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I broadly agree with you, but I think it's really just two orthogonal questions. If you commit a crime in a given jurisdiction, you're tried and convicted in that jurisdiction, and suffer th…

No one is required to ignore their duties, because immigration enforcement is not the duty of anyone bound by a City of Los Angeles ordinance. No one is required to interfere with federal law enforce…

> sympathy for the worst elements of society For people _alleged_ to be among the worst elements of society. If they're that bad, try them, get your slam-dunk conviction, and jail them here. …

> we don't ignore their crime And no one is asking the relevant authorities to ignore their duties to enforce immigration policy. They're just saying that state and local courts and poli…

> Though I personally don't see the point in making people who are going to be deported anyway serve a sentence Because 'come here, do crime, get a free flight home' sets up a very b…

In this analogy Starbucks is attempting to making paper filters illegal.

Because secure systems benefit the public generally, not just the corporations that make a profit operating those systems.

Scott Alexander’s article on altruistic kidney donation weighed the initial CT scan as a heavy negative, like an incremental 1 in 650 risk of death. Shocking to me at the time, but the number seemed t…

You might even form a contract with the institution obligating them do certain things with your gift

For a quick institution specific overview, see “with donor restrictions” on page 20-21 (pdf page 21-22) of their most recent annual report[0]. I’d imagine “maintain and invest the original contributio…

Yes a competent and forward-looking trade and industrial policy would be nice, as a treat.

This is absolutely par for the course for university endowments. They're not big pots of money, they're thousands of small pots of money with various restrictions on their investment, disbu…

What about e.g. writing an op-ed expressing one's views conveys a lack of consideration and appreciation?

> why should US citizens pay taxes to educate people who are apparently hostile to our fundamental values? Because that's where Americans come from - the educated and acculturated sons and dau…

Even if you hold those views (with which we'd all, I hope, vigorously disagree), America is _still_ your jam, up to and until they mutate into crimes / criminal attempts / incitements t…

I'd actually agree that, at any level of living standard, the more equal society is probably happier. I'd question whether that'd be an effective _intervention_ though. Actively reduc…

I'd like some repairs made to my car, but I'd object to someone making them with a hammer (without a stronger argument in favor than "trust me").

Nevermind the improbability that a decrease in living standards would actually compress the distribution of living standards - Are you seriously arguing that's desirable? That it's better to…

> Why should common people care because, like Yishan is saying, they don't even realize the 'empire' _is_ working for them. We sit around in absolute physical security, awash in chea…

They squandered the sacrifice of their parents, and now they're asking their children to sacrifice for their benefit.

He's got the entire congress! He's got the entire universe of industrial policy to advance whatever domestic improvements he wants to pursue. Clearly they even have the political capital an…

There's only one nation's security interest that are advanced by an emboldened Russia.

There is still a functioning system of laws in this county. Devolving into a monarchy is not a necessary condition for stable trade policy (and the particular guy trying to install himself has not pro…

and watch it immediate evaporate or require even more esoteric knowledge of opaque systems? Persistent mispricings can only exist if the cost of exploitation removes the benefit or constrains the popu…

yes effects of big exogenous shocks are famously limited to exactly presidential term boundaries.

trademark != copyright. VW just means people's car, but I'd be in some trouble if I launched a new transportation company called "Volk's Wagens"

Seems like there's going to be some trademark conflict with https://novaapp.ai/ ?

They’ve offered reservations that, when selected, give the buyer a 4 day option to purchase. The reservations are accessible enough I was able to grab one without much effort So would seem like they’r…

Did something happen in 2020? Something big??