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These aren't the same rationalists. This is about LessWrong-style Bayesian rationalism from ~2009 or so. The name is pretty unfortunate, though.

While I don't know the specifics here, my understanding from being there a few years ago was that most lower-income workers in Singapore commute in from Malaysia.

I'm not saying you're wrong, but a conspiracy theory about a conspiracy to spread conspiracy theories is extremely meta and wonderfully ironic.

If that's the use case, then it would probably be cheaper and easier to put solar panels on your boathouse, and still keep it plugged in. Then you wouldn't lose range to the weight of the panels, either.

I think the phrasing is hiding the logic. All-time high doesn't mean the peak. Quite often, all-time highs are followed by more all-time highs. Things can run quite a bit before a correction.

It's still a supersonic jet, just not the one you want. What is essentially a privately-built supersonic fighter jet is still impressive, but how much more investment will they need for the full size passenger version?

Generally, flashing that sign below the waist is a juvenile game where if one's friend sees the sign, one is entitled to punch them in the genitals (or something to that effect). That would be my first assumption before any kind of racism.

While I'm not comfortable with the implications of killpolice.com, I'm also surprised it's not already a thing.

That's most Saturday nights in VRChat, even before COVID-19.

If they don't make enough in tips to reach minimum wage, the employer still needs to close that gap. It's not as exploitative as we're led to believe, or at least no more so than working a minimum wage job is normally.

I've thought something similar for a while, and it's been long enough that I think the problem is the failure mode. It might be that getting a car to recognize when it's encountered an edge case and needs to kick it to a human is about as challenging as just getting the car to come to the right conclusion and drive itself anyway. Intuitively we think of the problem as what the car needs to do, but the main problem is ascertaining the state of the road accurately. In the autonomous crashes we've seen from Tesla and Uber, it looks like the cars never even noticed enough to have an ambiguous condition they could deactivate autopilot from. They just had a completely erroneous perception of the outside world.

I wonder if you could get the same result by throwing it in a woodchipper and bagging the mattress-mulch.

I'm skeptical of that claim without some good supporting evidence. Submarines tend to maintain CO2 concentrations 10x higher than atmospheric, and they have a better reactor safety record than civilian power plants.

I don't think that's a problem in their scenario, since the situation is leveraging life extension to work past retirement age. Working until age 80 and living out retirement until 120 would mean a vastly expanded labor pool, unless you're assuming everyone stops having kids.

Even if the subject weren't publicly owned land, the implication would be the opposite, that landowners should control their own land and not everything around it that doesn't belong to them.

You can, but more residents consume more services, which is a net cost in the long run if property taxes are locked in. As a result, cities in California prefer commercial development that generates sales and income taxes without the need to accommodate more residents. It's a vicious cycle of misaligned incentives.

We have a model for transit-oriented suburbs in America. Pre-WW2 streetcar suburbs are still spacious and have nice private backyards, but also have transit within easy walking distance. Transit-supporting density was generally achieved through smaller front yards, narrower streets, and less parking.

This is what's been tried from about 1960 to now. It turns out to not be anything near sustainable financially, because the low density development doesn't provide enough tax revenue to pay for maintenance on the infrastructure. Once an inner-ring suburb needs to raise taxes to replace its water pipes, it starts emptying out to newer suburbs farther out that don't have to support legacy infrastructure and things like pensions. If you look at closer-in suburbs built 30 years ago, you'll see abandoned former Walmarts and Pizza Huts that followed the growth outwards once their buildings were fully depreciated. Austin might be slightly different because it's changing to fit the mold of an expensive coastal city from the inside out, but the pattern holds in other areas that aren't as trendy right now.

Tokyo manages this problem before it ever becomes a problem: you can't register your car to a Tokyo address unless you can prove you have a parking spot. It could be a spot in your front yard (in this case probably the entire yard) or a rented space in a parking garage. If you can't afford a parking spot at market rate, then you can't afford a car.

Wealthy on a global level definitely, but as far as Americans go there are lots of relatively normal middle-income hobbyists in GA. You can buy and operate a plane for less than a used car if you're frugal about flying.

I read this as "which France is real" and was slightly disappointed when I wasn't able to test my incomplete knowledge of European geography against a neural net.

Part of the argument in the article, I think, is that cities are only relaxing zoning restrictions in a limited area, in their dense urban cores. If the entire city is under a high level of demand, but the ability to meet that demand is concentrated only on a small area where zoning has been liberalized, then that leads to a situation where reducing zoning (in a small area) leads to increased concentration of wealth.

If the entire urban area were allowed to incrementally and organically build to market demand, then land value would not be so concentrated in the core.

I find cheddar and pepper jack work as well or better on a homemade burger, but Kraft "cheese" slices are still irreplaceable on one thing, which is the grilled cheese sandwich. The ideal grilled cheese is made with American cheese, mass-produced white bread, and lots of butter. You can use better ingredients to try to make it fancier, but hit diminishing returns pretty much immediately.

Most people, in my experience, sign up to pay for college or because their parents kicked them out at 18 and they couldn't find a job. That's about all it takes; ideology doesn't really enter into it.

The article actually mentions that the video surveillance center monitoring these cameras will, itself, be under video surveillance. Though it doesn't say from where, or by whom.

iPhones and Facebook, for all their issues, were adopted by the masses by competing in an open market.

Mass motorization and suburbanization were driven by government policy and still are. For every consumer dollar spent on driving, the government spends ten (wish I could cite this, but I can't find it at the moment).

I'm not saying cars aren't appealing, or that they don't have utility, just that the situation most Americans find themselves in, where the built environment favors cars to the exclusion of all other modes of transportation, is the result of public policy interacting with (or distorting) markets rather than a pure expression of individual preference.

I think there is always a demand to instantly transmit value across any distance or borders, which cryptocurrencies do very well as long as they have any value at all.

As much as I like the idea of space-based industry, it's likely that the level of self-contained precision required in a vacuum would also render Earth-based industry entirely non-polluting, though probably unprofitable as well.

The argument for space-based industry has to start with economics, where it's cheaper because it's closer to the raw materials (asteroids) or closer to the consumers (Mars, lunar, and orbital habitats). The elimination of dirty industry from Earth would only come about as a far-downstream side effect of a well-developed space economy that makes it cheaper for Amazon to drop a Kindle on your house from orbit that it would be to manufacture it in China.

It's no longer in production, but the Mazda RX-8 has them and it's still pretty common on the road.

"Normal people" have absolutely not stopped using imageboards. Perhaps they feel outnumbered on the boards specifically devoted to politics because every other venue for political discussion bans certain viewpoints, concentrating proponents of those controversial positions in the free speech platforms. That's only one portion of the imageboard use case. Most people are there to talk about anime, video games, technology, or whatever other esoteric hobbies drive them to seek Internet discussion; it's difficult to work in advocacy for fascism to those discussions without catching a ban for being off-topic.