erispoe

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by erispoe 10y ago
Undocumented immigrants do not "suck the system dry". They pay taxes, for the most part, and because they are undocumented, are unable to benefit from most of the services available to legal residents (citizens or immigrants).
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I said greater LA, whereby, to be precise, I meant Los Angeles metro area. The density of LA metro is 2,702.5ppl/km2, compared to 2,053.6ppl/km2 for NY metro. LA metro is denser by a good margin. NY metro area includes a lot of ve
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by erispoe 10y ago
Yes, the US Census supports that. See this table on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_urban_ar... This table is directly extracted from census data: http://www2.census.gov/g
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by erispoe 10y ago
LA is actually very suitable for public transit: it's a city with multiple, reasonably dense urban centers. The greater LA as a whole is also pretty dense, denser than NY metro area. And the city is investing like crazy in new transit
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100 years ago most households had one 'breadwinner', and this breadwinner had a job for life. With the advent of the 2 working adults households, and increase in job mobility, having access to a large pool of potential employment
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If I live in San Francisco or New Work, my spouse can easily get a job. If I want to change jobs, I can easily do so without putting my life upside down. This what a large, diverse job market does. Plus a lot of people value urban amenities
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by erispoe 10y ago
Just because you say it's "socially untenable forced immigration" does not make it so. You have no evidence that it is, indeed, untenable. Rants from your "expat friends" are not evidence, they are anecdotes. German
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by erispoe 10y ago
Have you looked at their programs? They're not proposing any crackdown on immigration.
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It is true that populist parties are on the rise. However, both in France and in Germany, favorites for this year election are on the center-left (Emmanuel Macron and Martin Schultz, respectively) and very firmly in favor of more EU integra
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by erispoe 10y ago
You're summarizing the debate between "originalism" and "pragmatism" theories of judicial interpretation. The former looks at what people supposedly intended and confines the meaning of the text to that. It's t
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by erispoe 10y ago
Yet it was sold as a Muslim ban by the administration, which is a major reason for San Francisco's federal appeal court to suspend it. The fact that it's not an effective Muslim ban is a different question.
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Does anybody really believe that, though? It's something different to say that we have large reserves of productivity to feed both economic and demographic growth for the foreseeable future, taking into account the natural slowdowns th
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by erispoe 10y ago
Context matters. It matters to be on the morally wrong side when society is at a decision point. By and large, we don't judge romans because they practiced slavery. We judge people who have chosen to defend slavery when it was not a mo
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by erispoe 10y ago
These are people with double citizenship.
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by erispoe 10y ago
In that case there's plenty of competition to take Zenefit's business.
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by erispoe 10y ago
Do you have a source for your claim of "low quality of treatment"?
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by erispoe 10y ago
The key here is "who is supported by the dominant political party". The tea party gained so much clout because they got organized to contest internal elections and primaries inside the GOP. It's much more efficient to leverag
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by erispoe 10y ago
I wouldn't project your preferences onto everyone. For instance, I vastly prefer being able to do stuff on my phone, even standing in a crowded bus, to driving behind the wheel not being able to do anything.
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by erispoe 10y ago
You're right. I mixed up my stats. Most of the new households come in these cities without owning a car. Sources: http://sf.streetsblog.org/2014/08/15/car-free-households-are... https://ggwash
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by erispoe 10y ago
No. Because increased density goes with less reliance on individual cars. The majority of people (by far) in NY or SF don't have a car already. Traffic is not bad in the densest cities of the western world, because we have much more ef
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by erispoe 10y ago
That's a possibility. I'm not sure it's true. Both Uber and Lyft have good waiting times right now. The hypothesis that they will replace privately owned cars supposes that the market will grow immensely. Waiting time is a fu
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by erispoe 10y ago
Yes but how much are you ready to pay to divide your waiting time from 3min to 1min?
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Airlines used to collude on price, too.
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Network effects don't accumulate to a natural monopoly in this case. Yes you need a fleet large enough to get to a sweet price / waiting time optimum, but each new car in your fleet has a diminishing marginal effect. You could say
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by erispoe 10y ago
That will the Supreme Court to decide. Its decision is expected on Jan 24.
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by erispoe 10y ago
The Brexit referendum is not legally binding. Parliament will have to vote on Brexit, too.
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I feel the general consensus is that France is good at startup creation, but lacks the infrastructure, particularly capital, to support their growth. Many of the promising ones end up getting bought by an established player, often a semi-pu
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Populations in Africa are also genetically more diverse than the rest of the world combined.
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Sitting might be a requirement for you, and it's fine, but should also be willing to pay the price for it, i.e. live in a suburb that can accommodate your preferences. You cannot live in a dense city rich in amenities and expect to be
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The median income is $4000 in Switzerland. What matters is that they have less income inequality and a good welfare safety net. When you let people with mental illness become homeless because everyone should fend for themselves, of course t

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