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by adjkant 8y ago
In today's America, demanding politicians only goes so far and I would say its one of many broken parts of our system. You can say that I "as a citizen" should do X but the reality is that citizens have lost control of their
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by adjkant 8y ago
When all of your profits come at the expense of the local residents who don't get a vote on the matter, I think it's a lot stronger case for immorality. A moral business has limits at which it drives for profit. I'm not sure
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by adjkant 8y ago
I'd say that cultural and political significance, while not as straightforward/objective to judge as GDP/population, are very much factors that are/should be in the layman's shorthand.
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by adjkant 8y ago
Why do you assume mine maps to nothing? Are you really arguing that the importance of cities is based off a single economic number or simply the number of people living there? I would say it's a combination of politics, cultural releva
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by adjkant 8y ago
No, but I haven't lived in many cities on that list. No, it's not a perfect assessment but the assumption that "X city is top and anyone who disagrees clearly hasn't lived there" is a perfect example of the attitude
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by adjkant 8y ago
> Importance determines population. Does it though? You still have provided no supporting arguments for that. People live in places for reasons beyond importance. In fact, "importance" really isn't a factor people consider
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by adjkant 8y ago
Yes, one post is of course an obsession... I think this will turn into a pointless debate quickly unless someone nails down what defines the importance of a city. I don't personally think GDP is a defining factor. DC is a prime example
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by adjkant 8y ago
I absolutely agree it's had more importance historically, but many of the things you listed don't have much relevance for what people define as an "important" city today. The central location of Chicago I think plays a l
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> The author used population as criteria for importance. There's no evidence for that anywhere, nor is this the author. This is a quote from a friend of someone in the elevator and there's no given criteria, so we can only spec
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by adjkant 8y ago
This is a person being quoted about the event, not the paper (local or WaPo). I don't think there's really much rhyme or reason here, I'd bet it's just what the person casually thinks about Chicago's importance.
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by adjkant 8y ago
I have a good friend from Chicago and IMO the midwest is a bit of a cult and Chicago is the epicenter of it. The practical result of this is a lot of local pride in Chicago. Chicago is the city that represents basically all of the Midwest f
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by adjkant 8y ago
Finishing up my degree in spring, very few people say no to prestige coming out of new grad, but there are some, and those are absolutely avoiding Facebook among a few others. Currently, the main blacklist companies in my book are Facebook,
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by adjkant 8y ago
Which would be more costly? The criminal sentence for pickpocketing or the patent infringement lawsuit that follows?
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by adjkant 8y ago
An IPO, no matter the climate, is the only way anyone gets their money even half back. If they wait, they will simply burn even more money and likely face an even worse climate as their business model is exposed more and more as unviable. N
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by adjkant 8y ago
Right now honestly I don't see much of a difference between Uber and Moviepass when you (realistically) rule them out of winning the self-driving race. They are offering a service for less than it costs but have no way to stop customer
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by adjkant 8y ago
"Greatest comment ever" As others said, why? Give us some reasons.
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I never said all others first of all, I just know that's one example I have a lot of positive firsthand experience with. Generally as well it's not like curriculum approaches have any evidence either way, so while there may not be
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by adjkant 8y ago
Amsterdam has this but with canals not parks. Not quite the same but a bit interesting. https://www.google.com/maps/@52.3676938,4.8960709,13.63z
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by adjkant 8y ago
I think the idea is that a course using Racket or one of its teaching language has to teach that style of thinking, and any course that doesn't teach it will be doomed to fail. HtDP is a great example of how to do it right, which puts
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by adjkant 8y ago
Let's say that 80% of your paetrons would have also signed up with the home rolled method but 20% would not (which would be insane numbers, I'd bet it's close to 50/50 out of sheer convenience factor). Assuming an equal
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by adjkant 8y ago
Getting an ID goes far beyond just getting to the DMV. It also requires proof of address in many states, which immediately disqualifies the homeless. Many poor people also will not have access to documents such as birth certificates, SSN ca
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by adjkant 8y ago
.5% of the entire US population is homeless, most of which are practically prohibited by law to obtain a valid ID. That's not statistically insignificant at all. https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis&#
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by adjkant 8y ago
I'm not in agreement about violence being the answer, but when the democracy has already been subverted, democratic action is very unlikely to be possible to fix it. It's then a populist power struggle that usually leads to violen
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> I think it should also be a requirement to show a state or federal ID before you can cast your vote. I'm always floored when people try to defend voting without requiring any kind of identity verification. In Puerto Rico you'
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by adjkant 8y ago
While there's much to debate when it comes to generally how useful, harmful, or dangerous labels are (I think they are all 3 in different ways personally), I think there's a highly uderrated takeaway in the last paragraph: > &q
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by adjkant 8y ago
The problem is that time spent online is not equal no matter where or what. Instagram/Facebook have engineered models against healthy psychology though and littered with ads, hence why they are worse than many places. Youtube has ads,
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by adjkant 8y ago
I said exactly that it doesn't validate the book in my post. But showing a single, very irrelevant stat is not a counterargument either.
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by adjkant 8y ago
Whoops, edited accordingly.
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by adjkant 8y ago
What does her career have to do with any of this? Would you like to go the anecdota to data route or are you trying to claim that she's clearly just made all this up? Either point doesn't seem very sound, and why be so roundabout
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by adjkant 8y ago
So this article criticizes a lack of data then only uses a single data source (on complaints) that loops in all housing and employment data into one without separation of type (say, by sexual harassment). That doesn't really show anyth

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