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by jariel 6y ago
"How come you're so concerned about other countries making peace with Israel, " I'm not concerned with any nation making peace with the next because mostly they have a pragmatic peace. The 'concern' is the ongo
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So you're right I don't think Trump did anything to make it so much harder - however - he had absolutely not one iota of interest in helping to solve the Palestinian problem. Trump's 'big gamble' on N. Korea for exa
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by jariel 6y ago
Populism here is unbearable. The energy consumption of BTC is 'very bad' , full stop. It has nothing to do with Gates or the fact that he said it.
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by jariel 6y ago
Google has reached it's terminal innovation phase, it cannot seem to launch and maintain coherent products. It's bureaucracy from here on in. The CEO is a McKinsey consultant, smart guy, nice, but he's a politician on top of
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by jariel 6y ago
Trump's 'peace agreements' were mostly mutual defence signals (re: Iran) that paradoxically make the 'real issue' between Israel and West Bank even harder to solve. Gulf states are more worried about Iran's int
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by jariel 6y ago
"in everyone's best interest to become friendly with Israel" Said the Arabs in the West Bank? We can't use the argument that 'Israel has a right to exist' (ok) to dismiss the illegality of the occupied territor
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by jariel 6y ago
"It is completely immoral to give birth to people but not build them a place to live." If you mean to say 'people have a moral right to live in the city they were born in' - fair enough - but this notion falls apart inst
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by jariel 6y ago
Because nobody knows anything about most companies and when they 'go public' nobody will buy their shares. The classical IPO process involves a road-show where the banks take the CFO/CEO to institutional buyers they line up a
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by jariel 6y ago
The build massive numbers of apartment buildings that totally changed the nature of the city. And it's still unaffordable.
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by jariel 6y ago
??? Life expectancy, birth rates, net migration are the factors of an overall nation, not not of any city. Nobody has been able to put forth a single reasonable argument for why SF must tear down their homes and put up apartment buildings o
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by jariel 6y ago
Neither of the points you made I think are existentially problematic, especially in light of the fact that Sweden is 1) ahead and 2) it works for them. 'Cost' is going to be a part of the equation, there is no avoiding that, but a
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by jariel 6y ago
Maybe the opposite though - having a 'single, semi-competent authority and source of control/failure/security' is probably not a good reality for security and resiliency. Ironically, there's a >50% chance that th
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by jariel 6y ago
"It doesn't matter what gets built, just that it gets built and that everyone gets a place to live in" This makes no sense. ? People who live in SF (or any community) are already housed in SF. 'Everyone' already has
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by jariel 6y ago
"The risk of data abuse by commercial providers would undermine the effort to make digitalisation more democratic, they say." It's as though citizens have no understanding of how contracts, oversight and regulations work. If
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by jariel 6y ago
This is bad populism. It's understandable people fear Google/FB etc., but an entity contracted by the state to do digital ID services is not going to be selling your phone number if doing so would put them out of business and land
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by jariel 6y ago
" to the extent I have looked I see no clear benefit" The elimination/near elmination of polio? rubella? measles? Soon COVID? Etc.. " the burden is proof is on the vaccine to show that is near completely safe" They
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by jariel 6y ago
The third restriction is 'purpose gifts' i.e. build a stadium and put my name on it, which seems entirely fair to me.
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by jariel 6y ago
"severely underbuilt for decades " First - there is no such thing as 'under built'. A community can house as many people as it houses - and that's that. There can be an 'amount of new development relative to ot
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by jariel 6y ago
"Allowing new housing to be built to satisfy demand." No they don't. Switzerland is one of the most conservative places on Earth, at least culturally, and they have super strict rules on what you can build. The issue has litt
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by jariel 6y ago
No, it's not symbolic, just the opposite, it's Orwellian newspeak/totalitarianism. By your very own words: ""diverse" is just an HR term of art that means "black, Hispanic, or female"", i.e. a co
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by jariel 6y ago
We cant. But we can try to make sure that surpluses are spread rationally, at least to the extent non-market interventions are concerned i.e. supply-side (QE) vs. demand-side fiscal/monetary policy and governance. That there are huge m
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by jariel 6y ago
? Yes. Paying $500 for shoes you won't wear is less important than food, or making sure that your kid is supported and shows up to class so that we don't have to blame it on the schools.
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by jariel 6y ago
There's definitely evidence of huge pools of liquid capital and probably an expression of bad economic policy i.e. QE vs. minimum wage. I suggest there's a time for both, but the time as long since passed for a minimum wage hike o
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by jariel 6y ago
Privacy is a feature not an app. So people don't want 'xzy app' with privacy, they really want gmail with privacy.
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by jariel 6y ago
This needs to be considered an issue of national security and the US forces needs a 'Digital Force' more than they need a 'Space Force'.
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by jariel 6y ago
They are 'heroes' because they are trying to teach the most impossible, intransigent, terrible students in a nearly hopeless scenario. Most of them could quit and just go elsewhere - often they do the work because they view it a
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by jariel 6y ago
? This line of thinking is really insulting to teachers. Do you think for a moment the teachers have a right one way or the other to fail those students? What would happen when the teacher decides to fail 80% of a class? Do you think that&#
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by jariel 6y ago
I think the reason is - we believe that the 'school' is the system that transforms students. While it is to some extent - it needs good inputs. The 'first order finger pointing' for failing students is reasonably schools
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by jariel 6y ago
"He didn't fail, the school failed him." It's almost ridiclous. If students don't show up, don't care, have absolutely no interest in paying attention, are more concerned with social structure etc. then a top p
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by jariel 6y ago
Why do we live with this delusion that it has anything to do with the schools? They are the same facilities, programs, course materials and teachers as most other places. The students, an extension of the community are the differentiating f

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