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by hx87 10y ago
First of all, having children and having a family are two different if related things. You can have children without having a family, and you can have family without having children. Having children alone does not give you any stronger a su
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by hx87 10y ago
If it's a puny number, and enormous number of people benefit from it, and the benefit is 100% financial (as in this case), then each person isn't benefiting all that much from it.
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by hx87 10y ago
Above all it was a managerial bailout. The people who made the actual decisions that led to the crisis made it out fine, as long as their company was lucky enough to be bailed out.
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by hx87 10y ago
I live in Boston, and while it isn't Canada, it can get quite cold in the winter. Plenty of people here, I included, bike in the winter. As long as you wear the right clothes have low-temperature lubricants and winter tires on your bik
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by hx87 10y ago
Oh, we have our priorities alright. We want to be financially comfortable and secure before bring children into this world, and if that means "running the corporate treadmill", freelancing, what have you, so be it. Due to how prec
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by hx87 10y ago
You're assuming that any child I adopt would be genetically predisposed to lower intelligence than a child I would biologically have. That's not necessarily the case.
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by hx87 10y ago
IMHO the US has been becoming country A more and more for the past couple of decades, but in the mean time a large of part of the population is stuck in (or clings to) country B, hence the particularly venomous presidential campaign season.
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by hx87 10y ago
> the U.S. railway is so old and kinda desolate That's only true of passenger rail though--freight rail in the US works really well.
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by hx87 10y ago
Social connections to government officials matter a bit less in SV, and family connections much less.
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by hx87 10y ago
The poorer you are, the more your life is about money.
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by hx87 10y ago
Would they have forgone more income than the cost of fertility procedures had they had kids earlier though? Besides, if you use a surrogate mother and use donated or frozen eggs and sperm, you sidestep the higher probability of birth defect
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by hx87 10y ago
Time that could be spent doing more productive things, and is thus not a sunk cost.
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by hx87 10y ago
And since the end of the Cold War, it has always appeared alongside a healthy dose of whataboutism.
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by hx87 10y ago
> So, basically all companies are potentially branches of their respective governments. FTFY
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by hx87 10y ago
I agree with what your comment, but perhaps a better solution (instead of having children earlier) would be to freeze eggs and sperm and use them when you are ready. The only problem then would be whether an older mother's body would b
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by hx87 10y ago
Don't take advice from people more successful than you, because the factors that led to their success may be irrelevant or counterproductive for you.
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by hx87 10y ago
That's true, but in that case "keep adopting kids" would also work.
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by hx87 10y ago
What about the long term gain?
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by hx87 10y ago
I expect nothing more of Slavoj Zizek.
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by hx87 10y ago
If that were true, wouldn't it make more sense to sink money into funds targeting the food, real estate, and medical sectors instead of directly in real estate? After all, there is no reason that (residential) real estate prices track
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by hx87 10y ago
If would could only find a way to tax that in order to pay off the fiscal deficits we had to accrue in order to make perpetual trade deficits less painful...
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by hx87 10y ago
I can drive out of the city, you know...
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by hx87 10y ago
What's wrong with riding in the winter? You have to make sure you have the right clothing and equipment, but that's about it.
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by hx87 10y ago
"Stranger rules" are a net negative, in my opinion. The threat from strangers is overblown--if you want to minimize danger to your kids at the all costs, don't let them see relatives, ever.
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by hx87 10y ago
> you can fool basically anyone who isn't actively watching your door 24/7 How easy is it to fool a surveillance camera pointed at your door 24/7 with an automated system trained to detect human movement watching it?
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by hx87 10y ago
> that huge gap between Carmel and Santa Barbara There's a reason that part of the state is sparsely developed. There's nothing but the mountains and the sea, and constant rockslides make building any transportation infrastruct
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by hx87 10y ago
They don't even care about the immediate budgets; otherwise the taxes on foreign-owned residential properties would be sky-high.
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by hx87 10y ago
As for the latter, can't BC just allow tax payed to Ottawa to be counted as a credit towards provincial/municipal income taxes?
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by hx87 10y ago
Could you please elaborate?
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by hx87 10y ago
How would people putting down roots help the homeless? Boston is a more rooted city, and homelessness is almost as common. The constant moving only helps landlords because the city disallows anyone from building any new housing anywhere.

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