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It seems to quire naive to give unions all the credit while failing to America’s declining quality compared to Japan and failure to listen to loud market trends. GM ignoring Deming…

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Be careful. Here in HN it is not allowed to look at Iran’s situation objectively or holistically. It is allowable to spew hatred at Iran. Any discussion of the western meddling whi…

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Turkey is the same way. The government says 99.8% of the population are Muslim by default but it’s probably closer to 60%. Until a few years ago religion was listed on government i…

Or maybe we give more thought to the feasibility of space colonization and give people the ability to opt out of paying for this kind of adventurism? I work really hard and would r…

Seems like a potentially great way to transfer a lot of wealth from taxpayers to the aerospace industry for a very long time with little oversight or roi.

England is cold and grey, and the food sucks. Every mediterranean country is littered with Brits, especially retirees / pensioners.

Even public prisons are primarily run and populates through the formiddable lobbying power of police and prison guard unions. Their influence is far more insidiuous than that of th…

Madoff would have been less likely to go to jail had he made off with poor peoples’ money instead of that of rich people.

> They’re also not entitled to that. In a democracy the many decide. We did decide, and continue to do so in supervisor meetings and in the ballot box. You might want to read up on…

It’s quite rude for you to say my home is not remarkable or worth preserving. You’ve never even seen it. You know nothing of my tightknit, diverse community which cares about thing…

> Well that's just inefficiency or graft. The rest of the world is able to achieve far more for far less cost. Citation? > Who's our? Generally voters tend to be older, wealthier a…

3x as dense??????? We are already 17,000 per square mile. New York is 28,000 per m^2. You seriously think San Francisco would be livable at 51,000 pe m^2? It would literally cost $…

Sure, but we don’t want that. There is an incredible amount of space in the bay area which could be turned into droid housing and office buildings. ALL of those places have cheaper…

> The cost of upgrading infrastructure in a busy city is enormously expensive. San Francisco is on a peninsula with no room at all to expand outward. The only solution is to build …

It should be noted that San Francisco is surrounded by bay and ocean on 3 sides and also contains a significant amount of land which is not really seismically sound, and 50% of whi…

San Francisco is a small city, only 49 square miles, 1/2 of which is parkland and a significant portion is landfill which liquifies in a serious earthquake. It’s also surrounded by…

Seems like a great reason to invest in kinetic energy storage like this pumped hydroelectric reservoir in Wales. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ffestiniog_Power_Station?wprov...

> Out of curiosity, what can go badly? They offer a counter and then fire you a couple months later, after they've found a more "loyal" (or just cheaper) replacement? Definitely th…

Quite simply an e-mail to my manager and HR stating my last day will be in two weeks and that we should start the knowledge transfer process.

This reminds me a lot of an immersive art installation I saw in Turkey 6 years ago of an imagined future where an oil tanker got stuck in the Bosphorous and permanently changed loc…

Looking at pictures of highways from before caralytic converters and you notice that each lane had a pure black stripe from the exhaust.

For The last 7 years of working and traveling 50% of the time my setup has been two iPhones and a Macbook Air. I have about 30 sim cards now. In Europe I mostly use tmobile. Hotel …