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by djs123sdj 13y ago
OK, I believe that you understand the difference, it just didn't seem that way in your original post. I didn't remember that photo from the 08 election (or even see it in the first place). It makes the skull duggery of House of C
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by djs123sdj 13y ago
I wouldn't say it's overtly racist, but there is a very strong correlation between race, class, and privilege in the Bay Area. Unlike the traditional American narrative around race (black vs. white), in this one, the privileged
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by djs123sdj 13y ago
I can understand why the confusion may arise due to both groups wearing fabric-based head garments, but most (though not all) Sikhs are of Indian origin. Their cultural connection is much stronger to South Asia than to the Arab world. Also
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by djs123sdj 13y ago
holy metaphors!
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by djs123sdj 13y ago
You seem to be basing all your arguments on national averages. That data shows none of the variances in life expectancy depending on race, class, region, and income. Other measures of the social ills correlated with being very poor? In cit
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by djs123sdj 13y ago
Mobility is far too complex a phenomenon to sum up with a single nationwide "rate". Here's an example that reflects on the role of race in metropolitan areas and commute zones on mobility: http://economix.blogs.ny
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by djs123sdj 13y ago
We should care about it in as much as it results in massive differences in basic quality-of-life for large numbers of people. Quality-of-life here is not defined by the ability buy iThings, flat-screens, and XBoxes, but affording decent edu
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by djs123sdj 13y ago
The greatest tragedy of places like this is that the law abiding population is held hostage by the threat (and exercise) of violence by the dangerous members of their own community - who are relatively fewer in number. In such circumstances
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by djs123sdj 13y ago
Agreed with legalization not necessarily reducing criminal behavior. Where I live in the Bay Area, the reduction in the street drug dealing trade (perhaps due to legalized dispensaries, and also the prevalence of smartphones) has coincided
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by djs123sdj 13y ago
Per your statement, how does this article cluster any less with "technology & programming" than the "world news" category you mentioned? There have long been articles dealing with sociological and economic realities
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by djs123sdj 13y ago
It's not about not being careful with your devices. In many places in California, people are routinely having guns pointed at them and their electronics are being taken by force, even when the devices are not being visibly used.
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by djs123sdj 13y ago
This law is intended to mitigate the escalation in armed robberies for smartphones that is hitting urban areas in California. Armed robbers are aware that many (most?) people of even modest means are carrying around devices that, once stole
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by djs123sdj 13y ago
I have a hard time understanding how an self-admitted very wealthy person living in a 2 bedroom Manhattan apartment, differs significantly from the one living in Woodside estate. He's choosing an ascetic life, but the fact is that he
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by djs123sdj 13y ago
This is clearly a slimy attempt to dodge his own company's role in the problems. He's CEO of a multi-billion dollar tech company, based in San Francisco, with probably more highly-paid employees living in SF than than the compani
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by djs123sdj 13y ago
No way. Try once an hour at each stop, only during commute hours. Edit: I'm only talking about one company. I don't know about the others.
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by djs123sdj 13y ago
The problem with this argument is that it ignores the basic contract of power in a (functioning) democratic government: The people, through their votes, lend their power to a government that aggregates that collective power to accomplish la
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by djs123sdj 13y ago
Even if the income for the poor and working class has risen compared to generations ago, something that many forget is that absolute quality-of-life for many of them has gotten considerably worse in very important ways. Examples: violent ne