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by gottorf 2y ago
And don't forget to factor in that IAH is a 20 mile drive from downtown Houston, and AUS is another 10 miles to downtown Austin! (Combined, that's about 1/5 of the driving distance between the two cities.)
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by gottorf 2y ago
As far as I understand it, this study is of limited use in discussing today's illegal immigration wave because of two reasons: one, it does not distinguish between legal and illegal immigrants; and two, it does not distinguish between
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by gottorf 2y ago
> And finally, what's the link between integration and crime? I don't see the connection. Here's some data from Denmark[0], for example, that breaks down various statistics for different immigrant groups in Denmark. I take
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by gottorf 2y ago
To my knowledge, there is no version of this claim that distinguishes between illegal and legal immigrants. (I'd be happy to be proven wrong.) In fact, it would be silly to claim that illegal immigrants as a group commit fewer crimes p
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by gottorf 2y ago
> No one has conclusively determined why yet, but we know there's a strong correlation between a country having English as the primary language and immigrants integrating well. To me this has a simple answer: (Western) countries wit
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by gottorf 2y ago
For what it's worth, I'm a nonwhite immigrant living in a Deep South state, with experience living in more liberal coastal metropolitan areas. You will find that whites and blacks are much better integrated with each other in the
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by gottorf 2y ago
> richer in absolute terms, but poorer in relative ones. Off topic, but it's funny how big of a problem this turns out to be in real life.
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by gottorf 2y ago
Different immigrant groups have better or worse outcomes, hence my saying "some immigrant groups". The cultural distance between the English progenitors of the US to the large wave of German immigrants in the 1800s is not as great
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by gottorf 2y ago
> The majority of the people who came here from Europe in the 1700s and 1800s were laborers, factory workers, farmers, and other simple occupations. Why are we pulling up the ladder behind them? The welfare state did not exist in that ti
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by gottorf 2y ago
> I'm not concerned about the crime You may not be concerned about the crime, but many voters are. The author of the article you linked to also exhorts the Somali immigrant community to not engage in crime. > because that seems l
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by gottorf 2y ago
In fact, they will likely be able to live a better life if everyone was free to choose an energy source that makes economical sense to them.
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by gottorf 2y ago
> our grandchildren will be able to live Our grandchildren will be able to live regardless of where these companies source their power from.
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by gottorf 2y ago
Afuera!
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by gottorf 2y ago
Sounds beautiful. Good luck with your trip.
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by gottorf 2y ago
Given that Chile only covers about nine degrees of longitude, the reasonable expectation is that it only has one time zone (excluding any far-flung territories and whatnot). I'm sure you're going to surprise me with the true answe
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by gottorf 2y ago
> in every country and every continent, people are looser in the south Fun to think about, but I'm sure there are as many counterexamples as there are examples. In the Germanic languages, for example, no one could deny that Swedish
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by gottorf 2y ago
> Just so many different climate zones, and all in relatively close proximity. Another place like this, perhaps lesser in scale, is the Big Island of Hawaii. Its latitude means the trade winds are blowing from the same direction year-rou
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by gottorf 2y ago
Yes, it's really not that much money, all things considered. Even regular colocation (just for hosting) at a name-brand facility with all the redundancy that the CME facility has would run you $1-2k a month.
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by gottorf 2y ago
> It just requires tons of money to do so. On the order of thousands of dollars a month[0], depending on how close you want to get. [0]: https://www.cmegroup.com/globex/connectivity-options.html
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by gottorf 2y ago
"Averages" is doing heavy lifting in GP's statement. It's a vast state, after all, and how meaningful is an average between the climates of Houston and El Paso?
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by gottorf 2y ago
> Imagine if this money was put into education or healthcare or transit. We’d actually have a net benefit! Based on the evidence, it's hard to imagine that lack of money is the problem with those three things. K-12 education in part
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by gottorf 2y ago
> we should have stopped burning fossil fuels for entertainment. One man's entertainment is another's livelihood. It's not like they're burning a barrel of oil for fun...
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by gottorf 2y ago
> OK, but on the east cost, there is no shortage. Yeah, why are they talking about tapping offshore aquifers in areas that average 40+ inches (and increasing as of recent years) of rain a year? It seems to me a solution in search of a pr
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by gottorf 2y ago
Remember, the enemy's gate is down...
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by gottorf 2y ago
I mean a Georgist land value tax, where you are only taxed on the value of the land underneath any improvements, and not on the improvements themselves. Of course, that doesn't prevent the kind of valuation mistakes that your article p
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by gottorf 2y ago
I would love to see your sources; everything I've seen across the partisan spectrum shows a large increase from the 2010-2020 period to 2020 and onwards.
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by gottorf 2y ago
> The purpose of our government is to collaborate and compromise to find solutions that are good for the country. > Consider two children tasked with collaborating on a problem. One of them walks up and says "One-hundred percent
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by gottorf 2y ago
> Taxes are used to run society, from it's roads, fire department, education, social services, and much more The "much more" is much, much, much more than anyone thinks. The federal budget is tremendous. People cannot conc
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by gottorf 2y ago
This is a feature of the US constitutional system, not a bug. It's designed such that things move very, very slowly. If Congress isn't able to pass laws, it probably reflects a division in how the voting populace feels about the s
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by gottorf 2y ago
The great increase in illegal entry into the country through the southern border is a good recent example. Though, I suppose this is predicated upon it being "good policy" that illegal immigration be slowed.

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