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by mattzito 4y ago
I have been able to have constructive conversations about things like false rape accusations with women by engaging constructively and having specific, salient points about them. When I have seen them go very badly, it is almost always beca
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This applies to the paid and free versions equally
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Gmail runs ads in the consumer version, but the ads are powered by the search and activity elsewhere. But also workspace more broadly wants people to use Gmail in their personal lives so they want to use it at work, which then is a paid bus
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I will just repeat over and over again, that is absolutely not true. Your email data is not used for ad targeting, search personalization, or anything else. Nothing inside of Google Workspace - drive, docs, sheets, slides, chat, gmail, ke
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https://archive.is/https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/ar...
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They might be! Which makes it even more of a shame that they used an app whose intent was to help students audit classes where they have a gender ratio opportunity. If this person sent an email to the class group offering their services and
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This was my first reaction as well - sounds cute and prankish until you’re one of the students negatively affected. Meeting people is part of the college experience, and I definitely met people who attended classes with a higher female rati
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I think the message of fight club is that while life isn't about possessions, it can be equally empty to chase a nihilistic idea of masculinity that doesn't connect you with others in a meaningful way. It's satire - it's
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by mattzito 4y ago
Dope was originally heroin (or in the really old days, morphine), but over the last few years it has increasingly come to mean "a mix of opioids and other drugs/adulterants". As the article references, it's a lot more l
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> I'm inclined to share the sentiment for the young student going to NYU, the intern at a museum/art gallery, or the actor waiting tables while auditioning and doing off broadway. They made a choice, and clearly think the city
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by mattzito 4y ago
People whose safety has been threatened or been injured by a spouse and are at risk absolutely will be placed in a room with security, what are you talking about? The financial issue is more debatable, but as the article notes, there's
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I used to live down the block from this hospital and used it frequently, and I feel like the article has it backwards. In one of the examples they cite, the person given favorable treatment raised $3 billion for the hospital - that does
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I think a better way to frame it is "most _chronically_ homeless is due to mental illness". However, most homeless people are not chronically homeless, and are homeless for <6 months. Those are the single mother of two who lo
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But again, the info is publicly available, there is a mechanism to obscure it, and he is not availing himself of it. Separately, the nutcase who intercepted his car did so miles away from any airport and there’s no evidence or police report
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by mattzito 4y ago
In my experience, Waze is more about the perception of progress - it optimizes for reducing the amount of time you are _waiting_, sometimes at the expense of _progress_. In NYC, it often makes absurd suggestions - I once got in an uber on 3
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by mattzito 4y ago
FWIW, I worked on the integration with calendar and maps - the GP comment is exactly right, it was due to privacy concerns. The terms of service for Workspace say that user data can never be used for anything not related to Workspace, so m
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> It's largely the major cities where you cannot find it. I would argue differently, and say that it's entirely a factor of density. The more people that are crammed into a small area, the more you will see the spectrum of hum
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Well, those folks had to spend a few years planning, take flying lessons, dry run everything a few times, and then pull off the most complicated and coordinated terrorist attack in US history. The actual bomb planning for the Oklahoma City
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> It's not unusual to hear convicted criminals that two-three-five or more years in jail is worth the risk rather than taking a stupid job. Citation please? From my understanding, there are typically a wide swath of reasons people
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Well it’s possible for all these things to be true at the same time. I was mugged years ago by a group of high school kids - when the cops were able to track them down, they were all living in a shelter for kids in the foster system who ha
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> What do you think the symptoms would be if rent stabilisation was bad? Bad for whom? Tenants? Landlords? If landlords of rent stabilized buildings were declaring bankruptcy and the city had to take over and operate the buildings, that
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by mattzito 4y ago
Sure, but there used to be big loopholes, so, for example, if you made capital improvements to an apartment you could increase the rent further. Landlord buys a $500 fridge and hires his buddy to install it and gets from him a receipt for
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by mattzito 4y ago
Tell me you know nothing about NYC real estate without telling me you know nothing about NYC real estate. “Rent control” in NYC is a specific term that applies to a separate set of regulations and laws that govern a particular set of rental
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I am - I'm a shareholder in blackstone, which among other things is the owner of Stuyvesant town, a 10k+ apartment complex in NYC that is entirely rent stabilized. Presumably the people at blackstone are savvy investors who wouldn&#x
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by mattzito 4y ago
It sounds like you think landlords got tricked into this system - rent stabilization (again, that is different than rent control, as you named it) has been around for more than 50 years. Very few of these landlords owned these buildings be
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by mattzito 4y ago
Appreciate the engagement with the idea, but you’re missing the mechanics of all this. There are a few scenarios: - landlord rents to belfuscian because that’s the market. Then a Lilliputian makes a popular tv show that depicts the neighbo
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It could not be simpler - they lost a lot of loopholes right before the pandemic and they are hoping the courts change things. It’s not a real free market problem.
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Yeah, this is all well-established. When you buy an apartment building you know the legal rent for every apartment. That only changes by a percentage amount every year, and the amounts are available historically, and landlord reps make up
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This is inaccurate- the legal rent remains the legal rent, and all increases are attached to the legal rent. The landlord can decide to change the rent to anything up to the legal rent, but cannot go over.
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This is inaccurate. Rent control as defined in NYC is a wealth transfer mechanism. Rent stabilization is a mechanism for protecting tenants. Without rent stabilization, landlords can and do raise rents arbitrarily to drive our particular r

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