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by zjaffee 8y ago
3 is huge, if you're a renter, why would you buy a car where you have no idea if you'll be able to charge it should you move. I'd also add on the fact that you still can't reasonably take road trips with an electric car
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There already is regulation around storing biometrics in a few states, Ohio and Texas if I remember correctly, and in turn, most national companies avoid storing this data all together because of the risk it causes should people move betwee
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Most of the counties with below 50% have populations smaller than most big city suburbs. While it's certainly still bleak given these are mostly just poor communities that at most subsist from agriculture, the vast majority of people i
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The real question about self driving cars though and safety isn't about how much practice these vehicles have, but when they get in an accident, are people inside them still safe. If the computer gets screwed up in an accident, could i
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My biggest fear of a bill like this is even should we have the most progressive anti corruption government implement this law originally, whats to prevent this from becoming incredibly wasteful just like our military is. I.e. we spend a tri
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Over humanizing people is also a bad way to look at these things as it diminishes their contribution towards a more problematic group and class structure. While yes, most billionares are probably fine people by many individual metrics, the
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The fact that you say this, even though I already know it to be the case will never stop being crazy to me. I grew up in Greenwich Village, with parents who made just under half what you do now in todays dollars. Growing up I had a private
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I should point out that this isn't universally the case, there are plenty of people who moved into these areas during a very different era and are protected in the form of rent control, public housing, or simply purchasing during the h
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So I also had the chance to observe them in Venice, and I don't know if I agree with the premise that they are actually getting people to park further away, people are however, taking less cars between the beach front areas within LA f
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There are multiple mile long trains with only 2 people on board at any given time, unmanned trucks won't be a problem as they'd likely travel just travel convoys with a couple people overlooking the fleet.
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Except the thing about all of the items you've mentioned is that you can get stupidly low rates, and in some cases no interest loans, my savings account interest rate is higher than that of my car loan. You're better off taking ou
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NYC has tons of people who are living in rent regulated housing, but ignoring that, the average price is still shifted upwards by tons of apartments in manhattan that cost far more than the median. So assuming everyone is paying market rate
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There are certain aspects of computer science that are engineering (i.e. concerned with the building of machines and structures), other that are a part of formal science, others that are a part of experimental science, ect.
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Google and other top companies don't just hire engineers from a small list of schools though, additionally, they hire tons of people from industry. The majority of hires at FANGs went to state schools with huge student bodies and reaso
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I have to still disagree here, top tech companies have massive profit margins and could easily pay their employees far more than they do now. It's all about how much you prioritize talent, this said I would expect a deflation of new gr
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Either way, a single person making 60k would put them in the middle class should they have a spouse making the same amount. The real median wage is a little more than half of that.
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Except that's not true as it stands right now, because if it were, companies would pay that amount since the private sector relies on markets to make decisions in a way the public sector often doesn't. Have you ever seen an MTA jo
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No it's not, there are millions of people living in NYC on half of that and they are supporting on average 2.67 people with that much money. Just because you cannot afford lower manhattan market rate real estate doesn't mean that
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No there is tremendous demand to work in those fields, a demand that is not being met because of price fixing. They could lower their wages and hire far more people to provide better services. There is no wage fixing in the tech industry in
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Social progressivism exists among citizens, and in turn that's what makes a city progressive in the eyes of people. Although with the case of many older systems, legacy corrupt political rackets still exist and aren't going away a
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Yes, because there are thousands of people who'd happily take their job at 60k and are just as qualified to do so.
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Thank you, racist cops in NYC along side corrupt subway officials get to make competitive upper middle class wages, while public defenders and social workers get their budgets cut.
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Yes it is, the entire definition of middle class is median income. Just because the quality of life for the people within this income range has gone down does not make them any less middle class than they were before.
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Unions in the private sector provide workers protections from exploitative capitalists who exist for the sake of profit and profit alone. Public agencies exist to better society, if we paid these workers less, than we could hire more, and t
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Because there's demand for developers that supply cannot meet, the demand to take on a civic job in NYC is tremendous, yet we constrain supply of these workers by paying very high wages. These organizations are crippling the cities abi
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Except civic workers should be making middle class wages, especially ones that don't require extensive education. Why should a gilded class of unionized workers get these huge individual wages when the median family income there is sti
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Because the purpose of mass transit is to increase throughput, a super highway tunnel for cars will just lead to more congested streets around the entrance the same way wider highways have done.
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I mean getting you're license doesn't mean you will own a car and get insurance, it's certainly a life skill to know how to drive, where many schools are still providing services that people just aren't taking full advan
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You sound like someone whose never driven in Los Angeles during rush hour on the westside. It's not too uncommon that every single road is completely jammed.
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I think a lot of it relates to how extroverted/introverted a person is, or more so, how important being around other people is to them. Additionally, a lot of people have tons of anxiety around driving, and being in a city can complete

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