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by zjaffee 8y ago
I doubt it, the number of high schoolers getting their drivers license is by far the lowest it's been in a very long time.
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by zjaffee 8y ago
Apple makes their money by being the most successful fashion/luxury goods brand on all time, and in turn, makes nearly all of the profits in their core businesses while controlling a minorty of the market share. Computer hardware is no
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by zjaffee 8y ago
The entire premise of things happening cannot in this day and age be something that involves screwing over the working class as has been the case with the vast majority of urban planning decisions historically, abet is also something that i
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by zjaffee 8y ago
If you tie a user to a uuid separately from where you are logging the transactions, you can nullify the existing UUID link to the given user and be in full compliance with GDPR.
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by zjaffee 8y ago
Measure M is a 120 billion dollar measure, one of the largest regional transit initiatives ever in the history of the united states. The only real problem with it is that LA has to rework itself around transit oriented development for both
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by zjaffee 8y ago
Why are you saying this like it's a bad thing? Transportation development has time over time been proven to work best when decisions are made by consensus rather than by letting central authorities and monied interests do whatever they
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by zjaffee 8y ago
They didn't block it on any known Environmental grounds, CEQA exists to insure major infrastructure projects evaluate many options and attempt to find the most environmentally friendly option. In this particular case, it was almost cer
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by zjaffee 8y ago
Except for the fact that this tunnel was trying to get developed in a way that first off, violated California Environmental laws, something that the government owned and built metro would have to spend millions of dollars and several years
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by zjaffee 8y ago
Except the American economy is far from being in decline. Healthcare costs may be up, but outcomes are far better than they had been historically. Housing costs are up, but the size of an American home is 3x larger per person than it was a
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by zjaffee 8y ago
Exactly this, for most generic goods, automation has reached the point where the cost of producing goods somewhere not too far from a major American rail route is only marginally more expensive to deliver to the end consumer than had you pr
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by zjaffee 8y ago
This is absolutely not true, corporations in the absence of state power could simply hire paramilitary forces to do whatever is necessary to get ahead. Stateless capitalism would very quickly become something akin to feudalism. Just because
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by zjaffee 8y ago
The real value add that Stockx provides is verification of authenticity where they employ specialists to do the verification work. Their competitor GOAT also does the same thing but focuses on sneakers.
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by zjaffee 8y ago
People keep saying that the street car will be worthless, but I simply don't buy it. It connects all of the fastest growing neighborhoods in the city, where there have been increasing large amounts of effort around economic development
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by zjaffee 8y ago
While I agree that in many ways imperial is better than metric in the way that you mention. It is absolutely atrocious when it comes to weight and volume. A gallon is still a base 10 unit of measure of water (10 pounds of water). Then only
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by zjaffee 8y ago
Are they really third? for some reason I thought IBM was third even though they're not growing nearly as quickly?
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by zjaffee 8y ago
I was actually just curious about bandwidth, I've only ever used satellite internet through the context of being on an airplane, and was curious if satellite internet was good at supporting things like netflix.
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by zjaffee 8y ago
If only this were a practical view point for those living in developing countries too no? The entire modern economy as we know it is based on workers making what would be poverty level wages in the places the goods get ultimately sold in.
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by zjaffee 8y ago
Except that's not the problem going on here, for non growth stock companies today, profits matter more than revenue expansion. So even if they would be able to successfully grow their business in nominal terms by raising wages for more
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by zjaffee 8y ago
The law of supply and demand assumes purely rational actors in every situation, it also assumes commodities are comparable/identical and are largely mobile and transferable. This doesn't apply to things like healthcare as others h
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by zjaffee 8y ago
I'd be interested to see something happen to remove the lock in on facebook. Namely, detach the network from the other services.
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by zjaffee 8y ago
Does anyone have any context on what sort of internet speeds satellite internet has been benchmarked to provide. I can't imagine the latency being anywhere near good enough to do many of the high bandwidth things people use the interne
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by zjaffee 8y ago
So is Zuckerberg.
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by zjaffee 8y ago
Except George Soros, and the Koch brothers are absolutely corrupt individuals who exert political influence to insure they don't get in trouble as they incite turmoil (both economic and environmental) around the world for their persona
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by zjaffee 8y ago
Soros represents everything that is wrong with wall street (so certain people on the left hate him), but he also is known to support democratic candidates so people on the right hate him. The guy manufactured the 1997 asian financial crisis
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by zjaffee 8y ago
Except I'm pretty sure most people on the left understand that Soros is unquestionably an economic terrorist that collapsed the economy of Thailand and the larger 1997 asian financial crisis, and also profited by breaking the bank of E
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by zjaffee 8y ago
What if I told you that any government under capitalism will ultimately always end up as a plutocracy, a government by the rich for the rich is fundamentally different than one by the working class for the working class, although the later
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by zjaffee 8y ago
NYC has absolutely just as much of a NIMBY problem as other American cities it's just the government at large cares less and people don't worry about traffic in the same way suburban areas being upzoned do. 25% of manhattan has so
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by zjaffee 8y ago
They already do this, the excelsior tax break among other community development incentives are available to any employer that wants to locate in long island city. Small employers are probably less effective at leveraging these things, but n
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by zjaffee 8y ago
This is why HQ2 is in Long Island City though, because that's how economic development programs work. Cities give incentives to minimize the risks involved in locating in a less desirable location. It absolutely would've been smar
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by zjaffee 8y ago
How exactly is this different from a broader practical standpoint than Bush, the war on terror, reality tv, heroin and crack epidemics, the dotcom bubble, increased rents along side decaying cities, endless suburban sprawl with no major tra

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