ryan_lane

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by ryan_lane 9mo ago
> Your co-founder Larry Sanger, perhaps? Who left extremely early on in the project, went to create a poorly conceived and failed competitor, then spent the next 23ish years shitting on Wikipedia? Why does he deserve any credit?
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by ryan_lane 9mo ago
I think this deserves more than a nitpick. WMF also doesn't dictate the actions of the volunteer community, and neither does the board. The content of Wikipedia is fully volunteer created and maintained, and admin actions are also hand
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by ryan_lane 10mo ago
Two adults with two children is doable with 2 beds. That's higher than the average number of children for a family in the US at this point. I know plenty of people with children (and I have children myself). Airbnb probably serves you
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by ryan_lane 10mo ago
> 180 oligarchs can launder their money in a 200'x200' The vertical size of that, however, could be used to house at least a thousand (or more) people. This is mostly a manhattan problem, but there's a quite large volume o
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by ryan_lane 10mo ago
> Cities that have almost completely banned Airbnb (e.g.: NYC) have not seen any improvement on affordability. What's next? New York, as expensive as it is, is still considerably cheaper than cities like SF. Part of this is that the
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by ryan_lane 10mo ago
Because the government builds that much housing, and subsidizes the cost, to ensure their citizens (and PRs) have affordable housing. It's special because they made it that way.
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by ryan_lane 10mo ago
The rest of the market was allowed to maximally increase rent to the point this person can't afford rent anywhere except for where they live, and the problem is rent control (which NYC has relatively little of)? Why not complain about
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by ryan_lane 10mo ago
> There are often no hotel rooms with 3+ beds and kitchenette There are very few hotels with kitchenettes. Most people don't cook (and don't want to cook) on vacation. Most hotels also don't cater to the low-income, and fo
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by ryan_lane 10mo ago
> What does this mean or are you just communist coding your speech? What they were saying is simply common sense. If an airbnb host is buying a local unit and renting it out for high prices to tourists, they're going to buy it for a
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by ryan_lane 10mo ago
> There is a generic flaw in humanity that controversy brings popularity. Not necessarily. You need to have that controversy shown to enough people of similar mindsets, which requires a platform, or for them to somehow grow their local a
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by ryan_lane 10mo ago
You should get yourself checked out. No one is trying to take your car away.
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by ryan_lane 10mo ago
I have. A lot of them have trains!
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by ryan_lane 10mo ago
You must be an American, because plenty of trains exist to bring people to nature elsewhere. You know, when you drive a car to a nature place, you put it into a parking lot, then you are no longer in the car, right? Same works for trains.
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by ryan_lane 10mo ago
Sure, except that for the most part conservatives seem to be happy to watch their rights slide right down a hill when conservatives are in charge. See the entirety of US politics at this point. Society already puts limits on children's
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by ryan_lane 10mo ago
It's a bad point though, because those are fringe and don't have network effects that would pressure most children to join them. You become a social outcast if you don't participate in <popular social media of the day>,
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by ryan_lane 10mo ago
You're putting Tate's views in an overly good light with the way you represent it. "traditional gender roles exist for a reason" is the very lightest possible way you can phrase his viewpoint. He hates women, to the poin
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by ryan_lane 10mo ago
"YouTube is targeted because it shows children hate content, which happens to be a popular viewpoint of conservatives." Fixed that for you.
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by ryan_lane 10mo ago
What social networks are these? If they aren't complying with the law, they can (and should be) blocked. You're also missing what folks keep saying: the network effect isn't there. It needs to be popular enough that there&#x2
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by ryan_lane 10mo ago
Dollar stores are one of the primary drivers of food deserts. Info on this is a quick google search away, as there's a ton of research around this: https://anderson-review.ucla.edu/how-dollar-stores-contribut...
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by ryan_lane 10mo ago
On particular items, yes. As a whole, no. They have a lot of loss leaders, then rely on being generally overpriced to make that up. Grocery stores also rely on this, but at a larger scale, and when their higher margins dry up, they go out o
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by ryan_lane 10mo ago
> Padding ties up capital, it reduces credibility, it delays deployment, it adds costs through delay. Well done timelines are a negotiation between the stakeholders and engineers. The stakeholders need something done for the business, th
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by ryan_lane 10mo ago
But because these stores exist, they lead to grocery stores no longer existing, because they eat the majority of the profit from grocery stores. This forces people to shop at the dollar stores because it's the only thing nearby. The do
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by ryan_lane 10mo ago
You're applying that razor incorrectly. These dollar stores are run with a skeleton crew, where it's impossible for the workers to keep the store in order, or to update the prices on the shelves. The prices of items at the registe
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by ryan_lane 11mo ago
> Another great point. In my experience, the very best language lessons are from casual interactions when a stranger makes a correction to my foreign language when replying me, but not in a derogatory manner. Most of the time, you can te
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by ryan_lane 11mo ago
The particular example he used was poor. GPS coordinates along the way of a ride are meaningful for ridesharing, because you need to know the route the driver took along the entire route from start to end. You also need to know where the dr
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by ryan_lane 11mo ago
Other adults aren't your kids, and it isn't your place to correct them, unless they ask for help.
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by ryan_lane 11mo ago
As a foreigner living in Japan, I'd like to take the opportunity to let you know that it's not ethnocentrism, but that Japan is for the most part quite xenophobic, and racist. It's common to hear Japanese folks make fun of ot
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by ryan_lane 11mo ago
Referenced elsewhere in this post: https://www.unchainedatlast.org/united-states-child-marriage...
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by ryan_lane 11mo ago
Let's err on the side that doesn't result in children being forced to marry pedophiles. Yes, the line can be subjective, but the vast majority of cases of child marriage are underage women being forced to marry men over the age
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by ryan_lane 11mo ago
> There is not even a remotely plausible basis for describing anything written here as racist The fact that plenty of people disagree with you doesn't support your argument. It feels like you're being defensive here because you

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