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by muninn_ 9y ago
Carl Sagan talks a little bit about Schizophrenia in his book Dragons of Eden. I've held for a long time now that what we experience as "consciousness" is just an evolutionary adaptation and what we call Schizophrenia is this
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by muninn_ 9y ago
Right. We're doing things the wrong way, and I'd like to see that changed.
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Well, the problem is that universities are being co-opted into job training programs, when they shouldn't be. The cost of training people for jobs is being passed on to them through the university, from corporations. It shouldn't
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by muninn_ 9y ago
Well you won't find any argument from me with respect to public transportation. It needs a massive improvement nationwide. I just don't like the knee-jerk reaction from others (not you necessarily) who just call everything NIMBYis
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by muninn_ 9y ago
Nope. This is nonsense.
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by muninn_ 9y ago
On the other hand, it's much more difficult to build lively, supportive, and necessary communities when everybody be moving all the time. Granted, obviously is the one source of income in a town dries up, you should probably move, but
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by muninn_ 9y ago
This isn't good, but it can't stop here. It has to be continually taught over the child's educational life and implemented and shown how it is useful in other courses. Otherwise it's "just some thing I learned in hi
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by muninn_ 9y ago
Ok so what do you think happens if you keep adding lanes? Hint: traffic never gets better. It's called induced demand. I for one also don't want my world turned into a mega highway for the suburbs. Once traffic gets bad enough, pe
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by muninn_ 9y ago
Well, the market is sorting things out right now isn't it? Rent is really high and there are long commutes. So how exactly does turning SV into a Tokyo solve this problem? It doesn't. There are far more people who want to live in
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by muninn_ 9y ago
I love 300sqft apartments. Maybe instead of Tiny House Hunters on HGTV we can get Tiny Gentrified Shoebox Apartments instead.
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by muninn_ 9y ago
Japanese internment during WWII is laughably incomparable to the damage inflicted upon African Americans over the last few hundred years or so. I think the OP meant age-range, or at least that was how I initially interpreted. Though I'
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by muninn_ 9y ago
Figure out a way of discouraging renters and landlords then. Disallow people from renting homes out or something.
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by muninn_ 9y ago
You easily can do it both. I love immigrants and different cultures, but I have no desire to turn the United States into Bangladesh. How long before you can't drive to Yosemite or you have to wait years for a permit or some other stupi
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by muninn_ 9y ago
> -Complaints about the removal of trees to accommodate bicycle lanes I would absolutely complain about that. Remove road lanes instead. Why would you remove trees? Are they idiots? The rest of the stuff (ruining the character, etc...) a
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by muninn_ 9y ago
One example of an inefficiency (especially without any reasoning behind why this inefficiency is happening) doesn't mean much.
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by muninn_ 9y ago
> It was a US based in the beginning - but by the time Chip + PIN started there was significant infrastructure already in place. Its not like we all just started to use cards in 2005 Sure, but it was far more widespread in the United Sta
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by muninn_ 9y ago
That is because of government regulations and infrastructure, not because banks are not technologically advanced. I can easily use something like, say, Chase's QuickPay to pay any recipient. The government just won't accept that f
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by muninn_ 9y ago
It's an obvious one, which indicates a superficial understanding of the financial industry and technology in particular. Credit cards, and their use, was from the outset largely an American phenomenon. When Europe finally caught up (an
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by muninn_ 9y ago
Chip+pin isn't the sole marker of innovation. Anyway, as I said, if you build out an entire infrastructure based on a different way of doing things, you can't just up and change that over night. It takes time. It costs money. Ther
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by muninn_ 9y ago
Yeah so supporting checks doesn't really mean you're not at the forefront of technology. If anything, the fact that US banks allow people to take pictures of checks, and have done so for like the last 5 years at least, is an examp
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by muninn_ 9y ago
To your second point. The large issue here has more to do with moving to the areas with more economic opportunity instead of creating economic opportunity where you currently reside. The culture of moving on a whim, not creating a stable ne
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by muninn_ 9y ago
Or you can move if you can't afford the area. There are plenty of places with lower costs of living. You can't live in what is perhaps the most desirable area in the world and then be upset that people want to protect/increas
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by muninn_ 9y ago
Sure. And that's one of the problems with being first to infrastructure. It's really hard to just "change it all" once something new and better takes hold. It'll get better, even if it's not that great right no
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by muninn_ 9y ago
Yeah I've had that happen to me many times, and vice-versa.
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by muninn_ 9y ago
Nobody says you can't feel anything. And nobody says that some people aren't avoiding the US because of how they were treated at immigration. What I am saying is that the vast majority of people have no problem. What was your poor
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by muninn_ 9y ago
And yet, many people I know who have immigrated here, whether on work or student visas, have had no issues at the border. So.... I'm not sure what to tell you. What exact treatment happened? Somebody being rude to you at the border doe
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by muninn_ 9y ago
Weird typo. I don't even have a problem with Obamacare. Sorry about that XD
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Sure, you have a great anecdote.
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by muninn_ 9y ago
Yeah idk. Every country I've been to, customs has not been great. I'm. not saying the US immigration isn't bad, but people actively avoiding the entire country for anything bad? Not hardly.
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by muninn_ 9y ago
Nothing was said about Obamacare. I mentioned Obama initiated and continued these policies.

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