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by bsanr2 6y ago
Well, speaking directly out of my ass: 1) There are a lot less of them. Tight-knit, insular communities with fewer members to look after benefit from a "guerilla effect" wherein their slow-building success is harder to identify an
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Crime increased partly because we massively expanded both the definition of crime and the powers necessary to find and prosecute it. There is a role for the breakdown of community in this, of course, but, surprise, that was a product of ins
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People (specifically, the people who ran our public discourse) used to agree that having a persecuted underclass was acceptable. Now, some people do and some people don't, and as is common among groups who disagree about a fundamental
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This man/woman knows how to market.
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Cheaper how, though? It does seem that a lot of the costs have been externalized or have gone otherwise unacknowledged. Factoring in the losses sustained by unrest, despair, missed opportunity, rent and interest, and so forth, I think you c
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I honestly think this is a case of equality appearing as persecution to those who've lived relatively blessed lives heretofore. For all the rigors of rural, small-town, w/e life, you don't see a mass exodus to the cities. Why
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We have a military service (because defense is crucial to our nation's wellbeing), a postal service (because verified communication is crucial to our nation's wellbeing), and so on. I don't understand the resistance to things
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I don't know if that's self-evident, given that the average non-union worker votes quite often for the union-busters who promise to enshrine their sanctifying beliefs in law.
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It's troubling. I could understand if he was just a modestly-wealthy ecec in some large corporation, or a founder of a small software company, but he's not. He's one of the richest men in the world, and for two decades was in
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by bsanr2 6y ago
You should do your research. ERHS is highly-ranked, especially so for a public school that is not a full magnet (it has a magnet STEM program that makes up a portion of the student body but otherwise draws from the surrounding neighborhoods
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by bsanr2 6y ago
I went to the same high school as Sergey Brin, a little over a decade after he had and well after Google had become the de facto search standard. Didn't know until I was already in college. AFAIK he's never made an effort to reach
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And this is part of why it's a cycle instead of a one-and-done pain point: people who try to bury how much work we have yet to do.
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Sweden? The issue is that so many of the people who say "government isn't the solution to every problem," really mean, "government isn't the solution to any problems except the ones I personally can't buy mysel
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He's also (or, at least, was at one point) roughly the size of a mountain. Well, The Mountain, specifically. That is to say that he's larger than life. I think some people just find his antics entertaining (as long as they're
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Church is different in that (as far as internal logic goes) adherence/non-adherence to their dictates involves a credible claim to the fate of your immortal soul. It's a little bit different from other book clubs.
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by bsanr2 6y ago
>rather than a perpetual slow boil conflict that turns into a low intensity shooting war every few decades like you see in other parts of the world. End of Reconstruction, Bloody Summer, Brown v Board and the subsequent CRM, the War on D
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by bsanr2 6y ago
Simply swing the antitrust hammer judiciously, in that case. I'm suddenly hit with the image of a child whining that having to do homework AND chores is too hard, and their parent telling them to suck it up. Besides, tax revenue doesn&
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You forgot the electrons. https://davidmytton.blog/how-much-energy-do-data-centers-use...
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Ostensibly.
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Taking the meta-view: the cynical take is that you only care because you and people you know are in the crosshairs. If you feel that there's a role for government here, perhaps you should be more considerate of a role for government in
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Why C is zero-indexed(exple.tive.org)
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Those are externalities. They're not controlled by the suppliers.
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It is not. It's essentially a planned economy.
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Suburbs aren't cities, though it's true that the modern suburb owes its existence to "urban renewal" initiatives which dovetailed with auto infrastructure development (hence the freeway which cuts through the historicall
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I'm sure he'd very much like people to believe so.
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I hope it's not lost on people the fact that we essentially have a population of slaves bound to risk their lives protecting wealth and property they can't partake in and that probably shouldn't be situated, geographically, w
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This seems like a problem for everyone - corporate interests, repressive governments, etc. - but the end consumer, who just wants to watch a damn movie.
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>It's a real market, it's just heavily supply constrained. >Conventional market theory assumes that supply will rise to meet demand, but between green belt laws, NIMBY movements and the difficulty of crating new land where p
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My understanding is that much of the reason for parking money in these properties is to get around local (that is, their local, our foreign) tax laws and wealth regulations. If that's the case, it's not different from money launde
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Start training assistants in a novel way?

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