moorhosj

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by moorhosj 7y ago
Half the state’s population lives in the Chicago suburbs, not the city. Most of the wealth is in the suburbs.
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by moorhosj 7y ago
Except that you are doing the same cherry picking that you accuse others of. I showed data from 2010 to 2017 to illustrate how significant the demographic change has been. For some reason, you decided to go back to 1980 to make a counter-po
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by moorhosj 7y ago
I think you effectively described every American city. Even Dallas, the example of a well-run city provided, had a pension bubble that almost burst into insolvency in 2017. == https://interactives.dallasnews.com/2017/the
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by moorhosj 7y ago
According to Census ACS from 2017, the city went from 35% Black in 2010 to 30.5% in 2017. That is a pretty rapid shift in under s decade. Hard numbers fell from 930k to 830k. Most of the population loss is concentrated in the poorest neighb
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by moorhosj 7y ago
As someone who lives in Chicago, I would caution against taking the claims in this post as face value. This specific point is not true: >3) Without adequate funding, crime has skyrocketed as the city continues to crumble, unable to provi
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by moorhosj 7y ago
Again, these things are already happening. Hurting today's minimum wage workers in order to save these industries from something they are already doing seems like a fool's errand. The minimum wage hasn't changed in a decade a
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by moorhosj 7y ago
A nitpick, but the old-man paying someone to mow his lawn is not subject to Fair Labor Standards Act [1]. Specifically: "The FLSA only applies if you pay your employee more than $1,900 in a single year or works more than eight hours a
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by moorhosj 7y ago
Are we worried that raising the minimum wage will cause companies to do a thing they are already doing?
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by moorhosj 7y ago
There are court documents in the Papdopoulus, Manafort, Gates, Cohen, Stone and Flynn cases. Have you read the court filings to see the evidence? How much of the Mueller Report have you read? ==I need to see something convincing, that prefe
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by moorhosj 7y ago
American media runs the ideological spectrum (Mother Jones to The Atlantic to National Review to Fox News). They aren’t a unified voice, so that representation would include contradicting messages. It seems like people just choose the one t
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by moorhosj 7y ago
Does Time magazine represent America in this comment?
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by moorhosj 7y ago
==Three years ago the right loathed him, today they love him and conversely today the left loathes him but 3 years ago they loved him.== Not necessarily true according to this poll [1]. The alt-right might love him, but rank-and-file Republ
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by moorhosj 7y ago
I’m not sure drugs are that perfect of a market. The buyer doesn’t really have visibility into price/quality across sellers and drug buyers are not always rational, two conditions for perfect competition.[1] Actual economics is far mor
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by moorhosj 7y ago
What’s the basis for this claim? Where do Ross Douthat and David Brooks fit in your model?
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by moorhosj 7y ago
==Take stodgy, often scammy, and downright consumer unfriendly industries, add transparency and accessibility to them, and viola - you have a unicorn.== And, maybe some day, actual profits.
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by moorhosj 7y ago
Sure, except that’s not always how reality works. My mom and my mother-in-law were both stay at home mothers who got divorced. They have few employment options in the private sector after 20 years of raising children. Turns out the market d
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by moorhosj 7y ago
This is how it traditionally works. My mom and my wife’s mom would also agree.
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by moorhosj 7y ago
==I have heard a number of friends say this, though almost always indirectly.== Is it possible you are inferring it a certain way because of your bias? For instance, I complain about having kid all the time, but I wouldn't give him up
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by moorhosj 7y ago
==If you are gushing about your kids no one is going to open up about a taboo subject like that.== This is true. Likewise, if you are explaining all the reasons you can't or don't want to have kids someone may be more likely to ag
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by moorhosj 7y ago
I find the HN comments on an article like this fascinating. So many people that admit to not having kids who think they are experts on what it means or is like to have kids.
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by moorhosj 7y ago
==I took care of my brother and sisters a lot as a child and it made it very clear that I never wanted children.== Being a parent is not the same as taking care of your siblings. Using the experience of one to justify your decisions in anot
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by moorhosj 7y ago
I’ve never run into a colleague from another department on an email chain. It happens frequently in our office kitchen. I don’t that that, or the ability to simply walk over to someone’s desk should be discounted.
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by moorhosj 7y ago
What percentage of those remote work setups are “ideal”?
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by moorhosj 7y ago
==Might it be better understood as a discussion explicitly about social rituals, oral traditions, and uniting humans across generations?== This is a good point and you are likely correct. I think I was internalizing some things I've re
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by moorhosj 7y ago
I think you are missing my point. At it's core, food is simply fuel for the human body. In practice, it is a common thread that unites different cultures and generations. I am suggesting that we should examine why food plays such an ou
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by moorhosj 7y ago
Isn't food the underpinning of most cultural traditions? It seems to me like society (as defined by generations of civilization) has already determined that food has value for it's experience and community aspects. Maybe it's
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by moorhosj 7y ago
But everyone that I talk to is "slammed". It's interesting how the perception of working more hours is so powerful.
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by moorhosj 7y ago
Only you are comparing the two. Both engineering and humanities can involve critical thinking.
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by moorhosj 7y ago
Now you have developed your own conspiracy to prove how wrong other people’s conspiracy was. Do you see the irony? Why did Assange defend Putin after the Panama Papers? I thought he loved transparency. When did Assange start his RT show, fu
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by moorhosj 7y ago
Trades, medicine and engineering are the only viable careers for tough or smart people? Now we have moved beyond "humanities are a waste of time" to having no need for finance, accounting, marketing, legal, economics or architectu

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