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by muninn_ 9y ago
I personally would prefer that they spent time building housing, or parks instead of helping continue to subsidize car traffic.
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Even as a high wage earner it's difficult
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Highway funding for one. Instead of improving highway infrastructure with tax money, improve rail lines.
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Depends on your Visa. My experience in the United States, is I just walk right through because I have Global Entry. In Europe it was a breeze too, same with Mexico and Canada and many other countries.
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by muninn_ 9y ago
That sucks. People get denied entry to countries all the time and it's always inconvenient. I know this is going to get down voted to hell, but my point is that, this stuff happens. It's not new because Trump is president, and cro
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by muninn_ 9y ago
Most Africans are subsistence farmers, when climate change causes their crops to stop producing, they can't make money, and can't eat. Africa has been pretty hard hit by the changes in the climate caused by green house gas emissio
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by muninn_ 9y ago
Oh, United States military operations in Africa? I've heard of that one. Interesting article though. What bothers me is that there is a ,largely, simple solution here: stop global warming and build educational, medical, and governmenta
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by muninn_ 9y ago
> Ms. Braddock said: “Here, there’s no stigma attached to renting, which is not true elsewhere in the country.” Interesting comment. Never in my life or travels have I met anoybody who attached stigma to renting a place.
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by muninn_ 9y ago
Yup. And this is because if you're a startup and you take investment from these "small investors" I can't recall the actual classification (class 3 maybe or something like that?) VC and accelerators simply won't tou
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by muninn_ 9y ago
Did you mean bold? It looks like you spelled it wrong in that link.
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by muninn_ 9y ago
Sure, but if the k-12 is necessary for employment, it follows that 12+ should be "free" as well. It seems like a college education these days is a basic education similar to 9th-12th grade.
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by muninn_ 9y ago
Sure. There are good universities all over the planet. The US is by far the best.
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by muninn_ 9y ago
Apologies, I meant to type "the large majority of great universities". Obviously there are more universities across the planet combined than there are in the United States.
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by muninn_ 9y ago
Yes that was it. I can't vouch for the accuracy of his claims, but it was interesting to hear his discussion on the topic.
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by muninn_ 9y ago
Well I can: it's a lot easier to get things done when everybody agrees on doing it. People with a shared culture are more likely to agree on things.
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by muninn_ 9y ago
What is really mind-boggling is your comment. First, education is not, in any way, shape or form, free. You pay for it in taxes. Period. This isn't a pro/anti tax argument, but it's necessary to say. Second, you can also stud
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by muninn_ 9y ago
Which is fine, but my comment was addressing the right to education.
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Sure but we're talking about rights, not operations.
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Eh, I tend to disagree. Great university's for sure, but the large majority of universities (particularly those accessible to anybody) reside in the United States. Now, I do agree that a university education doesn't have to cost a
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by muninn_ 9y ago
Why would this be any different than a right to, say, health care? Why even pay for k-12?
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by muninn_ 9y ago
Well it's not that clear. If, for example, Cupertino provide things like bike lanes, or public transportation, then it's not solely Apple's fault here. Maybe if the population density were to be increased (IE, removing restri
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by muninn_ 9y ago
So this is a naive, honest question, but why not just index funds?
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by muninn_ 9y ago
And? I don't see how this relates to what I've said? Do these things make America not innovative?
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by muninn_ 9y ago
Yes it does, and you'll note that I support public funding for science as stated above. My contention with this idiotic article is that it implies that America cannot innovate. Even though SpaceX may rely upon contracts for NASA (and i
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by muninn_ 9y ago
Never heard of it until I heard everybody else making fun of it. But yeah America can't innovate. Everything is doomed. Hide under your pillow. Google can't create a self-driving car! SpaceX can't land reusable rockets! Ameri
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by muninn_ 9y ago
> Nobody cares about your Ayn Rand pablum anymore. Argue on morals that have any grounding at all in the real world. Who said anything about Ayn Rand? Are you unfamiliar with political philosophy? Have you read Robert Nozick for example?
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by muninn_ 9y ago
Yes I am. Want to try again? The fact that I'm critiquing a poor argument has nothing to do with my philosophical views. Just as I could argue a fascist policy would be poor to implement or is inconsistent (or the opposite), I can do t
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by muninn_ 9y ago
Are you serious? This quote is all you need to see: > Left to its own devices, the private sector is far more likely to impede technological progress than to advance it. That’s because real innovation is very expensive to produce: it in
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by muninn_ 9y ago
That's nonsense. Seizing property against somebody's will is an initiation of force and violence to deprive somebody of rightful ownership of property. That's far different than a home owners association or a neighborhood ord
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by muninn_ 9y ago
Ha! I'm an anarchist. But yes neighborhoods do get to control things like that and they should. Ever wonder why there are no skyscrapers in DC? Ever wonder why there are home owners associations that can dictate what colors and upkeep

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