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How is that LVT "rent" different from any other traditional property tax being "rent"? As near as I can tell, it is just a different way of deciding how the property tax burden is …

What you are saying is Russian propaganda. Nearly every country that has been attacked has forced conscription. The US did during WW1, WW2, Korea, Vietnam, and we weren't even atta…

Out of curiosity, what cost do you believe that you currently personally bear for this?

Before the node-size race we also had the clock-speed race. Eventually it was common for processors reach 2-4ghz, and after that the clock speed gains stopped being practical becau…

I suspect it does matter because the inability to understand arithmetic likely effects higher level learning. For example, If you want it to learn statistics, it likely needs a goo…

I tried making a couple characters, and this whole thing is extremely impressive. First I made a rabbit that lives in my backyard. It was able to talk about the neighborhood animal…

Who is "they"? You dismiss the "strongtowns" argument as if there is some consensus that it has been debunked, but I don't think there is such a consensus, so you'd need to support…

Sure, but that isn't what we're talking about. The comment that this thread branched off of is about the relative difference in danger of 10mph with a modern vehicle, not 20, 30, o…

There are typically two kinds of roads these speeds are reached in the US: 1. Expressways, where pedestrians and cyclists are not allowed. They are walled off with specific entranc…

I don't see the rhetoric you are talking about used by mainstream climate change activists; I see reasonable changes: 1) Power most things with electricity instead of fossil fuels.…

I think you are right: A city government or business wouldn't do this because they would have to take on the entire cost themselves because they don't have any control over the oth…

I think it would be great if that subsidization came in the form a universal FoodStamps only spendable on nationally produced strategic goods. This would make subsidization more tr…

This project is actually on my near-term TODO list. I've been planning on implementing it as a recipe site where every ingredient is a recipe itself.

Apple could implement this with a default of "automatically decline all", allowing users to only manually opt-in when they feel the need without ever seeing a prompt. If you mean h…

Yeah, I have been looking forward to that for a while. I'm hoping that if their app isn't flexible enough to do menu-based dosing that it will be possible to side-load my own app t…

I think this article does a great job covering many of the difficulties of T1D. One component I think was under-emphasized is the fact that correction insulin doses are not based o…

I (genuinely) wonder how much that is attributable to having no actual use for other math, vs 1. not having been taught math early enough for it to be second nature 2. not having b…

Yes, I've been looking for something like that. I think there are two great under-explored use-cases for this: 1. Laptop ergonomics are really poor for taller people who need to hu…

I think the issue was that Pokemon Go used certain types of map elements as their Pokemon capture points, e.g., Landmarks, or something. People weren't adding "Pokemon capture poin…

I think it would be easier, more reliable, and more energy efficient to wait for microled displays, which seem to be right around the corner. I get the impression that they might b…

For a point of reference, which other languages have you learned?

None of us like the crazy number of prompts. Most (all?) of us like to be the one who controls what we can do with our own devices. These standards return some control to the user …

When I was looking into this months ago I had the same concern. I've read about how common lisp packages tend to become "finished" and not updated after a while, but that doesn't i…

I'm not sure I agree with the parent, but to give an example for a non-rectangular UI for manipulating (programming) text: Combine structural editing[1] overlaid on some kind of 3d…