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by viscanti 8y ago
> I had the distinct sense that they were experimenting with (what they likely thought of as) voodoo. Thanks for sharing. I've traveled several times and have sometimes heard people having entire conversations in what sounds like no
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> the numbers don't support you. 69% of all the land in the UK is farm land. Most farms are owned by individual farmers. Those farmers make up roughly 1% of the total population. The numbers absolutely support this (feel free to res
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by viscanti 8y ago
> You seem to think its OK for a small percentage of people to have everything as long as you have the right to roam around. Agriculture in the United Kingdom uses 69% of the country's land area. 476,000 people work on those farms.
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by viscanti 8y ago
Maybe Humans?
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by viscanti 8y ago
They've made millions from the appreciation of their houses, but they are still active in preventing new housing to try to juice their returns even more. It's a problem of how many Americans see their house as their biggest invest
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> outside of some sense of nostalgia. I think there's a case to be made that WE changed since then and that it's not purely nostalgia. There weren't the same level of distractions in the pre-internet world (I understand th
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by viscanti 8y ago
> I guess it comes down to whether you believe that an infection disproportionately affects old people and causes dementia. What they're saying is that after many years of fighting the infection Alzheimer's starts to develop. C
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by viscanti 8y ago
Maybe life is about more than just minimizing tax obligations?
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> So the drivers are paying more for the roads, but the cyclists are also paying for those roads with their income taxes, sales taxes, etc. And cars also put the vast majority of the wear and tear on the roads. So while they might pay mo
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by viscanti 8y ago
There are fuel taxes which mean that cars pay a disproportionate amount for road maintenance. But cars also put 99.99% of all the wear and tear on roads. Fuel taxes (which never pay for all of a road - general taxes pay for them as well) do
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by viscanti 8y ago
> Very likely, but you can chart the actual funding over time, whereas a sudden spike in incompetence and corruption seems somewhat unlikely. Sure. There are likely many reasons why it's so bad. But the solution is to fix it, not pe
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> Short of fining employers for each employee that doesn't get a transit pass through the employer, there isn't much cities can do to curb this. Maybe they could make mass transit better so more people would want to use it?
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This is a good point. People don't drive in Manhattan because it's cheaper (or less tax) than Public Transportation. There's a reason people aren't taking the Subway and the best way to fix the problem is to make that be
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> What you are really saying is "I hope there is a massive war so excess human capital stock is cleared and the relative valuation of each human is raised for a generation or two." Your biases are showing or you're being h
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by viscanti 8y ago
Right. It's hard to argue that new home buyers should subsidize people who bought properties decades ago and have made hundreds of thousands of dollars on the appreciation. Why should taxes be disproportionally higher for new buyers an
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Anyone who buys property now subsidizes (through higher property taxes) EVERYONE who bought properties in the past. Some of those previous owners might be teachers or retired couples. But many other are movie stars and tech millionaires or
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by viscanti 8y ago
Well that's on you.
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> If you go and buy stocks you're buying a security that can be traded back to fiat currency at any point in time. It depends on the stock. But there are lots of types of investments. None of the rest are referred to as "losing
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by viscanti 8y ago
> They've done nothing but lose money, more than any private company ever. This is a weird take for me. I don't mean to single you out but I see it everywhere. If I went and bought $100 worth of stocks, not many people would sa
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> it is a small, tightknit club where success typically hinges on whom you know. This is such a weird point to make given it seems like almost none of the Uber and Airbnb Alumni seem to have been in any kind of tight knit club before. Th
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by viscanti 8y ago
> But that's people bullshitting themselves. No it's not. What Google did here was illegal. There are also people who value their privacy and don't have an Amazon echo or other listening device. You're trying to argue
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> But if you’re being given orders by an inhuman system, you deserve at least some of the protections employees receive against inhumane employers. Why? If there were better options out there then Lyft wouldn't have any drivers. Lyf
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by viscanti 8y ago
> The choice between untenably-expensive benefits as a contractor or untenably-unaffordable benefits as an unemployed person is no choice at all--especially for people with health problems/children/debt. It appears that lots of
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> So how do you punish these banks and not hurt the 10,000+ workers who had no part in this? If the C-Suite or other senior managers make bad decisions they can put the business at risk. That's one of the inherent risks in working f
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by viscanti 8y ago
How often are vehicles returned before zero payments? It sounds like you had that case on a vehicle before this where presumably you could have test drove the car. This move makes sense to me. They're able to shave off thousands of dol
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> Don't implicitly approve Wolfram's narcissism. Just don't. That's fair, but I'm not sure that a comment thread on HN is going to change him. He might be stuck in his ways at this point and may not even care abo
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by viscanti 8y ago
I'm conflicted about this. I think forced arbitration is a terrible predatory practice. But I also think there are lots of frivolous class action lawsuits. All the claims cited here were from a single class action lawsuit that was thro
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I just think you're over fitting to that sample size of one. It's like saying you're never going to talk to another human because two people once plotted a crime by talking to each other. You're conflating the ends with
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> use your networking, which I consider unethical and don't do it. I don't understand the sentiment. Interviews are a proxy for how good you are. The companies hiring are very limited by what kind of information they can turn u
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by viscanti 8y ago
Right. If the solution was just to put more miles on their vehicles. We'd see them with 10x the number of vehicles out on the road. They're not just a few months of "learning" away from cracking full self driving. The fi

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