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Right now adult Americans can freely chose to live with their parents, and overwhelmingly chose not to.

The article links ownership to costs. Attributing diminishing ownership as "norm float" needs some justification. I suspect multi-generational norms seen elsewhere are rooted in poverty and a lack of opportunity.

Suppose I told you I am losing weight because I cannot afford food, I don't think you should speculate I chose to go on a diet.

Generally agreed. Though, Daniel Tiger and Paw Patrol should be judged differently. Paw Patrol is mindless and addictive.

If you desperately need a distraction, PBS shows are less bad. A few moments of pacification may be worth not disturbing the other airline travelers.

Daniel Tiger may be helpful to parents too. Interacting with children is not intuitive. Techniques from PBS shows have helped me. For example, singing to kids about trying food is move effective than a well reasoned monologue.

In FL, a speed camera can give a car's owner can a ticket without needing to know he was the driver. Your perspective is not true nation wide.

"The registered owner of the motor vehicle involved in the violation is responsible and liable for paying the uniform traffic citation issued for a violation"

http://www.leg.state.fl.us/Statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Displ...

The other option is to let MBAs run Intel even further into the ground

or worse, the government runs Intel into the ground while constantly taking more taxes to prop it back up.

Incompetent private companies eventually dissolve. Uncle Sam can siphon your paycheck in perpetuity.

yes, "This final rule, among other things, prohibits [...] certain review suppression practices[...]"

https://www.ftc.gov/legal-library/browse/federal-register-no...

Further down the notice cites the scenario: "[...] more than 4,500 merchants that were automatically publishing only 4- or 5-star consumer reviews"

electric bikes

Its not safe to cycle for practical purposes in my city.

The city make gestures like painting a few road shoulders green and nature trails for exercise. This does not get me to work, daycare, the dentist, etc.

Generally in America, bikes are more of a novelty than transportation.

limited supply is an unintended outcome.

I have been to many city council meetings. Stymieing population growth is an explicit goal. The speakers tend to perceive harms from more people as opposed to pure misanthropes.

e.g. "More people creates more traffic so we should prevent housing to prevent people"

Although, I cannot see their true intents. It is possible the speakers do dislike people, which is not politically popular. Expressing their desire requires making up other tangential causes. Hidden agendas creates engineering confusion. If the goal was truly to manage traffic, an engineer would suggest better bus routes.

Crystal errors tend to be around 20 ppm (parts per million)

After a week, 20 ppm would drift 12 * 10^-6 * 7 * 24 * 60 *60 = 12 seconds.

Your motherboard probably has a cr2032 keeping it powered when unplugged.

Crystals: https://www.digikey.com/en/products/filter/crystals/171?s=N4...

Yes and no. Lithium metal is the highly reactive element in batteries.

Similar to Hydrogen and Sodium, elements in the first column of the periodic table are highly reactive (flammable) because they readily give away their single electron in the outermost orbital.

Some Lithium battery variants might have marginally safer properties, but they are fundamentally volatile at full charge.

The point is:

Medicare should restructure hospice reimbursement to cover more of the hands-on caregiving, thus decreasing the financial burden of dying at home.

The main pitch is somewhat hidden in the middle of the article. Its a tough point to open with, but I think leading with the thesis statement is proper.

more skeptical and nuanced

Than what? The Economist is UK based too.

The Economist tends to favor the US because the Economist supports liberal democracy and free trade worldwide. The Unites States is the only country who can and does defend those values. Europe cannot arm Ukraine against Putin. Japan cannot dispute China's claims rights to Taiwan or the ocean.

some of the design, planning and early engineering is within the realm of what a professional civil servant could do.

There's nuance to consulting costs. The government GS pay scale poorly accounts for specialized labor. It the government cannot pay to attract talent in a competitive fields, it must instead pay consultants.

I'm more likely to visit chip manufacture's forum with problems. TI and Microchip have paid experts who will answer my question.

C itself is simple compared to other languages. The last time I visited Stack overflow was for a niche IDE setting.

Fuel cost is down in part due to releasing oil from the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve. The release will stop in October.

https://www.energy.gov/articles/doe-issues-fifth-emergency-n...

Corn makes up more than 10% of global food production. A significant fraction of the world would not 'survive' if those fields of corn suddenly disappeared.

A better example would be specifically corn used for ethanol because driving a car is not essential for survival.

The other two examples seem valid. Replacing part of your meat consumption with corn would reduce the required agricultural land.

The past 40 has seen an increase in housing regulation. NIMBYs create restrictive zoning rules.

Developers can only build after attending dozens of meetings. City council must grant an exception to the NIMBY laws.

Only wealthy developers can afford the process. Various council and board member get kick backs for the exemptions.

