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by tropdrop 8y ago
If you wonder what metrics comprise the value of a woman today (surely we have improved since the days of the lotus feet!), a thought experiment: Imagine walking into a museum and seeing a large, stately portrait of a well-dressed man, of
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This is a very short-sighted interpretation of the "break up Facebook & co." campaign. It is not about Facebook per se, but about the surprising power of tech giants - do you use Google? How about the internet? Don't thin
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The argument to rid licensing for music therapy or florists (as per article) seems stronger than for a hair salon. Do you know the difference between cutting straight, thin hair and thick, curly hair? What about kinky (usually African Ameri
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Yes. Food allergy in children has increased 50% from 1999 to 2011 [1]. 1. https://www.foodallergy.org/sites/default/files/2018-04/FARE...
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Daily enduring something like that from people you work with has to be depressing. Poor guy.
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It's OP's property - why must OP's property conform to your rhyme or reason?
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Do they? Our whole neighborhood remained indoors 97% of the time because most days in the summer had temps of 95-100F. Every house nevertheless diligently watered their lawn, multiple times a day, to keep up a perfect shade of green. The on
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Remember that this is true for native grass to an area, and the first step to getting that perfect patch of green is to remove the native "weed" grass and replace it with some uniform species sold in every Lowes, from California
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Your neighborhood must be quite different from the one I grew up in, where people only ventured onto the grass to mow it, and those same patches were used as an excuse for dogs to be kept outside 24/7, howling through rain, snow or shi
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I hate sports, but I don't argue there's no point to them because there's no point to them for me . A library's advantage isn't just "musty old books" books (some young people, myself included, love physi
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If you're genuinely asking (quite irreverent to ask in this thread, I must say), what keeps me here personally are its people. Californians are a passionate folk who are without a doubt the most non-judgmental Americans I've ever
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Kindly keep the conversation productive - I don't tell my relatives to abandon the Florida they dearly love when hurricanes strike, even though we both know they'll just strike again and again. They have their reasons for loving a
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All dense cities are blue. When you live next to an immigrant neighbor with a radically different lifestyle, and you two become friends, you start adopting some blue political leanings. Compound that with density. Over the past 10 years I f
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digitaltrees has it right - those unexpected connections, it turns out, not only form great new business relationships, but are a great source of revenue for local businesses. Trivially, you can think about a group of coworkers walking on a
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If $1300-$2100/month is not a "demand" in the economic sense, what is? https://www.quora.com/How-much-does-daycare-cost-in-the-Bay-...
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This is why I constrained my argument to only consider children ages 0-12. Regardless of whether "people actually demand the education the public system forces upon them," people do demand a safe, stimulating place to put their
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From article - > low and middle income jobs, such as teachers and firefighters or nannies and cooks, are key to the local economy. Someone else commented in this thread how all these jobs (meaning every non-tech, middle-class job) will b
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That's analogous to switching from being a data-base administrator to a systems ops engineer. Sure, fundamental knowledge of logic is transferable (compare: knowledge of human anatomy on a general scale, courtesy of medical school), bu
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> again pointing towards gender expectations as the culprit Well, that's exactly right. In general, I wish we would move away from oversimplified "patriarchy"-based language of "aggressor" vs "victim" (
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>So what? Their medical degree obvious isn't qualifying them to be a doctor in the new country. I never understood this, even while in the medical industry myself. Perhaps this might be a little true for an immigrant from Venezuel
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> What does a living wage even mean.. The definition of living wage is fairly established. It is the minimum income necessary for a worker to meet their basic needs. Needs are defined to include food, housing, and other essentials such a
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There's nothing wrong with encouraging young people to build wealth. However, as we saw in '08, the housing market is a less sure bet of wealth than was previously thought - not to mention changing climates make the value of some
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How laborious likely depended on your OS. iTunes on a Mac = extremely easy (just sync it like all your other music). But I remember getting some MP3s to show up on my MP3 player using a Desktop would sometimes be stressful (some files playe
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To be able to make this point you still had to have read Benjamin's essay. Is academia not a constant conversation, constant disruption of previously unquestioned assumptions? I would argue the continued usefulness of Benjamin's e
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*Her point. The problem with calling it a mass suicide - besides the fact that hundreds of people slaughtered were children (who had no idea what was happening), the elderly (threatened into submission) and people forcibly held down and inj
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I have never tried laying on a 42" pallet - have you? I really can't say if it's too small to sleep in. A simple picture (even a stylized, human-sized vector drawing) would put debates about whether this pod is too small to b
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It's hard to get an idea of scale in these pictures, so the pods seem impossibly small and unlikely to fit a whole person. A picture of a person laying inside for scale would help.
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Buried at the bottom, Levandowski's controversial world wisdom - "The only thing that matters is the future,” [Levandowski] told me after the civil trial was settled. “I don’t even know why we study history. It’s entertaining, I g
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I've had exactly one negative experience on the Green line, as I was coming home to my apartment 62nd street - a group of young men surrounded me and tried to intimidate me, clearly a casual pastime for them. I stood my ground, acted l
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Fair point, I don't know that the poster lives in San Francisco. But it's not the only big city in the Bay Area that works for this argument - Oakland and Berkeley with their multiple train lines would like a word about that!

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