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by zjaffee 8y ago
I can't be so sure of that, is the HQ of Berkshire Hathway really omaha, or is it the HQs of the various business subunits. If you have a conglomerate, the existence of an HQ is totally meaningless.
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A lot of the economic development policies passed in the name of HQ2 offered incentives in the form of stating, if you bring x number of jobs to y location, you get z tax break (where it wouldn't just apply to amazon).
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Many of these statements are also true of the NYC metro area where there also happen to be 2 cities being considered (NYC and Newark). The key difference is that Amazon currently employs thousands of people in both NYC/Newark and in No
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Market corrections and recessions aren't the same thing, the chart you posted clearly shows Black Monday as not being a result of a recession. A rebalancing of the stock market at large doesn't necessarily result in mass unemploym
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I disagree, when apple released the iphone, they changed the face of what smart phones would ultimately become. The touch experience they pioneered really shouldn't be overlooked, and add that on to future technologies like the ipad, w
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Houston has zoning though in the form of very high parking requirements, and it's exactly why there are sprawling strip malls for miles. A better example of what a city without zoning would look like is New York (since most of the buil
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It absolutely depends on the layout of the building and the sort of grocery store at hand. Proper building codes and zoning can prevent that same grocery store from being able to engage in certain practices that would negatively impact the
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I don't disagree with what you're saying, but one thing about less dense areas including parts of the midwest is you can commute from rural areas into the downtown of a city in under an hour (where these are parts of metro areas t
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> skilled labor does not want to live in rural and middle America. I'm unsure about this, and think it's kind of a chicken and the egg problem. I know tons of people who are from the midwest that would prefer to be there, but t
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The issue of homelessness in SF is absolutely related to affordable housing and a lack of beds, the comparison NYC and LA are absolutely abysmal in that NYC has huge amounts of permanently affordable housing that it can use to house homeles
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Maybe this particular instance is a bad example, but if it were a private enterprise doing similar unethical things, it would be the role of the government to make it illegal for technology to be used in a way that discriminates against peo
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I agree that technology platforms should be neutral, but suggesting that these are at all the same thing is totally ignoring the concept of class struggle.
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Unless you are a Native American, which make up less than 1% of the population, you came to this country as an immigrant. The vast majority of modern immigrants are coming to the country for a similar reason why people did 100 years ago. Im
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Except China can't be measured in the same terms that a Western economy can be. The US can't just decide to forget all of it's debt, in the way China can given they have a command economy with the government playing a role i
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Hell, an even more outlandish example is Bernie Madoff, who ran his Ponzi Scheme starting in the late 1980s which lasted until 2008.
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The incredible thing is that these homes are often not purchased with debt financing either, and when they do, it's with a much larger downpayment than in the US as required by law. Chinese citizens have a much higher savings rate comp
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It's funny because redis recently did something rather similar to what mongo just did. This will be an accelerating trend in open source, where these sorts of companies will either develop proprietary platforms with closed source code
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by zjaffee 8y ago
I think that AI is just a rebranding of all automation, especially in the case where it's data driven automation. So I don't think it is something that will just pass, but will become a term for the interdisciplinary field of solv
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The question is if using the internet is more valuable than having your data being tracked by third parties. You can hardly find a single website on the internet where there is absolutely zero tracking happening. You certainly can't us
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Redistribution of wealth usually refers to seizing private assets directly, rather than simply creating more taxes. Democrats almost universally support private ownership of the means of production, where the opposite would be either worker
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by zjaffee 8y ago
This isn't true, most democrats do not support redistribution of wealth, where leftists who do support the redistribution of wealth are generally in favor of gun rights.
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As someone whose generally bearish on crypto currencies, I do see one clear benefit to ICOs over traditional exchanges. Namely the fact that you can trade them 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, from anywhere in the world with an internet conne
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The privacy aspect is what has, and will continue to be why the iphone is the preferred phone for businesses and governments that give their employees a smartphone. This was a big factor as to why blackberry's phone business didn'
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A lot of roads were build by private developers at the time of original suburban expansion, where later they get handed off to the city to maintain going forward.
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Waymo is about 5 years ahead of everyone else, so I think it's likely a combination of the two.
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Per marxist theory (so take this how you will), modern societies can either be dictatorships of the proletariat or of the bourgeoisie. Capitalism as an economic system is inherently a dictatorship of the bourgeoisie, where laws will always
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What do you think the vast majority of people's facebook/instagram/twitter/reddit feed's look like. The answer is those things too.
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This might be a bit of a stretch, but powered by the right legal team, they could very likely acquire a ton of very valuable patents that become relevant as the technology reaches a more mature state. These robots aren't just innovatio
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This is exactly what will happen with UBI. Throwing more money at a problem through consumers only works when it results in an equal supply increase (such as food stamps and food production).
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As they were almost certainly legally obligated too, the problem is individuals still vote in officials who bend to the whim of businesses instead of individuals.

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