Housing is an important example because its the most expensive thing most people purchase. Grift is enabled by individuals electing representatives who oppose construction, not capitalism.

Coping with inflation creates extra taxes. There is no perfect mitigation.

Use your existing dollars to buy non-volatile assets like real estate or gold requires you to pay long term capital gains. Gold mostly keeps a constant value, but the dollar value goes down, and the gold price goes up. That looks like a "profit" and you need to pay 15%, soon to be 20%. Effectively, the effect of inflation decreases by 4/5.

For example. suppose you have $100. Holding it over two years of 2% inflation effectively makes the money worth 96$ = 100/(1.02^2). Instead, if you bought $100 of gold, hold for two years, and sell it for $104, you are taxes on 20% of $4. Your loss is $0.8 instead of $4.

Your need to ask for a raise proportional to inflation, but that puts you in higher tax brackets. Your new dollars over 85k are taxes at 24% instead of 10%. Asking for a raise is very difficult for some people...

Yes. Holding gold in the US was illegal due to executive order 6102.

There's no need for mental gymnastics of blaming energy. Just one powerful guy says "no" and poof, its illegal. Now laws or logic required.

There was an exception for collector coins and jewelry

No. What you say seems true, but this is a comparison. I would expect other nations to also have pipe etc underground for a hundred years too (probably longer).

We can restrict cars and build public transit. Cars are the #1 killer of Americans under the age of 25. It only falls to #2 at the next age range because of overdose deaths.

Cars are deadly and inefficient. Electric cars are still cars.

The cost should be measured in part by death. Car accidents are the leading cause of death of Americans under the age of 25: https://www.cdc.gov/injury/images/lc-charts/leading_causes_o...

It doesn't seem correct at all. Money is very much a factor.

To prove,

How many people here would show up tomorrow if their company stopped paying them?

How many people would join a startup for less pay without any stock offers?

I suspect the answer to both will be equal to the number polled.

Loss of life impacts the dollar amount.

Unintentional injury is the leading cause of death for young people. Of which, motor vehicle accident is the leading cause. It takes second place after age 25 due to overdoses. Young people have the most life left to live.

https://www.cdc.gov/injury/images/lc-charts/leading_causes_o...

Your suggestion is not in opposition to repealing zoning restrictions. You can do both, but one should happen first.

Zoning laws restrict what builders can build. Subsidies take funding. I find it unpalatable to have a portion of my income taken to solve a problem caused by rules which can be repealed for free.

An extreme example would be subsidizing gold plated homes. Gold plating adds no practical value and makes the house needlessly expensive. Tax dollars should not fund gold plated houses.

Replace the concept of gold platting with suburban zoning.

Coming into your house isn't even almost the same thing as walking through someone's yard.

Walking through someone's yard isn't a good comparison wither because a medium plot of land is maybe 4 thousand square feet and his property is 4 million square feet.

People wanted to take those journeys

Questionable. Suppose people only need to take those journeys because they live far away from the city or their job. These people only live far away because roads made suburban development convenient. Were it not for the roads, the people would live in denser development and may not need a car for most regular activities live shopping, socializing, or work. The roads induce their own demand.

Charge for road use

Agreed, but the average Joe with fight you tooth and nail. Suggesting roads and a parking space is not a constitutional right attracts passionate and irrational resistance.

Your contradiction is only temporary. The countries which product oil at today's price will eventually exhaust their oilfields. In response, oil prices will rise and other countries will be motivated to drill their own reserves.

We will consume all convenient oil sooner or later.

much of America means California

Low density is prevalent outside of California. Here is a zoning map of Jacksonville FL: https://imgur.com/K6DbVYj

The yellow is all low density residential. Purple is commercial and grey is industrial.

Source: http://maps.coj.net/DuvalProperty/#

This level of urban development isn’t just unusual in almost all of the United States. It’s illegal.

Bang. In much of America, it is against the law to build dense cities where people are statistically close to work and the grocery store.

Why do we have low density residential zoning in the first place? Preferring a large yard is one thing, but how did it come to be that America legally required houses to have yards?

Almonds, meat, and golf courses are exorbitant consumers of water which no one needs to survive. You absolutely need water to survive.

One liter of bottled water requires 1 liter of water. One liter of almond milk requires 384. It is absurd that you justify almost 400x water consumption because "at least we get almonds".

I live in Florida. The amount of water I need is independent of bottles. If I drink a gallon of water from a pipe or bottle, I take a gallon of water out of the springs. If I drink a gallon of almond milk, I take 400 gallons from somewhere in California.

Your argument against plastic applies to almost all other things in grocery stores. The argument is specifically applied to water because everyone seems to have a personal grudge against Nestle.

Is bottled water wasteful? Yes. Should we dedicate more energy towards 400x wasteful activities in the same grocery store? Only if you want to be taken seriously.