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by asdfdsa1234 13y ago
60% of the US national debt matures in three years or less. It isn't rational to expose yourself to that much interest rate risk, but the people taking on this risky debt on behalf of the rest of us won't be the ones responsible f
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by asdfdsa1234 13y ago
Not to mention the fact that peasants typically worked from dawn to dusk.
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by asdfdsa1234 13y ago
Charity tends not to elevate anyone to the working class. Most money ameliorates poverty temporarily, is spent on fundraising and bureaucracy, or is diverted (stolen).
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by asdfdsa1234 13y ago
Robocars with shower, kitchenette, and bedroom would not be within the means of many homeless people. Edit for response: a robocar with all of these amenities would be an RV costing much more than $10,000; the land cost would just be shifte
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by asdfdsa1234 13y ago
If the Bay Area were the entire world, I would agree, but most of the country is very cheap.
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by asdfdsa1234 13y ago
There is a part of the homeless population that will not stay in free housing, damages it when it's given to them, or is severely disruptive to neighbors, and refuses addiction treatment or returns to drugs immediately after leaving tr
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by asdfdsa1234 13y ago
Some people are not currently worth hiring at any wage due to their attitudes, ability, addictions, or mental illness, let alone at a wage that would put them above the poverty line. Eradicating poverty is far from simple, increasingly expe
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by asdfdsa1234 13y ago
This isn't entirely accurate. The shrinking of the middle class is accounted for entirely by movement into the upper-middle (and higher) income classes, and what you say about the lower class ignores per capita data.
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by asdfdsa1234 13y ago
Our society is structured that way, except for the "without going on welfare" stipulation. A sole breadwinner with a spouse and two children making $20k will receive another $10k in EBT and EITC, free healthcare, and pay a tax rat
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by asdfdsa1234 13y ago
Nearly a quarter of the US population was officially in poverty in the 1950s. Doing unskilled work as a sole breadwinner with multiple children has always pretty much meant you would live in "poverty." On a side note, a family of
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by asdfdsa1234 13y ago
Mayer chose to pose in a fashion magazine. She wasn't "treated" any way in this case.
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by asdfdsa1234 13y ago
Can you go into more detail? It's hard to imagine how a test could be devised that wouldn't be gameable by giving answers that would be expected of a person with a normal personality.
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by asdfdsa1234 13y ago
How do we know that girls study CS less due to misperceptions? The infographic is a collection of factoids, logical leaps, and prescriptions derived from those leaps.
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by asdfdsa1234 13y ago
That doesn't pass the sniff test. Slaughtering a few thousand stunned pigs would be exhausting. Killing that many people who are trying to kill you? Not gonna happen.
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by asdfdsa1234 13y ago
Why do you call them "dictators" instead of "royalty?"
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by asdfdsa1234 13y ago
Ukraine had just suffered a forced famine (Holodomor) that killed millions.
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by asdfdsa1234 13y ago
Crime victim surveys corroborate those figures.
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by asdfdsa1234 13y ago
What about dumb people? Anti-dumb discrimination is rampant in Silicon Valley.
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by asdfdsa1234 13y ago
What is the counterargument?
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by asdfdsa1234 13y ago
The flip side of this is that the economy has been absolutely grim for young, inexperienced workers for several years. SV is a small bright spot for the Lost Generation; boomers should cede it gracefully.
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by asdfdsa1234 13y ago
If they are, they're hurting themselves by overpaying for less valuable young workers.
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by asdfdsa1234 13y ago
This. If irrational bias is undervaluing a class of workers, firms can gain an advantage by hiring those workers, ceteris paribus.
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by asdfdsa1234 13y ago
He became vegan in 2011, after setting records.
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by asdfdsa1234 13y ago
What makes the FAU better than other German unions?
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by asdfdsa1234 13y ago
Check your math. If Apple made $100 on both a $400 item and an $800 item, the profit margin on the cheaper item would be twice that on the more expensive item.
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by asdfdsa1234 13y ago
This is news, but is it hacker news?
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by asdfdsa1234 13y ago
City demographics are changing. I think it will become viable soon. Most San Franciscans are tired of filth and squalor, and moving the dependent population onto land cheaper by a factor of 100 is compelling.
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by asdfdsa1234 13y ago
Most of the people in dire straits in SF came here from elsewhere. I don't think subsidizing is the city's responsibility, and doing so only encourages more to come. I know this sounds harsh, but I can't see how incentivizing low-income peo
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by asdfdsa1234 13y ago
Can you explain why the city getting more tax revenue and its demographics becoming more affluent are a problem for it to keep up with?
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by asdfdsa1234 14y ago
Is this guerrilla marketing for their new "Poke" app?

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