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>when demand outstrips supply adding a different type of supply (like an apartment building) won't depress prices materially (for detached single family residences). they're different market segments.

That's not how the real world works. In the real world, people who want to live in a single family home also want to live in a low density area. No one wants a single family home if there's a bunch of apartment buildings across the street.

Probably find them living in tiny capsules and/or shipping containers down by the docks or maybe on top of that superfund site that rich people are starting to get weary about living on/near.

Are cops in America really that proficient with guns tho? Most of them probably only spend as much time in a gun range as an average gun owner, and quite a few probably only spend whatever minimum time is required by their department. Also only a minority of them will ever fire their weapon in the line of duty, and unless they work in Baltimore or something it will probably only be once or twice in their entire career. Police involved shooting are actually quite rare, and half the time they're as likely to shoot each other along with everything else when they unload at whatever hostile they're confronting.

I'm not trying to denigrate cops over this, I don't particularly want a police force that's a trained paramilitary. And certainly sovereign citizen types wouldn't win in any kind of armed insurrection at this point, but I wouldn't put it down to LEOs weapons proficiency as the reason.

What makes you think fMRI scans would produce better results? What would they even be looking for?

And the more or less permanent state of war we find ourselves in could also be considered a new normal we've adapted to that XIX century Americans would find creepy and grossly inappropriate.

"A man who develops a world view to look badass on the internet"

Not an expert in this area, but I believe it's harder for the software to pick out shadows/shades on a darker skin, and it relies heavily on those shadows/shades to recognize structure.

Yes, but the investor will pay more in taxes when they sell the actual ETF. It's more like deferring taxes than avoiding them.

Think of it this way, if the fund paid these taxes when they sell their various holdings, that less tax amount would be baked into the ETF valution, which would carry over to a smaller tax bill when an investor sells their ETF shares and pays taxes.

That's still advantageous in many ways, but I think people in this topic are thinking this is some kind of complete tax avoidance. It isn't.

Presumably Grindr is going to continue to exist and gain new users, possibly for quite a long time. Just because they already have data on 27 million doesn't mean we should just shrug and leave it open for future millions more.

I'm kind of curious what it means to run a non-profit as a front.

I sorta know from news/pop culture that a lot of rich people use non-profits as a way of funneling taxable income into championing their own causes and throwing galas for themselves. But it sounds like Singer was using it more as a money laundering front? Or was he basically paying himself an exorbitant amount to be an executive of the non-profit, while not really doing much?

Is it really that easy to abuse the non-profit system in the US?

I mean they deployed the National Guard in Baltimore after the first day of Freddie Gray protests. There was some burning and looting going on, so it got labeled a 'riot', but honestly what's been going on in Paris has probably been worse.

So we should never have parking lots, because they could be repurposed into homes for homeless people?

I feel this is only really relevant to high-density cities that are being underdeveloped because of local regulations and NIMBY. Most of America has plenty of space when it comes down to it.

And aren't the parking lots this article is talking about basically public access parking for beaches? Do ya'll really think it's reasonable to say we need to remove public beach parking because it could be better used for condos? Because that's dumb, and that quote I responded to was said as if parking is a violation of human rights because it takes away room for shelter.

>We give cars free places to sleep while people are homeless.

This is basically the equivalent of saying, "People give pets free food and shelter while letting the homeless starve, what's wrong with our society"

Sure sounds deep and meaningful, but really it isn't

Hmmm, so if consumers stopped buying or using a certain product/service that produces a lot of pollution, then industry/commerce would still keep right on ahead polluting the exact same amount. Interesting thought.

Consider consumers buying millions of gallons of water from Nestle when they could just drink tap water...

I think what you mean to say is not enough people care about ethical consumption to reduce pollution to the level you think we need to be at. We should instead regulate industry so that it doesn't depend on individuals making ethical decisions with their consumption, because most of them won't. Perfectly reasonable position, but you don't have to say it like there's some vast evil conspiracy out there.

