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by baursak 10y ago
Same here. His speeches and books are indeed pretty monotonous, but his interviews are much better. "Understanding Power" is probably the best Chomsky book, and it wasn't written by Chomsky. It's just a collection of tra
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Thanks for your response. One thing I got curious about -- are you aware of any liberal or socialist leaning communities in rural Canada?
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> It's in a corporation's best interest to give the customer exactly what he wants. Comcast comes to mind here. Or Better Business Bureau and the sole reason for its existence.
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And sometimes they remove competing things that people want so that the only thing available is what corporations have to offer. Case in point: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_streetcar_consp...
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Sometimes it can get worse than that. http://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/assault-charges-dr...
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I've lived all my life without ever visiting China.
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As someone who considered this, there are a few other factors where cities are preferable. Work. If you're not running your own online business and need a skilled/tech job, you don't have much choice. Schools. Cities often ha
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Look up "white flight". http://www.alternet.org/story/65404/the_future_of_cities%3A_...
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> Essentially this is breach of contract. That's Trump's MO it seems. In other news today that fit this pattern: http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/02/01/512928851/...
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Thanks, this looks interesting, I ordered Maverick to learn more about Semco.
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I think in your examples this is due primarily to two factors. One, is that land is generally cheap in Grand Rapids, so is drastically decreased as a factor. And two, you're still comparing new luxury condos to teardown SFHs. If you re
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I can try as well. > If I'm dismissive it's because we've had a lot of field tests of socialism throughout history, as well as in economic studies, and the results are always poor. While this may sound like a no-true-Scots
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> However this is incredibly far from reality because people actually like being employees. Really? Why don't you offer your employees equal partnership with no strings attached and see if they'd just rather stay employees. I c
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As far as I know Trudeau government already repealed it.
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Yes, as a small business owner, it's a tougher concept to come to terms with. You can try looking at it from different perspectives though. For one, I'm sure a 12th century monarch or a lord would have a host of reasons why you&#
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> A company that expends great amount of money and resources on constant political shifting and backstabbing, and that can't present an unified vision on the market will soon get outcompeted by one that has its shit together. That a
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Do you mind expanding on why it's even more dangerous than Trump?
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Democracy can be improved by having democracy in the workplace. Modern corporations are run like totalitarian, authoritarian regimes with top-down orders being barked down. If you disobey, you're out. People in Western democracies are
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There's a book called "Tomatoland" that discusses the tomato industry and how tomatoes were selected not for taste, but to last through the journey to the supermarket and shelf life once there. Interview with author and excer
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LOL @ Edmonton vs Dubai comparison. A big chunk of Edmonton internatonal connections route through the US airports -- SEA, MSP, DEN, ORD, SFO, etc. Unless Edmonton airport becomes a major global air hub like Dubai, this is just plain laugha
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> So if you can afford a 400 000$ housing unit, and you assume half of it goes to pay for the land Why would half of your cost be for land in a high-rise condo? If understand your link correctly, these numbers are construction costs only
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Wait, do these numbers include the cost of land in the package or are these just the construction costs? Otherwise, I'm confused about this. My experience is that if there's a single family home sitting next to a tower of condos,
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Oh sure, I just don't think Democracy Index was around back then.
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That should have happened 16 years ago.
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> the cost of land + construction jumps significantly Per person? I don't see how. For a 16-floor building, you can easily fit 120 comfortable condos on a plot of land that would otherwise only fit 2-4 single family homes. Yes, the
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It should be relatively cheaper in places with lots of mid-to-high rise development. For example, Berlin is relatively cheap as I understand it. London is expensive, but if you randomly click around it on Google StreetView, you'll see
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In places were housing is expensive, land will be the majority of the cost. In places where land is cheap, housing is already not expensive. The way to affordable housing is high density, mid-to-high rise condos.
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I've had a boss who was very competent technically, but was completely incompetent as a people manager. Somehow he rose to a VP level, but still wanted to micromanage everything down to individual code reviews. It was comical at times.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZ4VzhIuKCQ
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It's not just Buffett though: https://www8.gsb.columbia.edu/articles/columbia-business/sup...

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