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Post by asah »

gotoeleven wrote: post #253
georgeecollins wrote: post #93

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That is why the California economy is collapsing. /s Everybody likes to complain about California. When I was born here it was about 15m people. Now its 40m. If you are unhappy, please leave to a lower cost, lower tax state. People have been predicting California's decline my entire life and the real problem is it can't handle the growth. Also, California has been sucking up employing the young and of mid-west and so…

If California had the weather of South Dakota no one would live there. California is the state version of being born on third base and thinking you hit a triple.

This is more true than people realize: sure, silicon valley could've happened anywhere (and almost did) - but California won the lottery many times over, between the gold and silver rushes, early Hollywood needing reliable sunshine and varied terrain, and massive farming operations (incl Napa Valley) needing mild, reliable weather, and of course, coastal tourism and people staying "for the lifestyle."

https://www.google.com/search?q=history+of+hollywood+film+in...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comstock_Lode

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Post by coolsunglasses »

wrkrinsec99 wrote: post #358
subdane wrote: post #31

Am I nuts, or is the heart of this issue really the fact that our healthcare system is built on tying benefits to full time jobs?

Both parties have supported Fed leadership that relied on worker insecurity to keep people in their jobs: https://www.nytimes.com/1997/02/27/business/job-insecurity-o... America does not have a stories history of being labor friendly. It’s pretty much old European pissing competitions imported anew after WW2. Identity which the country had begun to schlep off between the Gilded Age and WW1. Refugees brought it back o…

Aristotle considered democracy a deviant form of a polity. His views on democracy are more negative and complex than you're making it sound, which leads me to doubt what you're saying about the rest.

To learn more: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aristotle-politics/

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Post by tomjakubowski »

twblalock wrote: post #405
amoitnga wrote: post #369

They spent ton of money to get me to install their app and consider it as an option. There is really no reason for me to use one over the other. Lyft, uber, some random taxi app.. Same drives are coming in the same cars. Now they are motivating me to look for alternatives and actually give 'some random taxi app' a name. this combined with "dont attribute to malice what can be attributed to stupidity" leads me to doub…

I remember what it was like to get a taxi in California, even in San Francisco, before Uber and Lyft. You called some taxi company, might get put on hold, told them where to pick you up, and they would show up anywhere between 30 and 60 minutes later. Sometimes they would never show up. Many smaller cities in California had no taxi service of any kind. And good luck getting a taxi home from a bar after midnight! Uber…

Back in 2010 I regularly used the TaxiMagic app and had more or less the same experience as calling an Uber or Lyft today, just a little pricier.

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Post by fizzled »

opportune wrote: post #360
dumbfoundded wrote: post #257

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Yeah, pretty much all of the best state economies are extremely liberal (1). I think the anti-tax sentiment on HN is from people who make a lot of money and then realize they have to pay taxes. They attribute their success entirely to themselves and then whine about giving anything back to the environment that enabled them. California certainly has giant problems but don't let it distract you from the big picture. (1…

I am by no means conservative but the taxes on regular people in California are so high because the taxes on longtime landowners are low. And I also don’t think the taxes are being spent well enough to justify them. It’s also quite a stretch to call anything about obstructionist NIMBYism “liberal” Also many of the people paying the highest taxes in CA are not even from there (executives, tech workers, entertainment w…

Man, if ever there was a proposition that need to be repealed. I lived in NorCal for 22 years. Prop 13 is why schools in non-rich neighborhoods are literally collapsing. There are schools in South Sacto that have been holding classes in "temporary" trailers for over 20 years. What a huge mistake 1978 made.

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Post by apta »

runarberg wrote: post #388
ccffpphh wrote: post #347

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What were these people doing before Uber and Lyft came around?

Taking similar gig in other industries, such as gardening, constructions, telemarketing and support, pet care, beauty industry, etc. The gig economy did not start with Uber or AirBnB.

Except now with AB5, those populations are at risk too.

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Post by Johnny555 »

robertlagrant wrote: post #366
Johnny555 wrote: post #237

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The problem in SF is that Uber/Lyft has become some convenient that its been diverting people from transit and putting them into single occupant cars (the driver doens't count). Much of the traffic congestion is coming from Uber/Lyft

Well it might be single occupant, but it's often also on the way to another gig. Ignoring that is double-counting.

Counting rideshare cars as "single occupant vehicles" is not "double counting" -- whether I drive in to work and park my car myself, or I take Uber and get dropped off, that's still one trip so it's the same congestion. If he picks up another fare immediately, then that's a new single occupant vehicle trip.

But I think it's rare during commute hours that a ride share driver will drop someone off downtown and immediately find another fare, he's going to have to leave downtown to get his next passenger. So that Uber driver is worse than a single occupant vehicle, he's made 2 trips for one passenger (once to drop me off, once to leave downtown to pick up his next fare).

In off hours, sure, the driver brings someone in, then doesn't have to search far to find someone else looking for a ride, but during commute hours I don't think that's true.

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Post by syshum »

mdoms wrote: post #416
syshum wrote: post #394

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>>I live in Austin and sometimes I think if I really need a major procedure it would be just simpler to drive to Mexico it is amazing what a Free market would bring right? Instead in the US we have this flawed belief that more government is what we need to solve healthcare never understanding that Government is the source of the problem

Wow you took a very flawed lesson from that post.

In what way?

MX has a free market in healthcare, this allows people to get better care and lower prices as all free markets do

The cost of care in the US is so high because of the layers and layers of regulations, tax code, and legal liabilities that compound to influence the market in ways that are Anti-Consumer and increase prices on the service

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