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by rsj_hn 5y ago
Your attempt to try to change a widely used label because of the Holy Roman Empire reveals either a charming belief that labels must preserve some long term historical truth, or it's a strident attempt to force people to change their o
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Well, we assume the bottom half of housing, or say, the bottom 60% of housing, would be in the bottom 60% of the nation in terms of desirability. But that doesn't mean it's undesirable or bad housing -- certainly it's not vie
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
FYI, in America and most English speaking part of the world, they consider the former Warsaw Pact nations like Czech Republic Eastern Europe, and insisting that no, it's "central europe" will make them a bit confused and, fra
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
These is no definition of "suburb" just as there is no definition of "downtown". A suburb is just a part a city with less dense housing. You have: 1. Legal boundaries of cities, which are dependent on the state. Each sta
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> The global average doesn't really mean anything except "somewhere in the US there is still affordable housing". Friend, that's not what average means. It means that more than half all houses cost less than X (beca
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Historically, this argument is only made by people who have never cracked open a history book.
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Yeah, it's crazy. https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/average-new-car-price-202... But this is new cars, and you do get a lot -- collision detection, blind spots, adaptive cruise control, etc. And this includ
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
You can buy a home with 3% down and a government guaranteed mortgage. Lending standards were much higher in 1965, with LTV limited to about 50%, meaning you needed a 50% downpayment. Mortgage rates were also around 6% then. Obviously what y
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Check out "designer" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqjUlmkYr2g
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Pretty sure millions were already in Soviet gulags with Pravda and Izvestiya cranking out official propaganda before anyone became a Nazi. If you want to understand the terror of total state censorship practiced "the first time",
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
I've noted the rising temperatures and increasing hate over this issue. Just this week, some guy in LA starts yelling at anti-vaccine protesters, gets into a car, and rams into the crowd: https://www.nbcnews.com/news&#x
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Obligatory Krazam: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8OnoxKotPQ
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The thing is, your voice can also add to the din of noise that drowns out the signal. Not every vote adds signal. Here the problem is when you go down the ballot and reach the judges, schoolboard, and other offices where most people have no
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> If Biden cared, he could shame these "Democrat" senators and prevent them from getting re-elected It's hard to do that when you are unpopular nationwide[1] and downright loathed in Arizona[2]. Independents approval/
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> It's entirely possible that China owns the rights to the area Just because it's in Africa? I mean, wow, that's a stretch.
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Their market advantage is in manufacturing. They make quality products. Honda makes better, more reliable engines. But Toyota is great at manufacturing.
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Eh, Generation X created the internet. Tesla/SpaceX, Amazon, Google, Paypal, Netflix, Ebay, Square/Twitter, and Signal were all founded by members of Gen X. Gen X made San Francisco a tech hub. Gen X created Linux as well as *BSD.
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
Fun Fact: Violin bows also contain ivory in the tip. https://www.benningviolins.com/ivory-violins-and-violin-bows... I had a friend who was a luthier, and in this tradition the father hands over the materials to the son, so
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
Probably the same way you'd get Steve Jobs to work for you for $1 per year. Have that be part of a much larger package and this is thrown in just to meet the legal requirements of compensation.
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You think owners of EV cars don't care about reliability? They are even in a worse spot, needing to pay $1000 for a door handle failure because they can only get all their service from the dealer. A rock solid EV that doesn't need
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Yup. This idea that companies like Toyota are intentionally not selling products that consumers want but other products that consumers don't want is very common and very wrong. It just means that not everyone has the same taste, an
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> You're "Costs" seem to be assuming that physics and zoning laws don't exist. Some REIT who owns a few dozen properties isn't going to be able to merge those into one mega-rental priced 36x higher. I am not sure
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Oh come on. The person defecating on the Black Lives Matter sign also has human rights, and San Francisco does not prioritize them at all. If someone were to wear a MAGA hat in SF Community College, how many seconds before they would be ass
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
I'm not sure what you mean by "more principled". Everyone has to have some principles. SF is neither more nor less principled now than before. It just cares about different things. Go defecate on a Black Lives Matter street s
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> You are underestimating the scale at which infrastructure is being built in India. The bureaucracy, at least at the higher levels is much faster. That is good news. Do you attribute this to Modi or something else? Do you think it has b
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
My impression after being around homeless for many years, is that the key point that must always be understood is that chronically homeless are incapable of managing their own affairs, and therefore need someone else to manage those affai
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
Interesting. I've been thinking about spending some time in Chile -- what is the English situation in Chile or Peru?
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As a big fan of India, I've been waiting and hoping for them to leapfrog China. But I realized it's not happening, because for some reason they don't seem so have the same state capacity to act. It's a bunch of individua
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Exactly. Companies will fall over themselves to sponsor a visa. And he will jump at the chance to take it. Maybe not in 100 years, but right now that's how it is.
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I didn't know this about Canada -- it's interesting. It's not clear to me how the black market should go for more if you can just go into a legal place and buy there. What am I missing? Perhaps you need a prescription or some

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