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by sershe 4y ago
I traveled by train around England (in many small hops, London to Newcastle to Carlisle to Portsmouth and back to London) and Germany (in a similar pattern but from Frankfurt to Berlin with a side trip north) and generally found British tra
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The net is that a criminal like this is someone who makes a conscious decision that other person's life or property (which is also in most cases life via time spent working) don't matter, the only thing that matters is that they w
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Nope, you are using a definition of democracy that is "all the things I like". Democracy is widely understood as voting-based mechanism for conflict resolution, it's just the implications that are not widely appreciated - if
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My pet theory is it's for the same reason public and public-ish housing works better everywhere else (from Vienna and Singapore to even ex-USSR) - robust private sector, in jobs and housing. In other places the alternatives may be limi
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Apple cripples SMS for unrelated users with their extend-extinguish approach. I used my wife's old iPhone for a few weeks when I smashed my Android phone in an accident. Then I switched back to Android (I thought iPhones were merely me
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There are many contrived examples here about closing eyes and refusing to eat lettuce, but why not take one directly from software? Let's say I publish code on the internet and put praise to my coding skills in the comments. A publishe
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I do not at all agree they are oppressing people or there's any kind of systematic repression. I view the settlements, although regrettable, as a normal defense mechanism, given that Palestinians have never followed the rules before wh
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I am responding to the comment saying "Fact is, Israel is in controll of those terretories, these people are suject to the Israeli state." So you are making my point for me - yep, exactly, Israel is not in control of these territ
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Do you support the "colonial settlement" of Indo-Europeans outside of the original Yamnaya territory, or should they all go back to the steppe and give Finns, Dravidians, Basques, etc. right to return? Should the English GTFO to D
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"Amazing what you can achieve by some legal shananigens" applies the opposite way. These are technically parts of Israel, but Israel is not really in control of West Bank, and not at all in control of Gaza strip. They are halfway
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I like how much context the media gives on this issue "Israel captured the West Bank from Jordan in the 1967 Middle East War" - no mention, of course, of the fact that Jordan occupied it after 1948 war. And that at the initial Pal
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Regulation operates like a ratchet - it's easy to add, but hard to remove, both due to the lobbying/entrenched interests that benefit from it, and the optics of one obscure accident blown out of proportion after some safety rule i
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The answer is much simpler, there used to be much less elderly per working person (and that only covers modern times, too, in a country with massive in-migration of new working people; plus it's obvious it's going to get worse):
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Environmental lawsuits targeted 50000 potential new homes in California in 2020(reason.com)
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Piling on other suggestions, why not Turkish? Admittedly I only ever made it to lower intermediate level (I could read newspapers slowly with occasional look-up) and now forgot most of it, but I don't think I've ever encountered a
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Why hasn't a simple solution of allowing people to discharge these loans in bankruptcy been considered? E.g. retroactively for borrowers before a certain time? I still don't like it, but at least it helps people with $100k in loan
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I think the post is spot on. It's not really about how hard is the labor, it's specifically about value produced for others, for which "how much others are willing to pay you" is the best approximation we have. To me, an
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by sershe 4y ago
Yeah, I agree with that. I think the best answer to that is georgist; one could argue that an average piece of land is extremely cheap, so there's no problem, everyone can get one; but if people want a specific piece of land, and many
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What argument are you talking about? You were claiming that the problem is that the only houses being built are "expensive SFHs" and that needs to stop. I gave you the numbers that (1) multi-family (condo is the closest I could fi
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Maybe; it's different than saying it's a "human right" though.
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Where does the government get the money? It still checks out to forced labor, once or N times removed. Not that I'm saying it's never acceptable - it's a trade-off, but we should call it as what it is, if used - a gift from o
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I agree with that, I am actually georgist. Of course, again, human right to land won't satisfy people calling for "housing as a human right". There's tons of cheap land everywhere, including close to cities, and in major
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1) Why would anyone on minimum wage need to afford a median house (or condo)? The person making the least would need to afford the cheapest house, not the median one. 2) No, housing prices have not skyrocketed for decades. It' simply n
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There's no basic human right to have a roof over your head, for the simple reason that someone has to make the roof. Saying "I have a right to have it [without building it yourself]" is saying "I have a right to force so
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The primary purpose of an AR-15 in the US, comparing the number of guns in circulation and the number of crimes/suicides/self-defenses, is sitting idly forever in someone's gun safe, or being used on a shooting range. I happe
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It's not like this hasn't been tried. First, do you know what Soviet stands for? The relevant meaning of the word in Russian is "council", and it refers to "worker councils", "soldier councils", etc.
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Example - https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/mortgages/condo-vs-house "According to NAR data, in December 2020 the median price for existing, detached single-family homes was $314,300, while it was $272,200 f
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Sub-standard is relative to a standard. If someone finds themselves to be sub-standard, maybe they should find a place with lower standards? That's exactly what Zuck is saying. On one hand, I've worked with a guy once who, as far
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Single family homes are quiet cheap in most of the country, especially McMansions. How much more expensive it is to build a house vs an apartment building, especially per sqft?
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Yep, more or less! If I argue for equality based on some abstract principle and someone else argues women should not be allowed to drive alone because that's against god's will, we have no common basis to argue. So it's &quot

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