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Maybe... though with a growing trends of the most affluent / best educated families in SF Bay Area not allowing smartphone use I find your prediction unlikely.

Homelessness isn't a monolith. It's a spectrum of people who face housing insecurity due to economic circumstances, to people who resist/actively shun societal contacts that help u…

> for people unfamiliar with los angeles, is very much a city of landed gentry. republican legislation designed to curtail rising taxes for elderly residents 40 years ago wound up …

Congrats on the launch. Note that higher response rates don't always translate to better data. As you make the survey experience more intrusive you incentivize certain users to pro…

I remember reading about a similar dynamic in Harari's 'Sapiens'... the shift to from hunter/gatherer to agriculture being better for 'society' (more people) but worse for the aver…

>The thing is, we have actual data on a lot of these policies. And we know what works and doesn't work. Can you cite the 'actual data' -- has it held up to broad peer review? Can y…

What manufactured homes did you consider during the process?

>Note that the people in the communities vote overwhelmingly for these reforms, and they are the ones living with the outcomes. A large proportion of people who have problems with …

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Williamson_Act

> There are a lot of wasteful industries So what? These whataboutisms add nothing to the conversation. People aren't going to stop caring about the carbon costs of crypto because o…

Absolutely -- there seems to be tons of real people very eager to equate criticism of the CCP to 'China bad!' and this is part of the problem. The CCP (like all major governments i…

>I am in China currently, but I am as ignorant of the underlying motives behind the crackdowns. Why search for underlying motives when the overt motivates are clear; Chinese tech c…

Black-swan events aren't just 'part of business' - they are generational events that upend the established norms of a market. What happened here is that the government changed the …

>Imagine how much tax dollars would be gained if all drugs were legalized in US and let's say 20% of it's population started to regularly use them. Maybe... Or, the same criminal u…

>The Child Tax Credit is a seriously good piece of policy... Maybe in intent, but certainly not in implementation. Fine if you want to give money to the poor / people with no incom…