quantumwannabe

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by quantumwannabe 4y ago
Not a single one of those was a mass shooting by the common definition. They were all just random murders/attempted murders, which your continent has quite a lot of as well. The only difference is you don't have lobbyists who comp
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by quantumwannabe 4y ago
Most American cities have their jobs distributed throughout the city, and don’t have mega skyscrapers. The more sprawling the city, the more evenly distributed the jobs are. Mixed use zoning has no effect on commute times because it doesn’t
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by quantumwannabe 4y ago
If they commute 235 miles per year then they don’t need a train at all because that is a commute of around half a mile each way per day which is easily walkable. That number is so ridiculously low I suspect the source is wrong.
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by quantumwannabe 4y ago
First off, you didn't say "school" originally, you just said mass shooting and there have been several in the UK since the gun ban; also it doesn't matter if innocent people are killed at a school or elsewhere, what matt
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by quantumwannabe 4y ago
Not true. There was one literally less than a year ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plymouth_shooting Another one in 2018: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Moss_Side_shooting And another in 20
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by quantumwannabe 4y ago
Please don't move the goalposts. You said: >Do you see school shootings happening in Europe? Implying that school shootings don't happen in Europe. I then listed 20 school shootings that have occurred in Europe over the last 20
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by quantumwannabe 4y ago
Yes. There are many school shootings in Europe. Here are several from recent years (not an exhaustive list): Germany: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erfurt_school_massacre https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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by quantumwannabe 4y ago
That is blatantly not true. There have been several mass shootings in Australia such as the 2002 Monash University shooting and the 2014 Sydney hostage crisis since Port Arthur, which inspired the modern Australian gun control system. Port
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by quantumwannabe 4y ago
You don't know the history of health care in the United States. Before the government got involved by instituting wage limits during WWII, there was no such thing as "employer provided insurance".
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by quantumwannabe 4y ago
What the 1952 law says is that you can't ban people from immigrating because of what country they come from. It doesn't ban the creation caps on the number of people immigrating from a specific countries , which the law also en
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by quantumwannabe 4y ago
Appealing to the history of immigration in the country doesn't diminish the GP's point as the US has discriminated against the origins and identities of immigrants since its founding. >The Naturalization Act of 1790 (1 Stat. 10
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by quantumwannabe 4y ago
Note that India requires prospective citizens to live in the country for 12 years before applying for naturalization, and China doesn't allow non-ethnic Chinese immigration at all (only ~1500 naturalized citizens/10,000 permanent
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Chat control: EU Commission presents mass surveillance plan on May 11(patrick-breyer.de)
507 points by quantumwannabe 4y ago|323 comments
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by quantumwannabe 4y ago
Almere looks very similar to large parts of Florida, just with more town houses. Both look like master planned subdivisions with layouts that look interesting from the air interspersed with canals surrounding commercial areas.
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by quantumwannabe 4y ago
That graph doesn't support your point. The Y-axis is the percentage of each ethnic group that achieved a certain score range. The statistic you are looking for is the percentage of the total population that scored in each bucket groupe
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Edge of Emulation: Game Boy Sewing Machines(shonumi.github.io)
2 points by quantumwannabe 5y ago|0 comments
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by quantumwannabe 5y ago
They already do in many places. Toll roads exist, and the gas tax pays for almost all of the highways anyways. Transit is subsidized an order of magnitude more. A world with no subsidies looks more like suburban sprawl than a dense transit
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by quantumwannabe 5y ago
"Stroads" are in commercial areas by definition. A typical neighborhood designed after the car became popular does not have any multi lane roads inside of it. It will have them around it, but people who live in the neighborhood wi
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by quantumwannabe 5y ago
Sure, as long as we also get rid of all urban growth boundaries. Be careful what you wish for, a free market city won't look like what you think it will.
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by quantumwannabe 5y ago
There are cheap high-density areas and expensive low-density areas. According to your and that blogpost's logic, Silicon Valley's high housing prices in single-family neighborhoods and the fact that people want to move there are p
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by quantumwannabe 5y ago
No need for inferred preference, actual preferences of where Americans would prefer to live are 19% urban, 46% suburban, and 35% rural [1]. 71% of urban residents who would like to move want to move to a suburban or rural area, in contrast,
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by quantumwannabe 5y ago
If you have a green card you can enlist. https://www.uscis.gov/military/naturalization-through-milita...
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by quantumwannabe 5y ago
No, if the President was on a US Airways flight, he would be on Executive One [1], not Air Force One. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_One
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by quantumwannabe 5y ago
Whenever someone says they support something "to own the libs/cons", what they really mean is "I don't want to discuss this with you". The vast majority of the time, people have real reasons behind their positi
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by quantumwannabe 5y ago
Obviously, a student must sell themselves to the school, but the admissions department should not be assuming what an applicant wants to do beyond what they say in their application. Every college application I've seen has a question a
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by quantumwannabe 5y ago
You're assuming that someone who grew up in a rural area is destined to be a farmer no matter what and just gave an example of the bias those kids face. The same logic would suggest that a kid who won a music competition in high school
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by quantumwannabe 5y ago
You are still being incredibly condescending. The people you mock don’t view themselves as “academically handicapped” and they voted for Trump because they thought he was smart, not because he was rich. At some point the “academic smarts” h
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by quantumwannabe 5y ago
Why are Germans ok with registering their religion with their government after the government rounded up everyone of a certain religion and killed them?
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by quantumwannabe 5y ago
That's because they're from Portland. There are only a handful of cities in the US where people do not feel safe to let their kids run around, and Portland is one of them. Even there only certain neighborhoods are unsafe. Your vie
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by quantumwannabe 5y ago
1-1 net metering just isn’t a viable model. It sounds nice from the perspective of someone installing solar on their house, but it doesn’t make sense at a grid scale and it has meant that most home solar installations are just distributed p

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