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by jsnider3 7y ago
City Journal is pretty weird. It used to be a mainstream magazine of urban planning, but now it seems to have been infected with the far-right brain virus. Edit: I also can't believe that an article on San Francisco homelessness never
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Global Financial Crisis Part Two
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Does she have a plan to win the Senate?
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> There isn't anything like the housing bubble right now. What do you think about the carbon bubble?
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If this offends you (and you're an American), you can express your feelings through voting.
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Lyft still exists. Also, it would be trivial for someone to just create their own taxi company if the prices get too high.
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Yes, the poor could solve all of their problem if only they had the good sense to be rich.
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It turns out that selling things for less than it costs is a bad business model.
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> Chinese interference in US politics Check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confucius_Institute and https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/02/of...
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So, India's at war with Pakistan now? That seems pretty terrible.
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I'm sure the anti-vaxxers will be happy to update their views.
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If you think this is a problem, then register to vote. If you happen to live in SV, consider moving to Arizona.
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If nuclear plants can't be built without the company going bankrupt, then that's a strong sign they aren't economical.
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Given that people feel confident falling asleep in their Teslas while it drives, I think the writer should just lower their standards.
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Lobbying and voting for pro-renewable politicians (or at least those that are neutral).
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There's a good chance that this law is unconstitutional, but I doubt anyone wants to be the first to test their luck in court.
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Because that would make tax evasion substantially easier.
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As someone who has both struggled with depression and recently was a young white guy, I am very sympathetic to the problems that my juniors face. The idea that these people aren't sympathetic is, of course, very harmful.
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Words cannot express how skeptical I am. If noone writes a rebuttal to this within a week, I will accept that it might plausibly be able to do what the title claims. Edit: Actually, it seems like the claim in the article is different from t
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> employment is at an all timr low I think you meant unemployment here, but it's true the way you said it as well if you mean the labor force participation rate.
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Yeah, if we needed to have a rich New Yorker as our president I would have preferred Bloomberg.
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Depends on how good Facebook's lawyers are.
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Las Vegas is hoping that it will be worth at least $50M of publicity.
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Incentivizing things is how the market decides.
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Uber shows that it's possible to redistribute wealth from venture capitalists to customers without aggression.
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Financially, these are the same, but politically they're not.
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Perhaps all of the students can fuse into a cyborg-hivemind? That would allow them to all be the CEO of a company, then it would just be a challenge of making it the most profitable in the world.
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It's still delivering mail, just from one post office to another.
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This is bad for lenders and delinquent borrowers, but I think the financial system as a whole is much more resilient than it was a decade ago, so we shouldn't have to worry about something like Lehman-brothers dragging down the economy
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Because education is good for society and should be encouraged.

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