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by whybroke 10y ago
>Repealing Prop 13... Would put houses that the owner can't afford on the market thereby increasing supply. Adequate social security would mean they don't then get dumped on the streets. >Eliminating the mortgage interest de
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Very little impact on the present that I can think of (beyond Greenland's relationship to Denmark) But the Greenland colony was inhabited by a few thousand people and lasted a few hundred years. Further more, the events around it are r
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by whybroke 10y ago
Zoning changes may be a fine short term solution for a finite number of units. With rezoning, this plan, non-profit, government housing or any number of options become viable. But medium term, BART is already at maximum capacity and long te
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by whybroke 10y ago
Somewhat off topic but about the section describing the viking arrival in Greenland and North America, it's astounding the impact on history that a tiny number of people taking big risks can have.
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by whybroke 10y ago
>We don't just let people put up houses on random pieces of land they don't own and live there. The current lack of any serious action or even any real interest in solving the now generation old homeless problem makes shanty to
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by whybroke 10y ago
rather than just that sentence, here's a tldr; for the problem the article describes. There is a difference between a loan taken to build a fishing boat and a loan to buy an existing apartment building. A fishing boat loan is paid off
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by whybroke 10y ago
It does, however, allow those wealthy enough to hire a stream of expert witness to cast doubt on the technique in front of a jury and thereby win at trial while still convicting those who can't afford that. The naive part of me still h
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by whybroke 10y ago
To convince yourself that you live in a perfect meritocracy where anyone who fails does so solely because of moral deficiency or laziness is the most dangerous delusion you could inflict upon yourself. The story of millennials playing video
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by whybroke 10y ago
I agree entirely. And, looking at a small but easier part, I believe that there is a particular piece that Zuckerberg can work on very effectively. His company is now a key part of the way people form their view of the world. The algorithm&
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by whybroke 10y ago
This is lovely and all. But he is in a much better position to work on the curious problems of ever increasing political polarization in our new Post-Factual world. If I were to guess, over the next century that problem is going to result i
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by whybroke 10y ago
And vandalism btw. Particularly the preparation needed to remove a 'theft proof' sign is not done by an idle souvenir collector on a road with essential no tourists that no one form outside the area has ever heard of. Those things
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by whybroke 10y ago
Except where the numbering is magical such as the renaming of hwy666 when some groups suddenly decided the number was satanic[1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Route_491
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It will be an interesting experiment since the vast majority of Americans have none of these stereotypes. The word Gypsy conjures solely the image of a palm reader and the word Roma means nothing to the vast majority. Their speech will soun
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by whybroke 10y ago
If consciousness is purely a result of the arrangement of the brain, why would you not see B and the copy see A since the bodies are identical? This paradox is the problem with a simple emergent property explanation. To say somehow the diff
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by whybroke 10y ago
a fantastic article and wonderful to have a calm conversation on the topic. I can not fault anything in the article but I would add that immigrants also bring dynamism and new ideas to the country. Not necessarily of economic value but cert
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by whybroke 10y ago
Consider the story from your own personal point of view not as an observer. I put you in a duplication chamber. In front of you is a card with the letter "A" In a neighboring identical empty chamber is card with a "B" on
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by whybroke 10y ago
If every bodily action is caused ultimately by things explained by physics, as is clearly the case, then there is no room for a non-phiscal mind. Put another way, using our current knowledge of physics and chemistry, we can, on a high level
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by whybroke 10y ago
Yes this is my favorite explanation: that consciousness is incredibly brief and delicate. That only one very precise organization of the brain could give rise to the epiphenomenon that is me. So precise in fact that "I" only exist
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by whybroke 10y ago
Technically though describing consciousness as emergent property of neural functioning is a conjecture, though a very credible one. Unlike turbulence, I only have one case where I have ever seen this consciousness which I am trying to expla
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by whybroke 10y ago
Actually I think the grandparent comment should be read "...proof [of the truth] of any phenomenon..." I suggest the problem is with the concept "true". The assumption that all phenomenon have a physical basis is exceedi
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by whybroke 10y ago
Reason will give you the math to build the pyramids. Irrationality will make you think it is a good idea.
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by whybroke 10y ago
Very sensible point. But I would emphasize that in order to justify the value of intuition in this case, you had to resort to reason as well as anthropology and evolutionary biology. That last one in particular most especially is the produc
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by whybroke 10y ago
How would you go about showing that emotions, feelings and intuition produce good results without proving that very idea rationally? While intuition may be useful to get good results (perhaps it is the subconscious quickly applying some pat
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by whybroke 10y ago
>...One is the climate... 71% of homeless people were living in SF just before becoming homeless. Only 10% come from outside of California (and its climate)[0] This pretty clearly shows homeless has alot more to do with the cost of housi
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I too lived overseas for several years and returned to the Bay Area recently to be astonished in the same ways. Another surprise that the article does not reveal was that in speaking to long standing friends who remained in the Bay Area, I
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by whybroke 10y ago
So Hong Kong, Georgia, Mauritius, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Jordan, Lithuania are all more free than the US? A strange conclusion. >Individuals have economic freedom when property they acquire without the use of force... So we'll
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by whybroke 10y ago
Yeah, homo-sapiens will undoubtedly survive but the economy sure as hell won't. And given the inevitable loss of every major city coastal city, the unutterable disruption of agriculture and water supplies with the attendant massive die
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by whybroke 10y ago
I wish companies would post a spread of their developer ages on their careers page so we would know which ones not to waste time with. Because mere lip service about hiring solely on merit, even if the hirer somehow believes they are, reall
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by whybroke 10y ago
In addition, history is long and tech grows fast. I imagine at some future point and well within our lifetimes it will be trivial to infer our political attitudes and assign semi-anonymous screen names to real persons just by scrapping the
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by whybroke 10y ago
Or we could eliminate the mortgage deduction, adopt Vancouver's foreign investment restrictions and abolish California's prop13 and its equivalent in other states. But of course those acts actually would reduce housing prices.

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