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by whybroke 12y ago
No, we need to ask is Manhattan affordable? Are Manhattan prices dropping? Did they ever? A 10%-20% price difference is irrelevant and will just disappear in just a few years anyway.
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by whybroke 12y ago
The value of your labor relative to housing is dropping every year too you know. The notion of re-balancing forces is a nice simple story but the price of housing relative to income has risen nationwide for decades. There is a similar story
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by whybroke 12y ago
Correct. There is a religious libertarian belief that somehow changing zoning laws will "fix" the problem. No numbers are ever given (maybe prices would stay level for a few years) And no one notices that the extremely dense housi
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by whybroke 12y ago
If it seem the coding practices are inappropriately heaping on technical debt then there are two disagreements: 1. It looks like it will loose money in the long term and is therefore a poor decision even from a money stand point. This would
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by whybroke 12y ago
Where physically will weirdos live? The bay area was certainly a haven of which only a subset were technologist. And from that culture and thinking came many of the technical miracles of our age, many ideologically driven. My concern is rea
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by whybroke 12y ago
What a strange redefinition of "armchair general". Probably the standard meaning http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/armchair_general is too offensive to conservatives. But since when did the public decide every ar
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by whybroke 12y ago
Yes execution is important. But failing to discuss a problem does not improve execution, surely it is always the first step. So where would the right audience be? If perhaps there were some corner of the web where technologist, scientist an
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by whybroke 12y ago
There's nothing unusual or evil about Paul Allen in particular. But there is a disastrous trend at reducing public funding for research and education and pretending that that a few volunteer enthusiast or fund raisers can compensate fo
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by whybroke 12y ago
The "toys" could be purchased more coherently and consistently by teams who know the field if they had equivalent funding. And used for projects of significantly more historical and scientific value (though probably less media val
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Yes, it's a hobby that generates some marine archeology which is very nice. Probably not the equivalent cost of building and running what was the largest yacht in the world. Probably not the most sensible process for choosing projects
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by whybroke 12y ago
>javert's post was based on his personal experience with his aunt No, the language "to get on welfare" you have to be "classified as disabled" but "doctors hand that out like candy" is not about anyone&
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by whybroke 12y ago
While your link is at least an intellectually honest attempt at analysis, the graph you link to shows that disability claims were flat just when welfare was falling the fastest (1996 – 99) And were rising the fastest when welfare also rose
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by whybroke 12y ago
Well I assume mercury was the culprit since his posts certainly exhibit symptoms[1] [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_as_a_hatter
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by whybroke 12y ago
javert's comment is patently false statement designed to create intense hatred of a vulnerable group for political ends. A now deleted comment posted a link to a rambling diatribe as "evidence" (which just further proves my p
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by whybroke 12y ago
In another thread I just responded to someone who seems to be trying this theory out for mercury. Let's see how it works out for him.
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by whybroke 12y ago
So I'm curious, is this nonsense made up just to give bad advice to potential competitors or is it to stimulate an endless smoldering far right rage at imagined crimes in a fabicated world?
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by whybroke 12y ago
I wonder what it would have been like to live back in those decades when democracy was expanding instead.
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It wouldn't happen if it weren't economically wise. Contrary to claims to the contrary there is no shortage of adequately qualified candidates and an endless and growing sea of unqualified. So randomly rejecting the majority of qu
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by whybroke 12y ago
I am in fact a software engineer. When I lived in the city I had fiends who were social anthologists, post docs from over seas, drag performers, dance studio mangers, red cross workers even a poet. Not single one still lives in the city (ev
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by whybroke 12y ago
If there had been any doubt about the Guardian's accuracy, the responses in this thread have dispelled it. Not a single post stating there's a vibrant, interesting culture emerging but instead a flood of neo-liberal "screw yo
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by whybroke 12y ago
One of the more disturbing issues with linkedin goes almost unnoticed: For what possible reason does linkedin effectively mandate a photo? Because while I can not think of any reason this could possibly be necessary for any profession excep
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by whybroke 12y ago
Given that both articles on that site were swiped from elsewhere without attribution, perhaps that particular "carpenter" should be asked about theft. (well ok, one does mention a link to a 404 error)
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The retirement systems is utterly inadequate and pensions are non-existent. Thus the middle class is entirely dependent on effectively a housing ponzi scheme to avoid squalor (or even homelessness) in old age. So they will always fanaticall
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by whybroke 12y ago
I'm answering the contrived $35k income claim above. That claimant is likely not going to pay much attention to a 150 page document from any source let alone one that goes contrary to his opinion. Thus one needs a proof short enough to
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by whybroke 12y ago
Rather than seeking contrived numbers to reinforce your preconceive notions, you could actually spend a few seconds on google to figure it out. The article talks about ownership so: Net world wealth $263,242bil [1] World population 7bil [2]
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And it wasn't just low intensity use by French trappers alongside natives but even higher intensity use such as the US southern states along side Chickasaw, Choctaw, and Seminole agricultural societies that was working perfectly well [
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If a party owns land the US, by what moral authority can they block others access to it? By what moral authority can they demand rent on threat of eviction? Why wouldn't any democratic agency simply have the right to take it from them
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>...I'd call that a hell of a deal for the artist. And I'd call that a hell of a deal for the hospital.
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>...But, I also think the use of language is interesting; there is no discussion of the >science, merely a response of crying "class warfare" and dismissal of the video... Yes, I find this quite interesting and a possibly a
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by whybroke 12y ago
So, is the science wrong because you don't like the conclusion or is the science wrong because you don't like the presentation order in this particular video? It's interesting also that you need to warn like minded folks to t

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