google_censors | 7 years ago | on: Dummy houses in the heart of London (2007)
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google_censors | 7 years ago | on: California Is Deteriorating into a Feudal Society of Inherited Land Wealth
I think you're confusing me with another user. I never made any strawman accusation at all.
google_censors | 7 years ago | on: Researcher at center of epic fraud remains an enigma to those who exposed him
The behavior of JAMA Editor-in-Chief Howard Bauchner is appalling and frightening. If he's so unwilling to deal with fraud in his publishing, what is he letting people get away with in his position as Vice Chairman of Pediatrics at Boston University. He seems far too keen to sweep things under the rug.
google_censors | 7 years ago | on: HUD Files Housing Discrimination Complaint Against Facebook
There's actually something called "disparate impact" in Fair Housing that covers this. So if someone does something like that, especially intentionally, and it impacts a protected class, they can be sued and fined.
google_censors | 7 years ago | on: HUD Files Housing Discrimination Complaint Against Facebook
ProPublica really did an amazing job of sticking with this, considering that HUD knew what was happening and still dropped the investigation in 2016.
google_censors | 7 years ago | on: HUD Files Housing Discrimination Complaint Against Facebook
It's not really a protected class, but a case of redlining, which is, to quote wikipedia:
"the systematic denial of various services to residents of specific, often racially associated, neighborhoods or communities"
google_censors | 7 years ago | on: Self-Driving Car Makers Prepare to Blame “Jaywalkers”
Here in the US negligence is the biggest factor in accountability. In most cases if the driver wasn't negligent but the pedestrian was (by illegally jaywalking), then there's no criminal or civil consequences.
google_censors | 7 years ago | on: Self-Driving Car Makers Prepare to Blame “Jaywalkers”
This prompted me to look up US pedestrian deaths. Some interesting numbers:
"According to the GHSA report, 74 percent of pedestrian fatalities happen at night, and 72 percent of those killed were not crossing at intersections."
"The GHSA report indicated that 15 percent of pedestrians killed each year are hit by a drunk driver, while 34 percent of pedestrians killed are legally drunk themselves."
I'd say we should put in more crosswalks and add lights and reflectors, but I've almost been hit twice by cellphone-distracted drivers in one like that in my neighborhood.
https://www.npr.org/2017/03/30/522085503/2016-saw-a-record-i...
google_censors | 7 years ago | on: Ask HN: Hackernews for tourism?
Could you clarify what you're looking for? I think I know what you mean, because current tourism review sites are awful.
google_censors | 7 years ago | on: California Is Deteriorating into a Feudal Society of Inherited Land Wealth
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google_censors | 7 years ago | on: California Is Deteriorating into a Feudal Society of Inherited Land Wealth
Something I find interesting is that so many states that are heavily democrat have such high income inequality. I've always hoped that states like Massachusetts, California and New York would do more to help the poor considering that they seem to have enough voter support to do that.
https://www.axios.com/income-inequality-blue-red-districts-6...
google_censors | 7 years ago | on: YC China and Qi Lu
It's amazing that a company that Paul Graham co-founded is getting into bed with an authoritarian government notorious for its human rights abuses. To succeed in China you can't go against the government. So is he going to be pushing as hard for political change in China as he is in the US, or will he remain silent as his company reaps the profits?
google_censors | 7 years ago | on: YC China and Qi Lu
You mean Mercedes, the company that used slave laborers from camps to build vehicles and engines for the Nazis?
google_censors | 7 years ago | on: Musk mulls taking Tesla private, Saudi sovereign fund builds $2B stake
I'd bet a lot of money that Bezos could do actually do that. And if the SEC chairman doesn't know the law, why is the news asking him?
google_censors | 7 years ago | on: M. Hashimoto(Hashicorp CEO) loses access to Google account, asks help on Twitter
I've been backing up everything in my google account and preparing for something just like this. When I first started making sure my backup was complete I realized that I had sent gmail invites out to a few friends. Now I guess I have to tell those same friends that it's time to start preparing for the day that Google decides to wipe out 14 years of their emails.
google_censors | 7 years ago | on: Study Finds Increased Incarceration Has Marginal-To-Zero Impact on Crime
Apparently the author(s) think that you're safe if people are breaking into your house and stealing your things as long as you're not getting bashed over the head. Such an odd way to look at it. I don't think a lot of people who have had their house broken into feel just as safe afterwards. I do agree with their premise that prison for drug offenses is a terrible idea, but I hate that they lump drugs in with property crime. Property crime is definitely not victimless.
google_censors | 7 years ago | on: Tesla’s Driver Fatality Rate is more than Triple that of Luxury Cars
The author of this article claims to have received an award for at least one published medical study, and I think someone should take a serious look at it. If he thinks that this methodology is okay in a study, I can't imagine what would happen if someone used his medical study for anything but laughs.
google_censors | 7 years ago | on: Tesla’s Driver Fatality Rate is more than Triple that of Luxury Cars
Well, including data from China for only Tesla is a joke. That would be like saying "we couldn't find any deaths from Ebola in the United States, so we took the ones in Africa and added them in. Wow, look at how many deaths per year from Ebola occurred in the US compared to deaths from the plague in the US!". It makes absolutely no sense.
google_censors | 7 years ago | on: Offshore owners of British property to be forced to reveal names
I keep hoping that FinCEN's investigations actually start leading to some prosecutions. https://www.miamiherald.com/news/business/real-estate-news/a...
google_censors | 7 years ago | on: Offshore owners of British property to be forced to reveal names
FinCEN is doing that in the larger metropolitan areas but they aren't publishing the data. They've been looking into real estate money laundering in the US on a larger scale for the past couple of years.
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