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I don’t think it’s a good idea to have the heavy hand of the state interfere on such a trivial issue.

Noooo think of all those beautiful single family homes desecrated for less worthy uses

You don’t like it you don’t have to read the blog article. I assure you are not the intended audience. For the rest of us it provided valuable insight.

Noooooo you can’t just run independent experiments you need institutions and phds and bureaucracy and gold plating nooooo

Bro you don’t have any statistics.

This is empty speculation. And it can be trivially refuted by noticing that vacancy rates are at record lows.

I don’t think that solved his problem.

What's SNR?

That's a long way of saying that it's just inside people's heads.

Are there any risks that are real and not just in people's minds?

It's outside bounds of expectation if you know how language works. People expect products labelled "boneless" to have no bones. Words mean things.

Don't worry, his doctor doesn't know what a differential equation is either so this is a large improvement.

Dichotomies are generally false, whereas other forms of systematizing knowledge are more often correct.

This is a good point. Doctors can prescribe drugs approved for disease X off label to treat disease Y even when effectiveness against Y has not been proven. In this case, the drug has not been approved for any disease so it can't be prescribed. Just goes to show how arbitrary the rules are.