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An apartment you rent is not "your" house. If you get used to eating some species of shellfish, and the market price for it suddenly triples, society is not obliged to subsidize you continuing to eating it for the rest of your lif
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Net worth in the US by asset and liability class
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You don't have some special right to keep living in the same neighborhood just because you were there first
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Canada also has one of the highest immigration rates in the world
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I grew up in Tucson, a city full of garden apt complexes that in the 2000s charged $300-$600 for a one-bedroom apartment. All of them were built by private developers, owned by private mgmt companies, there were no rent control laws, and re
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I'm not nearly qualified to make this argument, but has anyone ever suggested that we collectively do away with the principle that one must publish original research in order to receive a PhD? Maybe in something like entomology, there
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Is the "nitrate-free" bacon in the UK like the kind in the states that is cured with celery juice instead and ends up forming even more nitrites than the traditional kind?
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Well, regulators in many countries and states have signaled that ICE is on the way out. If you look at market share among BEVs domestically, Tesla is very dominant, over half the market.
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If you want to make that argument than use earnings before taxes, not gross profit which excludes the cost of everything from operations to debt service
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It makes sense that in such a tight labor market, unions would be flexing their strength. What would really be a big deal is if union participation starts taking off, e.g. by some of the car plants in the South unionizing
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I saw a twitter commentator point out that this is higher than the $40B Nvidia wanted to buy it for. Argument was that stricter antitrust could actually lead to greater shareholder value.
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The Birth of Comedy
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I am an occasional user of the site and basically get value out of it two ways 1) check if any FB friends/acquaintances have read the same books that I have 2) use the ratings to rank-order the books of a particular author. E.g., if I
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There's a great deal of land in the very cold part of the N hemisphere that may become more agriculturally productive with warming.
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You seem to be conflating economic growth with population growth. Also the concern is not that Korea's population is failing to grow, it's that it's failing to stabilize and will soon shrink significantly.
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I think parent meant ban all advertising - buses, billboards, TV, etc
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I thought the consonant there is unvoiced like an English T but without the little aspiration afterward that English speakers use. So like the difference between the ancient Greek Tau and Theta (which was not originally pronounced with an E
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The poster you're replying to means that inflation-adjusted wages are roughly at an all time high, which is true: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/COMPRNFB Aside from the distortion from the pandemic unemploymen
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Failed at installing democracies elsewhere? Aside from Afghanistan where has the US done that? More often the US has installed or propped up autocrats w/ varying degrees of success
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If the existence of this firm does break existing discrimination law, then the point of the suit may be to indirectly demonstrate that the law is unjust, rather than that the existence of Fearless Fund is undesirable.
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Perhaps subsidies for on-the-job training would solve this
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That's the normal state of things when workers depend on employment for survival, as in 19th century Britain/US. The interesting question to me is, despite now having a high GDP/capita and moderate income inequality, why have
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Skill and work ethic concerns for TSMC's new Arizona factory
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I can attest we do have that in Seattle, I've been ticketed by mail for accidentally turning into a street that was designated bus-only
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There's enough water in Arizona that pecans and cotton are grown there, undoubtedly less $/H2O industries than semiconductors
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They provided evidence that reduces the likelihood of total fraud/fabrication on the part of the original researchers, though.
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Purely speculating, but might it be easy to doubt resistance measurements by claiming that equipment was faulty or used incorrectly?
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Americans also buy a lot of small to medium CUVs
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There's been quite a lot of building around Northgate, Othello and Columbia City. I'm surprised there hasn't been more upzoning at Rainier Beach, though - maybe displacement concerns on the part of planners
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An advantage of building on farms or other greenfield land is that you can start off with dense, walkable planning rather than car-oriented suburban expanse.
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