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it's a specific claim, they want to set up the process to be so onerous that immigrants self-deport

on the one hand, yes ecology and math bio is cool. On the other, the demographic transition does not fall out of these models whatsoever. Humans decided to do something very weird …

aca di. implement a market, it's just that most people buy through their job, because if that's legal you obviously want to be part of a larger bargaining pool for buying.

Kids are extremely expensive when you have to raise them to 18 with no return. We should have social security, but for the young.

reminds me of this article https://scholars-stage.org/uber-is-a-poor-replacement-for-ut...

One example of market power abuse they engage in is requiring the price listed on their website to be the lowest offer that a merchant can list. You can't list a product on their p…

Hard to take calls for endorsing the free market seriously from someone so clearly trying to form a monopoly on online shopping.

if no one has ever pointed you at Seeing like a State, it's about the political and economic implications of this fact. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seeing_Like_a_State There's al…

> Perhaps the rigor that Medtronic and similar device companies are subjected to would apply, but I'm not sure those regulations cover information security and privacy. As someone …

Good thing the US doesn't have an administration that will happily criminalize any opposition

I've seen a pretty massive uptick in usage among my non-techie friends in the past couple of months.

Kind of orthogonal to the point. It isn't a planned city in the same way that Paris is a planned city. Also, most of the worst parts of American development have happened since 194…

Tokyo is an example of incrementalism making a beautiful resilient city, while still maintaining safety standards.

USAid has been abolished

the Congress. the president doesn't have the authority to unilaterally shut down entire departments

like, treatments of it I've seen are explicitly discussed in that context? It's also described as Pascal's mugging.

the term you're looking for is pascal's mugging, and it originates from within rationalism

I can't help but wonder what fraction of this is import tariffs on Taiwan. Also the initial drop, can't help but wonder if someone leaked that info to some private traders.

> Although to be honest all this aggressive scraping is noticeable but for people who understand that which is not majority of people. When you say noticeable, do you mean in like,…

I'm hoping a result of this shitshow is a curtailing the power of the executive. We've been slow-walking our way towards this by congress abrogating their responsibility under both…

might work for say post the 1800's in literate countries, but for e.g. Rome our sources are so sparse and so far removed from the time they're writing about that it would be worse …

honestly less terrible than I was expecting

Just be careful or you might make a Kugelblitz

This is mostly a probability nitpick: Most disasters follow power laws and other fat tail which don't have the same effects in the tail as a Gaussian. If you shift 1/x^a by c, you …

You put the sign far enough outside the zone, you wear ppe, and you decontaminate afterwards.