Why companies put factories in states that actively go against the products they build is mind boggling.
Readit Newspunkybr3wster commented on Why are America's suburbs failing? ft.com/content/b96e6142-0... · Posted by u/thunderbong
Do you have a worked example with real data? I have heard this idea before and I would like to see real data showing it is true
> In yet another case study, Vice President of San Miguel’s Board of Directors, Anthony Kalvans did some digging. He worked to construct a value per acre calculation for the township. Kalvans found that Jazzytown, a denser area, was producing almost $3.8 million per acre across five acres, while the suburban area produces less than 5% of that and takes up nearly 70 acres. Both places pay the same for water, but the wealthier suburbs are absorbing millions of dollars in benefits that never come back to the poor areas. If the wealthy want to live expensively, that’s fine, but they should never make us pick up their bill.
Source: https://medium.com/candide-group/suburbs-the-great-american-...
It's greedy to try and maintain a constant, razor thin profit margin?
You have zero notion to what the current profit the landlord is making or if it’s anywhere close to “razor thin”.
Yet you pontificated on all the things the increase could be and took the time to get in a jab by asserting it is most likely the op’s fault because they “voted for those policies” yet you conveniently left out the easiest of them all - greed. It’s not beyond the pale for a landlord, especially a private one, to arbitrarily raise prices just because they can.
But, oh no, it must be taxes and crime and everything else under the sun but couldn’t possibly be simple greed. Must be those razor thin profit margins jumping out to scare that most honorable capitalists like the boogeyman under the bed.
His nominal costs are higher.
Taxes, insurance, repairs, maintenance all have gone way up. Plus costs due to crime/vandalism.
And there's a chance you voted for the policies that led to this outcome.
I like how you conveniently left out greed. But I’m sure that’s someone else’s fault too.
Or, you know, read things instead of appealing to the stone.
https://www.aclu.org/documents/drug-war-new-jim-crow
https://www.nacdl.org/Content/Race-and-the-War-on-Drugs
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/race...
https://lawrepository.ualr.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2...
Could you elaborate here?
Sure. I covered it here. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39112591
punkybr3wster commented on Breaking SecuROM 7 – A Dissection lostfilearchives.github.i... · Posted by u/davikr
If you're referring to EMPRESS, I still don't know if they are just being edgy or truly insane.
That… is exactly who I mean.
Is pocket actually spyware / telemetry or is this just conjecture?
punkybr3wster commented on The Plot Against Einstein warfarehistorynetwork.com... · Posted by u/geox
In addition Einstein's theories were denounced by a group of physicists because they were considered "Jewish physics" and not "German physics":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Physik
I think it is remarkable that a racist argument against a description of nature could even gain a foothold in the physics community. Fortunately, people like Planck and Heisenberg could see the insanity of it all.
It’s likely a big part of what helped win the war. A whole swath of science was discounted or thrown out by the Germans because of the race component.
There are considerable numbers of people who have severe complications with antibiotics, and their overuse over time has left us in a position where the functional pools of antibiotics keeps getting smaller and smaller and the pool of superbugs gets more and more virulent.
Who knows the long term ramifications of this new class of weight loss drugs. This smells to me like the Prozac craze in the 90s when everyone was on it or giving it to their kids. Or the olestra boom until everyone was literally crapping their pants.
Or tangentially, the over proscribing of novel opioids. Look what that has wrought in our society.
Could this new class of drugs be helpful, absolutely. Do we know the long term issues, nope. I think there are people who can use this therapeutically and there are others who use it as a quick fix because they have no self control. In a lot of ways it also feels a little ironic to look at fiction like the food indulgent scenes of “Hunger Games” and South Park and see that happening for real.