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I think it's similarly fair to question whether it is a good idea to let governments make decisions and expect them to be optimal, or whether optimizing for equity in outcome is inherently good.

I think a better way to phrase his point is that responsibility rolls upward. You cannot delegate responsibility for an outcome, though you can share it.

Southern US here. It's not Worchestersher sauce?

Maybe, but I have rarely experienced wide advertisement (that was intended to include me) and don't know where to begin. I agree that this is off-putting advice.

Many social activities assume you're showing up with friends. If you have none, they're akward and depressing.

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Do you notice that you've defined your own viewpoint as rational and supported by data and the viewpoint of others as "probably focused around emotions"?

Churches absolutely solve loneliness: it's a ready-made community complete with social events and opportunities that, with small exceptions and discounting odd-ball churches, anyone can join. Yes, they have a morality on right and wrong, but from reading your comment, I'm pretty sure you do too.

People are avoiding dating and marriage because of climate change? This doesn't sound real.

I suspect COVID making everything socially bizarre is having a much bigger impact on dating than a financial bubble bursting 13 years ago.

Are you sure you're not thinking of arguments about first amendment protections instead of censorship?

In your free country, am I free to not pay for all your good ideas? What happens to me if I refuse to contribute to your ideas?

It can be.

Pre-COVID and WFH becoming normal, I had a short commute. Only 6 miles.

Many places, walking to work is a joke.

"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."

That's a fun blurb for a comedy routine, but ammunition is trivially easy to manufacture.

People do it in their basement as a hobby.

Probably their "cloud" unit. Because renting time on a mainframe is the same thing, right?

None of that is going to happen, for the same reason China can put an entire people into death camps and Russia can just take land from Ukraine.

Power comes from the barrel of a gun.

"Most people are effectively powerless to make an impact on much outside their immediate lives."

Isn't this a good thing? Doesn't it mean that they can't harm others?

Expired tires!! This is hilarious!

Certain basic values like freedom of speech?

The idea that restrictions in human liberty are subject to when "a national community agrees on something" is laughable at best and evil at worst.

They do. It's called finding another job.

You don't see much evil to handicapping the entire human race?

"Some would ask, how could a perfect God create a universe filled with so much that is evil. They have missed a greater conundrum: why would a perfect God create a universe at all?"

--Sister Miriam Godwinson, "But for the Grace of God"

They're all listed out here: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sid_Meier%27s_Alpha_Centauri

I get their point about stigma, but as someone who has never injected drugs, I'm having a hard time caring about getting screened for this.

How do they intend to actually roll out a massive testing operation (everyone under 80) when likely most people hear the details and respond with "meh, not me"?

This is the Secretary Problem.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary_problem

Great link.

"Quantities matter [in China] and getting only dozen or couple of hundred orders per month doesn't really help. That said, the Librems are heavily overpriced but that is because Purism seemingly never tried to get better deal and the South San Francisco partner abused this so that is why Purism Librems are double the price they should be. I believe that if we had more realistic prices, it would be much better for Purism not only financially but also more talking about it, more of it in wild which in turn means much more orders, more happy customers etc. The innovation is not really that hard in this space because big players don't try to really innovate as they have strong positions, so it wouldn't be that hard to be good or better then most of big players even, but quantity leverage is hard to pass by."

These aren't people fleeing genocide. These are people leaving Mexico. And they're being put in hotels and buses.

It's easy to pretend you're fellow Americans are monsters, but they're not.

There's a gray area that makes defining what is political complex when it comes to subjects that become politicized.

It's reasonable to assume all entities act out of rational self-interest.

To be angry with someone when they simply defend their own interests is to either hate the person/entity or to be angry with nature itself. That was my only point.

Curse them for not wanting to pay extra money for no gain. How dare they act out of a rational self interest.

As someone who lost critical business functionality yesterday when my appengine instances returned only 502s for 5 hours, I find the idea it was "a ridiculous time to nitpick" hilarious.

My customers don't care that the network is down, the servers are down, or aliens have landed. The severity is the same and our infrastructure, regardless of the cause, was down.

During the impacted time period, we did a full DR failover to appengine instances we spun up in west2. This was not a minor hiccup.