throwaway98211

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by throwaway98211 3y ago
Maybe... though with a growing trends of the most affluent / best educated families in SF Bay Area not allowing smartphone use I find your prediction unlikely.
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by throwaway98211 3y ago
Homelessness isn't a monolith. It's a spectrum of people who face housing insecurity due to economic circumstances, to people who resist/actively shun societal contacts that help us all function (often fueled by serious subst
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by throwaway98211 5y ago
> for people unfamiliar with los angeles, is very much a city of landed gentry. republican legislation designed to curtail rising taxes for elderly residents 40 years ago wound up creating a cloistered elite of land-owners that pay nearl
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by throwaway98211 5y ago
Congrats on the launch. Note that higher response rates don't always translate to better data. As you make the survey experience more intrusive you incentivize certain users to provide junk answers simply to remove the barrier. Just so
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by throwaway98211 5y ago
I remember reading about a similar dynamic in Harari's 'Sapiens'... the shift to from hunter/gatherer to agriculture being better for 'society' (more people) but worse for the average individual within the soci
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by throwaway98211 5y ago
>The thing is, we have actual data on a lot of these policies. And we know what works and doesn't work. Can you cite the 'actual data' -- has it held up to broad peer review? Can you provide examples of critique of these p
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by throwaway98211 5y ago
What manufactured homes did you consider during the process?
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by throwaway98211 5y ago
>Note that the people in the communities vote overwhelmingly for these reforms, and they are the ones living with the outcomes. A large proportion of people who have problems with it are outsiders. Speak for yourself. Boudin and Gascon b
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by throwaway98211 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Williamson_Act
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by throwaway98211 5y ago
> There are a lot of wasteful industries So what? These whataboutisms add nothing to the conversation. People aren't going to stop caring about the carbon costs of crypto because other industries also suck. Think about it as an adop
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by throwaway98211 5y ago
Absolutely -- there seems to be tons of real people very eager to equate criticism of the CCP to 'China bad!' and this is part of the problem. The CCP (like all major governments in history) has / is / will do things tha
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by throwaway98211 5y ago
>I am in China currently, but I am as ignorant of the underlying motives behind the crackdowns. Why search for underlying motives when the overt motivates are clear; Chinese tech companies should 'come home' to mainland capital
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by throwaway98211 5y ago
Black-swan events aren't just 'part of business' - they are generational events that upend the established norms of a market. What happened here is that the government changed the rules (i.e. risk / reward profile) of a
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by throwaway98211 5y ago
>Imagine how much tax dollars would be gained if all drugs were legalized in US and let's say 20% of it's population started to regularly use them. Maybe... Or, the same criminal underworld that controlled the drug trade still
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by throwaway98211 5y ago
>The Child Tax Credit is a seriously good piece of policy... Maybe in intent, but certainly not in implementation. Fine if you want to give money to the poor / people with no income, but enacting that through our tax system (designe