hehhehaha

good, if we want to have healthcare, then limit alcohol consumption

Kinda related, but the easiest way to limit bad randomizations is to stratified by pre-experiment data. But then that would make it harder to p-hack so its understandable why more people dont do that ;)

It can't be because the job of an OS is to 'harmoniously' manage a bunch of system and user functions right? It has to be insidious propaganda.

Because we simultaneously give people the freedom to do whatever they want to do, and also catch them when they suffer the consequences of their actions. IMO, you either have freedom and responsibility, or control and care. I'd be ok legalizing drugs tomorrow if non-drug users do not need to subsidize the care for drug users.

Ya but simple mistakes can turn +ev to -ev, and if you miscalculate and scale up on -ev, then that can wipe out your +ev for hours

Tree traversal almost never makes use of tail call recursion. Also, most of the times, you can just use a stack object instead of the program stack which saves you from insane stacktraces, arbitrary stack limits, and a bunch of wasted memory in call frames

Price gouging is not a real thing unless the business has a monopoly.

But the CPI tells us that inflation is at 3%, so this can't be true!

Depends where you are in sf, the transit is an order of magnitude worse then manhattan

kajmak and honey is 'chefs kiss'

>Taxes should be used to pay for government services, not as arbitrary attacks on people you don't like.

Land taxes are not arbitrary, it's a way of generating revenue from the single most important shared resource.

> Also, raising taxes just raises costs for renters.

Landlords usually have more pricing elasticity than renters, therefore taxes will have a depreciating effect on housing prices.

> The solution to housing affordability is building more housing.

Don't disagree

> don't try to fight against market forces

Increasing supply and using supply more efficiently are both important

Moving is extremely economically efficient. Older people should not live close to the financial district, people with kids should cluster around schools and playgrounds, people without cars should live closer to transit, etc, etc

Much of the gap of debt to income comes from interest rates. I don't know what the best way to address this, but I think we can require larger downpayments for investment properties too.

Yes, another piece of the puzzle is that the government, (Fannie/Freddie) should not be loaning money for investment properties.

> The yimby argument has always seemed flimsy. Its strange logic is that speculative developers would build homes in order to devalue them: that they would somehow act against their own interests by producing enough surplus homes to bring down the average price of land and housing. That would be surprisingly philanthropic behaviour.

This is probably the dumbest thing I've ever read in my life. The real argument against yimby is that if the conditions for hold property is cheap, then landlords can afford to not be elastic with pricing thereby creating an inefficient market. The obvious solution is to increase property tax to force the hand of landlords. Another more radical way is to create legislation that gives the right to renters and/or gov to buy property at a certain price.