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by harryh 7y ago
We live in a free society. The burden for passing laws outlawing particular products is supposed to be higher than the burden to bring those products to market in the first place.
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by harryh 7y ago
I'm sure it's a lot of things. I'm just saying that whatever minor resources spent on securing moving some jewelry weren't taking away from larger police priorities.
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by harryh 7y ago
NYC murder rates are at all time lows. They are preventing murders in the South Bronx.
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by harryh 7y ago
Oxfam publishes essentially the same report every year. And it is wrong ever year. Don't listen to them. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-01-24/oxfam-...
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by harryh 7y ago
Seattle has certainly had historical NIMBY problems, but is finally undergoing a building boom and it's having a noticeable effect on prices. https://www.seattletimes.com/business/real-estate/seattle-re...
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by harryh 7y ago
This is discussed and linked to in the post.
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by harryh 7y ago
Unless plaid's equity structure was very unusual, early employees (at least in engineering) certainly received much much more than 1 basis point.
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by harryh 7y ago
I am continuously impressed with your ability to cite your sources in comments like this. Do you find them in real time or do you just keep a file somewhere with this stuff indexed?
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by harryh 7y ago
This came as a result of cars killing many, many people When was this? I can find no time period in which child pedestrian fatalities were all that significant.
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by harryh 7y ago
Technology has been destroying jobs for nearly all of human history and yet here we are with full employment. Those that assert that "this time it's different!" have a steep hill to climb when it comes to evidence.
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by harryh 7y ago
LBJ and the Great Society won the war on poverty in America. https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/1205596833692565504 "The economists find that by the standards of LBJ's time, the U.S. poverty rate has
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by harryh 7y ago
What's the fundamental difference between an employer / employee relationship (where economic power can be wielded) and a police office / arestee relationship (where legal power can be weilded)? What makes the latter "in
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by harryh 7y ago
Surely you agree that sometimes power differentials can invalidate consent. Can sex between a police officer and another person that they have placed under arrest be consensual?
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Casper Sleep files S-1 in advance of IPO(archive.fast-edgar.com)
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by harryh 7y ago
The whole thing sounds just so ridiculous that I kind wonder if we're getting the true story here. Isn't it at least possible that something has gotten distorted along the way?
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by harryh 7y ago
You're talking about quite literally like 80% of the entire tax revenue generated by the government. This is wrong. $50k/yr is below median household income so we're talking about eliminating income taxes for the bottom ha
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by harryh 7y ago
there is already enough housing for everybody This is not true because you aren't counting the vast number of people who want to relocate to the Bay Area. The article also ignores the fact that you will always have some % of empty ho
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by harryh 7y ago
You can't build yourself out of the housing crisis when the problem is one of distribution, not one of supply. This is wrong. There is no distribution problem with housing. It's not that people can't find a house to live in
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by harryh 7y ago
Definitely yes. Property taxes should be proportional to the value of the property. We shouldn't give special breaks to one group or another just because we like them more.
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by harryh 7y ago
They're already at 200B and the rate is currently at 10B/year and rising rapidly. So I strongly suspect they will.
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by harryh 7y ago
Ah, OK. This is all time total. I was referring to current annual emissions. Definitely two different things. At projected rates when will China "catch up" in terms of all time total?
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by harryh 7y ago
This is incorrect. China is ~double the US. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_di...
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by harryh 7y ago
It's not just the sites you are asking to deal with that friction, but also every single individual user who ever signs up for anything on the internet. That's a lot of friction. Too much.
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by harryh 7y ago
To the degree that this is true, that seems awfully unfair to people forced to give their property to the government without their consent. The government can just make you poorer overnight? That sounds bad.
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by harryh 7y ago
he's arguing the property after the fact is worth $2M. No, he's not. What he paid 10 years ago is not a relevant data point in the calculation. What matters is the current market value.
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by harryh 7y ago
Instagram never should have activated the account and allowed any activity until the email address was verified Essentially zero services on the internet operate this way because it increases the friction to signing up & getting start
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by harryh 7y ago
A person has something worth X. The government wants to take a piece of that thing that reduces its value to Y. Therefore the government has to give the person (X-Y) dollars. That seems like a perfectly reasonable way to value what the gove
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by harryh 7y ago
Courts have so far ruled that, for various reasons, the 1976 California Coastal Act doesn't apply at all to this piece of land. They have also ruled that the previous use of the land didn't create any sort of government easement o
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by harryh 7y ago
What is the value of a giant private beach? What is the value of that same beach with public access? It seems to me that the difference between those two numbers could easily be $30M.
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by harryh 7y ago
The reporting on this topic (especially headlines) has been generally quite poor. You really have to dig in to understand what is going on. See this cousin comment for details on how he has won on most of the merits: https://news

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