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Comment Re:Biased news (Score 1) 115

You have to tax or ban products that use difficult-to-recycle packaging. Waste has a negative value and negative externality. You can't let the free market fix the problem.

Some countries have a $2 of CRV equivalent. That's enough for people to put in the effort to recycle. Alternatively, you can require manufacturers to buy back the waste.

Directly subsidizing building of factories that make highly recyclable or compostable packaging is another option.

Durable goods don't really need recycling rules. We don't use enough for it to matter. Only large objects like cars and buildings need special waste handling.

Comment Re:No One Could Have Known? (Score 1) 101

Touching your passenger has all sorts of potential legal risks, even if most drivers don't realize it.

Self-driving taxis can just build a vibration function into the passenger seats. Once the passenger takes more than 5 minutes to leave, they should flag the ride for a human to check what's going on through the cameras.

Comment Re:Fun (Score 1) 109

I have fun programming in Rust... I like building type systems that prevent errors and automate drudgery. Both C++ and Rust let me do that, C does not...you spend a fair amount of time thinking about low-level details of what the compiler is generating. That's true, and I like thinking about memory layouts, cache lines, what the optimizer is going to do

You very convincingly make it sound so fun.

Comment Re: Oof (Score 1) 50

You do realize it doesn't matter whether you like the ideology or not right? Only what the leadership in China thinks matters.

Unfortunately for them, the few examples of Communist dictatorships they can reference all failed, so as far as I can tell, they've gone back to what worked for the previous 2000 years.

Accept your lot and do as you are told.

That's for the people. For the government, it's about acting with moral virtue and taking care of the masses (so they're convinced to not revolt). You can contrast it with the main alternative government philosophy of the time, which is legalism (basically ruling with strict laws and crushing rebellions with force).

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