Has California only had one minimum wage hike during this time series?

They’re a bundled good with installment payments

Alas, what is a tweet, if not a means to remark

Perhaps Musk is an oligarch but him losing this battle hardly supports the claim!

ChatGPT can’t format LaTeX right even half the time

I’m pretty sure that’s his point

Jimmy Carter did not pardon his brother.

The relies too much on legislators’ good faith responsiveness.

Govt can learn, if it’s staffed with the right people, and that’s really hard to determine. And even then govt workers are hamstrung 1,000 different ways in adjusting.

Why didn’t some open source extension develop a superstructure onto IRC? Why did we get Twitter instead?

Yes, I think insufficient attention is being given to seemingly mundane policy or administrative choices like these. They really matter on the hygiene, and it’s hard to tell which ones are best ahead of time.

Another is that they don’t consider in their crime podcast episode that the increase in crime could be in part due to increased state capacity to measure crime!

They also, when citing Eric Holder, referred to him as “a secretary of something”; he was AG! That he was AG was especially relevant!

That’s right!

Sorry, I meant to elaborate. Agency leaders could choose to make different decisions. They consistently don’t.

It’s a matter of what we prioritize

I think it’s a useful concept! But it does feel a little silly to say out loud

I work with the people you’re referring to every week. Government agencies have real pathologies in implementing this. Agency leaderships are extremely deferential to legal risks and legalistic interpretations, and allocate limited resources accordingly.

The claim is almost tautological, if robber barons are by construction agents with high centrality and disproportionate power. Causing even a small change in their behavior can have large consequences

This discussion features a lot of people talking past one another. There’s “the tech sector”, and then there’s some individual dudes, and those aren’t the same thing

We do face some budget on verboseness after all