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by asabjorn 9y ago
I am asking you to answer the questions I posed instead of making counteraccusations. If you make a good argument I am happy to listen and change my position. Denying everything, never admitting to what other observe even if it might have m
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by asabjorn 9y ago
If you are pointing to my comment I was not trolling at all. McCarthyism had some of the same properties when it comes to suppressing free speech, but the current environment is also very different in that it is done outside the court syste
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by asabjorn 9y ago
Increased housing population would not cause traffic if it was connected to work in a way that did not cause traffic. It is demonstrated at this point that sprawl results in traffic pretty quickly, while dense cities with good public transi
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by asabjorn 9y ago
According to wikipedia use of drugs are a lesser offense in south korea, so if that is correct it is not highly criminalized. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_South_Korea Supply of drugs has also historically b
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by asabjorn 9y ago
It’s great to see Norway do the rational think and replicate the success of the Portuguese system instead of the catastrophe of the American. I think our society would greatly improve from more mercy, and I miss that from growing up in Norw
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by asabjorn 9y ago
I don't see the analogy. In the rule of law you have a code of law, judges, juries and long deliberations. In criminal law the bar of evidence is preponderance of evidence, while in mob rule you need no evidence and you do not have to
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by asabjorn 9y ago
Our democracy is fragile and is not the default state of our society, and speech is central to democracy. I defend all sides right to speak and if appropriate advocate for a change of laws. One of the last times this happened it was McCarth
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by asabjorn 9y ago
Many of the opinions listed in this article are held by sometimes a majority of the population, so this is not about the rule of the many because if so you could legislate this and resolve it through the courts. As MLK said, you do not driv
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by asabjorn 9y ago
I think the fact that this thread is already flagged says a lot. To keep silicon valley competitive we need to be open to diversity and also be inclusive to different ways of thinking, because in this way we are set up to learn and explore
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by asabjorn 9y ago
Who decides what is the correct opinion and what is not? There is a reason why advanced societies are ruled by the rule of law and not the rule of the mob.
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by asabjorn 9y ago
Two wrongs does not make a right. For instance, I fail to see how you can fix things like racism, bigotry and sexism with more of the same.
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by asabjorn 9y ago
What many are having an issue with is that we see some agendas pushed using techniques from totalitarian regimes. When two sides have different solutions to a problem or opinions, but one side feel morally justified to seek the firing of th
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by asabjorn 9y ago
I could not disagree more. You do not preserve your right to free speech by defending the popular opinions. The way you loose your rights is when someone that hold unpopular opinions gets their rights limited. Are you so sure that all the o
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by asabjorn 9y ago
That is unfortunate. As a consumer the creative nickling and diming of airlines not only creates a worse product, but it also makes it hard to figure out what the real price of an airlines trip is.
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by asabjorn 9y ago
From personal experience it was different. When I did my PhD and was very low income I did invest more than 6k in projects, and writing the 120 page thesis was way harder even after my research was done.
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by asabjorn 9y ago
What is the difference between inter partes review and ex parte re-examine?
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by asabjorn 9y ago
I think we are getting stuck on his smallest investment. Even for a middle class person spending the time to research and write a 101-page challenge of the patent far outweighs investing $6k.
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by asabjorn 9y ago
I would imagine spending $6k is a consideration even for a millionaire. Spending the time to research and write a 101-page challenge to the patent seems like quite a considerable investment for anyone, dwarfing the $6k even for a middle cla
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by asabjorn 9y ago
What his total wealth is seems a bit irrelevant. Do you think that he is not genuine about paying for this himself? If so, what do you base that on? The rest of the story seems to support his story that he did this on his own, especially be
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by asabjorn 9y ago
Why would it benefit Uber or its backers to hire him unofficially instead of hiring experts directly? It seems like he was able to make a solid case for invalidating the patent, and hiring experts to investigate patent claims is pretty stan
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by asabjorn 9y ago
Self driving cars is an existential threat to Uber if others have accesss to it while Uber doesn’t, or others have cheaper access. Why don’t you think helping Uber fighting off parent claims without merit would help?
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by asabjorn 9y ago
When a lawsuit without merit took your startup from success to a below-valuation firesale, any similar situation might feel personal to you and it must feel good to do something about it.
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by asabjorn 9y ago
In the disclosure it says that the attack included names, email addresses and phone numbers. It did not contain any passwords or social security numbers, so your passwords must have been compromised in some other way if your Uber account wa
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by asabjorn 9y ago
We disagree that prices need to temporarily go up to give developers an incentive to build to meet demand. Landlords will buy real estate from these developers and the normal return should be 3-8% on that investment. There should be a lower
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by asabjorn 9y ago
I think the parent incirrectly plays into an antagonistic story between renters and landowners, which is not present in a healthy market with balanced housing supply. However, I do not see how the parent argues against land ownership. The p
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by asabjorn 9y ago
Zoning has its uses, but the core of your argument seem to rest on a belief that cities should not rezone because it violates some agreement. I am not aware of any such agreement in law or moral codes, although I do appreciate the sentiment
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by asabjorn 9y ago
Not necessarily. Life situations change so a rent control tenant might need to find a new place or people they love might need to. For instance * get children * get grandchildren they want to be close with while their child can’t afford to
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by asabjorn 9y ago
For the character to change a large percentage of landowners need to decide to meet the demand by building new housing or increasing density. Why is it reasonable for possibly a minority of landowners to limit a large percentage of other la
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by asabjorn 9y ago
We all need shelter and anything you do to artificially suppress the markets ability to serve this need has extremely negative consequences on a majority of the bay area population. Would it be fair to artifically limit access to other esse
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by asabjorn 9y ago
>Right wrong and moral? From perspective of whom? Those are such subjective constructs. Is it right, wrong or moral to actively attempt to triple the population of an already densely populated area when there are millions of underutilize

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