zachalexander

True, but laptops have a fixed price. They aren't worth $0 most of the time and $1B a tiny fraction of the time.

What is terrible about the subreddit? Your following paragraph ("Basically...") sounds very reasonable.

Perhaps they are homeowners, who want the housing crisis to stay terrible because it keeps their property values high.

> small self-selecting group that has chosen the convenience to living in densely populated, well connected cities

Urbanization is steadily increasing worldwide.

> and are relatively well-off.

If you live in a city, owning a car is more expensive than not.

Reminds me of desktop computers vs. smartphones. Laptops may soon be a luxury/tool for techies that most people just don't need.

> when you can find another sucker to work for half the pay?

Who says you can? People who will do that are rare, and often aren't as good as people who expect something closer to market.

> Batteries are not clean; lithium mines are one ugly slight and recycling is difficult:

You are conflating two senses of "clean" that are radically different in meaning and importance.

-- Fossil fuels are !clean in that they may destroy all life on earth via catastrophic climate change.

-- Lithium mines are !clean in that they present waste disposal challenges and some people find them "ugly".

It's like saying "your non–blood diamond is still a blood diamond because the jeweler got a papercut while handling the documentation".

Usually when people say "4chan" I assume they mean /b/.

> CSS best practices

...don't exist. There are many competing schools of thought. In particular, BEM is a school of thought with widespread support which disagrees with your comment.

Amazing. Writing this from Berlin, which doesn't have maglev trains, but has phenomenal public transit. It's sad to be going back to the US soon where the infrastructure is so primitive.

Can you support this claim? I'm not skeptical so much as curious. How did people keep more or less consistent time back then?

I suspect what's actually happening is that they are playing lowest-common-denominator music, which few people are thrilled by, but which more people are interested enough in to stay listening to.

Put differently, there are lots of people that might listen to Latin American music, and very few of us who listen to prog rock. Prog is actively repellent to ~90% of people.

In short, "yes and" instead of "no" or "but".