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by davidf18 9y ago
Homelessness comes from high cost of housing. It is emotionally convenient to blame other causes, but there is still mental health support in cities through federally funded community health centers.
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by davidf18 9y ago
Person of Interest TV show also on Netflix http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1839578/ Eagle Eye movie: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1059786/
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by davidf18 9y ago
In microeconomics is is called market inefficiency or market failure caused by special interests who influence passing laws. The terms are market inefficiency or market failure.
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by davidf18 9y ago
The high cost of housing and commercial real estate in SF, NYC, Boston, DC, LA, London, ....all have the same underlying cause which was fixed in Japan by the Japanese federal government. It is a market inefficiency caused by zoning density
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by davidf18 9y ago
http://www.nber.org/papers/w23532 At my local grocer in Manhattan, some prices suddenly went up 25% or more on a number of items and I was told by a senior manager of the food store chain (I was calling to complain abo
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by davidf18 9y ago
United seems to have some operational control since the CEO of United said that they would no longer be dragging people off of flights and in the media that passenger was listed as being on a "United Express" flight. These subcont
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by davidf18 9y ago
> "But a senior pilot at United will have to restart as a junior pilot with Delta, all that "high cost of time, effort, and dollars necessary to procure the skills" be damned." That doesn't make any sense at all.
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by davidf18 9y ago
EasyJet, Ryan Air, and Norwegian are not crappy carriers that come and go. Low profit margins have to do with an industry that by-and-large is a commodity. But prices have to do with operating costs and Norwegian and Ryan Air and Easy Jet
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by davidf18 9y ago
According to Wikipedia, United Continental Holdings is the parent of United Express: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Express > "and result from union contracts that inhibit the legacies from profitably ope
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by davidf18 9y ago
Thanks for the link. Still, incandescents consume a lot of power, and LEDs little.
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by davidf18 9y ago
Our brilliant governor Cuomo has decided to remove Indian Point power plant from the grid. It generates electric with no greenhouse gas for 1/4 of NYC and Westchester County which in total is a population of about 10 million (8.5 + 1)
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by davidf18 9y ago
> "Are you trying to tell me that they won't build more windmills..." The tilting at windmills joke comes to mind :-) Honestly, first off the article says that it seems that gas is less competitive than renewable, so there
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by davidf18 9y ago
But the energy is fungible. So that if it is purchasing the green energy from elsewhere, it is simply depriving others from that benefit meaning that ultimately is is carbon-based fuels that are used.
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by davidf18 9y ago
But in this case, you are simply throwing your money away since the green producers aren't going to produce more energy because you and other consumers are paying them to. They will produce the same amount regardless. In that case, be
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by davidf18 9y ago
I'm assuming this is a joke since there aren't separate power lines for renewable energy. :-)
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by davidf18 9y ago
I wonder what the economics would be without the federal tax incentives for wind and solar. Does anyone know? EDIT: Someone above provided a link that provides the figure I was looking for: "Between 2010 and 2016, subsidies for solar
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by davidf18 9y ago
I don't agree. The consolidation of major carriers under Obama administration (United buying Continental, and American buying US Air) has reduced competition and thus higher fares, worse service. They don't fly out of regional ai
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by davidf18 9y ago
Well from NYC, both of the airlines fly out of LGA and Spirit also out of Newark, but I've never, never seen fares anything that are better than the other carriers that I get through Kayak or other sites. Never. NYC SFO July 11 to 20
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by davidf18 9y ago
> "At what expense of high paying, quality, American jobs?" When I fly to Israel with a layover in Istanbul to visit friends in Istanbul, I am using Turkish pilots, thus depriving Americans of jobs. They are lower cost than ma
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by davidf18 9y ago
What I know is that the Democratic Obama Justice Dept wrongly bowed to the special interests to weaken competition among domestic carriers (perhaps bowing to union interests which also want less competition so that they can get higher wages
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by davidf18 9y ago
"Should a carrier established in one country be allowed to offer wages typical of another?" The chief concern is safety. America's airline industry especially with the consolidations of United buying Continental and American
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by davidf18 9y ago
From the Quora article: "It's a relatively new airline, so it doesn't have a long history of union agreements that must be fulfilled. " All of the US domestic carriers went bankrupt and renegotiated their union agreement
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by davidf18 9y ago
"The U.S. Department of Transportation, besieged with opposition from domestic airlines, labor unions, and other interest groups, took three years to approve Norwegian’s transatlantic plan." This is the same government under Obama
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by davidf18 9y ago
I'm on a 6 ms ping to www.google.com, 315 Mbit/sec dl, 245 ul and it took about 3.5 sec. Using ublock origin, Ghostery on Safari with 2015 MacBook Pro 15"
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by davidf18 9y ago
I looked into this a bit further and there was an entire committee including Holder but nobody that was truly an expert with a background in clinical psychology and industrial psychology consulting. The committee has not one qualified prof
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by davidf18 9y ago
To suggest that there is an culture of sexual abuse and for a number of women not to feel it and to state otherwise is sexual abusive. In fact they went as far as to praise the environment. It is suggesting that these women's feelings
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by davidf18 9y ago
> "One group of women saying the culture in Uber is corrosive? Well that's rumour and innuendo." I never suggested rumor or innuendo. But it is sexist to not believe not a single woman but a number of women who come out a
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by davidf18 9y ago
This FB post is referred to in the article, written by a woman who is very, very supportive of TK: https://www.facebook.com/margaretann.seger/posts/10214004058... 1000 people have "liked" the posting inc
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by davidf18 9y ago
Fascinating, an Associate Prof at Harvard who can't do research: "Get a TLC license New York City With more riders than any other app, Uber is a great way to make money driving in NYC. You'll need a TLC license to pick up rid

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