That might be part of it, but I think based on the abstract they're more trying to say that the amount of stimuli we can perceive in a given moment is limited by physical processes that slow down as we age, e.g. your eye movements (saccades) are slower so the mental images you build up from visual input are less as you age, and with fewer mental images/perceptions in any given moment makes it feel like less is happening and therefore time is moving faster subjectively speaking.

At least that's how I read it.

>Given the interaction with disability benefits, having your disease declared to be in your head may result in the money you need to live being withdrawn. It's very high stakes.

I didn't think a disease being mental ('all in your head') was relevant to disability? At least in the US I know people on disability because of mental illnesses.

Goodheart's law.

Besides what employer wants to hire someone based just on their intelligence scores? If someone is an uncooperative egoist prick I don't think many companies will want to hire them no matter their test scores.

>Like university is the only place you can go to learn things.

I get that the self-reliance learning angle is way overstated, but that's going a bit too far.

I learned programming mostly on my own, albeit while working in QA and having exposure to code and programmers. But it's not like I got mentored or needed someone to hold my hand learning this stuff. If you can read and have the initiative to play around with code and figure it out you'll do a lot better than half the learned fools coming out of university. I consistently out perform my peers with CS degrees when it comes to tracking down a hard bug. I swear some of these people hit the first wall and just have no idea what to do.

I'm confused why anyone in this thread chain would think a firm like Ernst and Young would have access to zero-days?

Ok, tho I wasn't trying to say that as mean-spirited as it looks, just repurposing the acronym.

I don't think that's quite what the OP meant by sandbox vs. simulation.

To me it didn't feel like there were many challenges or ways you could irreparable damage your city in City Skylines. You could maybe invent your own goals, like creating a specific look to your city or building the most density possible while maintaing efficient transportation. But that's what I'd consider sandbox: using your own creativity on a blank canvas with almost no chance of entering a complete failure mode you can't recover from.

The SimCity games felt more like they were a challenge needing to balance the budget and build a sustainable city all while being resilient to events like disasters. Might just be me, but I never felt like I could fail at C:S; whereas in SimCity you could make a few stupid decisions or expand too fast and start losing money, and all you could do is watch the city degenerate into a wasteland that can't be gotten out of (without cheating anyways). That made it feel more like a simulation.

Aren't most the regulations enacted in order to placate the really loud NIMBYs?

I never said Russia was the only one or the most effective. I wasn't trying to get into a WhatAboutThem debate, just that saying Russia did nothing effective was wrong.

But seeing the sources above I might have been wrong about that. Still they certainly tried to be effective.

I hadn't seen these sources, thanks. Guess I'll have to update my priors a bit.

What blatant BS. We know from Facebook that the Internet Research Agency and other Russian backed organizations bought political ads with the clear intent to spread misinformation and inflame both sides in order to sow unrest and distrust in our political system.

To say it wasn't successful is just being obtuse.

Eh? Does the sun ever set on American military bases?

>I guess the though is that people are more likely to pick up if the number looks familiar? For me, it's just an indication of a robo call that I won't pick up.

That's probably good for the robo-callers. Just like with horrible spelling/grammar errors in spam emails, they don't mind if the smart folks can figure out their pattern. They are after the suckers born every minute.

Clearly the truth lies somewhere in between both these statements. Something like:

"SF can't collect the full and accurate amount of property tax in a timely manner from properties that were recently reassessed because their local assessor office is backlogged due to use of old and inefficient software."

Which is basically what this whole article is saying.

That sounds roughly the same as the US, just at a different scale and more recent.

>NL, despite being one of the smallest countries in the world, is also the second biggest agricultural export country in the world.

That stat while true is very misleading. First of all that's based on money not volume. On top of that the majority of NL's agricultural export is due to the fact that Amsterdam is home to the largest flower/live plant market/exchange in the world. Most of those billions of dollars of exports are in the form of highly expensive decorative plants and/or their seeds/bulbs, not staple crops.

I guess that's all to say if the Netherlands sunk below the sea tomorrow the world would not suddenly be starving. Rich people just wouldn't get their flowers.