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Saying monero is a scam token, shows how much you know about crypto.
This is what everyone says about their scam token.
I visited San Jose Diridon station. It was surrounded by parking lots. It was amazing to me that a train station with connections south and north to both San Francisco and Oakland is a desolate wasteland of parking lots devoid of people. If this happened in another country, the city planners would be voted out of office or disappeared. That place should be full of 5-10 story buildings bustling with offices, shopping,…
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This is probably just because more people are working remotely than 3 years ago. Those lots would have been full in 2019.
The issue is not that the parking lots are empty, but that the rail station is surrounded by parking lots at all. This is a terrible waste of transit infrastructure! Rail stations should be located in densely developed areas close to destinations. If you put a station in a low-density area, that creates an opportunity to build a new efficient urban center. (In some countries, the land-value increment created through…
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This is probably just because more people are working remotely than 3 years ago. Those lots would have been full in 2019.
The issue is not that the parking lots are empty, but that the rail station is surrounded by parking lots at all. This is a terrible waste of transit infrastructure! Rail stations should be located in densely developed areas close to destinations. If you put a station in a low-density area, that creates an opportunity to build a new efficient urban center. (In some countries, the land-value increment created through…
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I dont know. Im pretty well off thanks to these “jerkoffs” not only in terms of access to technology but also lucrative employment.
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Where does this deification of government come from?
The government funds the schools we went to, so now we have some eternal obligation to advocate for more government?
This makes no sense
This is like complaining of unequal vehicles at an airport: A relatively few can fly very fast and hold hundreds of passengers, but most are earthbound-bound and can carry only a few passengers. Of course Silicon Valley has inequality: it’s home to some of the most impactful people on earth. Hobbling these people will do nothing to help the poor, just like crippling airliners will not improve the cars in airports par…
Not a very good comparison considering the basic needs of all people are practically the same: food, water, and shelter
It's like you're saying that "impactful people" "need" the Atherton mansions they live in to the same degree that the homeless need housing
Or in vehicle terms you're saying that one car needs a hangar as much as another car needs a parking spot (because the first one is driven to "more important" places)
Ruth Wilson Gilmore, The Golden Gulag https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520242012/golden-gulag
Huey P Newton (co-founder of the Black Panther Party in Oakland, CA October 1966) Revolutionary Suicide, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutionary_Suicide
Malcolm Harris, Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World https://www.littlebrown.com/titles/malcolm-harris/palo-alto/...
Mike Davis, City of Quartz https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_Quartz
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Before big tech came in, San Francisco was the mecca for the disillusioned, adventure-seekers, protestors, hippies, artists, writers, and many more groups of people who wouldn't be able to afford SF at today's prices. I suspect they'd be doing just fine if not for the tech boom.
Fresno is there for the taking. Some of the above live in and around the Salton Sea. Yes, people can cling on for sure. The main point is there is give and take. You win on one side and you lose on the other. Sure, without tech it could be something like Galveston. But there are vastly more people benefitting from the boom than those who suffer from the boom. If you ask people, would you trade this economy for the pr…
Poll citation needed. Also, who would you be polling? If you only poll the winners of neighborhood gentrification, then of course they'll say gentrification is great.