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My feeling is that when European policy is discussed on Hacker News, many Europeans reflexively become defensive and defend the European government's perspective irrespective of the merits. There is this sense that Europe can never be
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If you want to bring a Chilean rental car into Argentina you need to obtain and pay for a specific permit at least a few days before you pick up the rental car. Maybe that was missing? When I crossed the border they were very thorough with
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez is another example of a writer who lived outside their country of birth but whose writing was still set there (born and raised in Colombia but lived in Mexico City for most of their adult life). Others?
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The truly awesome thing about Matt Levine is how in complicated situations like this he doesn't try to pick the "right" side but instead leans in to how both sides have good points of view. In today's newsletter he quote
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On the one hand, this is a reasonable point to make and I think it's partially why the political support for congestion pricing wasn't there. On the other hand, in reality, making new transit funding conditional on the MTA cleanin
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Yeah I am curious how this will play out for her in the long run. One interesting dynamic here is the media's bias towards negative news. In the run up to congestion pricing the NY Times was putting out these very anti-congestion prici
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If that's true, why have types in proto at all? Shouldn't everything be an "any" type at the transport layer, and the application can validate the types are correct?
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Why is "the Ukraine" bad?
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Sure, but more recent history should have a higher weight. It is reasonable that our names for things reflect recent history and current affairs more than ancient history. Two thousand years ago Britain and Ireland were ethnically and lingu
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Okay, so if the 5 over 1s weren't being built, where would all of these "kids" live? Wherever they live, by your same argument, they would be willing to pay more than the existing locals and the existing locals would still be
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> I'm confused at why Americans, with the culture of valuing individual freedoms over all, aren't concerned with the hypothetical consequences these powers provide. I don't think this is as much of a "gotcha" it
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> Most of the cost for NJ Transit is to pay the driver. Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but are you actually claiming that a majority of NJ Transit costs are paying bus and train drivers?
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Wait are you also against paying for tickets for NJ Transit trains to NYC? In theory an NJ Transit ticket is "paying to be allowed to go somewhere". It's exactly analogous - it costs money to keep the trains going, just like
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If housing prices were capped, as in this proposal, selling a house would immediately be a bad economic decision because you would, by design, be giving up something for less than it's worth. People would rationally respond to this by
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I mean if you define everything as a "cash grab" then, yeah, every payment you make is for the same thing. I just went to the movies and paid $17.50 for the ticket. I didn't realize that cash grab had the same purpose as the
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By the same argument paying a toll both on one of the tunnels and the New Jersey turnpike is also double charging. Those charges are for fundamentally different things - just like the tunnel toll and congestion charge are for different thin
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I think it shouldn't though. I feel at this point it's rational for liberal NYC voters to vote Republican, regardless of the candidate. The dynamic here is that state-level Democrats consider NYC totally safe, and because of this
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The problem is not NYC though. I think if NYC was left to its own devises its government could be much more visionary. The problem is that so much of the control of NYC lies with state-level Democrats who are structurally incentived to prio
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by returningfory2 2y ago
Thanks for the clarification! I think it makes sense that there's some X% of Americans who fly "recreationally somewhat routinely" where X<100, but I'm not sure what X is. As a counterpoint to X=30, as of last Fall 48
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Wait are you claiming that only 30% of Americans have flown on a plane?
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Show HN: Transiter, backend web service for transit data(github.com)
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> I live in a big city (larger population than Phoenix) in the Uk That’s an interesting way of saying you live in London ;) (Phoenix urban area is more populous than every urban area in the UK except for London)
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What is the connection between the Irish housing crisis and NAMA?
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My comment contains references to US government sources from which I got the numbers. So I’m not sure why you think they’re wrong?
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I don't think this is quite what's happening here. Overall USCIS is funded by fees, but operates a system in which some kinds of applicants subsidize other kinds of applicants. So, applications for asylum are free to make even tho
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Your model of the southwest border may need to be updated because the dynamics have changed a lot in the last 4 years. Nowadays people cross the border and intentionally get caught by border patrol (in many cases by calling 911) so that the
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But what happens if you apply this argument to other situations? For example, suppose you discover a politician is taking bribes. In the UK there is a formal process by which the police can investigate and then bring a case if the evidence
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That's sort of my point though. It's easy to be "horrified" by things in the abstract. But then you actually visit Bogota, Colombia or Buenos Aires, Argentina and go through these neighborhoods and realize they're a
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> Living in a single-family home next to an office tower isn't any worse than living in a condo tower next to an office tower. By the way, this is very common in many Latin American countries such as Colombia. When you walk through
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The author agrees with you. The point is that teaching adult literacy is out of scope for DEI statements. You can't mention it in a DEI statement.

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