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by mason240 11y ago
That's more a function of a very limited amount of desirable inner city housing (because this doesn't apply "those" areas, which are very cheap) and the abundance of suburban housing.
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by mason240 11y ago
Social democracy is very much based on capitalism, and it can't support it's social programs without taxing gains of the capitalistic economies. Inserting the word "social" into "social democracy" is the greate
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by mason240 11y ago
Just the opposite actually. UBI will entrench capitalism as the basis for the economy, and rightly so, into the post-labor future. It will put the final nail in the coffin of already the already obsolete ideologies of socialism/communi
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by mason240 11y ago
That's not true at all. Lots of libertarians support UBI (which this specific case is not). It's a very capitalist solution to a post-labor world.
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by mason240 11y ago
>You can't design a sword that can be used safely by the untrained. No weapon can be, training with a weapon is a prerequisite for safely using it. I was tank crewman in the US military, and there is a high chance of death of dismem
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by mason240 11y ago
I'll bet you didn't have your own yard in France. Suburban life isn't a "major problem" for the US, it's how we want to live.
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I'm sure oncologists are aware of the difference.
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Plus, with 3-9 month contracting gigs, part time freelancing, and remote work, we have more semi-retirement options than any other career field I can think of.
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I'm still doing my home development on a $500 PC I bought in 2010.
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Because people in tech have never been the butt of jokes from the rest of society.
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>I think the sentiment the author is sharing is that a lot of women feel social pressures to appear outwardly successful, popular, etc, and this creates a very difficult situation where its perceived that asking a question that might mak
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by mason240 11y ago
>I'm not saying "global warming causes all the hurricanes", That's exactly how you wrote it. >Like Hurricane Katrina or Hurricane Sandy? Or the streets of Miami flooding? It's a great example of what the probl
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by mason240 11y ago
The context of the comment is about the FBI said, not what we are assuming they mean.
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by mason240 11y ago
This is an unintentionally great comment. When people claim that every weather event is caused by global warming, it's hard to take it those claims seriously.
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You're not the only one.
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No one takes this argument seriously because the people who use that argument usually want the government to do so much that roads are tiny fraction of what they do, or in a lot of cases, are outright hostile to roads altogether.
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by mason240 11y ago
Of course I was paying rent, what a ridiculous assertion. You can all construct all kinds of fictional scenarios where someone can be literally occupied for all 168 hours of every week, but we both know that the overwhelming vast majority o
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by mason240 11y ago
I think the answer to that depends on whether or not you think the current economies of the US/Canada/Europe/Scandinavia are capitalist or not (I do, and am myself a capitalist). If so, then yes it is. We already tax income f
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by mason240 11y ago
Everyone has spare time. I was working as pizza delivery driver while self learning PHP web programming. I had to give up having a social life for about year, but there was plenty of time.
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by mason240 11y ago
Does the author not know that UBI is a pretty popular idea among people in the tech industry, or is he just trolling for clicks and self-validation? EDIT: I think I get it now, the author is a socialist type who is troubled by a capitalisti
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by mason240 11y ago
When I moved out of home I was renting a small, 1BR basement apartment for $200/mo (in 2002). "Real" 1BR apartments in my area were going for 3x that. I'm pretty lucky in hindsight to have landed that place, there really
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by mason240 11y ago
Just think of much better family road trips would be with a self-driving RV.
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by mason240 11y ago
It's a loophole that pundits use to avoid criticism. They can opine and bloviate, and then when called out on inaccuracies their fans will spam you with responses of "just a comedian" or "it's satire bro" (as i
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by mason240 11y ago
Ok? They switched because plastic is a far superior material. I never have to worry about my plastic canoe rotting, weighs half of what a wooden one does, and is more flexible when scraping rock.
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by mason240 11y ago
Except "not rotting or corroding in wet conditions" is one of the reasons plastic is so useful.
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by mason240 11y ago
Everyone seems to see this as a good thing, but think of terrible it would be if all the plastic items around you decomposed like wood. Sure, it would be beneficial for garbage and litter to "go away," but just think of how much m
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by mason240 11y ago
To be fair, I would much rather have a 401k than a pension.
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by mason240 11y ago
Exactly, this is how you tell the difference between adults and man-children.
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There is nothing wrong considering something.
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by mason240 11y ago
They consider everything.

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