erispoe

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by erispoe 9y ago
There is major difference in the rights you have before and after you cross the border. That's true for foreigners, but for citizens too.
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by erispoe 9y ago
You don't need to root your phone to install whatever apk you want on Android. Just download and install the app.
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> it’s incredible hard to “start small” because your being judged against all the incumbents Then you're probably addressing the wrong market. I found _The Innovator's Solution_[1] by Clayton Christensen pretty useful to unders
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If you have a limited supply of currency in a growing economy, it's inherently deflationary. So far I haven't seen proposals for cryptocurrencies that can grow as a function of the underlying economy. Maybe there are some.
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If you look at the facial landmarks figure[1], it seems that the main difference between a "gay" and a "straight" man is how fat/thin their face is. Maybe gay people are on average less overweight? That's possi
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by erispoe 9y ago
There's plenty of research on the "entity theory" bias, mostly applied to gender. I.e. if you tell girls that they're bad at math, on average, they will act as if they are. Unfortunately, framing math as hard or scary on
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> Retrofitting modern (past century technology) transport systems onto cities that are a ~ 1,000 years old is things that many cities have managed to do. Almost any capital city in Europe would make a good example. These cities have alwa
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Because it's proposed out of prejudice towards these immigrants, and not out of a rational argument. Germany has a demographic problem and needs these people.
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And what problems are they exactly? Are they making prior residents worse off? Or are we talking "cultural danger"? There is no evidence of the former. In fact, a large part of why Germany has taken so many immigrants compared to
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It's the same problem with proposals for radical direct democracy (i.e. without representation). You'll probably end up with very, very low turnout.
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That relies on the premise that immigration of "ordinary" people is somehow detrimental to the existing US population. This is, to my knowledge, not supported by any fact or study.
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Governments take thousands of decisions. Can we really expect people to dedicate their time to vote all the time on these decisions? We risk ending up with a "democracy" where the power is really in the end of people having enough
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But how do you know it's a new problem? You can always fake a little struggle and thinking your way to the solution for a problem that you know the answer already.
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SF city occupies approximatively the same area as Paris, with only a third of the population. Most of Paris is developed with a 37m ceiling, hardly skyscrapers. Cost of land goes up with density, but that's the point. You build more an
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All these effects are the product of workers being stuck in their jobs through the H1B program. Give H1B workers the same rights as American workers and they will compete on the same terms, getting a competitive salary and not bringing wage
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> The property rights in this case are clear: the plane belongs to United Airlines, and the passenger’s ticket does not entitle him to a seat on the airplane in a situation like this where he is commanded to give it up due to overbooking
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by erispoe 10y ago
The way we do it now: redevelopment. If you remove obstacles to redevelopment, you can easily do it. The hard part is not where to put all these people, but to invest in the infrastructure to serve them.
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The city is not full. Cost indicates that supply has been artificially restrained for a long time. San Francisco has the same size as Paris for a third of the population.
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Pro-independence has risen in the polls since Brexit. It's enough to give the SNP enough political clout to push for another referendum. Brexit was a remote possibility during the IndyRef campaign. On the contrary, Cameron said multipl
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How did you conclude this? Through experimentation or reasoning?
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How do we know that? I'm not sure identity as we know it is required for intelligent life to develop. We know other mammals share it but they're pretty close to us evolutionary speaking. Eusocial intelligence (ant-like) wouldn&#x2
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by erispoe 10y ago
Were you on the last season of the pitch? https://thepitch.fm/episode/sudden-coffee-season-2-episode-2
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What is the alternative hypothesis?
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You leave out the critical question: how do we best protect society? The cycle of abuse, and circumstances that explain how abusers become abusers, does not absolve us from the necessity of protecting potential victims. It does, however, fo
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There's no consensus on that, compared to other areas where there is consensus that immigration, as a whole is either a net benefit or, at worse, neutral. There are, however, individual cases where native born individuals will suffer l
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> the problem is that we can't afford to "let them all in" Why is that? I'm genuinely curious. Are you making an economic or a cultural argument? On the economic side, there's no evidence that immigration, even m
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Basic support to prevent people to go homeless is not only more moral and more humane, it's also cheaper. In California, I'd start by rebuilding mental health support. The State should do it.
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If only the market was working as you think it does. If you remove regulations getting in the way of building faster and denser, I bet you that San Francisco would see a construction boom and prices go down significantly over time. Prices a
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And that's perfectly fine. The only question is who should pay for the externalities of your lifestyle? Now that point is contentious, how much exactly does that amount to? Regulation distorts competition towards your lifestyle, by man
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Complexity counters incentives, though. Unless the only incentives you care about are the ones available to wealthy individuals and large corporations with tax lawyers. If you burry the incentive in a pile of complicated forms, it's no

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