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by pjlegato 12y ago
> I can't help but notice that americans (seem to) completely lack this sense of responsibility/playing your part/restraining yourself for the greater good/whatever Of course there are exceptions, but in general Ameri
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by pjlegato 12y ago
In the US, states have vast, almost unlimited powers to seize private property for the public good, provided they pay fair compensation.
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by pjlegato 12y ago
Lawns and toilets are such a tiny part of water usage in California that even if you got rid of all lawns and toilets altogether, it would not make any material difference to the water shortage. All residential usage of all types in CA amou
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by pjlegato 12y ago
I think you answered your own question.. > What's the actual goal behind the attack? > pissing the whole world off for a few hours
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by pjlegato 12y ago
The magnitude of the difference in punishment is not relevant, nor is whatever may or may not happen in the west. We can say that sending someone to jail for putting Buddha on a flyer is objectively bad, without regard to frame of referen
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by pjlegato 12y ago
The specific case doesn't matter at all: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_quoque
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by pjlegato 12y ago
If you reread my argument, you will see that I never said the fact that fascists invented moral relativism makes it false. I rather argued that those who adopt this viewpoint are aligning themselves not only with fascists but with all manne
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by pjlegato 12y ago
I would really like to see people stop using "Godwin's Law" as a rhetorical cudgel, as though it were making a substantive comment that somehow refutes and invalidates any possible reference to fascists. In this case, the ref
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by pjlegato 12y ago
1) The rocket scientist case was a) entirely ridiculous in itself, and b) is a textbook example of the "tu quoque fallacy"[1]; the fact that some putatively similar thing happens in the west is irrelevant to the question of whethe
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by pjlegato 12y ago
Of course not, they evolve over time according to decentralized usage (not necessarily from ignorance.) However, this does not imply that anything anyone says is just as valid as any other, nor that any proposed meaning shift enacted by any
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by pjlegato 12y ago
>Diesel is still a dirty fuel and has done a lot of health damage in Europe. Gasoline is also a dirty fuel that does a lot of health damage, but the particles in the exhaust are much smaller and less visible, so people mistakenly assume
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by pjlegato 12y ago
> TCO is higher for diesel due to increased maintenance costs Diesel engines are mechanically much simpler than gasoline engines - they have fewer moving parts, so fewer places where things can break, and less complex repairs when things
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by pjlegato 12y ago
If you mean rich, say rich. If you mean poor, say poor. There are already perfectly good words for those exact concepts, and they're not "first" and "third world". Popular ignorance of the actual meanings of those t
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by pjlegato 12y ago
The Soviet Union was, by definition, a "second world" country. First and third world do not mean "rich" and "poor". They refer to political alignment with the United States (first), USSR (second), or unaligned
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by pjlegato 12y ago
Smartphones may have been highly class correlated in 2006, but they're not now. You can get one prepaid for around $30 at any cell phone shop. 77% of those 18-29 with an annual income under 30k own a smartphone.[1] Atrocious public bus
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by pjlegato 12y ago
That guy is the last holder of an old jitney license. The ban was enacted by not issuing any new licenses. People who already had them were allowed to keep operating. http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/A-One-Man-Tr
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by pjlegato 12y ago
Assumes facts not in evidence; there is no reason to suppose that a class-based explanation is correct when the much simpler explanation of "not having to leave an hour early to work around Muni's terrible service quality" ad
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by pjlegato 12y ago
You say that as though disliking a ride on a filthy bus while sitting next to a homeless guy who smells like urine and stale vomit and is leering saliciously at every woman on the bus while murmuring obscenities and rubbing his groin is som
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by pjlegato 12y ago
Privately run, regularly scheduled bus services open to the public, called "jitneys," are already illegal in San Francisco.[1] Leap and similar services seem to be ignoring this law. They were banned in the 1970s as Muni's se
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by pjlegato 12y ago
If the regulated, unionized public transportation service actually answered to the residents, services such as Leap could not exist. They'd be unnecessary and unused.
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by pjlegato 12y ago
Because the heavily subsidized public bus service in San Francisco, Muni, operates abysmally. Buses are usually filthy, massively overcrowded during rush hour, often very late, and make frequent stops. In many cases, taking the bus is only
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by pjlegato 12y ago
This seems likely. SF supervisors are innundated with citizen complaints about poor Muni service on a daily basis, and seem to be unable or unwilling to do anything about Muni itself.
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by pjlegato 12y ago
San Francisco had many private bus lines until the 1970s. They were called "jitneys." The city made them illegal as Muni service continued to degrade, to shield Muni from competition. It's unclear how Chariot is getting aroun
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by pjlegato 12y ago
Drive-by downvoters: at least post a reply and explain which part of this you disagree with... The larger problem is that Muni's quality of service is terrible on all of its routes. The buses are usually filthy, late, slow, vastly o
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by pjlegato 12y ago
This article (and many comments here) grossly misunderstand the nature of city parking regulations. > Cities could make it easier for them, and improve parking compliance, just by making the parking signs clearer. The signs are confusing
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by pjlegato 12y ago
Perhaps what you refer to as "feeling" is a maximized game theoretic outcome, or a component thereof.
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by pjlegato 12y ago
"Game of Thrones" and its successors, by George R. R. Martin.
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by pjlegato 12y ago
"James' bicycle" is an orthographic convention; it's pronounced as if it were written "Jameziz bycycle" (i.e. both Ses are pronounced, as Zs.)
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by pjlegato 12y ago
It's probably true that the YC interview process is deeply flawed, but OTOH there is no known better way to select worthy investments yet. Good startup business ideas are not only rare but also impossible to identify a priori. The only

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