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Payday loan shops. Don't pretend you can legislate around that problem-- if payday loans against UBI were illegal, the black market (loan sharks) would fill in the gap.

Yup, if married and you've been there a couple of years. $250k if single. Still, almost anyone who bought a house a few years ago in the area is sitting on at least $500k in gains.…

Weirdly, I own a house and think I'd be better off if prices fell-- fell a lot. I bought a few years ago and would be happy if prices uniformly dropped to those levels. Why? I want…

I used to rail against the H1-B program until I realized that the body-shop consultancies aren't hurting demand for my services. . . they're increasing it. It seems like at least 7…

"The jet will also have its nose-mounted, 30-millimeter cannon removed, opening up more space for scientific instruments." http://blog.ametsoc.org/uncategorized/plane-has-combative…

An even better real-world example might be manual transmissions, which are now both slower and less efficient than modern automatic counterparts. Some people (like myself) prefer t…

Terrible comparison. Your car payment doesn't tend to increase unpredictably with your car's value over time, as property taxes almost certainly would.

I think I qualify as one of those people, and I make way more than $150K, and have done so for a decade. And I work 40 hours a week. The people who puzzle me are those who fetishiz…

What's "uncharacteristic" about the name? It's the actual doors that are silly and gimmicky, so the naming is apt.

Scientists are trained to despise anecdote. Not sure what science has to do with this anyway; this is basically a matter of public-policy/politics/economics.

I'm no libertarian, but how about market forces? As fewer blue-collar workers can afford to live in or close to SF, the labor pool will shrink and wages will go up.

I read this on patrick.net years ago-- a lot of it is quite outdated now. Basically the housing market nationwide is quite strong. Whether it will last is another question. Just on…

"Up In the Air" didn't promote the simplified life; it basically tore it apart.

I am Bender. Please insert girder.

I guess one doesn't need a car at all with a helicopter parent.