qarlow

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by qarlow 7y ago
> They didn't say they were appalled at people disagreeing with them. They said they were appalled at the lambasting Whether you think something is legitimate criticism or not is subjective and I don't see an argument why it is
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by qarlow 7y ago
I don't think that is the point though so much as that Google has one standard for their internal findings and another for project zero, which also deals with other companies with the justification that it is better. Mozilla doesn&#x27
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by qarlow 7y ago
How it is appalling that people disagree with you? You say yourself that it is a "net benefit" meaning there are things to disagree with. Your opinion isn't the one being hidden en masse. I tend to find it appalling to when h
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by qarlow 7y ago
Thankfully there are many ways to participate. But maybe I was a bit short. My point is that if you don't 'meet me half way' I can't do the subject justice in a forum where a significant number of the comments arguing th
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by qarlow 7y ago
> Power? I don't see much power being granted here. And I am not going try to convince you in a popularity based forum, but that is generally the objection.
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by qarlow 7y ago
I don't think it is much more complicated than that some of us don't want to grant even more power to companies like Google.
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by qarlow 7y ago
Not necessarily and not from an economic perspective. One can argue that, but it depends on how building affects the market. For example by shifting demographics. But even so renters, without rent control, are only interested in the part of
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by qarlow 7y ago
I mostly agree, but I think (affordable) time and place is actually incredibly scares these days. To the point where people will travel half way across the world for it. Pretty much everywhere is pricing themselves out of having communities
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by qarlow 7y ago
> Sure basic economics tells us that increasing supply ought to drive down prices for everyone, but at the individual level it's tough for people to make the connection. Basic economics tells us that more supply lowers prices if ev
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by qarlow 7y ago
That is sort of the problem though. Climate change arguably wouldn't have been much of a challenge for western countries if we had continued to evolve our cities, infrastructure and applicable technologies. Instead our economies are mo
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by qarlow 7y ago
> Now finally these new BART trains rolling out, some NYC trains were also modernizing some about a decade ago, but I haven't been to Sweden or much of the rest of Europe in a long time, and I wonder how much further they've pr
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by qarlow 7y ago
There is of course also the opposite problem of having a lot of space but ending up in essentially a house size cubicle without connection to other people. But it seems like the larger problem today is that it is hard for people to wrap the
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by qarlow 7y ago
> I'd agree that not much can be done based on the current nature of both political and public/personal discourse, but can the quality of this discourse not be improved? Probably. But I also don't think the discourse matte
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by qarlow 7y ago
Safety regulation might be a burden for aircraft manufacturers, but it is what enables competition among airlines. The reason we can have low cost airlines are because safety isn't really in question. Of course you want to "optimi
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by qarlow 7y ago
Things don't take up much space in themselves, activities do. What you lose when living smaller aren't the things themselves, but a kitchen were it is easy to cook healthy food, a kitchen table to discuss politics at or a workbenc
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by qarlow 7y ago
> Your last sentence is very true - economists on the most "conservative" and "liberal" sides of the profession all agree that rent control is counter productive. No, I wouldn't say it is true. The things is most
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by qarlow 7y ago
I don't find it hard to be against free trade. All you have to want to do is protect your own model because you believe in it more than another. I don't believe in many foreign labor laws, so I don't think those goods should
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by qarlow 7y ago
Honestly it doesn't really matter. The title is even factually incorrect, rent control worked in Sweden for much of the 20th century producing a better standard of living at a lower cost and very likely contributing to probably the mos
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by qarlow 7y ago
That is sort of the thing. It isn't so much that people don't know as that it doesn't register as important. Hans Rosling ended up devoting much of his life promoting a fact based view of the world after learning first hand t