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There's a lot of not wealthy people who are polarized in that direction as well though. It's not simply a matter of sending a few oligarchs to the gillotine. In the short run, basically everyone in North America and Europe benefit from out destruction of the climate, and most people in other countries too.

To put it another way, the people who control the oil supply aren't simply wealthy because they pillaged and stole a bunch of people's stuff. The product they supply is extremely convenient and popular. You'd probably have an easier time fixing a world where everyone's a methhead than fixing the current problem.

It probably is functionally lighter, too. When you walk, your body doesn't slide smoothly along the ground - it wobbles up and down and back and forth. The way most people walk is optimised so that the torso does the least amount of wobbling, but if you add a heavy backpack on that person, it will be moving back-and-forth. Technically, that backpack isn't heavier than it it was in a person's belly, but it does move around more and cost more energy.

> Unfortunately, we're in the process of driving the police out of the city

Where I'm from, the police never really enforce traffic law anyway.

> Chromium isn't successful because of the billions thrown at it. It's successful because it was significantly better than anything else during its rise

I think you're dramatically underestimating the importance that advertising and bundling had in the rise of Chrome. Every non-techie I've talked to about this basically uses Chrome because Google told them it was the best, and Google is the first internet page they go to whenever they go to the internet.

It wouldn't be that much of a problem, but I think there's enough room for confusion, that I think people just wouldn't bother with it. For example, while it would be obvious that /tiθ/ is "teeth", something like /bad/ could be "bad" emphasized, or "bod". It wouldn't be that hard to disambiguate, but it is a little extra strain on the reader.

Most of the time, italics aren't actually all that important though, and could easily be replaced with other linguistic features.

Edit, another thing is that the slashes is actually graphemic notation, not phonetic. There's no reason that you have to use something modeled off the IPA there, it's just common to do so. You could use any alphabet.

Distribution of grades is rarely even, and I'd guess that if you looked at the median grade on Rotten Tomatoes is would be much closer to 70 than 50. Things less than 50 are usually "very horrible".

That might be something worth talking to a journalist about.

That's only sustainable for now because car fuel is cheap. It's not guaranteed to stay that way.

We must have very different kinds of kids. My kids hate the car, it's basically like jail to them, whereas on the bus we can talk and play together. We don't use the bus, but that's because bus service in our area isn't very good.

Land value. Where I live, 80% of the cost of our property is the land itself, and only 20% is the building or "improvement".

Not in the US, but I grew up in large city in a developing nation. Someone fooling with your car wasn't common, but it wouldn't be a huge surprise either. I regularly took public transit: it was cheap, plentiful, and well used. Obviously you wouldn't do anything silly like stuff a giant money-almost-falling-out wallet in your back pocket, but otherwise I felt perfectly safe.

30% of people can be a lot of people, expecially in a political environment where there are only 2 parties, and the district lines are optimized/gerimandered.

Also, you really don't have to travel to realize that life can be different elsewhere. In fact, if you're going for an out-of-touch idealized belief, not traveling is almost a benefit: see "Paris syndrome".

> Any set of rules can seem reasonable on paper

Maybe to some people, but when we were last buying a property, one of the places we put an offer on had a rule that you weren't allowed to hang clothes to dry on your balcony.

We did make an offer, but that rule made me a lot less interested in putting in a generous offer.

I actually thought it was suprisingly good, given the difficult problem domain.

It's been a while since I used it, but one thing that might help would be to look at the interface the for Alarms in Android. It looks pretty similar, but it's a little bit different, and I think a little bit easier to use.

I belive it got cancelled (https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/sidewalk-labs-cancels...).

> They calculate a marginal decrease in electoral margins if new voter ID laws were to be enacted.

So what you're saying is that voter ID will result in some citizens not voting. Personally, that seems like a fair reason to oppose the measure.

Probably for the same reason that zero-based versioning (https://0ver.org/) is so popular. People want to avoid commitment.

How would you ethically design an RCT on masks (as a method of reducing COVID-19 transmission obviously)?

You're right that this should get talked about, simply because it's the sort of thing that some people will wonder about. That said, I'm pretty sure "everybody getting sick all the time" has basically been the expected outcome of since about winter 2020 or earlier.

After the lockdowns where started, rates of non-covid-19 respiratory diseses dropped, and the flu in particular was a lot less common, dispite a poor flu vaccine and uptake. Ever since the winter of 2020, the doctors in my country have been warning us that the flus could be particularly nasty as people stopped social distancing/masking/etc.

> some nefarious agenda

Like requiring that publicly own companies disclose known sources of income?

Did you try that URL? When I go there it says it's not available and directs me to the source URL.

Trying to play devil's advocate, I thought "What about if someone ends up homeless, sleeping in their car, and dog mode calls the cops on them?" Maybe that would actually be a good thing, if we also provided them with actual housing.

> Because no children would ever die in an accident involving public transportation?

I apologise for an appeal to "common sense" since I really don't have any data, but it seems sort of obvious that it would be safer for two reasons:

1. There's almost always other people there, so someone is likely to warn you that you abandoned your kid.

2. Your kid is there with you, so it's not like you have to remember them.

You're trying to make the argument that "a few kids being locked in cars every year isn't that significant in the larger picture". That's a different argument than "the reason kids are locked in cars is because people are driving in cars".

As long as land prices are high, a highrise should net a lot more profit though, would it not?

> Most condo boards don't support installing electric charging infrastructure.

If they don't, that's on the owners who vote for and run the strata.

> Not sure what Toyota has to do with anything

They're probably referencing the fact that Toyota has hedged their bets on hydrogen fuel instead of electric. As far as I'm aware though, that hedge has been going poorly for them.

You've just described those roller skates that they make for little kids that stap on to the shoe. I don't know if you've ever tried them, but they're mostly useful for making your kid think that roller skating is a horrenously impossible feat.

Have you used rollerblades or snowshoes? Showshoes have a very flexible binding system, and rollerblades need to be quite stiff in order to have a hope of functioning properly, and not snaping your ankle in several pieces. In order to make such a thing, you'd have to wear some sort of plastic boot, and then have some solid binding like a pin tech binding to attach the boot to the rollers.

His treatment of Poland wasn't very nice.

This article is really not that good, it suggests a bunch of obvious reasons why Google has a moat (Chrome, everyone's personal data) and misses some others (brand recognition). Then it goes and an explains reason why OP thinks Google sucks (to be fair I agree with him, but they're pretty subjective). Finally, OP claims that people are abandoning Google. Their single data point is that since 2009 there have been fewer searches for mortgages, because that couldn't possibly have been the result of an mortgage-driven recession in 2008.

Nazi Germany didn't fall to a coup (though at least one was tried).