blocking redevelopment of themselves
It's not just blocking redevelopments of themselves. It's blocking almost all development almost everywhere.
As an example - take a look at Scott's Alexander writing about California Forever/Flannery.
Flannery wants to build a new city in California and has already bought almost a billion worth of land for it. Solano County where the land is located has a so-called “Orderly Growth Measure” saying that new building should happen in existing cities and not on empty land. In order to start building at all, they have to win a referendum granting an exemption.
2nd appearance of Jonathan Haidt on "Conversations with Tyler" podcast.
I'm not involved in politics or the military action, but I can't help but feel implicated by my government's actions as a citizen here. Specifically, the increasing authoritarianism and human rights issues worry me.
You're indirectly supporting war with taxes, especially as someone in relatively high-paid job. At least 35% of taxes you pay do go towards buying Iranian drones or paying salaries for soldiers raping civilians. The moral effect of this is worse than average citizen, as you're in high paying job,
Oh, I agree. As a non-us person who will have to fill that additional friction is not welcome.
But the system was in the making for years, I remember discussing it with someone 4+ years ago. Which, again, points against "retaliation to the US" as a main explanation.
EU to require online Visa applications by Americans before visiting...in retaliation to a similar set of rules by the USA
That's very US-centric view.
Which makes "we want to somewhat vet people coming in" (same as US) more likely than "let us show those yankees who's the boss"
In response, because my open window of Bing-related tabs looked like this,
Non-AI response, but I cannot recommend Firefox + Tree Style Tab enough.
It's one of those things that made me think "how did I go without it".
Elevate the end of the bed by 3-5 degrees
Um...which one?
TYPOs
no one is making such complications
Compilations?
Do you feelfree to
missing space
Most people have non-linear utility of money. Going from 10 thousand to 1 million is less impactful than going from 1 million to 1.99 million, even though it's the same absolute change.
There's a tool called "certain equivalent" which can help with answering "how much do I value money?"
It boils down to repeatedly asking and answering question: "If I had a choice between $X and 50% of $Y at which X would I be ambivalent about which side I pick" for different value of $Y, e.g. for Bob, the 25 year old postdoc it may be
| 50% chance of | Equivalent to certainty of |
|---|---|
| $10 | $5 |
| $100 | $50 |
| $1000 | $500 |
| $10000 | $4000 |
| $100000 | $35000 |
| $500000 | $75000 |
Notice how at higher level certain equivalent is no longer just dividing by two. For Bob utility from having $75k is higher than 50% of utility of having $400k. The reason for this nonlinearity is usually downstream effects of having money. E.g. for Bob $75k would be enough to get a downpayment for house he wants and highly increase chance of him a comfortable life down the line. 50% chance of buying the house outright is not worth the risk for Bob.
In theory this can be circumvented by regularly publishing "as of MM YYYY i have not received a warrant from government".
In practice - we would not know if someone was forced by government to produce a particular canary. Government that can force someone to lie would likely be also able to force someone not to disclose they were forced.
Another thing government can do (and in case of Australia did) is to prohibit canaries in some cases alltogether by making it illegal to "disclose information about the existence or non-existence".