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by Aunche 2y ago
Ok. One of the worst rates of homelessness in America. Big difference. https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/sf-homeless-crisis-oa... You see even more homelessness in nearby Oakland, whose residents are still so
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> No, I still assert government subsidies to people employed below a living wage are corporate subsidies. This is the first result with I look up the definition of a subsidy: > A sum of money granted by the government or a public body
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If shareholders aren't entitled to the profit of a business, then they wouldn't have invested in it in the first place. > there should be rules in place that give all workers of a publicly traded company better access to owning
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> continue to provide social safety nets Ok. So you admit that it's not a subsidy to businesses then and you're just using that word as an inflammatory talking point? > It's just a big spreadsheet, you're arguing o
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by Aunche 2y ago
This is neither how economics nor politics works. For one, Amazon actually advocates for a higher minimum wage. https://www.aboutamazon.com/impact/economy/15-minimum-wage
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Of course small businesses can always pay poverty wages or constantly hire. Amazon actually actively advocates for more than doubling the minimum wage because it would be beneficial for them. https://www.aboutamazon.com/impa
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by Aunche 2y ago
Not sure how this economic illiterate Twitter post has nearly 100 upvotes within an hour. This is not how a subsidy works. I'm sure Amazon execs would be happy for the government to end their "subsidy", which would increase t
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by Aunche 2y ago
The reason why there is so much criticism of VFX is because it is often done without any sort of intent or passion. It seems like the director just give a vague description of what sort of effects they want to the VFX team and just hands it
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by Aunche 2y ago
I think there is plenty of reason to be skeptical of do-gooder foreigners who think they know better than the locals, but IMO that describes Greenpeace here more than the golden rice project. They are banning it completely, taking agency aw
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Global income inequality has slightly decreased since 2000 [1] due to globalization. For the same reason, quality of life has greatly equalized across the world. The utility gained from switching between flying coach and flying a private je
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IIRC the next best models all have all been using AlphaFold 2's methodology, so that's still a massive improvement. Edit: I see now that you're probably objecting to the headline that got edited on HN.
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The purpose of a union is to serve those inside the union. They don't care if the consumer has to pay for higher cost, the unionized company stagnates, or if all new jobs in that company get shipped overseas. Naturally, this means that
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by Aunche 2y ago
Seattle dogs are a staple for bar crawlers.
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Far-right conservatives in Germany have claimed to be persecuted in this way for a long time, claiming that they aren't antisemitic. My point is that it's nothing new.
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Germany isn't banning criticisms against Israel. They're banning antisemitic symbolism (whatever that means) that gets used in the protests. They have been like that for a long time with Nazi symbolism that isn't explicitly a
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Thank you for finding the relevant allegations. They certainly do sound more damning, though that's to be excepted if you take the prosecution at face value. This part jumps out: > the landlord’s regional manager Why would the owner
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by Aunche 2y ago
As a moderate, I do suspect that a lot of conservatives like to concern troll, but on the other hand, the far left really seems to like to double down on defending wild takes, like the university presidents refusing to answer whether callin
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by Aunche 2y ago
AFAICT there isn't anything preventing landlords from setting pricing lower than what RealPage recommends. That is just Propublica's weasily framing. In reality, it sounds like they're saying, if you want to get the results f
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by Aunche 2y ago
> Nationalize (rental) housing or make it so no corporation can own housing Right now, only "luxury" housing developers are building new housing in high demand areas, so this is a recipe for curbing new development. > Co-ops
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How do you provide relief to all those renters? The article spells it out pretty clearly. > Prices are coming down in markets such as Atlanta and Austin, Texas, where home construction is high. But analysts believe low rates of homebuild
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One can argue that the California homelessness crisis is caused by a certain type of idleness. NIMBYs refuse to adapt to their changing cities and instead try to force it to remain unchanged. You also have progressives who think that they c
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by Aunche 2y ago
I don't understand why officers can't enforce fare evasion in NYC like they do in every other country.
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> It's not like tram | streetcar services can't be built to run safely an profitably. During the era of private subways in New York City, regulations fixed the price of subway fares and it would be political suicide to change t
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by Aunche 2y ago
If you can get into an Ivy, you can probably get at least a full tuition scholarship for most in state universities.
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I see 37k, which includes room, board, and some modest personal spending. https://www.vt.edu/admissions/undergraduate/cost.html
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> Every house owned by a landlord is another house not owned by an owner occupier. And every ounce of food owned by a company is not owned by a person. Oh right, that's why we allow people to produce more food. As Communist China di
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The very cheap artificial sapphires are basically made by melting aluminum oxide in bulk. They're usually cut in a factory, so they don't look very nice. I got very large artificial ruby (also corundum) for my wife (actually to sa
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Diamonds thermodynamically want to turn into graphite under normal conditions, so I'm guessing that they inherently require more energy to create than glass. Sapphire is more shatter resistant than diamond anyways, so it would be more
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Jewelers have already done this successfully with a lot of gemstones. Artificial rubies, sapphires，and emeralds are dirt cheap, but natural ones are 100-1000x the price.
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Every Chinese person a Westerner may talk to has a VPN, but you can't compete with Chinese-owned social media without the other 90% of the population. Also, China has been very aggressive with VPN throttling and random outages, since t

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