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I haven't seen any claim that it was isolated to one ethnic group. I have only seen the claim that it was disproportionately immigrants of Pakistani background.

I find the idea of planting trees ironic. It would seem to me the better aim would be identifying the issue as to why native plants are not already reproducing successfully, and th…

> There's still a need for growth in just traditional datacenters hosting things like your email and Netflix, not just AI, and those projects are going to get swallowed up in the A…

> But people who hate on cars don't want to hear the truth A tad heavy on the rhetoric, wouldn't you say?

Subsidies for using non-car transit would make more sense (health benefits in addition to safety and savings). >I assume the 18-tonne lorries that move most of the world’s goods wo…

We need a pigouvian tax based on vehicle weight to address the increased deaths due to noise pollution, collisions, and increased wear to roads.

They didn't think it was a bad idea because they don't have a sense of right and wrong. If something is potentially profitable and technically legal they will do it. This is what Y…

Curing all cancer would be bad for the world, because 90% of those cancer kills are old people.

Dunning Kruger effect at work.

Not quite, but big pharma promotes preventive screening in excess of what is justified. They don't care if false positives create stress and unnecessary, dangerous procedures that …

Live Nation needs to get the guillotine. The monopoly will find other ways of extracting value if you try to fix one problem created by it at a time.

Yeah, it is cool, but this article is not HN appropriate.

If they pay an appropriate tax for light pollution affecting telescopes on earth, I'm all for it.

We pulled out of the JCPOA. It worked but we quit.

The next revolution is zoning reform so it's legal to build shopping people want to do within walking distance of where they live.

> But in general, should this bill become law in Michigan, an employer could not require an employee to access or respond to work-related matters outside of their assigned hours...…

In general yes, but a datacenter is to many people a categorically different kind of development because they oppose AI companies. The first datacenter should trigger a lengthy dis…

Heat related deaths predominantly kill the elderly. That may save lives overall because of their voting behavior leading to more deaths.

More histrionics.

You identify the potential bias of only one side here. The revolving door between regulators and industry introduces potential biases of others in the opposite direction. If Prasad…

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America doesn't need new cities. There is an unbelievable amount of space wasted within every city and any urban planner can show you. Development policy in the 40s and 50s was bac…

I'm not sure what you mean by "squeeze the renter," but it's hard to find any person that invests substantial money (risk) in a business that doesn't want to maximize profits and c…

PG makes little effort to identify what it means to earn something. Some people consider effort the measure of whether something is earned. Some believe luck should be subtracted f…