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> There’s probably a huge case for corruption

Yes

> And of course he can be declared national threat and foreign agent

There is no evidence of that he is a foreign agent and there is no legal procedure (nor should there be) for declaring someone a "national threat."

> When there’s choice between the bad (block Trump and allies) and the worse (his ideas stay alive even if he is no longer in business)

This is inevitable and any government that tries to act against holders of an idea is a tyranny

> Legal matters are secondary, as long as majority is convinced that justice is served.

That is mob justice

The war isn't illegal. The president has that power. I don't like it either, but since the Korean War this is simply a statement of fact.

That is the state of nature. It's not an argument. I don't argue in favor of "forever wars" for the same reason I don't argue in favor of gravity.

Just look through the comments on any post about housing or immigration and you will see hordes of them.

My heart breaks for those poor people whose houses became worth multiple times what they paid for them. A true tragedy. I would be devastated if my house became so valuable that the property taxes were more than I could afford.

Starbase TX isn't a city in any sense other than a legal designation. It's a massive SpaceX industrial facility that has its own municipality similar to the way Disney World has one for its park.

Housing and immigration are two areas where people just can't accept basic economics. You can see some olympic level mental gymnastics routines all over this comments section.

The specific reason is that William Shockley's mother lived in Palo Alto. Stanford gets the credit but in reality it had nothing to do with the decision.

Super easy unless you have moved recently, then you don't get the bill and end up years later in collections for the original amount plus a million late fees added on.

Hate to be the bearer of bad news here, but the boomers will never die. Gen X will become the new boomers, and then the millennials after them. Individual people die, but interests stay the same.

Affordable housing is the only type of housing that will ever be built. Builders aren't so stupid as to build products that their customers can't buy. Government intervention is not needed.

Because home builders don't make money by buying and selling houses, they make money by building them and selling them.

If that were true then nobody would show up to trade during the extended hours and therefore absolutely nothing will change.

Makes no difference unless you are a daytrader

Your comment contains nothing of value. If you have a better way to allocate scarce resources please state it.

The same government that writes these regulations also has a department that rounds up and kills stray dogs so this regulation is stupid at any scale.

We do let them do that if you are willing to pay them for it. The fact is that if you "let doctors do medicine" without any cost benefit analysis, then you really aren't going to like the cost.

What blood is the regulation that doctors can't see patients in other states written in?

That's the great part of getting rid of government bureaucracy. You save a bit on that and a fortune on all the internal company bureaucracies that can be removed in response.

Please show me the blood that zoning regulations are written in

They're called solid fuel rockets

Another bureaucracy to help people navigate the existing bureaucracy? Are you missing a "/s"?

Not all corruption is crime either as any ex politician earning mid 6 figures for a speech could tell you.

At some point the process to prevent corruption costs more than the actual corruption. The process to award the contract for the Obamacare website wasn't corrupt, but it cost $700 million and the app didn't even work. In a corrupt system that contract would have gone to a company owned by some official's cousin, and he would have bid $100 million knowing he could pocket 50, but it would have got done because he knows the last thing he needs is an investigation. That's kind of how it works in China.

Your example isn't corruption. That's just crime. But it does do massive damage.

> For what it's worth (which is very little), I was employee #2 at amzn

Reminds me of a quote from some otherwise forgettable movie I saw: "My father left me with very little, except for all his money."

I find your claim that there is a monopoly on computing laughable. No other technology has improved in quality or dropped in price as much as computers over the last 40 years. If this what you get from a monopoly, then we need more monopolies.

> any restrictions must be demonstrably necessary and narrowly tailored to a compelling public safety or health interest

This should be the default policy on regulation. We shouldn't need a specific law to enact it.

Yeah, I have relatives in Ashburn VA with over 200 data centers running and it's practically uninhabitable /s

What fictional universe do you live in where people are not getting water because they have been outbid by some data center? As for commercial use of water, we absolutely should do it that way instead of the archaic water rights system we have now.