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That's just it - the limits are too low.

What if we just kept the peds out of the road? Transportation is all about efficiency. If I wanted to get somewhere slower, I'd walk.

The 20mph limit is too low. Transportation is for efficiency.

I despise these weird nationalists, but this is the final straw; I've deleted FB over this. :)

If I can perceive photons bouncing off of you in public with my eyes, why can't I capture an approximate record of the arrangement of those photons in a digital format?

In the former, I'm storing it in analog form in my mind. In the latter, I'm storing it in digital form on silicon.

If you really don't want to be seen, then don't go in public?

That's no less ridiculous. If it's a public object, I should always be able to take a picture of it and profit off of it. Doesn't matter if I'm a little guy or Getty Images.

To aggressively build housing. But this requires local politics to cordially ignore the calls to keep the status-quo. In many places, it isn't possible. :/

Rent control is bad economics. The simple progression:

1. Local political culture limits natural housing supply growth.

2. Increasing percentages of people can't afford rent due to housing supply not meeting demand.

3. Rent control is enacted for political wins.

4. Property values fall due to decreased utility in ownership.

5. New housing creation falls due to new lack of incentive.

6. End-stage dysfunction; negative feedback loop established.

6A. Lack of inflation-tracking minimum wage exacerbates.

Unfortunately, anyone who points this out is automatically stamped as an "anti-semite". It is a brilliantly effective way to black-hole common discourse in the social media era.

I always wonder about the latency with satellite internet. A friend tried HughesNet one time. I tried to tell him, "I hope you don't care about online gaming..." Sure enough, the link had good bandwidth, but horrid latency. A TCP connection would take >2 seconds to establish.

My experience in college was that these simply apply a "chilling effect" to any and all discourse. I tended to stay more silent, lest I find retribution for voicing my opinions. I think that is pretty sad. But I guess for its proponents, this is the intended effect.

This is a crucial point. Vendors these days (at least the good ones) properly package their goods with vapor barrier vacuum-sealed bags. Even better, some use Mylar bags which provide a nice metallic aluminum barrier.

You could hold a Mylar bag of weed up to a well-trained drug dog, and it would not trigger. (Unless commanded to falsely by the officer, of course :)

I guess for me that is not clear-cut. Rapes still occur pretty often, and many/most sadly aren't reported. (Legalizing prostitution could reduce them?)

For every traffic violation that is caught, a high multiple more fly by. (Speeding, for example).

The demand for murder is so low that it's hard for me to conceptualize as a market.

I will not work on this, because I see it as enabling the violation of our constitution.

You cannot solve a demand-side problem by attempting to reduce the supply.

Market economies simply raise the price, attracting increasingly-devious suppliers.

Why do these people think censorship works? The more you don't want me to see it, the harder I will try to see it. I think this is pretty universal human nature. Instead let's use this as a learning opportunity.