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by akamaka 6y ago
What’s misleading about it? We are talking about the health effects on people living in cities in California, not about cargo ships burning dirty fuel in the middle of the ocean or general global greenhouse gas emissions. It is a true sta
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by akamaka 6y ago
You might want to consider doing some research before just mindlessly dismissing what other people say. “Mobile sources of air pollution from cars, trucks, ships, emissions from construction equipment, and tire and brake wear on roadways ar
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by akamaka 6y ago
The vast majority of low-density housing in the US is owner occupied, and the majority of investor owned properties are already multi-unit dwellings. There is already plenty of incentive for self-interested investors to increase housing su
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by akamaka 6y ago
You just suggested that the only way to solve housing shortages is to attack the broader upper middle classes with a wealth tax that will push many more of them out of their homes than are currently pushed out by property tax defaults. Fun
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by akamaka 6y ago
This here is the argument that will make a wealth tax face severe opposition. Most wealth is held not by the 1%, but by the next 19%, living in their nice low-density suburban areas. Today there are proposals for taxing wealth over $50 mi
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by akamaka 6y ago
Fossil fuels have boosted our quality of life so much that we have no really big industrial problems left except for getting rid of fossil fuels.
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by akamaka 6y ago
41% is a lot! For comparison, only 34% of foreign-born Hispanics in the US speak English proficiently.
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by akamaka 6y ago
Sure, just as New York is not as central to the American economy as it was in the 19th and early 20th century. It would still be a very heavy cost to lose it. A few percentage points of GDP might seem small on paper, and won’t be the end
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by akamaka 6y ago
Why would you compare 2014 ridership to 2020 capital spending? The same charts you posted show a 40% increase in ridership with only a 20% increase in capital spending from 1982-2004. Obviously the capital spending boost that is happening
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by akamaka 6y ago
The video shows some photo plates embedded into pages alongside the text plates made from lead. Does anyone know what type of machines created those?
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by akamaka 6y ago
All of your options are very good ones, so you likely won’t be able to come to a decision by simply thinking about it and getting advice. Take concrete steps in a promising direction and judge the results along the way. For example, if you
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by akamaka 6y ago
You’re right to want to be able to look into what elected officials have said, but social media additionally allows posts to be shared, commented on, and spread widely. There are thousands of elected officials, so it’s not simply a theoreti
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by akamaka 6y ago
That’s a good question, and it depends on how this line is implemented: “It shall also establish a sound legal system in the HKSAR to maintain national security.” Under the Basic Law, Hong Kong has it’s own legal system, so there is no cons
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by akamaka 6y ago
This law, if implemented fully, will effectively demolish the “one country, two systems” agreement, which has been the basis of Hong Kong’s stability and success for the last 23 years. The Beijing government is pulling out of their side of
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by akamaka 6y ago
Sorry I wasn’t clear about what I was trying to say. My argument was that most violent independence movements aren’t successful, an example of which was the Civil War, which was also called the “War for Southern Independence” by the rebels
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by akamaka 6y ago
Call it what you like: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_the_American_Civil_...
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by akamaka 6y ago
The US is a great example to consider: compare the odds of success of a violent secessionist movement in Hong Kong to those of the Confederacy winning the Civil War. Or perhaps a French example might be more relevant, with a single city at
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by akamaka 6y ago
There have been many successful insurrections, but have you truly taken into consideration all of the failed ones? We obviously can’t make a long list here, but here is one that might be relevant to think about: https://en.m.wiki
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by akamaka 6y ago
How often do violent uprisings turn out well? A thorough reading of history shows that they aren’t very effective, either.
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by akamaka 7y ago
My team recently bought a gift for someone who was leaving, and it was slightly time consuming to figure out who wanted to contribute, and then to keep track of the cash. I thought a good idea would be to build a Slack app to split purchas
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by akamaka 7y ago
I don’t flag things often, as one might downvote a comment they disagree with. The flag mechanism is for off-topic or spam content, and I consider this way off-topic for this site. There have already been hundreds of published articles ab
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by akamaka 7y ago
I’m not a biologist, so I’m really not interested in this type of paper, and I expressed my opinion through the voting mechanism. Also, there are thousands of researchers studying this new virus. If this turns out to be an important findin
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by akamaka 7y ago
Users can press the “flag” button for content that is off-topic. I flagged this article because it is an unreviewed pre-print paper that has been rushed out by its authors, who clearly have not investigated any of the most obvious follow-u
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by akamaka 7y ago
I’m replying to your message using software written in C, so do you think that it might be a little bit unfair to call it “broken”? I suppose I’d agree if you’re making a general argument that most of the software we use is broken to some d
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by akamaka 7y ago
Good news: https://www.gavi.org/news/media-room/inactivated-polio-vacci...
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by akamaka 7y ago
Yes, it’s true that OPV is cheaper, but it will continue to be used because it is more effective at preventing the transmission of wild polio virus. http://polioeradication.org/polio-today/polio-prevention/the...
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by akamaka 7y ago
IPV induces very low levels of immunity in the intestine. As a result, when a person immunized with IPV is infected with wild poliovirus, the virus can still multiply inside the intestines and be shed in the faeces, risking continued circu
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by akamaka 7y ago
I downvoted because it’s not correct to suggest that OPV is being used because it is a “low budget version”. In fact, both types of vaccines are being given to children in high-risk countries, as part of the transition away from the live v
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by akamaka 7y ago
The live vaccine is not simply a “low budget version”, it’s more effective.
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by akamaka 7y ago
Using the live vaccine is a trade-off, but there is clear roadmap to eliminate the need for it, one that requires coordinated global surveillance and decision-making. The global strategy for all areas that have eradicated wild polio viruse

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