of the immense job loss that would result from an efficiently run public healthcare system. Think about all the useless paper pushers that are allowed t…

The US could achieve the same thing with a proper migrant labour program

I wish the US could also use migrant labour like Singapore instead of the current system of turning a blind eye to illegal immigration out of necessity

That was what singaporeans were like too when it split off from Malaysia, if enough people wanted to we could beat order and rule of law into the US. The problem is that too much o…

Coquitlam is slightly better than American suburbia, I had plenty of parks and restaurants in walking distance, there’s skytrain and BRT now too

Blocking unwanted neighbours with anything is exactly what NIMBYism is, and you could make similar arguments that housing developers are externalizing the burden of e.g. traffic or…

I actually really liked uber pool in the Bay Area, talked to some interesting people

The unions will always get in the way of cheap transit construction, see the second ave subway in NYC

The transit-as-welfare idea that pervades the US precludes keeping trains free of antisocial behaviour forcibly as is done in Asia

See how politically difficult it is to build queenslink in NYC, a transit project using ab existing right of way in the most transit-oriented city in the US. Even there, the unholy…

The idea of transit as welfare is a cancer to good transit in the US, even in places where it’s onerous to drive like NYC. This is how we end up with bus stops every block, buses f…

Sierra club environmentalists and NIMBYs have the option to shut the fuck up and stop opposing green power generation, but they still choose to

There was a real human cost to how China industrialized that isn’t “muh freedoms”. China overproduced STEM grads so that their industries could hire them for pennies on the dollar.…

The only reason AI research is in conflict with limiting global warming is the unholy alliance of NIMBYs and Sierra Club environmentalists preventing the building of anything, anyw…

Imagine if all USB-C cables had a patent owned by the consortium and an identification chip made by the consortium. The spec could require that devices would not use the cable at a…

VPD has become notably more controversial after Jim Chu stepped down, before that it was notable how professional they were for a North American police department

Based on Alyssa Rosenzweig’s reverse engineering, the current GPUs are still descended from PowerVR IP

It’s still far too scalable compared to what was accessible back then. The police should be handcuffed to paying for a full ass helicopter if they want to do surveillance

There should be no optimization on police resources. When Katz v. USA (no expectation of privacy in public) was decided, surveillance was done by an officer who needed to be paid a…

Moral responsibility is not real responsibility that can be enforced at the point of a gun by anyone or any nation, and so this responsibility does not have to be assumed

We saw what happened with banning nvidia flagship compute GPU exports to China; it just spurred them to develop a domestic semiconductor industry while still importing black market…

Yellow dots doxxing me whenever I print something is equally despicable, client side scanning on my iPhone is equally despicable. Some crimes are not worth it to eliminate, and wes…

I would rather just accept more crime than accept draconian regulation telling me what I can do with a piece of hardware I own Go solve gun crime with boots on the ground instead

Maybe this would’ve made economic sense 20 or 40 years ago, but nuclear is too expensive now compared with renewables. I can’t help but think this is a covert plan to bcecome an “a…

Not only are the wages higher, the unions insist on hiring 3x the number of necessary staff ( https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/28/nyregion/new-york-subway-... )