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by pjlegato 10y ago
Could some developer decide to leaglly build a prewar-style dense urban neighborhood in Houston? It sounds like an opportunity to make a killing.
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by pjlegato 10y ago
Ironically, the bland suburbs that surround most cities are caused precisely by very strict zoning laws that mandate very low building density, large setbacks, large yards, high bathroom to bedroom ratios, low kitchen to bedroom ratios, etc
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by pjlegato 10y ago
Their data also equally supports the exact inverse conclusion: that people do have innate biological musical preferences for certain intervals, but remote and isolated cultures can override these and train people to be indifferent to them.
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by pjlegato 10y ago
What happens if you hold an anti-gentrification protest on the streets of Munich without having obtained a formal permit in advance? Yes, the use of riot police is exaggerated in Berlin, but comparing it to a "failed state" seems
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by pjlegato 10y ago
German cops are not brutal? If you cause ANY type of disturbance on the street in Berlin, they simply dispatch a massively overwhelming number of riot police to come and beat the living crap out of you. I saw numerous riot police deployed
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by pjlegato 10y ago
> they're armed to the teeth and usually in full armour, and usually sat in an armoured and armed vehicle This is absurd hyperbole. Have you ever been to the US? Your use of British spellings suggests you are not from here. I have l
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by pjlegato 10y ago
Gossip is, by definition, unreliable secondhand (or greater) rumors. If he actually works there, it's firsthand and therefore not gossip. Perhaps more people should have difficult conversations with their managers. Or perhaps his manag
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Taking the fifth amendment in Turing’s imitation game(tandfonline.com)
3 points by pjlegato 10y ago|0 comments
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by pjlegato 10y ago
The distinctive thing about science is rather that you must answer the question "what do you know and how do you know it" with evidence , derived from repeatable experiments. Other modes of thinking do not have this requirement,
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by pjlegato 10y ago
The point was not that they don't have the right to do that, but rather that that these companies are hypocritical for advocating "free and open" when it applies to themselves , but then imposing censorship upon their custom
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by pjlegato 10y ago
How do you stealth promote on YouTube?
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by pjlegato 10y ago
This is rather melodramatic. People don't care about things like Intel ME because for almost all of them, they don't ever affect their lives in any direct way at all, not because they've been beaten into submission and are in
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by pjlegato 10y ago
Why limit your statement to "the USA and Europe"? Do you imagine the People's Republic of China is some sort of paragon of openness and transparency?
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by pjlegato 10y ago
Yes, racism existed (and still exists today.) However, the degree to which racism played a part in the construction of suburban America has now been greatly distorted and exaggerated by multiple generations of leftist academic historians, a
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by pjlegato 10y ago
What's sad is that this culture shames people into questioning whether they ought to depreciate their own precious happy childhood memories, simply because they took place at a now-stigmatized restaurant. You were a kid then, you had n
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by pjlegato 10y ago
Many younger people today find it hard to fathom, but the suburbs and fast food car culture were not (entirely) a capitalist plot executed by General Motors and McDonald's to brainwash the populace into unwitting wage-slave servitude.
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by pjlegato 10y ago
High sodium intake is not bad for you (unless you have a few very specific and unusual health conditions.) Like most late 20th century nutritional guidance, turns out that idea was totally wrong. http://www.scientificamerican.com
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by pjlegato 10y ago
A little perspective: cheap, unhealthy fast food is not ideal, but it's much better than the previous state of society -- for all of human history until approximately 50 years ago, and still the case in most of the world -- where poo
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by pjlegato 10y ago
There was a seperate auto industry bailout program: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_the_2008%E2%80%9310...
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by pjlegato 10y ago
Yep, that's probably the only option, huh.
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by pjlegato 10y ago
> Finally, after six months or so, you find the light switch, you turn it on, and suddenly it’s all illuminated. You can see exactly where you were. Then you move into the next room and spend another six months in the dark... What are
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by pjlegato 10y ago
It means you do not promulgate the usage. I understand perfectly well that some people who say "literally" actually mean "very," even though I do not accept this semantic change in "literally." I myself will ne
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by pjlegato 10y ago
It's unfortunate what happened to this woman, and probably to many others, but there's no evidence given at all that the "people who look like us" angle was ever a factor in what happened. That is FUD that serves solely
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Can your computer connect to the internet even if it's apparently turned off?(skeptics.stackexchange.com)
3 points by pjlegato 10y ago|0 comments
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by pjlegato 10y ago
That language is a social construct does not imply that everyone must automatically accept any usage someone else proposes as equally valid as any other. Individual people, as well as groups, are free to reject any drift or change in meanin
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by pjlegato 10y ago
I wasn't comparing them. I was describing the historical circumstances that led to the zoning laws that still make it difficult to do profitable high density residential development in most of the US, and specifically how the paucity o
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by pjlegato 10y ago
They believe (rightly or wrongly) that the added costs are worth the benefits from the network effect of being in the region, around lots of other tech people. Many of them are starting to build satellite offices in other places.
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by pjlegato 10y ago
The question was simply about how it could be guaranteed that grandmas can't be priced out of their own houses in conditions of sharply rising property values, not about optimal tax structure in general.
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by pjlegato 10y ago
There are lots of ways. Extremely high gasoline taxes seem to be popular in Europe. When driving costs $10 or $12 a gallon instead of $2 or 3, people want to drive a lot less. High property values also work, as in Europe. In a relatively sm
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by pjlegato 10y ago
Most people simply don't like change. Some changes can't be avoided, such as a kid growing up. Other changes can be avoided, such as by passing zoning laws that make it illegal to substantially change the physical appearance of th

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