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by zjaffee 6y ago
That's ridiculous, there are other reasons for zoning laws outside of these things. Certain types of housing stock (i.e. condos and townhomes), need to be built to a higher quality than single family homes because it's much easier
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by zjaffee 6y ago
This is a disgusting comment and shows an incredible lack of understanding around how labor rights historically have been both won and lost. The further allowance of classifying people as contractors will only expand until companies can fur
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by zjaffee 6y ago
The soviet union was the first one to go into space and had far more of the outer space firsts than the US. They also had no market incentives to begin such projects. It's ridiculous you could even bring up the cold war without acknowl
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by zjaffee 6y ago
And there are multiple members of the Rockefeller family that have net worths in the billions. There is substantial swaths of land in this country that have been held by the same families since the 1700s.
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by zjaffee 6y ago
Bezos's power is entirely predicated on violence, as the ownership of any assets he holds are marked as belonging to him through the backing of violent institutions. This is arguably moreso than AOC as she has no executive authority.
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by zjaffee 6y ago
AOC does not have more political power than Jeff Bezos and to suggest otherwise is tremendously foolish. Political power is far more than just the ability to change federal statutes, it includes things like being able to get faster approval
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by zjaffee 6y ago
We need to end employer based health insurance, every other major problem is easily solvable within the gig worker framework (you can have people accrue PTO and other standard benefits based on hours worked).
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by zjaffee 6y ago
Laws aren't allowed to be created as weapons, under US constitutional law this is often referred to as illegal taking, if AB5 was illegal taking these companies would've been able to get the law halted which it seems to have not h
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by zjaffee 6y ago
Is the existence of a unionized workforce against consensual adult labor? The expanded use of for contract work has largely been a tool to walk around legislation to improve labor standards. In jobs where it is virtually impossible to organ
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by zjaffee 6y ago
I completely agree with you from the perspective of being a fan of music for music's sake. Listening to a well put together album is fantastic, but that isn't the be all end all of music. Music in the current age is equal parts po
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by zjaffee 6y ago
I think what the CEO is saying, and it has been an increasing trend in music for a long time now, is moving even further away from large LP releases every few years. The existence of that medium of music doesn't make sense in the curre
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by zjaffee 6y ago
I think there would be comparable prestige if the government did something like roll out public broadband or made some sort of publicly owned social media.
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by zjaffee 6y ago
Except that isn't explicitly true. West point and the navel academy are some of the most prestigious universities in the entire country. The fundamental difference between these things lies in the fact that a lot of government work com
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by zjaffee 6y ago
Except in the world of education there's been a substantial amount of people without their own direct experience in the field who've put out claims that they can materially change things when they have been completely unable to do
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by zjaffee 6y ago
I think it's more complicated than that, all of these roles come with substantial amounts of near unilateral executive power that can impact the way the country is run for decades to come. Even all of the existing US government tech po
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by zjaffee 6y ago
Are these valid criticisms? Did everyone forget about the NSA spying scandal a few years back where the US was monitoring huge amounts of internet traffic in Europe on American owned platforms.
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by zjaffee 6y ago
The main value is extra curriculars being of a higher caliber at top colleges than at lower tier ones. Getting to engage with other very talented people building organizations and so on in a much more serious way matters. There's a rea
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by zjaffee 7y ago
I was able to look at the press release from this nursing home this morning, and the numbers are far worse than this. The number is much higher than that, as there are an additional 12 deaths that haven't been tested for coronavirus ye
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by zjaffee 7y ago
I think in the context of the current presidential race, Amy Klobuchar could be closest to described as an intentional moderate. Namely someone who focuses on simply just changing laws at the cost of any sort of deeper ideological belief, a
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by zjaffee 7y ago
100% agree with everything you've written here. I'd also add that there is absolutely no such thing as an accidental moderate in a way that warrants any sort of prideful thinking. Additionally, there are political world views that
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by zjaffee 7y ago
The situation in Israel only exists because there are multiple layers of opposition at play, the "moderates" are hardly different politically than the conservatives, they just dislike it's leader, where they are unwilling to
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by zjaffee 7y ago
In NYC and possibly other municipalities, the government sets the minimum rate for uber/lyft. Are they more or less of a contractor then?
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by zjaffee 7y ago
Comparing GINI among most OECD countries is usually how GINI is evaluated anyways, and largely makes sense in that context with the exception of maybe some Latin American countries.
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by zjaffee 7y ago
The least unequal countries from the time they started measuring GINI have had a value between 0.250 and 0.300, including the likes of the Soviet Union which was on the upper end of that range, and many former eastern block countries alongs
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by zjaffee 7y ago
Minneapolis has some of the highest percentage of Bike Commuters in the US at around 3.5% only falling after Portland at ~6% and San Francisco which is a nudge closer to 4%. The entire west coast has weather at least as favorable to bike co
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by zjaffee 7y ago
Adding onto this point, I think one thing to recognize about the future of LA as a big media hub is the fact that tons of popular Youtubers and other independent content creators will relocate to Los Angeles due to the agglomeration of tale
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by zjaffee 7y ago
They did redo the android app sometime earlier in the year, it's very likely that is playing a factor.
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by zjaffee 7y ago
The issue with the Canadian elections is simply the existence of districts. All this would do is make it safer to risk a vote for NDP, Greens, or Bloc, which would likely still result in worse results because Canada doesn't really have
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by zjaffee 7y ago
Completely disagree, instant run off voting almost universally protects the status quo, as it forces people to compromise their beliefs and vote for someone either to the right or the left of where they personally stand, leaving significant
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by zjaffee 7y ago
While I agree with you in principal, in the context of the state of NY, and especially within NYC, ranked choice voting will do nothing more than hand the results of every future election to those who control the political machine. Think of

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