moorhosj

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by moorhosj 8y ago
The RER was created in the 60s for this purpose and continually expanded since, no?
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by moorhosj 8y ago
Paris had 2.9 million people in 1921 and 2.2 million today. Is it really overpopulated?
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by moorhosj 8y ago
==children are forced to sell the land after parents die due to tax obligations== Do you have a source for this? If true, wouldn't they just sell a portion of the land to cover the tax, as it only kicks in over $5.5 million?
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by moorhosj 8y ago
==Cities in league with Chicago would be NYC/SFO/LAX/SEA/ATL/BOS/DC== All of these cities, except Atlanta, are considerably more expensive than Chicago. Worth noting that Atlanta has 486k residents and Chicago
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by moorhosj 8y ago
And yet, one is legalized in every state and the other is a schedule one drug on par with Heroin (although legal in some states).
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by moorhosj 8y ago
You are correct, but there could also be a point about binge drinking versus steady consumption.
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by moorhosj 8y ago
==Probably because federal funds go out mainly according to population counts== This isn't true at all. California, Texas, New York and Illinois are 4 of the 6 largest states by population and all of them pay more in taxes then they re
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by moorhosj 8y ago
==Thus it would likely suffice to just use federal prosecutions to burn the corruption out of the local governments, remove the legacies of past corruption, and let the remaining citizens try again from scratch.== What is this based on? Why
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by moorhosj 8y ago
==There are definitely places in the US where you can enjoy a higher standard of living than Chicago due to local and state government being less corrupt.== Please name the cities with comparable career opportunities and higher standard of
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by moorhosj 8y ago
That's an odd interpretation with considerable bad-faith assumptions. The plan is to take federal money and use it to help re-build large portions of the country that include valuable industries and have been completely neglected. Funn
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by moorhosj 8y ago
==Federal leadership could probably turn the rust belt around, if that were a priority, but, well, you know... if a Democratic president with political roots in Chicago couldn't or wouldn't do it, there's not much of a chance
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by moorhosj 8y ago
The point is that moving from one place because of corruption won't necessarily save you from corruption.
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by moorhosj 8y ago
The rest of the world doesn't delineate between startups and new ventures like Y Combinator. That likely accounts for most of the difference here considering they used Kickstarter data for their analysis. ==According to the researchers
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by moorhosj 8y ago
==all the front-runners in the city’s Feb. 26 mayoral primary support some version of a casino, and some want to bring in video gambling as well.== This is explicitly about video gambling which "some" supported. All of them suppor
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by moorhosj 8y ago
Which non-corrupt city and state did you move to?
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by moorhosj 8y ago
Pensions funds currently invest in venture capital funds. They also invest in REITs which are directly impacted by WeWork's business model.
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by moorhosj 8y ago
==I'm sure glad the members of the political oligarchy of the last 50 years all came out to see Bush's body, but he served 1 term and did the job and he got older and died.== To be fair, Bush I also served the country as Vice Pres
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by moorhosj 8y ago
You said to ignore the person who presented the argument that there is a bubble.
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by moorhosj 8y ago
You are contending there is not a bubble, while the data presented indicates that there is a bubble. I was wondering if you had any data or analysis to back up your "no bubble" assertion or rebut the "bubble" assertion?
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by moorhosj 8y ago
I'm not sure "nothing is a bubble" is the proper reaction to "everything is a bubble". Do you have any rebuttals for the specific data mentioned in the article (surge in housing inventory, price cuts and falling ask
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by moorhosj 8y ago
What is the argument you want to see countered?
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by moorhosj 8y ago
What you missed is that detractors, notably Tim Worstall at Forbes and Mark Perry at AEI, were specifically pointing to this metric to state their case against the wage increase. It isn't arbitrary to use the very metric presented by t
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by moorhosj 8y ago
Pennsylvania and Ohio are interesting in that they contain many rust belt towns devastated by de-industrialization. You can buy an affordable house in Erie, PA or Youngstown, OH because the populations of those towns have fallen as the jobs
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by moorhosj 8y ago
Aren’t you possibly doing the reverse with your anecdote? The points raised: higher interests rates, higher construction costs, flat home building stats, slower price growth, and historically low homeownership rates are countrywide facts, n
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by moorhosj 8y ago
US GDP growth continued after 1970 and reached pretty high levels in the 90s. You seem to be dismissing that because you already made up your mind without reading the article (or the multiple studies it mentions). To put it a different way,
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by moorhosj 8y ago
Maybe more people should rent.
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by moorhosj 8y ago
I don’t seen anyone mentioning all the learning that takes place at the home. Rich parents likely have more time to spend helping their kids do homework or the money to hire a tutor.
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by moorhosj 8y ago
Huge difference between living paycheck to paycheck because you struggle to afford basic necessities and living paycheck to paycheck because you took out too large of a mortgage. In one case you have an asset to sell if needed.
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by moorhosj 8y ago
==I can't remember the last time I had a routine flight between nearby cities delayed. == My brother-in-law had a flight from Chicago to Cincinnati (1h and 15min flight time) cancelled on Friday. Shorter flights don't gain as much
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by moorhosj 8y ago
Have you never taxied at an airport waiting for a gate to open or had a flight delayed/cancelled?

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