ComradeTaco

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by ComradeTaco 8y ago
If your company believes you can telecommute, it's not a small step for them to eventually believe that you can be outsourced more inexpensively.
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by ComradeTaco 8y ago
The first reason is that contemporary trends in architecture tend to favor more utilitarian designs. The second reason is that public projects have a real problem trying to control labor costs during projects. The most artistic and aestheti
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by ComradeTaco 8y ago
Right, inequality isn't inherently a bad thing, its when it get so extreme that it impedes class mobility and shrinks the middle class. We have to strike a really careful of regulations and freedom to create a desirable society.
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by ComradeTaco 8y ago
The US has allowed complete unbridled capitalism during the gilded age. Quoting Wikpedia "From 1860 to 1900, the wealthiest 2% of American households owned more than a third of the nation's wealth, while the top 10% owned roughly
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by ComradeTaco 8y ago
High inflation benefits those who have high debts and little savings. Low inflation benefits wealthy people with minimal debt and large savings. The federal reserve driving limited inflation has occurred for around 100 years, and the time i
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by ComradeTaco 8y ago
I think part of the problem is that the price of more inelastic things in our society is driven by that top 5%. The housing market is especially dominated by that demographic, but so is healthcare and college. And since all of those things
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by ComradeTaco 8y ago
It's also worth considering that the American government has massively subsidized the airline industry. Trillions of dollars in defense spending for aircraft has propped up Boeing and its predecessors during hard times. That spending m
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by ComradeTaco 9y ago
At the very least states should have a threshhold of X number of miles driven without an accident, x number of miles without a fatality, out of tens to hundreds of millions of miles of testing. Move fast and break things works fine when th
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by ComradeTaco 9y ago
All my evidence is anecdotal, and I have no means of confirming it on my own. When I first looked over this post, there were 3-4 comments, all seemingly pro-russia. I see some points being made that are remarkably similar to official Russia
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by ComradeTaco 9y ago
Trolls from the Internet Research Agency (the troll farm) have handles tumblr, facebook, reddit, as stated by those who previously worked at the Agency. I do not think it is unreasonable to assume, given HN's popularity and how intensi
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by ComradeTaco 9y ago
It's infinitely harder to have a reasonable discussion when there's a troll factory pumping out bad faith arguments in great volume. [1] https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2018/03/15/594
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by ComradeTaco 9y ago
Russian-American relations have worsened not because of russophobia, but rather because of several high profile and geopolitically relevant events. The first of these was the invasion of Crimea and the funneling of arms to Ukrainian Separat
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by ComradeTaco 9y ago
The electrodes are made of graphite and the lining of the furnace is lined with a ceramic material. Both have melting points higher than the molten steel.
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by ComradeTaco 9y ago
The largest single difference is that the newer trainsets can take different voltage/current combinations from overhead wires. This is important because different regions in Europe use different electrification systems, regions that ca
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by ComradeTaco 9y ago
Donald Trump. "I'll tell you the whole history of it," Giuliani said, as transcribed by The Washington Post. "So when (Trump) first announced it, he said, 'Muslim ban.' He called me up. He said, 'Put a com
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by ComradeTaco 9y ago
I believe that it's completely reasonable for governments to invest massively into public infrastructure to facilitate the success of Amazon HQ. Things like new transit lines, complete streets, public parks etc. It should be a catalyst
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by ComradeTaco 9y ago
Doable as long as nobody gets sick and requires the attention of a doctor.
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by ComradeTaco 9y ago
The Democrats observed the regular order of the Senate, hosted 5 bipartisan meetings and finished the bill so it could actually be analyzed and read before being passed [1]. The republicans didn't bother with any bipartisan meetings an
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by ComradeTaco 9y ago
Definitely too early to draw conclusions. Preschool the US is pretty expensive, about $500 a month. It would seem if you could pay for preschool with $22 a month, then the purchasing power is quite substantial. I believe that this is not a
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by ComradeTaco 9y ago
While technically correct, your comment is misleading because the seat legally belonged to the Republicans and he was chosen by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. Obama could have rejected the nomination but anyone that the Republicans
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by ComradeTaco 9y ago
Pai is fulfilling exactly what he was appointed to do, which is make the wealthy even wealthier. Trump's administration is built to enrich 3 groups. 1. Himself 2. His family 3. Other Very Wealthy People
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by ComradeTaco 9y ago
If the political willpower existed for building metros at Chinese speeds in North America then I would volunteer first to be the person swapping out the drill heads. Unfortunately infrastructure is a slow moving game and we have to settle f
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by ComradeTaco 9y ago
Many of those who have high incomes would prefer to build equity rather than hand it to landowners. However incomes only rose only modestly above inflation while real estate prices have doubled and even tripled in many places. We're re
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by ComradeTaco 9y ago
Trump appointed Ajit Pai to the FCC whose doing his best to gut net neutrality for big communications. You have Pruitt whose dropping regulations for his big oil pals. You have Steven Mnuchin whose goal is destroy Dodd-Frank so financial fi
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by ComradeTaco 9y ago
Some of the frats at my alma mater charge $5k a year. I would imagine being able to pay 20k or more might self select to some already well-off kids.
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by ComradeTaco 9y ago
I never wrote that MIT, Harvard, Stanford and Yale are better than Olin. What I did say was that you should compare apples to apples, compare average start up rate for majors at Olin to the same majors at MIT, Yale, Stanford and Harvard. Ri
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by ComradeTaco 9y ago
It is absolutely selection bias. Compare averages by major for each school, not the total population for each school. To compare a college that produces almost exclusively engineering majors to a university that offers everything from const
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by ComradeTaco 9y ago
Don't forget the steady reduction of benefits in addition to a base pay. I've spent time at fortune 500 engineering firms where the annual deductible for health insurance was $8,000.
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by ComradeTaco 9y ago
An additional on flooding: When Rainfall * Area >= SoilAbsorption(See note) + WetlandAbsorption + ArtificialDrainage the end result is flooding. Essentially the left hand side of the inequality has been slightly increasing because of cli
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by ComradeTaco 9y ago
I believe personally that the Hyperloop is vaporware that will exist only seasonally on the cover of Popular Mechanics. If somones actually produces even a semi-functional hyperloop testbed maybe I'll sing a different tune.

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