loorinm

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by loorinm 9y ago
What an insane and fascinating read. Two things occured to me: I don’t really understand how and why war happens. Like, it starts out as two parties both wanting the same resource, and then somebody says “over my dead body” or something and
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by loorinm 9y ago
>> I can’t view the paper because I don’t have an account Therein lies the flaw in the democracy.
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by loorinm 9y ago
Prove it
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by loorinm 9y ago
“it’s like having an old man pee on your face one trickle at a time. I’d rather have it over with quickly and go wash up.” I think we’ve all been there.
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by loorinm 9y ago
The first 7 pages of this was an absolutely fascinating read. TLDR; In 1800s China, they had “student loans” for aspiring government officials. The caveat was these officials had to hire a “trusted assistant” into their administration, supp
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by loorinm 9y ago
Just need a sheep farm first.
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by loorinm 9y ago
I find it very interesting that so many people find these mutant dogs cute. Generally humans find health and intelligence attractive, but for some reason this breaks down when it comes to pets. My dream is to own an Australian cattle dog. T
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by loorinm 9y ago
I had the same thought regarding age as it relates to truck rental. Which kind of makes this article either really really stupid or intentionally misleading.
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by loorinm 9y ago
Fine by me
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by loorinm 9y ago
I had to read it a few times . Mind Blown.
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by loorinm 9y ago
So, the statistic is counting people who were educated elsewhere and then moved to the US afterward. Essentially letting the US take credit for other countries' educational programs. I think if we just counted the average education lev
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by loorinm 9y ago
Bitching and doing something are not mutually exclusive activities. Some successful people being from poor upbringings does not make it commonplace. If your claims were true, by definition we would not have inequality.
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by loorinm 9y ago
I don't know if maybe you think capitalism is the only reason people don't just lie in bed all day, but theory has been soundly disproven.
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by loorinm 9y ago
Yes. And clubs like YC reward those who have had extra chances for their whole lives. While the lower-class kids help their parents, the better-off kids are getting tutoring, music classes, and expensive toys to grow their skills and do bet
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by loorinm 9y ago
To solve inequality?? I don’t think that’s the business YC is in. But we can do a lot. We can drastically reduce the potential financial rewards for extracting value from millions of people. We can set a max income of $300k per person and t
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by loorinm 9y ago
I am directly responding to above person’s claim that this practice by YC is somehow solving the very problem it is creating. At no point did I claim that everything has to solve inequality.
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by loorinm 9y ago
Cute title but this is actually just an extension of “the rich get richer while the poor get poorer”. Facebook had TIME to be a toy because Mark Zuckerberg had a rich family, and plenty of skills to get a job if it didn’t work out. “Making
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by loorinm 9y ago
There are probably too many variables for us to speculate "what would have happened" in this situation. My comment is this: Generally and overwhelmingly, when a group of people is more interconnected and those connections are stro
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by loorinm 9y ago
I'm sorry but the title itself is fundamentally illogical and scientifically invalid. I haven't clicked the link so maybe it's just a bad title... Environmental factors can never truly be accounted for or dismissed, and we wi
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by loorinm 9y ago
That's one interpretation. What if you or other neighbors had been even friendlier, sooner. You may have found out about it sooner and been able to help stop it.
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by loorinm 9y ago
It honestly doesn’t matter what the crime or the age is. The fact that we respond by spending years producing socially disabled people, and then send them back out into the world... How can this be happening. In whose interest can this poss
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by loorinm 9y ago
> Gardenhire is among a group of inmates who have lived behind bars since they were children--never thinking that one day they’d be let out. They’ve never used a debit card or a cell phone. Many haven’t ever done their own laundry or dr
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by loorinm 9y ago
Many possibilities: - gain the remainder of users who perhaps can afford a bike ride but not an uber to their destination - gather bike-specific data which could immensely improve safety for autonomous vehicles - improve their horrible imag
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by loorinm 9y ago
It actually seems plausible that SF might have the worst homeless problem as a direct result of actually doing the most to help the homeless. SF literally gets punished, the better job they do. As they provide services, the city only attrac
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by loorinm 9y ago
"30k spending per person" does not mean each homeless person gets 30k. This money goes to all the workers who go through papers, work at shelters, office people to write papers to try to get more money from the federal government,
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by loorinm 9y ago
Yup! You got it.
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by loorinm 9y ago
I'm tired of all the "How can they let this happen?!?!" as if we don't know how capitalism works. "Political will" is just code for financial incentive. The fact that this problem isn't being solved, tells
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by loorinm 9y ago
^^^^^^^^
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by loorinm 9y ago
The boots is just the beginning. Through financial products, the rich actually get paid simply for having money, while the banks charge fees to customers simply for being poor. Banks charging customers simply for being pior is just the tip
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by loorinm 9y ago
If this is the logic behind Waze Carpool, they are SERIOUSLY misguided. If I own a car and and I’m driving to work, my privacy and security during my commute is worth a lot more than $5. No way I’m picking up randos and sitting in silence w

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