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by local_issues 3y ago
Fun fact! The namesake of Storrow Drive was "an investment banker who led a campaign to create the Charles River Basin and preserve and improve the riverbanks as a public park. He had never advocated a parkway beside the river, and Hel
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by local_issues 3y ago
Nice own bud
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by local_issues 3y ago
The market isn't free because Vanguard and BlackRock are a duopoly on this. Vanguard isn't the issue though - they do literally nothing besides harvest tiny tiny fees at scale. BlackRock is a different story - look into their acti
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by local_issues 3y ago
My favorite Vanguard fact is their HQ. It's a shitty set of lowrise buildings in suburban Philly - not some massive highrise in Manhattan or JC. Their whole thing is automation and saving money. https://www.google.com/m
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by local_issues 3y ago
As the resident HN conservative, I wish the GOP would embrace bikes as a symbol of freedom. Cars are NOT tools of freedom - you are at the whim of gigacorporations and authoritarian governments like Iran. With a bike, you move through the w
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by local_issues 3y ago
It's true when you want to do something with your shiny new degree, which is part of why so many Russians emigrate, and why the ruling class holds on
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by local_issues 3y ago
Correct + part of the reason Russia is so fucked up is extreme elitism and a massive gap between the provinces and the 2 gigacities. It's like if NYC and London were dropped in the middle of Kazakhstan, and both groups were raised to h
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by local_issues 3y ago
The people I fear the most are people who are 100% sure they're doing the right thing. This comment section is full of that - "no, this is a good policy and it's just the implementation that's wrong." Sure, maybe? B
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by local_issues 3y ago
"Anti-hate researchers" - strong scare quotes required here. This is just a political org masquerading as a research group.
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by local_issues 3y ago
Materials going from concept -> public testing in less than 200 years is fucking shocking in the scale of human history. When did the Chinese invent gunpowder? What about the discovery of uranium? The rate of attention span decrease is m
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by local_issues 3y ago
>discovery seems disorganized and amateurish though, and with the multiple papers all submitted at the same time by competing factions, riff with infighting - but they stuck with a hunch for longer than anyone else and followed it dogged
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by local_issues 3y ago
Capitalism doesn't require anything besides a court system capable of enforcing contracts.
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by local_issues 3y ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistory/comments/hy9gqo/europe_i... The colonies were a burden. They were useful for military and political reasons, but not for economic reasons. The reason Europe is so weal
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by local_issues 3y ago
Fusion.
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by local_issues 3y ago
Ding ding ding! We still don't know how bikes work, we have a pretty good but incomplete model for lift on airplanes, and no one has the faintest why Tylenol works. We should figure that out! But we can definitely keep using all the ap
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by local_issues 3y ago
I'm a part of a group trying to reduce driving on 1 small section of a neighborhood street in favor of wider sidewalks and maybe bike parking, in a very liberal area. You would think we're proposing a second Holocaust from the rea
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by local_issues 3y ago
No, because they're balanced over time. It's when you don't make the charges that this becomes stock manipulation. Not writing down investments is how Enron committed it's mark-to-market fraud.
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by local_issues 3y ago
Free market capitalism only works when you have free markets. Look at the cost of airline tickets post ICC. We could see something similar with freight, and will see major Amtrak gains - ideally even Brightline gains.
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by local_issues 3y ago
Meritocracy is good. My family has Harvard legacy and I support this
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There's a surprising number of them around. I think the bottleneck for quick repro will be mat sci people, not equipment.
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by local_issues 3y ago
Ding ding ding. Treat them like highways, they basically are anyway. Let a thousand flowers bloom.
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by local_issues 3y ago
Resident conservative here - we need to nationalize the rails. Not the railroads, but the rails themselves. The freight companies take federal money to expand the network, and the second they don't meet profit projections they tear the
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by local_issues 3y ago
Same - and this isn't discussed enough in Tech circles. I know a girl who's done acid 100 times, and she's pretty "off." Kind of like a record left in the sun for a bit. She's not dumb or anything, just a littl
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by local_issues 3y ago
Have him claim he's homeless. At least when I was in college they didn't and couldn't really check, and allows him to claim $0 parental income. Do not go into debt for college if at all humanly possible. Fuck the system, it&#
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by local_issues 3y ago
That many want to do this again is absolutely insane to me. I see so much support for Mao BECAUSE of his murder of landlords and business owners, not DESPITE of his atrocities
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by local_issues 3y ago
No, OP just disagrees with the vote on the judiciary. A coup is nothing like this.
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by local_issues 3y ago
No no no no no. Design your product to be understandable at first pass. Apple famously doesn't do any of this with your iPhone, while Sony forces you to do it on every new device. Let the onboarding be a forcing function for usability.