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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Housing should be priced by how effectively it houses people. The idea that housing is a market good that people can use as an investment vehicle undermines the actual value of having places for everyone to live at an affordable rate. I bel
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
> what is objectionable about it Background checks disproportionately impact poor and minority communities because they are more likely to be impacted by systemic poverty.
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
I've really wanted to be a part of a tech co-op, and I wish more existed. There are several in most major cities that I've found, but they tend to spin up and down after a while, so I'm not sure what's current.
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
> so you do a background check them, just not the standard, criminal/credit check These things are not at all equivalent. It's a laughable false-equivalency to suggest that calling a few friends/acquaintances of someone is
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
> Can you remind me who in the thread advocated the view you're criticizing? You reduced the critique of the article to "How dare they screen tenants", which is a strawman that no one is proposing. I cited ways in which te
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Landlords should not be allowed to prohibit tenants based on credit or criminal history alone. E.g. "You must have a credit score of X00 to be considered" should be illegal. Landlords should set criteria for who can be a tenant (p
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
> Because credit companies aren't perfect, credit checks are evil and racist? Not what I said at all. The companies aren't just "not perfect", they are considerably worse than that. And yes, credit checks can be used
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Online portals have problems -- not everyone has equal access to the internet, and tenant screening has a whole host of problems. Think about credit reporting companies, then imagine that they are even less credible, the results even more i
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
HN seems to be very anti-surveillance tech, I guess until it's the landlords doing the surveilling? Housing should not be a commodity at all. In my lifetime I've seen the landlord move from someone who might live on site to someon
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
How many times do you need to tell your landlord you are entering/leaving the property? At what hours? Because I'm guessing your lease does not include a detailed writeup of everyone who will be coming and going from your place an
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
We can also organize as individuals, become single issue voters, send demands to our politicians at the local, state, and federal level. Maybe it takes too long, but at least it's something besides just individually doing the right thi
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Sure, but they aren't burning the lumber exclusively. If the timber is supplementing other power, then it wouldn't be depleting forests. Eg if you used 1/40th of all your timber every year, and replanted it all, you'd ne
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
What's the impact of those manufacturing emissions? Like, did they shift 10% offshore and reduce in other sectors? Or is the reduction in manufacturing the primary needle mover?
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
It's free only if you discount the teacher's time.
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Yes, this is my point. The school should buy them. If the school isn't sufficiently funded, the local area should fund the school. If the local area cannot, then we move up the chain. The funds exist, they should be directed at educati
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
I mean maybe. But a basic Wacom is like $100. Surely that would be preferable?
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Clever. But also tragic. The poor teachers who have been caught in the middle of all this really make me feel sad. Teaching is already a rough gig, and being forced to improvise with limited to no support from communities, schools, or gover
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Coal and oil are adding carbon to the atmosphere that was not there within human timeframes. Yes, perhaps on a geologic scale it is neutral, but we generally think about carbon on a human scale.
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
I didn't say it was good. Just that it was not a net increase. Obviously better if we can sequester somehow.
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Wait what? The EFF, the Markup, open rights group, and probably others on the list absolutely provide open source software and/or datasets.
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
This is a totally valid question that is getting down votes it shouldn't. And the answer is yes, there are alternatives to burning. Burning will return what the tree pulled out of the atmosphere, so it's already carbon neutral. De
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
This is a tough question. When minorities are being targeted, don't have sufficient access to resources, can't engage in political processes, etc, how do they advocate for themselves? The routes you suggest are great, but aren&#x2
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Hmm... I disagree. Speed limits are important. So are various other laws that require human judgement to interpret. There's a reason we have 'judges' -- the law will never cover all corner cases, and the law needs to set boun
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Sure it does. Failing to recognize someone at scale can very much impact someone's privacy. Holes in data are, in and of themselves information. For example, if an unrecognized face was logged on 47th street, then an unrecognized face
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Your framing here is astoundingly biased and doesn't reflect what most reasonable people have understood to be the case. (That the vast majority of the violence comes from police.) The protests aren't peaceful, but that's d
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
> Identifying criminals should be made efficient This is a nightmare sentiment. No, identifying criminals should not be efficient at all. Everyone is a criminal -- whether that's speeding, jaywalking, vandalism, littering, loitering
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Maybe you could expand on your point, because it's not so clear to be that calling the US militaristic is incorrect.
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
You might not understand it, but the term is well understood in the gaming community. Just like Metroidvania, the genre description has evolved from previous games. Another common genre is Souls-like, stemming from the mechanics of Dark Sou
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
The metagameplay -- rogue reset you, permanently, when you died. Similarly when you die in FTL you have to start all over. It's both an incorrect term (because, as you mentioned, the overlap with rogue is limited) and absolutely the co
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Or because the comment was low effort.

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