How to know if where you live is “up and coming”: fried chicken vs. coffee shops • Hacker News Board

Re: How to know if where you live is “up and coming”: fried chicken vs. coffee shops

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Post by Too » Sat, Oct 17, 2015, 8:06 AM UTC

hammock wrote: post #219

rubidium wrote: post #111

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I took this post as more of an exercise in data science. Data on jogging per neighborhood is a bit harder to find then coffee and chicken places.

Not necessarily. http://popupcity.net/mapping-new-york-citys-runnability/ http://gizmodo.com/the-worlds-most-popular-running-routes-vi... http://labs.strava.com/heatmap/#6/-120.90000/38.36000/blue/r...

Not necessarily a good data source for mapping jogging, poor people don't have expensive smart phones to record their routes. This might make it even better for mapping wealth thought.

Re: How to know if where you live is “up and coming”: fried chicken vs. coffee shops

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Post by twic » Sat, Oct 17, 2015, 11:15 AM UTC

Nadya wrote: post #301

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What's a pull-tab joint?

I imagine liquor stores that sell pull-tabs. I'm unaware of stores dedicated to selling pull-tabs but there are a lot of corner liquor stores that are more or less frequented by people purchasing pull-tabs and cigarettes more than anything else. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pull-tab

Ah, thanks. FWIW, the UK equivalent is the scratchcard:

https://www.national-lottery.co.uk/games/gamestore/scratchca...

You can buy these in most newsagents, and as far as i know there aren't dedicated shops for them.

Re: How to know if where you live is “up and coming”: fried chicken vs. coffee shops

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Post by copsarebastards » Tue, Oct 20, 2015, 3:57 AM UTC

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Ugh, P.C. white people annoy me. You're not better than a racist, you're just better intentioned. Why on earth would we that poverty and fried chicken (and black people) aren't associated? Racism begets poverty, and poverty begets lack of nutritional education and resources, which causes black people to consume more cheap, fatty foods. Throw in a lot of southern and caribbean cultures, and that equates to fried chick…

I don't know what in the world you're on about, fried chicken is delicious no matter what color your skin is.

True, but there are other factors in who eats fried chicken than taste. While I don't have statistical evidence, I'd be surprised if black people didn't eat more fried chicken than white people (in the US). As I pointed out, this is likely a function of poverty, not skin color, but poverty and skin color are correlated.