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by asabjorn 8y ago
This study needs to be replicated before its conclusions are taken seriously, because much of sociology is known to be deciding on a conclusion in line with intersectionality ideology dogma before writing the paper and producing papers with
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So instead of interpreting his intentions using a straightforward plausible explanation supported by his manifesto, you suggest that it is better to interpret his motivations using an unfounded conspiracy theory?
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No. We clearly have an unproductive homeostasis between the radical left and radical right, and the rest of us is uncomfortably caught in the middle. The radical left call everyone that is effective at expressing any other opinion alt-right
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Describing facts and providing insights into what someone reprehensible said is not cover. To the contrary that is how you help each other grow as individuals by integrating what each of us don't see so that we can see can create a bet
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I do not think this holds up to evidence. If you regularly treat people you are friends with badly it is generally on you and people will choose to disengage from a relationship with you. If you regularly behave in a destructive manner towa
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When this attacker explicitly says that his goal is to get the US left to censor the right in the hope the right will react strongly is one of the most disconcerting parts of this story. Especially when it seems like the ball is rolling tow
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Steer Clear of Lyft's IPO(forbes.com)
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If you try to look for a cause the countries in question seem to be in the EU block that is the source of much within-EU immigration tension. Immigrating to the US legally is hard, and for someone with few opportunities in their home countr
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I agree. In addition to this its main competitor Uber has many other business units (eats, freight, etc) and can reinvest revenue from other countries where it is the leading rideshare provider. The S1 shows that Lyft on the other hand is l
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Lyft is the second player in two markets. In Canada a distant second. Contrast this with Uber that not only has more business segments (eats, freight, etc in addition to rideshare), but is also the largest player in most markets its in. I s
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100+ years ago a urinal would neither be considered art nor valuable as an artistic expression. Art used to require skill until avant-garde and deconstructionism mounted what has turned out to be a successful attack on artistic competence.
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It is worthwhile looking at the mechanics of the individual and collective US perspective. Individual in high-tax-state: From an individual perspective living in a high tax state like California, not being able to deduct state taxes in exce
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It is a tax to increase revenue. LA has almost non-existent public transit, so anyone riding Uber/Lyft is likely to drive on their own. It is disingenuous to describe this as anything that has any remote chance to even reduce traffic m
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It’s not begging to take 9 out of every ten tax dollars to attract an opportunity.
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So you are saying Queens is in a great place and we do not need to create much more opportunity there?
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I’ve seen this happen countless times in SF. It is a pattern to do this here. It is unproductive and hurts everyone except those owning existing housing due to increasing prices caused by artificially restricted supply. Win-win scenarios ar
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This is about diversifying the economy away from real estate and wall street. It is also about bringing high-paying jobs to Queens, and encourage the kind of investment that brings. From what I understand developers started building in anti
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When Queens has attracted enough campuses like Amazons to become an ecosystem no incentives should be necessary. The deal has positives and negatives for Amazon due to its location, and lack of an ecosystem. After Amazon moved 25k jobs ther
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I don't see how the people that dictated terms to the point where the project was unprofitable is powerless. I also question if the people fighting for this outcome are the same low income residents affected, because I have a hard time
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Yes, but getting more units in a building that won't be build doesn't help said low income residents. This is a moral argument that does not fit the facts we know, and hence can't have a morally good outcome.
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Amazon would generate $30b in tax revenue over the deal length, for which it would be given a $3b break given certain conditions. That is not a handout, because amazon generated all the money in question.
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"loan" is here a figure-of-speech, not an actual loan. It was a $3b tax incentive, where amazon would still be paying $27b in taxes over the same period.
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You are addressing the quote: > You don't need to be the State's Budget Director to know that a nine to one return on your investment is a winner. I think you are here making a moral argument of sorts. Why is it morally better
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Another favorite: > You don't need to be the State's Budget Director to know that a nine to one return on your investment is a winner. The politicians as well as activists involved in this train-crash showed what the consequenc
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> A team with a bad developer is way better off short one developer than it is with a bad element. How do you know that you just didn't communicate your issues well to the person? Is there a way to help them, you and your relationsh
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I used to work for a National Laboratory that was privatized, and the 1980 Bayhd-Dole [1] act made any intellectual property developed on a government contract on what was previously a public national lab now the private ownership of the c
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The article is correct that competing for the kind of content that you find on the front page of glossy magazines in the supermarket lines is a race towards the bottom on the internet. The article is also correct that this is because online
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Both sides are being stupid here. Trump knew the #resistance mindset makes it impossible for democrats to even trade something they supposedly care about, DACA protections, for the wall he cares about. I just find it mind-boggling that this
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At some point I hope the left takes back the NYT from the ideologues. This is the same trite attack on science and bullying of scientists we’ve seen before when it doesn’t comply with their social justice beliefs [1], and this time it’s mor
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Paying a programmer 300-400k is marginal cost compared to the value generated by their work, so no. Comany downside is controlled by most of the compensation being company stock, in case this doesn’t hold. The programs created make the comp

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