> It makes no sense other than lobbyists and environment lawyers and other ticky-tack bullshit
Those other countries also have lobbyists and environment lawyers, so your thesis reveals a lack of discernment.
The poster child in the west for infrastructure projects is Spain, and i can assure you that Spain is not light on regulation.
America has an interesting political structure - look there for your answer.
Ultimately, a democracy with a strong concept of individual rights will inevitably surface nimbies. America's fractal disorganisation gives them multiple venues to oppose any project. America's love-hate relationship with federal bodies creates overlaps. America's semi-regular cycle into small-government administration means it regularly expunges institutional infrastructure experience. You could shoot every environmental lawyer and lobbyist, and your projects would still be bunfights.
> that helps no one
You're welcome to your own values. I believe there's a place called "Flint Michigan" where the citizens would disagree.
You two have put multiple constituencies in a small box so you can beat more people with a single stick. Even just in America, the only overlap between fundies, incels, and technolibertarians is the "R" they tick. Likewise, on the left, there's not much in common between labour activists and eco-hippies.
The USSR performed _somewhat_ well, but i wouldn't say it clearly outperformed the west given the whole "collapse" thing. I could argue the point, but only weakly.
It's more illuminating to pick the two exemplars, America and China, because they have many parallels
It's a flat plate of material, typically a ceramic square with decorative finish, arranged in regular patterns as a floor or wall surface in rooms expected to be exposed to water, where it is bonded to a substrate with cementitious adhesive.
A vinegar soak gets rid of almost all smells, and a sodium bicarb soak gets rid of the rest. Air freshener spray is incrementally effective for items you don't want to soak.
Rule of thumb: when a fanboy asserts that any person holding an alternative view is defective, you should immediately abandon the fanboy's position and adopt the alternative view. It's heuristically more likely to be correct, and it gets you out of an odious fan club.
Case in point: China proceeded through stages of development more efficiently than any western nation. Case in point: South Korea incubated its industry in a command economy.
I'm with you inasmuch as the frothiness is, while massaged a bit, sufficiently perceptible for emptors to caveat.
My concern is that the subprime mortgages were not perceptible to even savvy fund managers, and the same thing could happen again; and also, even if that insidious risk-poisoning of institutional funds does not occur, them a collapsing bubble still fucks us all into recession.
To be precise, market perception of future growth.
All other things being equal, debt is a downward force on that perception.
That is a general point, although I'll stipulate it isn't a factor in AI picks because they are approximately all doing the same and because the market is giddy with FOMO. More strongly, i believe that some Schmanthropic with equivalent offering and unit cost and userbase but with sustainable finance would signal, through lack of recklessness, that it is not "going to the moon". I'm willing to call this "irrationality". But hey, I'm not exposed, other than being a taxpayer with savings who will inevitably foot the bill for the bailouts.
You're damned right - much better is possible than the gnu tools. I'm one of the savages using pwsh on Linux (the other two are still on reddit). I have no need for sed/awk ascii salad, and jq can fuck off into the far distance.
I'll wager that rabbit and that pheasant that you see skinned and cleaned in the shop were shot by a man in a field. I'm open to counterexamples, so let me know what your butcher tells you.
I like your attitude of charity - we should not rush into judgement. But mschuster91's comment said:
> most of Europe simply has banned guns in the hands of civilians
This is bullshit. GP must be aware that they are profoundly ignorant on the topic, so why are they holding an opinion, let alone posting it? Should we tolerate bullshit on HN?
Europe is a fractal mix of polities ruled by a constant flux of elected representatives, and consequently exhibits political behaviour from a wide range of constituencies. Each citizen agrees, presumably, with some policies and disagrees with others, then they vote as best as they are able - which is not very, since every large electorate in the world falls short of adequate political competence. Some of those people vote for authoritarians, which i consider a shame but which is also true in your closest democratic nation.
European citizen surveillance is something i oppose, but at least it's balanced by a robust bill of human rights. America's surveillance state does not have that balance, because America wrote a bill of rights but didn't bother with the follow-through.
Kindly don't use my continent as a punching bag, thanks.
> Well, most of Europe simply has banned guns in the hands of civilians instead, so that's some data as well
No, that's some bullshit. How do you think we eat pheasant and rabbit and venison? Show me a pheasant farm and I'll show you forty acres of unfenced woodland littered with empty cartridges.
Cameras are a mitigation for high waistlines, and only a partial one. Keep your cameras and alerts, and give me a car with better fields of vision.
I think there are important dimensions of safety that go unmeasured. You have much less road awareness in new cars.
Survivability is great and all, but not at the expense of children and pets becoming invisible.
All the focus on survivability provided another incentive for makers to put ever larger pieces of steel on the road. I disagree that new cars are safer.
I have experienced driver aids glitching, and i want none of it. Anything that can take control of the car needs to be bulletproof, and it isn't.
Those other countries also have lobbyists and environment lawyers, so your thesis reveals a lack of discernment.
The poster child in the west for infrastructure projects is Spain, and i can assure you that Spain is not light on regulation.
America has an interesting political structure - look there for your answer.
Ultimately, a democracy with a strong concept of individual rights will inevitably surface nimbies. America's fractal disorganisation gives them multiple venues to oppose any project. America's love-hate relationship with federal bodies creates overlaps. America's semi-regular cycle into small-government administration means it regularly expunges institutional infrastructure experience. You could shoot every environmental lawyer and lobbyist, and your projects would still be bunfights.
> that helps no one
You're welcome to your own values. I believe there's a place called "Flint Michigan" where the citizens would disagree.