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Most GDP numbers look at real growth, not nominal, which would filter out the 30% number you’re talking about. Under those numbers about 1/10 of the growth is rent, not 1/3

But if your core take is “GDP is meaningless in post industrial countries”, then you’re at a level of crank not worth engaging with

I mean doesn’t this apply to solar too? How much would it have cost us to produce the Sun itself?

> just bend down to harvest

Ah yes, oil extraction, refinement, and transport is a famously simple and low-capital process.

I don’t think it’s cooking the books to include economic output from the service sector in GDP. If you did this in the US you’d have a very different growth story as well

Which would be a strange defense. DHH is not someone who keeps his political views to himself.

As of the last 10 years none of this is true for McDonalds. Their published ingredients say 100% beef with no additives, and they stopped using pink slime 10 years ago.

But we’d still designate McDonald’s as junk food, so it can’t be the additives that make the category

Lean ground beef, bread, cheese, and a small salad are not “junk food” in themselves, but when you stack them into a cheeseburger they become junk food. Meanwhile salad entrees at several restaurants have more calories, sodium, and sugar than a Big Mac, but would be seen as healthy choices.

The reason point 2 is hard is because it’s really difficult to actually draw the line between normal food and junk/ultraprocessed foods in a way that can regulated. You can give guidelines on what a balanced diet should look like and warn away from excess consumption of certain foods, but bans or restrictions are hard.

Well, except for maybe sodas

The idea that there’s some magic ingredient that makes soda a healthy choice is why discussion of “Junk food” Is so weird

Why does grinding the meat at home make a huge difference vs grinding it in a factory? Depending on the cut you choose, the condiments you add, and the portion size, a hamburger at home could be Lot less healthy than a McDonald’s burger. McDonald’s patties don’t have any fillers afaict.

The point is that “junk food” is a pretty amorphous and vague category. If you want to enforce portion or calorie restrictions you can do that, but it would have to be way more encompassing of a regulation than targeting “junk food”

What is junk food? For example — are cheeseburgers and French fries junk food? What about when you make them at home, or at a fancy restaurant without artificial ingredients? Is it certain additives? If McDonalds makes a happy meal without additives, is it no longer junk food?

What does treat them like cigarettes mean? Tax them? Ban them within 15 feet of a building entrance? Put warning labels? Is giving or selling French fries to children a crime? Does this apply to food made at home?

What should public health have done differently?

Famously, 18 USC 1001

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1001

Maybe free market principles apply here: if Anubis fails to reduce scraper/bot load on servers, or blocks too many desired users, then the sites that adopt it would probably scrap it.

If they’re keeping it even after all these posts, it must be stopping _some_ sort of undesirable traffic without costing too much desirable traffic.

Americas Homer would be a film director. Maybe Coppola?

Edit: Someone below mentioned Ford, also a good pick

1. The tax is not pegged at the sale price. What prop 13 actually does is limit the amount of appreciation the state can recognize for tax purposes.

2. There are lots of states/cities in the US that do not cap the appreciation of your house for tax purposes, and I don’t think it destroys millions of families. In fact the California cap is generally seen as a terrible policy because it distorts the housing market

I mean, people already do pay property taxes on homes? So this isn’t a very good retort.

Do you have kids? Did you let them grow up the same way?

How big of a challenge are hardware faults and radiation for orbital data centers? It seems like you’d eat a lot of capacity if you need 4x redundancy for everything

Ad tech doesn't need this feature to know roughly how old you are.

https://support.google.com/families/answer/7103338?hl=en Google's policy is that under 13 you can have a supervised Gmail account. I think that's fairly standard for major providers

Setting your age 8-12 probably bans you from using Gmail and other online services

Yeah the most likely thing (for the California law, at least) is that compliant OS's expose a form at account creation where you input a birthdate or age, and have either a CLI/file/setting where you can change the birthdate or age with admin permissions. No verification is needed

Yeah if you have admin access to your device and know what you’re doing it’s basically a non-issue. I’m guessing a savvy high schooler can change their age bracket easily.

If you want to give a young child a laptop or computer though, it maybe helps keep them away from objectionable content.

The law says the user provides the birthdate or age and the bracket is derived from it

The brackets are a few years wide, so it could take a bit of waiting. But yeah I’d consider setting a slightly different day/month for a child if I was paranoid.

I guess you could also make the bracket selectable instead of requiring the age

You’d need some script that updates the age category based on the user’s provided birthday (which is not shared with the applications) but otherwise yeah

I believe the California law (which has passed) requires operating systems to collect the DoB or Age of the user when setting up a user account, and then expose an API that shares the users age range (not their actual age or birthdate) when requested by an application.

It does not require the OS to actually verify the age, collect government IDs, or any other data.

The intention, I think, is to put the responsibility for communicating the users age on the OS, instead of having each application or service do their own age verification (by scanning IDs, requesting user data, etc). Since it’s set on the machine, a parent can set it once for their kid when setting up the device.

Evidence for lab leak is extremely weak, zoonosis is the most likely origin:

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/practically-a-book-review-r...

https://medium.com/microbial-instincts/the-case-against-the-...

It would be nice if the site cited the regulations and costs that make the different facilites impossible — are they outright banned? Are there environmental regulations that don’t exist elsewhere? Is it a long process for permitting with tons of inspections?