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GDP growth per capita adjusted for cost of living hasn't been that different between the US and the EU for the past 35 years:
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/gdp-per-capita-worldbank?...
If the US were serious about road safety, they would change the roads and streets to be more safe and tax 1500+ kg vehicles into oblivion.
Suburbs are highly subsidized. The quality of life only seems to outcompete cities because the quality of life in cities is lowered by the car centric culture.
If you want to know how good the QoL in a city can be, you need to visit a European city that is not car centric.
Cars are generally not a mode of transport that makes sense in a city. There are some exceptions, but the vast majority of transportation in a city should be by foot, bicycle or public transport.
Car dependence imposes a huge cost on the poor. With good public transportation and bicycle infrastructure, poor people wouldn't need a car.
Reducing car dependence is a good thing for the poor.
That is how you get to the current state of car dependence in the US.
Parking costs a lot. It should not be subsidized.
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That is the case, but banning it just for a few weeks will change that without much disruption. Most people are aware that Signal exist and switch the moment WhatsApp stops working.
Why is finding that we are not that different from other mammals degrading and disrespectful?
Is anyone, anywhere doing that?
You can do it in Switzerland:
You still have to pay the interest on the loan.
If your bond 10y bond you bought two years ago pays 1.5% and you need to take on a loan at 3.5% for 8 years to be liquid, then you are still around 16% in the red. You will find that this is also roughly what the market will discount the bonds.
No, that is not true.
Selling the bonds now at their current valuation or taking on debt and hold them to maturity lead to roughly equivalent outcomes.
The MtM losses are real.
So the obvious and sensible thing to do is have the government lend money to cover the time until the bonds mature, in addition to using the FDIC's money which did not come from public funds.
The cost of the loans should be in the same ballpark as the losses on the long term bonds.
Over 80% of the US population lives in urban areas.
Changes in money supply are not the same as inflation or deflation.
which often cause, or share causes with, pornography consumption.
I doubt there is substantial evidence for this statement.
https://ourworldindata.org/land-use-diets
If everyone were to switch to a vegan diet, global agriculture land use would be reduced by 75%.
I think it is wrong to value the well-being of some humans more than others.
Which could have also been achieved by telling him not to and that it is wrong or if that doesn't work banning the use of social media.
He seems to be able to follow rules very good.
Of course humans change. A state machine can also change state. Doesn't mean that a state machine has control over their behavior.
Perhaps the better conclusion is that "free will" is merely our ability to alter our own biochemical state
But isn't our ability to alter our own biochemical state dependent on our current biochemical state?
Not at all.
Philosophers have been talking about justice and morality for æons, something so small isn’t going to turn our thoughts on justice on their head.
Yes, but now neuroscientists show light on how our brain works.
we are saying that you have a duty to control your behavior.
My point is that humans are not "in control" of their behavior.
Society also has to ensure, that this is done in a way that causes him as little harm as possible. It clearly failed here.
At the very core of criminal justice rests an assumption, that is false.
The concept of criminal justice rests on the fundamental principle that we are responsible for our own behavior.
Human behavior is the result of lots of factors, none of which they have control over. evolution, culture, prenatal environment, uprising and more shape human behavior and what they want and need. This is true for good as well as bad behavior.
What a horrible thing to do. His autism shouldn't give him a pass.
You do understand that he doesn't understand that this is a horrible thing to do?
I think this is fitting in that context:
Schindler's List | "I Didn't Do Enough"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9vj2Wf57rQ
In the end, nearly everyone values their life higher than the life of others. The more distant that the "others" are the less we value them.
EA and Longtermism are not the same thing.
We have also learned quite a bit about animals and their capacity to suffer.
Sorry to break it to you, but humans just aren't that special.
So eating humans is only wrong, because other people think it is wrong and there are laws against it?
I find that really shortsighted. Slavery isn't bad because we as a society have decided it so. It always has been bad.