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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Can you provide more context? Why would this help?
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Seattle. And housing prices here are astronomical. My home has nearly tripled in value over seven years.
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
No idea why you'd be downvoted. Grandparents absolutely do not have the right to post pictures of their grandchildren without the parent's permission.
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
You have a lot more faith in markets than I do. I don't believe that we've been particularly well served by the housing or health care markets. It's been demonstrated, again and again, that 'more supply will come in&#x27
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
No. Healthy public housing, universal healthcare, free public transit don't have the same ability for the benefits to be converted to income for a landlord.
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
I'm a leftist person who isn't an opponent of ubi, but is an opponent of Yang's ubi. I have no problem with raising taxes, but I do have other concerns. Namely, if everyone got $x,xxx a month, how do we ensure that rents don&
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
That's the point I was making, yes.
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
The grid is not that simple, and many/most solar installs will not work in an outage to prevent islanding. It's extremely dangerous to have a section of wires live during an outage.
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
On the flip side, it disambiguates the pronunciation. BBC has each letter spoken individually, NASA does not.
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
You said that the Chinese government failed to contain the pandemic, which is different than the Chinese government worsened the pandemic. I agree, they did things that probably made things worse. I disagree that they could have easily stop
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
This is a wild, myopic, borderline tinfoil hat opinion. The government didn't decide to 'stop the economy', they decided to order shelter in place in the face of an exponentially growing pandemic. In March, the number of case
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Natural gas produces about half the CO2 emissions per unit energy as coal. (And presumably less other harmful stuff like radioactive fly ash.) https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=73&t=11
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
> It is more fruitful to highlight the disadvantages that a group of people experience so that we may fix them and bring everyone up. I see it as the same. It's one thing to say, "I don't have to worry about X because I am
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
You believe that language is prescriptive -- that there are 'correct' usages of words. [1] I believe that language is descriptive -- that dictionaries follow common usage rather than define the usage. Depending on your cultural he
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
It's used to make people aware of the advantages they often have because they fall into a certain group. The goal isn't to make someone feel guilty, it's to make them conscious of their advantages in hopes they help to dism
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
It's not. Oppressors typically implies privileged, but the reverse is not true. I am not an oppressor because I am able bodied. Also, you wouldn't use the word privileged to talk about regimes in places with oppressive governments
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
That there were internment camps in the US? There's a long history of moving first people into concentration camps in the US, and FDR moved Japanese Americans to concentration camps during WW2. https://en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Unfortunately, that's not how language works. Words get adopted to mean things independent of their etymology all the time. I find it confusing a lot of the time. (eg "literally" used to mean "figuratively").
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
They didn't buy any of those games though?
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
It's not an attack, though, and it's not a reflection of who a person is. Privilege is about the circumstances the person is in, how lucky they are in the cosmic lottery of life. Being privileged doesn't make you a bad person
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
First, not 'his'. Second, I explicitly asked for evidence of any of the concerns, as many of the claims either didn't raise a specific concern (e.g. Tencent ownership) or didn't seem to be corroborated by evidence (e.g.
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
I asked for fiascos, not negatives. I think it's absolutely fair to be critical or disagree with the approaches of Epic. It's one thing to say they made a decision you thought was wrong, it's another thing to call them a &#x2
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Some of those are very valid concerns, others don't really seem like fiascos. Paragon: Epic returned all purchases and made all the assets free on their marketplace. That seems like a pretty consumer friendly way to shutter a product t
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
It'd be my default engine if it had language bindings other than C++.
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Many fiascos? Are you talking about how epic didn't pay dancers for their dances in fortnite? Or the crunch they pushed on their workers to ship fortnite content? I'm trying to think of others, maybe you could expand a bit?
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
That's not what market rate means. Market rate is a surveyed bell curve for the job across multiple companies.
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Should it be a race to the bottom? Also, I think it's pretty rare in tech to have multiple qualified candidates to choose from. Typically the candidates have multiple offers, not the other way around.
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
This piece seems to be a political hit piece on SF. Don't get me wrong, there are plenty of critical analyses on the failures of both the city and the citizens of SF, but this is not that. This appears to be someone who is mostly inter
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Seems like it's primarily used for weather events, e.g. Hurricane X slams into Florida. It's also pretty widely used in politics coverage across many news sites. I did a quick search of WaPo, NYT, BBC, etc. and they all had a few
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Is "this" a self referential pointer to your own comment? If not, perhaps you can explain a bit more about why you feel this article is incorrect and provide some sources?

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