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by hx87 10y ago
15 of the 19 9/11 hijackers were from Saudi Arabia. The current ban would have done nothing to prevent them from coming here. I could see a ban making some sense, but any ban that leaves out Pakistan, UAE and Saudi Arabia has deficienc
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by hx87 10y ago
Not hating on Indians per se, but hating on the wage-depressing way they are hired. H1B visas tie you to your employer, so you have no leverage to increase your wages. Now if they could job-hop like the rest of us, their presence wouldn&#x2
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by hx87 10y ago
We don't have a world government.
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by hx87 10y ago
Codes mandate minimum insulation levels and fireproofing between neighboring units already, and the same measures for both also tend to reduce sound transmission. Requiring insulation between neighboring units isn't much of a stretch.
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by hx87 10y ago
> Economies of scale. Autonomous cars will likely be of a different design than manual ones so the price of a manual-drive will likely increase- where will the increased money to buy them come from? The people who continue to buy manuall
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by hx87 10y ago
> mostly because of the lack of "family-centric" housing stock --whether detached units or multi-bedroom condos and apartment units So...what kind of housing stock accommodates people living with roommates? The exact same 2&#x2
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by hx87 10y ago
It might just be me, but a neighborhood of 5-story apartment buildings isn't less nice to live in than one of 2-story rowhouses.
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by hx87 10y ago
Yep, replacing the rowhouses in Richmond & Sunset with 5-story walkups would probably triple the housing supply by itself.
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by hx87 10y ago
> However if it is so probable that you have implicit bias against non-white people I would ask why is it a bad thing to try and change that? It's because most people by default adhere to a toxic combination of virtue ethics and ret
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by hx87 10y ago
There is a great range in how humans actually do work, so there is no clear line between optimization/improvement and perfectability--after all, isn't "perfection" just another synonym for improvement?
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by hx87 10y ago
...and how would they prove that, or even suspect it in the first place?
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by hx87 10y ago
My best guess is that mjolk perceives that your hypothesis is the following: * Americans (as individuals) are racist, whereas your hypothesis is: * America (as a society) is racist. The latter acknowledges that a society can be racist becau
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by hx87 10y ago
Star Trek is (like most 20th century SF) very bioconservative, so I wouldn't put it at the left pole.
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by hx87 10y ago
Yelp used to be good until, among other things, hyperemotional crybabies destroyed it.
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by hx87 10y ago
If I see their "Download our app!" page, doesn't that mean that I either went to their site directly via URL, used a non-Google link, or skipped the Google widgets? How would they increase their revenue by annoying me? If I u
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by hx87 10y ago
Bostonian here. Literally the only thing most cities need to do to get taxi service as good as Uber is to stop hard capping taxi numbers, or at least stop selling perpetual, tradable licenses and replace them with annual auctions. Uber migh
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by hx87 10y ago
When I said "simultaneous" I mean to apply it to a government, not a particular program. In any case though, any government program that gives equal resources to everyone and isn't means-tested to hell can do both. For exampl
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by hx87 10y ago
>85% of the time I see military servicemembers mentioned, the male pronoun is used. How is that "denying reality"? If anything, it's overexaggerating reality.
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by hx87 10y ago
Segregation can be fine...as long as governance follows. Unfortunately we don't have entities like "Federation of Cities" or "Rural Alliance", or "Republic of r/The_Donald" to provide governance or se
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by hx87 10y ago
It requires saving and organizing receipts and doing basic arithmetic. Surely even the poorest can do at least that?
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by hx87 10y ago
I doubt even a monopoly dispatcher will get all $800 million of the revenue though.
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by hx87 10y ago
> For Westerners, who may never have been to an Asian country prior to Japan's Olympics, to see a manji and mistake it for a Nazi symbol is perfectly reasonable, if that is the only context in which the symbol exists for them. Well
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by hx87 10y ago
Government can certainly mitigate the effects of luck while simultaneously rewarding effort.
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by hx87 10y ago
You're right if you assume that people don't work as hard when they're pessimistic. People (like me) who work harder when they are pessimistic, however, certainly benefitted from the liberal view.
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by hx87 10y ago
Only the consumer needs to do so in this case, not the government, and if you don't keep track of your own purchases, no problem, you just don't get the rebate.
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by hx87 10y ago
Every passenger vehicle in the US has to meet emissions standards. Testing whether they actually meet those standards in everyday practice is up to the states. If you roll coal in rural Montana it's up to individual police officers whe
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by hx87 10y ago
So you're criticizing the situation that makes this invention such an improvement, not the invention itself? I certainly understand that, but your comments on first reading to me (and probably to other readers) appear to be criticizing
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by hx87 10y ago
> kill one of those multibillion military projects and redirect the money And how are the inventors supposed to do that?
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by hx87 10y ago
Improvement isn't always worse for the the environment. Is converting a forest to a parking lot a net negative from an environmental point of view? Yes. Is converting a parking lot to a 5 story residential building a net negative? No,
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by hx87 10y ago
Just because it isn't done in practice doesn't mean it can't be done--it's a cultural/institutional/incentive matter.

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