maxerickson

We literally do say that having more infrastructure is a result of increased productivity.

You say "not worth pursuing", which could also be phrased as "too costly to pursue". With much more capacity available, it becomes possible to do more things. This is true for lots of things.

Is it your position that these differences are due to marketing?

Is your position that the outcome is strictly a result of the marketing campaign?

As car ownership increased, it seems possible that norms would change a bit.

How do you see limited liability and corporations and so on? Are those just natural conditions?

I've started with Opus 5.5 last week. Roughly where do you start to see the context rot?

I've been experimenting with a project that is not growing real fast, but wondering about the risk as I try to make it do more.

So there's not like statutory rules governing the mechanism by which the President makes that guy his avatar (not Rubio, the guy in the article)?

If he ordered a dog to dismantle USAID, would the ineffectiveness of that simply be due to the dog being incompetent and not be legally challengeable?

Live performance is already the better source of revenue for most musicians.

I haven't read the sequels, what is it that happens partly as a result of all that in God Emperor of Dune?

Did you not consider that they were proposing "change"?

There's probably arguments against the change, I dunno, I haven't thought about it. "You can't change things" isn't one of them.

Accused of causing.

I wouldn't worry about it too much. Electric generation is a business and existing sites will be prime locations for new panels (likely straightforward to permit, connection to the grid, etc.).

Municipalities often have bonkers cost structures and imposed limits on tax increases (limits in state laws and such). Here they are redoing lead service lines, rebuilding substandard water mains and repaving streets. State and Federal grants are paying for a lot of it, along with increases to water rates (to maybe 5-10% above the national average, enough to make people unhappy, but not out of control).

Ancient Greece then?

I guess if you take a wide enough lens, the west lives in the civilization founded in Rome. There's no political continuity, but there's a reasonably coherent cultural trajectory going back a few thousand years.

Do we think that there is going to be a major break from that?