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Also reminds me of this Paul Graham tweet: https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1231699385525903360 https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1231699385525903360

• phabricator 4y ago
  As an American, I'm surprised to see so much lip service paid to reducing waste in our country and then describing a universal plug as "overreaching regulation that will stifle innovation." Want to roll back the styrofoam ban too? Lots of new innovative (and greener) packaging resulted. (you could have just edited your first reply to include the appeal to authority)
  • binarynate 4y ago
    The plug itself its fine, it's the government mandating that it's illegal to use alternatives that's overreaching. I believe people should have the choice to decide and try better alternatives. That's how innovations are made. > Want to roll back the styrofoam ban too? That's different because it bans one thing rather than declaring a single material as the only legal one. A better analogy would be if a state passed a law declaring cardboard as the only legal packing material and outlawing everything else. Also, the styrofoam ban is a state law, not a federal law. I don't personally feel strongly about a styrofoam ban, but if your state wants to try that, that's fine with me. > (you could have just edited your first reply to include the appeal to authority) Who cares?