Thanks, but I’m highly aware of the difference. Show me the data from the experiment that can establish causation, and I’ll happily cite that instead. There’s a reason I said “guessing” and “probably,” and made an argument for causation rather than just citing a study. I’m commenting on a blog, not running a $10…

I’m not making a pro-gun argument, so ignore the firearm ownership parts. Gun violence could be lower, but it is way down.

I mean this seriously: what do you think the gangs are fighting over if not drugs? My understanding is that gangs are basically economic organizations for illegal crime. Gangs aren’t like the Rotary Club. They are usually fighting over drug distribution (or other illegal stuff) turf, or so I thought. Didn’t know…

I’m also this kind of “rich.” This is basically progressive tipping, and I think most people are a-okay with it (I certainly am). Why folks then decry progressive taxation as somehow “unfair” never made sense to me. Some of us can afford it more. It’s like the rich in this country invited their poor college friends…

“Oh? Does it? How is the murder rate in Chicago these days? (762 murders in 2016.)“

I don’t think it’s the drug dealers that are so much the concern as the violence that tends to follow them around. Thoughts on this? Genuinely curious Locking up drug dealers, who tend to shoot people, seems to work.*

Do you even split stock, brah?

was convinced to hold onto a Ford Focus instead of selling it for $10k in Google stock right after the Google IPO. It was not the right decision, but Google then was in the $50-$80 range and $800 now, so at least the Focus only cost me about $100k. Most reliable $100k car though.

It’s the public performance aspect of this that is horrifying. Poor girl; bad parents. I plan on pranking my daughter when she’s out of diapers... but that’s intra-family fun.

I have literally had to call up contractors and other service people who refuse to talk to just my wife to tell them that my wife is explicitly authorized to make decisions on our behalf in my absence. It’s so weird that in 2017 I have to make it clear to people that my wife can make decisions without her husband’s…

See my comment above. That’s crazy talk. And I’m a bike commuter.

I was under the impression that it was essentially uncontroversial that the viaduct HAD to be torn down (because a dangerous blight). The only controversy was what to replace it with. I think only some hard core lefty environmentalists thought not replacing it was a good idea. And I say this as a bicycle commuter,…

Honestly, the problem with the viaduct was always the on/off ramps out of downtown (and the fact that it was downright scary to drive on). I drove it for years on weekends/late nights, and it was always super easy to go from Queen Anne/Magnolia to West Seattle. It was only rush hour and commuters that suffered. As…

Traffic in SF = Garbage. I lived in SV and basically chose to never, ever, ever drive to Marin because, omg, what a freaking nightmare going through the city.

Please write in the voice of idle rich longing all the times!

Patent nerd talk: patents expire 20 years from filing. Since 1995. Before 1995... well, it’s complicated.

I can’t believe I’m defending Trump here, but I don’t understand the uproar over this. He’s a businessman, not an economist. He was probably barking up the wrong tree in looking for the info, but there’s not really any reason to think he should know all the economic impacts of strong vs. weak dollar.

#truth

You’re going to hate this, but not warning pedestrians is actually a tactic a lot of cyclists use. The problem is that if you yell at a pedestrian “on your left” or whatever, they move erratically one way or the other. 1/2 the time to the left, so that they are now right in front of you. Better to not warn them…

God gave you lungs for a reason. Ringing bells is just annoying, they don’t work as well as everyone thinks they should. They just don’t. It’s the equivalent on honking instead of using your turn signals. If you honked every time you changed lanes, it would be mass chaos.