"Pinging a cellphone means setting up a portable cellphone tower."
The articles don't suggest anything like that was actually done here. It seems as though cell phone the victim was carrying was running a normal location-reporting service, and others (the cell phone owner?) happened to have permissions to that data.
Hey, my curiosity snapped OFF when I saw the snazziness of the slide show, and the absence of anything unpolished and real, like photos, prototypes, etc.
"This provides clear evidence that the $agent is $working to follow the letter of the law, but not the spirit"
Seriously, is that anything but routine behaviour for apprx. everyone? If, as a legislator/regulator, you enact laws such that you'd be unsatisfied if followed to the letter, then you should not be drafting/enforcing said laws. It's a waste of time.
"One path leads to San Francisco, where you have an incredibly regulated and stagnant housing economy that can't keep up with demand. The other path is something different, the Seattle way."
Where the linked article points to Seattle's mayor pleading for more regulated housing economy ("25% affordable"), it doesn't seem that different.
The other aspect of focus on transportation seems sound.
"institutional racism... a system or pattern in place that maintains a significant racial inequality without requiring racism by any individual in the system"
If there's no one performing racism, then it's not racism. Merely inequality.
Almost the entirety of the "lot of the story" was not racism (as in acts of morally objectionable judgement based on race stereotypes) in any form. Call it "culture" or "socioeconomic problems", not "racism". Don't borrow the moral outrage carefully nurtured around the latter term for different problems.
If "it's an unfortunate scientific reality that's suggested by the evidence", call it "science" or "reality".
If you don't know why exactly black children are disadvantaged getting into a gifted program, don't label your ignorance "institutional racism" either.
"That's how institutional racism works, it's not that it's impossible for group X to do Y, it's that you need to be exceptional to do Y if you're also a member of group X."
You may wish to revise your definition of "institutional racism", consider X=white-man Y=giving-birth; or X=pygmy Y=play-professional-basketball.
"I have not yet been rewarded for my work. I think we need a completely different political system. Nobody should depend on employers and landlords. Nobody should be profitable for someone rich. Nobody should have to pay rent, have to migrate. Most of all, we must limit private property. We must expropriate the rich. Free land for all!"
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The FDA has no incentives to get regulations right. If something goes right, the FDA is not rewarded. If something goes wrong, the FDA is not liable.
"Pinging a cellphone means setting up a portable cellphone tower."
The articles don't suggest anything like that was actually done here. It seems as though cell phone the victim was carrying was running a normal location-reporting service, and others (the cell phone owner?) happened to have permissions to that data.
Hey, my curiosity snapped OFF when I saw the snazziness of the slide show, and the absence of anything unpolished and real, like photos, prototypes, etc.
"simply because she has a (D) behind her name"
and female plumbing
That's not a "post-scarcity" economy. That's a normal economy where there is a scarcity of labour willing to do menial jobs for low wages.
Tragedy of the Hipster Commons
"People in a post scarcity economy will work ..."
That "will" part expresses perhaps an excess of expectation. A post-scarcity economy is in the apprx. "never will" happen category.
"I'll get modded down just for saying that, which shows how bad it really is."
No, it gets modded down for being stupid.
"This provides clear evidence that the $agent is $working to follow the letter of the law, but not the spirit"
Seriously, is that anything but routine behaviour for apprx. everyone? If, as a legislator/regulator, you enact laws such that you'd be unsatisfied if followed to the letter, then you should not be drafting/enforcing said laws. It's a waste of time.
"In a sane rational world the city would respond by zoning more housing"
Where/how? Is there any unused land for that?
"they seem absolutely dead set against matching housing vs needs"
The market is good at making such matches ... governments, less so.
"This means [government] can't pay for infrastructure improvements as density increases"
Perhaps there is a market for a privately funded transit system then.
"One path leads to San Francisco, where you have an incredibly regulated and stagnant housing economy that can't keep up with demand. The other path is something different, the Seattle way."
Where the linked article points to Seattle's mayor pleading for more regulated housing economy ("25% affordable"), it doesn't seem that different.
The other aspect of focus on transportation seems sound.
... and a strict tweet-magazine size limit, and outlawing military-style assault bots.
"institutional racism ... a system or pattern in place that maintains a significant racial inequality without requiring racism by any individual in the system"
If there's no one performing racism, then it's not racism. Merely inequality.
Almost the entirety of the "lot of the story" was not racism (as in acts of morally objectionable judgement based on race stereotypes) in any form. Call it "culture" or "socioeconomic problems", not "racism". Don't borrow the moral outrage carefully nurtured around the latter term for different problems.
If "it's an unfortunate scientific reality that's suggested by the evidence", call it "science" or "reality".
If you don't know why exactly black children are disadvantaged getting into a gifted program, don't label your ignorance "institutional racism" either.
(I don't know if either "if" is true.)
"That's how institutional racism works, it's not that it's impossible for group X to do Y, it's that you need to be exceptional to do Y if you're also a member of group X."
You may wish to revise your definition of "institutional racism", consider X=white-man Y=giving-birth; or X=pygmy Y=play-professional-basketball.
"Racial bias has to be operating, inequities are rampant."
Anyone who utters such garbage shouldn't be taken seriously.
"I have not yet been rewarded for my work.
I think we need a completely different political system.
Nobody should depend on employers and landlords.
Nobody should be profitable for someone rich.
Nobody should have to pay rent, have to migrate.
Most of all, we must limit private property.
We must expropriate the rich.
Free land for all!"
... don't forget courageous
Ah, a kindred spirit. I hereby hand you a virtual beverage for our joint safari toward the improvement of mankind's thinking.
"most [...] are average or below average"
Assuming a normal distribution, that is entirely correct. There are more (average or below-average) than (above-average).
... but but but ... internet access is a human right! It better be pretty fast too.
"Converting water into Oxygen and Hydrogen SPENDS the water, not renew it."
True, but burning said hydrogen CREATES water.
"I'm convinced they can."
The question was not whether they can spend tax money on make-work. The question was about *net* effects.