aljg

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by aljg 4y ago
What percentage of your examples would not be wildly better served by owning USD? Maybe China? Certainly Venezuela, Zimbabwe, El Salvador, and other countries around the globe already use USD as a de facto currency. Heck, in Zimbabwe and
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by aljg 5y ago
Half as much damage as coal is a pretty low bar! Natural gas also meets it, for example. Your broader point is strong though, and there's no reason 4th-gen nuclear power plants being designed now couldn't deliver a quarter (or les
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by aljg 5y ago
"Pole" in English is derived [1] from the Latin palus (from whence "palo"). The archaic English word "pale" (also meaning stick or stake) survives in the expression "beyond the pale." [1] https:/
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by aljg 5y ago
Let me know when google undermines American democracy, enables a genocide in Myanmar, or casually starts kicking human rights activists off its products. Or by “squint” do you mean “close?”
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by aljg 6y ago
I'd guess that being coastal is pretty important here as well. But definitely interesting to think about in the context of a hypothetical new landlocked city. Pedantically, I think you probably mean 105 mile/(2*pi) radius circle.
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by aljg 6y ago
Civil asset forfeiture is another great example (analogous to these towing companies) of how a profit motive should not be associated with critical societal services. When there is a large incentive to steal or defraud (whether police or to
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by aljg 6y ago
>Even substantially expanded rail will never solve the problem of "I want to get from point A to point B, as quickly as possible, whenever I'm ready to leave" in a fundamentally different way. There is nothing ordained abo
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by aljg 6y ago
This would almost certainly be illegal (antitrust violation) and probably wouldn't be worth the firestorm even if it was legal.
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by aljg 6y ago
Good point, I retract my blanket statement of "no legal liability." I should have said that they are not criminally liable. Your link [1] shows how rarely police officers are found criminally liable for murder even in the most
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by aljg 6y ago
The person you are replying to just pointed out the race of relevant parties. > Are you sure it’s as simple as “this guy was black”? If you aren’t sure it seems like a bad accusation to make. Come again? First, the post doesn't rise
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by aljg 6y ago
I don't believe they are opening themselves up to any legal liability. See [1] and links for a disturbing list of recent examples of police receiving qualified immunity. One example from the article: > On May 18, the court turned aw
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by aljg 6y ago
Imagine: if half the single family homes were replaced by duplexes half the neighborhood could be green space ("natural settings")! From an environmental perspective there is no contest between single family suburban development (
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by aljg 6y ago
>>> "no empirical reason to believe it is the case." It takes chutzpah to assert a negative. But I appreciate that you honestly don't believe it. Perhaps this will cause you to update your priors? [0]: https:/&
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by aljg 6y ago
Of course it's a universal right. I don't think there's an idealogical gap between us on that front. The other side of the "or" is a particularly egregious example of the excluded middle (separate from the missing
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by aljg 6y ago
No, that would be patently absurd. Of course they're vacating (the upper end of) mid-priced housing. It's almost as if an equivalent amount of mid-priced housing would suddenly become available. I wonder who you think would move i
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by aljg 6y ago
Yea to the space museum (why only focus on the Apollo program, though?) and housing! Nay to the Victorian theme park part of Alcatraz.
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by aljg 6y ago
Not sure if this is sarcasm. Certainly some of the stories (“Marin Highway System,” for example) should be regarded as bullets dodged.