- edmcnulty101 parentThat was clearly a joke. Look at my previous comment in my comment history.
- Will Elon bring Jack back? They seem to be friends.
- adding additional friction to a process always increases the difficulty of the process and the cost of overcoming that friction is always borne by the consumer.
- Direct democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what's for dinner.
tyranny of the masses is equally as bad as tyranny of the one especially considering how tribalistic people are.
That's why the framers of the Constitution decided against what you're proposing.
as to the right size question. there is no right size. it's totally arbitrary. States are what we have and that's fine.
- What will most likely happen is that the prices of pork will go up in Cali to accommodate for their laws and stay the same everywhere else.
Regulation simply equals increased prices which is essentially a tax on the middle class and poor.
Whatever was regulated will become a luxury. The rich will have it but the middle class and poor will not.
See car prices, gas prices, food prices, liquor licenses, etc. Anything the government gets it's hand on to regulate increases prices.
The rich don't notice the increased cost of regulation but the middle class and poor suffer.
- That would violate the 13th amendment. Abolishing slavery is literally in the constitution up there with freedom of speech and right to carry arms.
- Or people just don't trade with California and California doesn't have any pork.
- The framers of the constitution did not intend for presidential election by popular vote.
The intention was for state legislatures to nominate electors who would then vote for president.
It wasn't until mid 1800's that states started elections (of electors) by popular vote. Note: still through an elector proxy.
Also this is not a government run by popular vote, it is a mixture of state and population based government and also representation democracy not direct democracy.
In The Federalist Papers, James Madison explained his views on the selection of the president and the Constitution. In Federalist No. 39, Madison argued that the Constitution was designed to be a mixture of state-based and population-based government. Congress would have two houses: the state-based Senate and the population-based House of Representatives. Meanwhile, the president would be elected by a mixture of the two modes.
The fact that people feel that states shouldn't have equal say and equal power is to me a huge breakdown of society.
Having California run the entire country would be a nightmare.
- > There is retreat & regroup, away from the eye of sauron, while the parasite devours the host.
This is a great way to put it.
- It goes in hand with monopoly culture in society.
When you have so many mergers/aq. that build de facto monopolies there's no incentive for companies to care about their employees and the emphasis becomes on the image of caring vs actual caring.
As the employee has a small selection of companies to work for and jobs become about bureaucracy and politics instead of actual `work` and there's not much you as employee can do about it.
The companies not caring about customers but pretending to is another story tangential to this one.
- If its dumb and it works it's not dumb.
- Macintosh has entered the building
- what's the cost of lightning Network these days??
I like where your head's at but the fact that it's possible to do an overthrow of the system if you have 51% of the miners worries me.
- If you're not a company man and have interests outside of work... what you're proposing sounds like an absolute nightmare.
- Either way. I find I meet people at the events the co-working spaces throw or in the break rooms or kitchen.
- Literally anywhere if you're a friendly person?
I go work at a coffee shop and coworking spaces and have made more friends then going into an office and seeing the same 10 people everyday.
How could you extrapolate that seeing the same office people everyday all day is good for.yiur social life.
- Async by default. Promise chains. Strange unpredictable typing. Many more strange things.
It was half ass browser language originally with improvements bolted on.
- Anytime I see something that's in JavaScript that doesn't have to be, I immediately close the page.
There's literally a hundred languages you can choose.
- Sometimes it's as simple as your chakras being out of alignment.
Sometimes it's more complicated though.
- The only thing that's increasing in frequency is sensationalist news coverage and people who are easily influenced by it.
- Do you think the height of the Mississippi changes once every 10,000 years? This happens every few years.
In 2019 there was the longest flood in Mississippi river history literally 3 years ago.
https://www.weather.gov/lix/ms_flood_history
Now a three years later it's at one of lowest in history.
It shouldn't make the news but it's easy to alarm influenceable people.