Deferred maintenance. NY State has been putting off maintenance work for decades, and they've reached the point where 1) they can't wait any longer, and 2) the maintenance is much more expensive.
Why? The state government controls the trains and subway in NYC. The state's legislature has been quite dysfunctional, because a small group of Democrats decided their non-NYC districts would get more power if they allied with the Republicans. So they did, and went along with their non-NYC Republican friends who arbitrarily decided it was "too much money".
It's getting fixed now because enough Republicans and breakaway Democrats lost their elections so that they can no longer control the legislature. But that means paying for many years of maintenance now.
Why should I pay to maintain the roads around your home? I don't use them. Yet I do.
If you say because min wage workers can't than afford to get to work. My response is GOOD! That means employers would not be able to hire people for minimum wage
Why do manufacturing imports make the middle class poorer?
Because the imports replaced high-paying factory jobs making the same stuff. The jobs that replaced them pay far less. And below the savings from the availability of cheaper goods.
Technically, she has to receive it and then sign it over to the Treasury. It's illegal to volunteer for a Federal government job, so they have to jump through the hoop of issuing a paycheck that she gives back.
Friction is your spam filter. Or your ad-block in your browser. Or noscript. All of these create friction in people getting their message to you. (And yes, most of those people are shitbags).
What could similar friction look like on social media or the other topics of this article? No idea, and the author doesn't seem to have any good implementation ideas either. But a completely false Facebook post getting in front of a ton of people to influence those people with zero friction is probably a bad thing.
Direct quote from her "I don't know how I'm going to afford rent in DC"... That's ignorance, surprise, and a failure to plan.
Yes, I understand. Only the wealthy should run for Congress.
Implying she believes the electoral system is responsible for ensuring she can afford rent or has a place to live
Ah, yes, Time for more mind-reading instead of the sentences surrounding that statement.
And no one is saying that only the wealthy can govern... I have friends who went from modest incomes to serve in office and spent those first months on cots in their offices or on friend's sofas living like poor college kids.
Yes, she should sleep in her office that she doesn't get until January.......oh wait, that won't work. Ok, she should leverage her business and government connections to get a room/couch....but it's totally true that anyone with no money and connections can do this!!
they weren't crying about it when it came
Stating a problem is exactly the same as sobbing in a corner, totally distraught and unable to function. Sure.
I know others who had enough income to start saving funds a year in advance and were able to secure apartments
So again, only the wealthy should run for office.
The key difference here is that she feels entitled to more than all the men and women who came before her and that's the key issue with her generation as a whole
Because stating a problem exists is exactly the same as a demand that someone else fix it.
Bottom line, she failed to plan for a victory that was fairly obviously going to happen
She was widely expected to lose the primary by double-digits. So no, this was not obviously going to happen.
Or, she needs to pipe down and get a blow up mattress for her office
That she will not have until January.
It's always entertaining running into old folks like you who are so terrified of change that you insist on the worst possible interpretation of anyone's statements. I can't wait 'till you're out of the voting pool so we can actually start fixing all the things you broke.
There are options beyond Silicon Valley and Tulsa. And they don't come with all the bible thumping, anti-intellectualism, and shitty government services. Some of them even think your kid's teachers shouldn't live in poverty.
I lived in a city where people were trying to do this - Federal spending to keep the city afloat.
It doesn't work all that well. Recruitment is still incredibly hard, and the city is still a shithole that can't afford to properly operate basic services like schools, younger people who grow up there desperately fleeing the area, and a general sense of dread permeating everything.
It would be better for the federal government to fund moving everyone who wants to move out, and let the place die.
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So why aren't they making money?
Deferred maintenance. NY State has been putting off maintenance work for decades, and they've reached the point where 1) they can't wait any longer, and 2) the maintenance is much more expensive.
Why? The state government controls the trains and subway in NYC. The state's legislature has been quite dysfunctional, because a small group of Democrats decided their non-NYC districts would get more power if they allied with the Republicans. So they did, and went along with their non-NYC Republican friends who arbitrarily decided it was "too much money".
It's getting fixed now because enough Republicans and breakaway Democrats lost their elections so that they can no longer control the legislature. But that means paying for many years of maintenance now.
Or maybe NYC's political choices of late have led to poor governance.
It should be noted that the subway and trains in NYC are a state entity. NYC's government has no official say in how they operate or spend money.
Why should people who don't use it pay for it?
Why should I pay to maintain the roads around your home? I don't use them. Yet I do.
If you say because min wage workers can't than afford to get to work. My response is GOOD! That means employers would not be able to hire people for minimum wage
Oh, you sweet summer child.
Manufacturing output has grown over time in the US. The amount of employees has decreased as technology made each employee more efficient.
