bmmayer1

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by bmmayer1 9y ago
Why?
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by bmmayer1 9y ago
Actually infrastructure projects like this (and including this one I believe) are usually paid for with bonds which means id the project doesn't happen, the money is never borrowed in the first place.
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by bmmayer1 9y ago
It depends on whether you think the government should have that money.
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by bmmayer1 9y ago
Except maybe the $64B doesn't need to be spent at all and can be returned to the taxpayers. The point OP was making is that it's unnecessary to build HSR because there's an existing company (several actually) that provides th
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by bmmayer1 9y ago
Ronald Coase: "If you torture the data long enough, it will confess."
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by bmmayer1 9y ago
This article boils down to one point: that the basis of the LA Times article's claim is California's sky-high real estate prices. If it wasn't including house prices, poor Californians would be doing 'just fine.' Th
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by bmmayer1 9y ago
tanked
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by bmmayer1 9y ago
Isn't Twitter much more akin to something like a bulletin board or a printing press? Certainly the platform on which speech is disseminated should be viewed independently from the speaker?
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by bmmayer1 9y ago
Certainly society doesn't absorb these costs evenly, and only a fraction of these costs are paid by taxpayers. I'd bet if you add up the total expenditure on the federal government level for services for the blind, it wouldn'
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by bmmayer1 9y ago
It's not a bold claim, it's quite supported by evidence. AZT, the first commercially available drug to treat AIDS, was made available in 1989 at the extraordinary cost of $18000 per year in today's dollars ($8000 per year at
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by bmmayer1 9y ago
How does healthcare becoming free (i.e. government funded) make the question of cost and benefit moot? If anything it becomes more of an issue because now such decisions are being made by political appointees and bureaucrats.
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by bmmayer1 9y ago
Why would making it government funded make new treatments like this 1) available or 2) accessible? Obviously it's extremely expensive to R&D something like this and no one is going to make that investment--least of all a cash-strap
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by bmmayer1 9y ago
Have you ever been in a Parisian suburb?
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Why the Team Behind Sesame Street Created a Character with Autism(smithsonianmag.com)
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by bmmayer1 9y ago
The trick is that most people don't pay full tuition[1]. It's like hospital prices: most people don't pay the sticker price and those who do are subsidizing those who don't. [1] http://time.com/money/
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SEC Chief Fires Warning Shot Against Coin Offerings(wsj.com)
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by bmmayer1 9y ago
I honestly don't know why anyone takes the New York Times seriously anymore. They so obviously have an editorial agenda that even in their ostensibly 'objective' reporting they can't hide it. Yes, there will always be st
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by bmmayer1 9y ago
So, let me get this straight. The government pays people to produce them, then charges people to smoke them?
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by bmmayer1 9y ago
I'm having trouble understanding your comment. The entire principle of private property ownership on which (arguably) our entire civil society and economy is based is that one may use said property as one wishes. It doesn't really
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by bmmayer1 9y ago
Sure, but to make money on housing appreciation you also run the risk of losing money on housing depreciation. Given that owning property is a risk, it's not a fair characterization to look at landlords as some sort of leech on society
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by bmmayer1 9y ago
Why are landlords under some special obligation to make a contribution to the general welfare any more than a plumber is, or a software engineer? That said, surely renting a property that is unaffordable to own by the renter provides social
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by bmmayer1 9y ago
The landlord has to pay higher property taxes as their property becomes more valuable, which often go in turn to paying for those improvements. It's not a one-way transfer, there's a quid pro quo. Now you may argue landlords get m
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by bmmayer1 9y ago
This comment doesn't stand up to scrutiny. There aren't a lot of available statistics on how wealthy landlords are, but for instance, according to a San Francisco property owners survey[1], median income for landlords is $90k, onl
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by bmmayer1 9y ago
> Probably setting them up for failure How does covering an 11-year-old's accomplishments set them up for failure?
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America's Best University President(nytimes.com)
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The Secret History of Guns(theatlantic.com)
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by bmmayer1 9y ago
Isn't Google also an investor in Uber?
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Why the trial by ordeal was actually an effective test of guilt(aeon.co)
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by bmmayer1 9y ago
South Korea may technically be at war with North Korea, but very few South Koreans would tell you they live in a country in a state of war. In reality, the war is more a theoretical threat. Whereas in North Korea, people are constantly be
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by bmmayer1 9y ago
> A decade of experience kicked in and delivered a great idea. This reminds me of that quote from Monty Hall about it taking twenty years to become an overnight success. Great read.

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