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by JBReefer 10y ago
Also, a neighborhood that's 100%, say, Chinese, is the least diverse neighborhood possible.
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by JBReefer 10y ago
That's why it's a bad metric - native born in the US is much more likely to be something VERY different, like Gullah people vs Minneapolitans.
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by JBReefer 10y ago
Queens is the most diverse place on Earth. http://traveltips.usatoday.com/indoor-attractions-queens-new... Elmhurst Hospital has to have translators for 153 languages. (the article is also really good, would recommend it h
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by JBReefer 10y ago
Please don't be this vitriolic on HN, we cannot let this become Reddit.
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by JBReefer 10y ago
Jesus, that's a horrible story. I'm very sorry you had to go through that ... holy hell.
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by JBReefer 10y ago
I respectfully disagree - after the election, my liberal friends filled my timeline with screeds about the death of America and minorities, while my conservative friends messaged me privately in celebration. I didn't see a single pro-T
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by JBReefer 10y ago
That's ironic, because that quote means the exact opposite of what people think: “Except for the field organizers of strikes, who were pretty tough monkeys and devoted, most of the so-called Communists I met were middle-class, middle-a
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by JBReefer 10y ago
LibreOffice, but it's not as good as Excel for the upper-end stuff. Microsoft doesn't have an empire built on Office by accident.
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by JBReefer 10y ago
At least US emissions are down 20% from the 90s, we would have beat our Kyoto obligations.
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by JBReefer 10y ago
I love the idea of a more polished Linux desktop experience but this is just an ad for a few partner companies and then some guessing about what might work.
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by JBReefer 10y ago
Oddly, because pg wrote a really lovely piece extolling her contributions and character.
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by JBReefer 10y ago
"Medium: Growth hacking your way into SF gentrification."
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by JBReefer 10y ago
I think it's the economics of attention post-social media. Old NPR was in depth, slow, boring, and wonderful. That does not play on Twitter.
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by JBReefer 10y ago
I don't know, humans are great at blowing stuff up. It's the long-effort over long timespan stuff we're terrible at.
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by JBReefer 10y ago
I never got that. SF is 17k per sq mi., Queens is 21k. Queens is 4 stories with greenery, courtyards, parks, etc - forever. It's really calm and easy to get around. People think SF will be Beijing when it needs to be Queens.
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by JBReefer 10y ago
I don't think that the 472 million Spanish speakers are going to change their cherished language based on your opinions. Once you're done with them though, you only have the rest of the Romance language derived world. I don't
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by JBReefer 10y ago
The funny thing is mixed-use zoning and density have becoming increasingly allowed basically everywhere in the US ... except for SF. Here in NYC a lot of the NIMBY voice has been silenced by "look, they tried your policies, and it fail
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by JBReefer 10y ago
I don't get your point at all, I'd say the US's ability to project force is worth 19,000x a year more to me than what 18F does.
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by JBReefer 10y ago
18F gives me the creeps because of https://18f.gsa.gov/2016/01/12/hacking-inclusion-by-customiz... Something about government robots and goodspeak speech correction feels Orwellian, even if it's really t
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by JBReefer 10y ago
Tons of them, in between posts, and they're fairly well targeted.
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by JBReefer 10y ago
No one seems to have gotten it yet, but: Instagram. You want to reach the cool kids, you must advertise on Instagram, and the only serious way to use ig is the app.
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by JBReefer 10y ago
You are replying to a parody post. He's describing broadcast television.
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by JBReefer 10y ago
Certainly true, I fully agree
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by JBReefer 10y ago
The Episcopal Church made my parents get gay married or they'd fire them for having a long term live in significant other and children out of wedlock. The future is funny. That might be considered discrimination?
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by JBReefer 10y ago
I want the right to be racist. I'm not a bigot- my girlfriend is Hispanic, I'm from a majority black neighborhood, my parents are gay, etc. But thoughts and words should never be forbidden. That's basically the whole point of
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by JBReefer 10y ago
Ding ding ding! This is what private industry advancing equality looks like - there wasn't a Brown v Board required here.
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by JBReefer 10y ago
This product strategy certainly seems easy to copy, I agree. That's good for humanity and bad for Elon financially (I think that's the point for him, I don't think he cares about money outside of more commas).
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by JBReefer 10y ago
Because the second most important thing that to a currency is network effects. If it doesn't 100% replace my credit card, I still need a credit card, which so far works MUCH better for me than Bitcoin.
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by JBReefer 10y ago
Eh, more cypherphreaks and cypherpunks. Not academics, and definitely not the sort of people at banks who'd call themselves "experienced cryptographers."
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by JBReefer 10y ago
I just don't understand why people can't be honest and say "this is great for mail order drugs, guns and kiddie porn, which I enjoy." I really do hate cryptocurremcies because of their ludicrous waste of fossil fuels, an

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