We did this, and we offshored a lot of manufacturing. This isn't an either-or situation.
Did the increase in economic efficiency make the middle class poorer?
Yes. Because the productivity gain was not reflected in higher wages.
Why do manufacturing imports make the middle class poorer?
Because the imports replaced high-paying factory jobs making the same stuff. The jobs that replaced them pay far less. And below the savings from the availability of cheaper goods.
Technically, she has to receive it and then sign it over to the Treasury. It's illegal to volunteer for a Federal government job, so they have to jump through the hoop of issuing a paycheck that she gives back.
Except she has that job. She's currently receiving a paycheck for it, which she signs over to the Treasury.
Except she holds the official position of "Senior Adviser to the President" in addition to being Trump's daughter. Those aren't mutually exclusive.
She’s not a whitehouse employee
She's a White House employee. Her job is called "Senior Advisor to the President". Even comes with a paycheck.
You can resign from your position of "Senior Advisor to the President", which is an actual job in the White House.
She is a CIVILIAN. And her participation in the presidency is "Voluntary"
The Secretary of State is a civilian. And also a voluntary position.
Ivanka Trump is a Senior Adviser to the President, which is an official government position. Complete with all of us sending her a paycheck.
False equivalence. The president's daughter sending emails with a personal account when she doesn't have any official position is not the same.
Senior Adviser to the President is an official position.
All we'd have to do is invent some new physics so that we could do it accurately enough.
but do we have the technology to build something up one atom at a time?
Not accurately enough. There'd be some extra or missing atoms in the final product.
Friction is not a blanket time delay.
Friction is your spam filter. Or your ad-block in your browser. Or noscript. All of these create friction in people getting their message to you. (And yes, most of those people are shitbags).
What could similar friction look like on social media or the other topics of this article? No idea, and the author doesn't seem to have any good implementation ideas either. But a completely false Facebook post getting in front of a ton of people to influence those people with zero friction is probably a bad thing.
Direct quote from her "I don't know how I'm going to afford rent in DC"... That's ignorance, surprise, and a failure to plan.
Yes, I understand. Only the wealthy should run for Congress.
Implying she believes the electoral system is responsible for ensuring she can afford rent or has a place to live
Ah, yes, Time for more mind-reading instead of the sentences surrounding that statement.
And no one is saying that only the wealthy can govern... I have friends who went from modest incomes to serve in office and spent those first months on cots in their offices or on friend's sofas living like poor college kids.
Yes, she should sleep in her office that she doesn't get until January.......oh wait, that won't work. Ok, she should leverage her business and government connections to get a room/couch....but it's totally true that anyone with no money and connections can do this!!
they weren't crying about it when it came
Stating a problem is exactly the same as sobbing in a corner, totally distraught and unable to function. Sure.
I know others who had enough income to start saving funds a year in advance and were able to secure apartments
So again, only the wealthy should run for office.
The key difference here is that she feels entitled to more than all the men and women who came before her and that's the key issue with her generation as a whole
Because stating a problem exists is exactly the same as a demand that someone else fix it.
Bottom line, she failed to plan for a victory that was fairly obviously going to happen
She was widely expected to lose the primary by double-digits. So no, this was not obviously going to happen.
Or, she needs to pipe down and get a blow up mattress for her office
That she will not have until January.
It's always entertaining running into old folks like you who are so terrified of change that you insist on the worst possible interpretation of anyone's statements. I can't wait 'till you're out of the voting pool so we can actually start fixing all the things you broke.
Funny that you think I was talking about a photo shoot
Oh, it's that other time when it happened that you can't quite remember the details about. But it totally happened.
So you're advocating an operating system where you can never delete any files, just in case the user is making a mistake?
There are options beyond Silicon Valley and Tulsa. And they don't come with all the bible thumping, anti-intellectualism, and shitty government services. Some of them even think your kid's teachers shouldn't live in poverty.
I lived in a city where people were trying to do this - Federal spending to keep the city afloat.
It doesn't work all that well. Recruitment is still incredibly hard, and the city is still a shithole that can't afford to properly operate basic services like schools, younger people who grow up there desperately fleeing the area, and a general sense of dread permeating everything.
It would be better for the federal government to fund moving everyone who wants to move out, and let the place die.
If I were an USian, I'd check this out.
Nah. We USians are familiar with Oklahoma.
Is there a standard way to contain such a process?
Yes, chroot.
But keep in mind it's not the operating system's job to protect you from running rm -rf ~.
And I love the way you think she owned the clothes in that photo shoot.
Perfectly intelligent, capable, learned, and aware scientists in the field say it is bullshit.
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You mean China was installing..... China has cut the subsidies.
Subsidies != installations. Installations continue without the subsidies.