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RSS/Atom feeds and video files you can play with whatever video player you want seems like it'd cover most of those concerns? The relatively closed nature of YouTube isn't necessarily something you'd want to replicate.

The bigger issue would be search and discovery, especially since I can't think of any obvious way to prevent services from spoofing engagement data to influence rankings.

I was going to say that I think people kind of build up an immunity or aversion to those sorts of requests as they become more common, but after some consideration there's a difference between individual vs mass communication in that regard.

I've never understood why people assume that sort of investment is going to be going to the housing market in particular, especially when it goes along with complaints of absentee foreign landlords and unoccupied housing. Surely even if you're fleeing instability you still want to make the best investments you can, and refusing to rent property or investing in already overactive markets rather than somewhere else is just leaving money on the ground. I could definitely be wrong, but I suspect many people assuming otherwise have neither data nor theory to back that up.

>It has a section about land value taxes that offers a total non-solution to the supply-and-demand problem of land.

Can you expand on this? I'm not exactly sure what you consider the problem to be.

They compare it to polymer in the docs - much smaller, for one.

This seems pretty cool, and being able to display charts easily is a valuable thing to have. There doesn't seem to be any fallback for people to view charts if they don't have the extension installed, however. Even just a link to something like the landing page, with the chart they're looking for in place of the US/Russia Nuclear stockpiles chart.

So what if the PETA case offers a deal that is accepted under the circumstances those families are actually in? All offers and trades are contingent on the circumstances someone's in - you wouldn't take a job with a $20/hour salary if you have the education and skills for something higher-paying than that, but that doesn't mean it should be illegal to offer wages of $20/hour.

The "more fair" solutions to the problem of surge pricing involve either Uber themselves paying out of pocket, drivers not receiving fair compensation, or neglecting to tackle the problem at all.

Is the US system better in that regard?

Nominal GDP growth and real GDP growth are very different things, and it's the latter people are referring to. If it was only nominal that mattered, we could have a arbitrary economic growth through inflation.

Why are they too easy to get?

There is at the start of the article?

I don't think you're disagreeing here. Kalium is saying that an apprenticeship model is the wrong way to teach these skills.

Are you arguing that there isn't a causal effect between people living together and domestic violence?

Putting aside single-payer, what's the rationale for doing health insurance through employers, rather than individuals paying for it out of their income?