ErikVandeWater

I didn't argue the government deserves no credit. Enforcing basic rule of law is essential for life to be anything but miserable. I argued giving it power to "intervene" has a proven track record of (at worst) causing evil things to happen, and (at best) not solving what it has sought to solve.

> weird dislike of government intervention

History is the best reason not to trust the government, because it has been behind unbelievably evil things; and politicians have promised to solve every problem you can think of 10x over, enacted legislation to do so, and lo-and-behold they all still exist.

Go ahead and fact check me. I am referring to single's (far more popular).

And you can't have any fun assembling them, even though it's Lego-themed.

Off topic, but I very much enjoy the creativity you used to explain the relative size of the chromosomes.

Is it possible they've created a new device to separate them, similar to the existing brick separator?

> On the other hand if you look a bit to our politics, how affected was Trump by the rape/harrasment accusations?

Biden would be a better example. Biden made a point to market himself as a feminist and someone who "believes women [accusers]." Trump did not.

Then when China eases Covid restrictions they'll quietly add China back to the schedule like nothing happened.

The NBA has orders of magnitude more leverage than women's tennis. There's a serious number of NBA fans in China who would be pissed if it were banned.

> No Chinese woman can ever be the best tennis player anymore.

China already struggles mightily in both men's and women's tennis. They don't have any player in men's or women's that cracks the top 100.

If they did already engage in intimidation, there's no undoing it.

> They should be overseeing larger trends, gently nudging things to stay on course, talking with others to coordinate, etc.

That's the point. The best managers/CEOs are mostly getting out of the way and telling person A to CC person B about a new idea. Not screwing up a system that works isn't the same as adding value.

How is it not?

I wouldn't call him "particularly popular"... Maybe "Popular with particular people."

I think they would survive. If a kid gets picked on for their last name sounding the same as a Covid variant, they were probably going to get picked on for something anyway.

Bending over backwards to avoid offending people isn't good policy, because it just lowers the bar for what makes people offended.

Parents are already paying a lot for improved education by moving to districts with decent public schools. They have to pay inflated housing prices because lots of parents want to move there to get their kids a decent education, and then they have to pay property taxes that go toward funding schools there.

Lots of parents would be happy to stay where they are and pay the cost of private education if it were available.

> magically get cheaper the moment you bring the "free market" into the discussion.

Capitalism isn't magic. It's incentives. Right now if a school is doing poorly there is almost zero incentive to change, because parents aren't legally allowed to send there kids to a different school out-of-district.

Parents aren't allowed school choice in most situations.

This is on legislators banning students from getting an education outside their district, and banning or significantly hampering private education.

Comedy at its finest! You've cast yourself as the person arguing that HN is a poor place for debates.

You said in your first comment it "devolves into a debate." Now you're saying there is no debate. Poor consistency/word choice also lowers the value of HN discussion.

I don't see how your link supports trees potentially being sentient.

Reading about Katerra here and elsewhere brought me to a naïve question not easily answered by Google:

How often are building blueprints re-used?

E.g. I have a company and we need to expand and want our own building. Do we really need to hire an architect to design something new? Surely someone has already designed a building in the last 5 years that would suit our purpose. Just buy those blueprints and make it again (with some slight adjustment for local codes, geography, etc.). Perhaps this is done frequently and simply not very noticeable?

(I understand the same blueprints may be reused for multiple buildings in one complex, and more often in the public sector).

> would require several times more manpower

Or they could be several times more efficient. $17.5 billion/yr can do a lot.

On a related note, Google's poor targeted advertising makes me feel safer. My YouTube account uses the same gmail account I have connected with Android. I use Google Photos routinely but still got an ad explaining how Google Photos worked (using cats as an example). Google may know I like cats, but it doesn't know how I use my phone.

Add in underfunded liabilities and lets see what it shows us. Of course if a country doesn't require all liabilities to be counted it's going to show up at the top of the list.

Humor me, by what measure is the US the richest nation on earth, or even close? Anything per capita will be dominated by Monaco/other tax havens. Anything on a gross level will be dominated by China.

The other end of this is depending on the government to ensure the wellbeing of the most vulnerable; the government is the one giving billions to these facilities that do not provide adequate service.

Facilities where the family pays aren't going to get away with mistreatment, because the family will choose a different facility.

Silvernest is more of a roommate matching service for old folks. Not so much for pairing young and old.

Step 1. Send a $50 check to everyone who earned less than 30k last year or who is unemployed now at the beginning of every month

Step 2. Raise gas/burger/cigarette taxes

I was being sarcastic.

And there will be obviously be people in the USA who do not get the vaccine for various reasons who will die if better treatments are not found.

Prescribing a medication that puts one at risk to save another would violate medical ethics.