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Oh duh

Finally I'll be able to properly follow JJK season 2

> It's an abstraction, not an error. Extending an abstraction beyond its expressive capabilities is an error IMO.

Right but “upgrading to the next level” is exactly the type of cognitive error that I’m against, it’s forward-looking Whig history. There is no “levels” of civilization, there’s on…

Tech development != tech tree, history is nonlinear and ecological. Linear, unlockable "tech trees" are an ahistorical fantasy necessary to make some video games fun and digestible…

From the article: > We said criticality in 2026, electricity production in 2027, and power to the warfighter in 2028. Are there any other examples of land-based militaries using nu…

> moving up the tech tree of civilization Life isn't Civ 6, there is no tech tree to climb.

It's more of an engineering call than something that can be purely determined from inductive reasoning. I think most engineers working in the space would say "both" are needed, but…

I think there’s a difference between full-on “bullying” and what I’d call “blunt criticism”. I think bullying requires an intent to silence or otherwise coerce through fear. Blunt …

> The government is going to suck at funding the right things I'm pretty sure you have this totally backwards. People who study scientific development seem to think that the govern…

I can think of a few angles that might have pushed them towards gas, mainly (a) they wanted on-demand generation cap, (b) they didn't want to get into the batteries game at the vol…

> Starship will bill NASA 1/20th what SLS does Is that before or after the program achieves profitability?

Because the buyer is the one monopolizing industries and stripping them for parts

> Selling labor for money is the exact same transaction as walking into Walmart and buying a banana. In the same comment you say that the government has to help guarantee that Walm…

> When we talk about labor negotiations, that word should indicate theres no exploitation happening So in a world where no labor negotiation is happening, is exploitation possible?…

> Insisting they know better for someone else Well it's the drivers themselves who voted to join the union, so presumably there's something they want to see changed. No need to spe…

> No doubt good for them, but I am curious how this is realistically going to work. Seems like kind of a pilot-program nationwide TBH. The article links to another article last yea…

There's no better option on the table? Desperate people have low labor elasticity, kind of definitionally.

Right they require a brokerage license instead because it's a different industry. Not sure what your comment is trying to say here.

It's not goodwill though, I'm paying for public services like the fire department through my taxes. I like them to be owned by the government instead of a private entity because I …

A robust and aggressive consumer protections bureau is a handy way for me to feel secure while doing basic economic operations, without having to handle a ton of one-off research o…

> It's trendy to blame cars for this but the problem is fundamentally zoning > you thereby need a car to leave the vicinity in order to get anywhere you can. I hear your point but …

> its probably a broken line Per her website (which is hosting the transcript of the interview here: https://ocasio-cortez.house.gov/media/press-releases/ocasio-... ) seems that th…

If you assume that decision makers operate entirely in silo from their constituents then yes, that's how this works. Howver if you are operating in the normal mode of democracy whe…

One thing that really jumps out to me is the lack of a performance gap between the 90-day and 30-day resolution times. If 2-months of new information doesn't lead to materially imp…