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People can absolutely be "forced", "coerced", or "compelled" into doing something with no understanding on how to stop it. Or perhaps they do understand how to stop it but don't wa…

Sure but we're talking about if people were forced to take a vaccine. Social pressure, conditions of employment, mandates by government agencies. All of these things can muddy what…

> a fair trade That's exactly my point. You join the Marines and you get all of the benefits and drawbacks you enumerated. You don't and you get to live in poverty. I think that ca…

We should at least acknowledge the "trolley" problem here. You have two bad choices: join the marines or live in poverty. The US has a "volunteer" force but "volunteer" is a stretc…

I love the language we choose to communicate ideas. "Increase health equity" is such an interesting phrase. I'd like to propose others: - Sugary drinks tax could reduce diversity i…

> Unless you [...] provide them transportation, you're still going to get inequalities of outcomes. I think you're letting the perfect be the enemy of the good. Rich people buy hom…

This is proof that vampires are real and they walk among us. You need to prune slurs more than two centuries old. Otherwise the mortals will catch on to you.

I'm confused. Do you support LVT? I'm under the impression you don't. If England has no LVT and unequal distribution of land wouldn't that imply that LVT is not a prerequisite for …

A land value tax is very common and is universal in the United States. It seems appropriate that those who own the exclusive right to use a parcel of land should pay a tax to the s…

The Guardian may or may not consider it a problem. They don't explicitly state. However, the Scottish government _does_ consider it a problem. > Last month, a major review conducte…

Doesn't methane break down in the atmosphere relatively quickly? I think the goal of this proposal is to reduce CO2 in the atmosphere. Producing hydrogen doesn't contribute to that…

> almost any other carbon source is much more available Two things: the author addresses this by saying these other sources will become more scarce in the future (undeniably true a…

If cognitive dissonance was a hackernews comment.

> Nobody is trying to replace you. I'm trying to replace me! Humans are first and foremost economic units. Fungible and replaceable. There's absolutely no reason to prefer any one …

I have two words for you. Tundra. City. That's right; we did it. We took the Canada you love and made it _more_ Canada. Up to _twice_ as cold as the previous generation of cities. …

Please won't you think about the economic utility of this arrangement? There's more to life than "concern" and "care" for your relatives, neighbors, and the "next generation". What…

We should shift our perspective on our native-born citizens. Because they're such a massive economic drain we should _stop_ investing in them completely. I know it sounds radical b…

If your ORM is sqlalchemy its not an anti-pattern.

I hope steel pans aren't on that list. I prefer them to non-stick and I'm under the assumption that they're healthier than non-stick pans.

Unfortunately most "web-scale" apps I've worked on are basically immutable (aside from retention policies). You just keep appending forever because updates are too expensive. So mo…

I'm one of those weirdos who hates going in to the office. However, I'd like to provide a counter-point to that fact. My company has offices in Europe and I _love_ going to the off…

What's the implication of using WebGPU? Better terminals in the browser? Better electron terminals? A quirk for better native portability?

What's the product? Asking for a friend...

?? Has the West moved east or did Eastern Europe run to the West out of fear of their neighbor? But yes. US influence snuck up on Russia and tricked those countries into being scar…

Okay class... Everyone's trains are great. We don't need to compare. Trains are cool. Lets just encourage and build more of them.