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Rail is vastly more efficient at transporting people and goods in large volume. This is why automated cars won't turn rail investments irrelevant. The RER B in Paris, a two tracks north-south rail tunnel, is equivalent in capacity to a
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Switzerland is tied by many bilateral agreements with the EU. It's in their interest to adopt most of the EU legislation, so that they can do business smoothly with their neighbors, who are all EU members.
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A lot of people here a critical of the visa system because it drives wages down. This is an effect of employers having way too much leverage in the current system, the H1B being attached to your current employement. If you provide for equal
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Packing the maximum of text on a screen is not what design is about. Having less content on a screen is a perfectly reasonnable choice if it means better interaction. I'm not saying they achieve this here, but interaction should be the
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These are not excuses, these are explanations. Because we need to understand how to defuse radicalization.
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"there never was selection pressure favouring people who thrive well into old age and age in supreme health on any chow or fodder without suffering severe degeneration and disease" Can you back that up? Actually having living heal
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There is very much pressure for that. Natural selection is just about passing genes to the next generations. If by living longer you can increase the safety, and the reproductive success, of your offsprings, you select for that. Reproductiv
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Yes, there is nothing morally good or bad about evolution and natural selection. It just happens to be. People say we stoppped evolution like it's a catastrophy. First, evolution is still happening, we provide a very different context
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Because people is early-stage companies are compensated with equity more than salary, and bet that their equity value will go up dramatically. Plus a lot of startups have foreign founders and these people need visas. So-called entrepreneur
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Because in early stage startups, you accept to forgo a market rate salary for equity that still has low value. You do that because you expect, or you bet on the equity value to go up. Risk, reward, it's simple. A bidding system for H1B
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Tip is actually hardly related to quality of service. Michael Lynn's[1] research shows that people reveal their prejudices through tipping more than anything else. Being a young busty blonde female gets you way more in tips than being
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They did. Ancient Rome and contemporary Japan are two examples relying heavily on adoption to pass on property to the next generation. The biological reality of genitors is only partly relevant to determine family ties.
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How much is that technology lag, and Japan's conservative take on things in general, responsible for the economic morass they've been in for more than a decade now?
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Why is there too many people in China? What is the standard to determine the right population?
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I don't want to solve a riddle here, but I am genuinely interested in the evidence supporting the nativist hypothesis in this context, especially on how you'd pass abstract information through genes. Do you have any reference, a g
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It's the same guy.
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The Silicon Vallex is in a large metro. It's still pretty dense and you have 8 million people around. I don't think the experience would be different in Oakland, Fremont, San Francisco...
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Great, I want to know more about it. Do you have some references on that?
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You're right. Let's say it's a failure to consider the universe of possible explanations to select the simplest, by restraining yourself to the one you already like.
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The main problem with the nativist hypothesis is that it's breaching Occam's razor rule. Is there a simpler explanation than being hardwired with information, which would be a fairly complicated thing to explain, considering what
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Why? It takes more than 50% of expressed votes every two years to make a functionnal democracy.
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You are right. I don't think SCOTUS looks at gallup polls and decides to endorse anything that meets a 50% threshold. It's more about recognizing a change in opinion and a consensus in the making. Interracial marriage was not at 5
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SCOTUS decisions don't change hearts and minds, that's true. But SCOTUS decisions tend to follow long-term changes in public opininion. Gay marriage wouldn't have passed 50 years ago. SCOTUS acts like a classic common law cou
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You have a more articulate way than usual to package this classic of homophobia. But you miss the point, the article is not about that.
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I wonder if they have some sort of engagement feedback, to understand what works and what doesn't. Does the software only generate boilerplate stuff like "The average price of a home is X" or include sentences like "It&#
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Lafayette is where they found a good case. They are suing on the basis that the City of Lafayette is approving a project on the condition of an decrease in density, while the original project density was conform to the zoning. This is what
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Tearing down homes doesn't necessarily destroy value. It increases the value of other properties, because you have less supply and more demand. This is exactly the equivalent of not building while demand goes balistic. The price of hom
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First, concentration of economic value in urban centers is a constant since the first cities appeared. That's what they are for. This is not the result of a government ploy. This is not a 10'000 years old conspiracy. Second, no on
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Paris is slightly smaller in area than San Francisco, yet has three times the population. As you said, Paris is a very livable city. Yet, a lot of people would describe San Francisco as "full". It is nowhere near "full"
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iOS has a 14% market share

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