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by erispoe 11y ago
Blood feuds were never the preferred method. The Sagas go on and on about people who were good lawyers and on how important it was to know the law (while being able to chop a head off with a single swing of your axe). Iceland's parliam
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The question is what do you define as a community. The housing market is the size of the whole Bay Area, yet local governments responsible for housing are very fragmented and very different. There is a vast difference between San Francisco
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Are you a monorail enthusiast because you think monorails are fun or because you think they genuinely have their place in a transit network? And if so, why?
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The problem faced by the UK, and many other countries, is not that people are renters, it's that they have diminishing financial security. Swiss people rent more than any other people in Europe (only 35% homeownership rate) but they ar
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Basic Income is designed to replace welfare benefits, and get rid the many adverse effects that a complicated welfare system creates. Therefore it should benefit from the same type of protection. It's not complicated, many countries ha
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That's interesting, do you have a good source on that? I switched to 3.x for development but I do academic projects too.
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An important point is the social conservatism of Singapore, which I suspect plays an important role in repelling a large number of people. I don't think it's a complete coincidence that startup hubs emerge in places that are relat
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Because overall immigration does way more good than harm to a country, and that drawback effect on low wages can be countered by policy measures.
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Being slightly detrimental is not exactly synonym for beating down.
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I would. With background checks for criminal records. People who have the wherewithal to move across the globe are not "the poorest and most desperate people from all around the world", they are the ones with the means to pay thou
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That wouldn't work, you can create as many shell companies as you want and outsource employment to these companies.
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We have no scientific evidence of the contrary. There are some studies pointing to mass migration being (slightly) detrimental to the wages of low-income natives, but that's pretty much it. You will find a lot of opinions though.
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NIMBYs on the San Francisco Peninsula (Palo Alto, Menlo Park...) got their pitchforks out for a High Speed Rail project that would use the existing right-of-way and they managed to downscale the project dramatically. HSR wouldn't distu
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He flies.
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Solving problems is not ignoring them and wish they go away. One of the biggest problem with transportation infrastructures in the US is the cost of the right-of-way. This is barely touched by Hyperloop (the project doesn't account for
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French parliament votes a mandate to create a “sovereign operating system”(numerama.com)
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This is the thing not accounted for in Hyperloop cost projection. It's comparing the whole cost of HSR with the system cost of Hyperloop. The bunch of HSR's cost is right-of-way and land acquisition, that requires a long and costl
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The author is from France. Is terminal delivery as cheap in Europe?
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Interesting that your list yields mainly fiction, while OP's list is mainly non-fiction.
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San Francisco is largely made up of renters (63%) and planning decisions are made by the City of San Francisco, not individual neighborhoods. The problem you describe exists in small communities where the neighborhood is de facto a jurisdic
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You have a right to your private property. That right does not extend to publicly owned land or land owned by other private parties. When you buy land in the heart of a large metropolitan area in an under-developed neighborhood, it's r
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Relying on evolution, a slow mechanism for humans, especially in a social context where a lot of selection pressure has been removed, sounds like really bad way to design policies. Beyond the fact that you would need a direct link between g
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This is an idealized view of science and academia that has no grounding in reality. People in academia feel a lot of pressure to research specific topics. The pressure is not necessarily from the market, but from publications. If you "
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> an "adaptive" learning system doesn't just adapt to the spacing effect, but to your study habits, emotional state, learning style, and even the global activity linked to certain concepts That's interesting, how do y
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Could the administration decide to lower the bar for some visas, like O-1, without the need for congress to approve it? For instance, could the administration decide that anyone with a PhD, or even a master's degree, is eligible for a
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How hard is it to create an entity that is H1B cap-exempt and can this entity be related in any way to a for-profit company?
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What is the best way to transition from a J1 visa (visiting researcher) to a visa allowing to work one's startup?
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One big difference is that placebo effect doesn't make any sense for blood tests. You want to cure your cold with placebo? Sure, go ahead. But measuring cholesterol levels or detecting HIV with an inaccurate test is a real health hazar
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We don't need to fix congestion. We need to make people move better, that's a very different problem.
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This article conflates two very different things: creating new tolls on existing infrastructure, and creating new toll-funded infrastructures. The first one changes the incentives of existing users, the other one is creating induced demand

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