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by zasz 8y ago
Oops, you are right, I misread that.
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by zasz 8y ago
Dunno why you're getting downvoted. It's true, and it only adds to the Drapers being enormous assholes; it doesn't contradict that. The leader of the #calexit campaign was an American who was living in Russia. Plus Russia&#x2
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by zasz 8y ago
I like the way you think. Are there any books you recommend on understanding how oligarchs think? What do you think is going through the mind of oligarchs with more geopolitical concerns, like Putin?
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by zasz 8y ago
Nonsense. My sister-in-law is a professor and my brother is the stay-at-home dad, for the sake of her career. They're on kid #2 now. He does all the nighttime stuff so she can sleep and be refreshed for work.
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by zasz 8y ago
I think hueving just meant to say that not every institution is corrupt, and the medical industry is good when it comes to vaccines. The vested interests, in this case doctors, are doing great, and the anti-vaxxers are bad.
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by zasz 8y ago
That's totally fair, and you interpreted what OP was trying to say better than I did.
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by zasz 8y ago
There's limited time and a lot of bullshit to wade through, and I'm busy enough staying abreast of my chosen fields. Credentialism is often abused, but it remains a useful heuristic. It's definitely not useful for people who
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by zasz 8y ago
I'm no fan of toxic chemicals in our food and I don't trust the government or corporations to do enough to protect it, but it seems fair to me to say that a PhD in philosophy and a master's in physics are not particularly rel
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by zasz 8y ago
Yes, I think you're absolutely right. It's a combination of capitalism and bad urban planning (having to hop in a car to see people is bad for socializing since people are so lazy).
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by zasz 8y ago
Yeah, seriously, this isn't some introvert/extrovert thing. Most people are really bad at confrontation. I confronted an extrovert who owed me a couple hundred bucks once, and he was most definitely, definitely "stun-locked.&
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by zasz 8y ago
Friendship is worth it. Loneliness is a serious threat to your health. It keeps your cortisol levels elevated. The effect on your health is comparable to a bad smoking habit. According to this study, mortality goes up by at least 26%: http
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by zasz 8y ago
Cause that would require billions of dollars and a new state bureaucracy. I think building tons and tons of affordable housing would be great, but where's the money? I don't think the public support for an enormous housing bond is
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by zasz 8y ago
And that's why YIMBYs like me like to call the leftists who oppose building more housing "fauxgressives."
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by zasz 8y ago
Of course I know anti-development people are the ones most likely to show up to public meetings. I've gone to plenty in Palo Alto, and I canvassed for a pro-growth slate. I'm not the kind of apathetic techie who only reads social
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by zasz 8y ago
The connection between NIMBYs and displacement goes like this: newcomers come in and increase prices of rentals, NIMBY homeowners refuse to build more housing, long-time renters are displaced by the newcomers who can afford more. Simple sup
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by zasz 8y ago
What about working remotely?
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by zasz 8y ago
Not really. Your right to an unchanging neighborhood absolutely does not eclipse the right of a long-term renter's ability to stay in their community, or the right of a newcomer's desire to move to a better job. Plus, climate chan
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by zasz 8y ago
True dat. Supply is necessary but not sufficient. I don't think this is too popular amongst YIMBYs, but some of us do support limited rent-control for the sake of displacement protection.
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by zasz 8y ago
The best I can find of the SB827 opponents is statements like this: http://www.dsa-la.org/statement_in_opposition_to_sb_827 The anti-development left is, for a variety of reasons, not terribly visible. Poor people of color
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by zasz 8y ago
Because high rents cancel out the benefits of a high salary. It's simple arithmetic. Why give up 30k of a 100k salary to work and live in SF, when I could give up 10k of an 90k salary in Austin instead? (These are just illustrative fig
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by zasz 8y ago
I mean, if you work at a paperclip factory, sure, it doesn't matter, but if you work at Palantir, it certainly could. And if you work at Facebook? Right now, you'd better be thinking about the wider political context of your work.
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by zasz 9y ago
Exactly--Sherry Turkle made the interesting point that while it is concerning teens spend so much time on their phones texting, it's because they can't drive yet and go see their friends. Tech is a band-aid for a spatial problem.
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by zasz 9y ago
Ahahah, so that's why capital called in the cops to kill members of the first labor unions in America, out of brother hood?
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by zasz 9y ago
I like the blog and the redesign, but I'm not so sure about the logo. I use fountain pens all the time, and it still wasn't apparent at first what it was supposed to be.
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by zasz 9y ago
The thing is, how can you trust Pinker's interpretation of the Enlightenment? Pinker thinks the Enlightenment was an important engine of 'progress,' but John Locke was a tremendously influential Enlightenment thinker who argu
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by zasz 9y ago
> Also, consider that sob stories confer tips too. Why not convince your customer that uber is abusing you, but you have nowhere else to go? Not in the context of providing a professional service, it doesn't. When was the last time
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by zasz 9y ago
Drivers get booted off the Uber platform when their ratings go too low, so riders have plenty of power. https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-mysterious-way-uber-bans-d... "For a Harvard student, the median grade is an A-
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by zasz 9y ago
Making the vaccine free is a social solution. Getting people to subsidize the vaccine is inherently political.
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by zasz 9y ago
I apologize, that part was poorly written. What I meant is that the kind of weather variation California's been experiencing will become the new normal, and the worse said variation is, the worse yields will become in general.
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by zasz 9y ago
There will be a net loss to global agriculture for a couple reasons: 1. Climate change implies increased variability in weather--hotter summers, wetter winters. Agriculture does best in a relatively stable environment. Just look at Californ

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