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Chinas’s accession to the Universal Copyright Convention, and an alleged desire to comply with international IP law, led to an influx of OECD IP and foreign direct investment(FDI).

In hindsight, China wasn’t diligent in the enforcement of IP violations. However, it’s clear foreign presences and investment grew substantially in China during the early 90s upon the belief IP would be protected, or at the very least there would be recourse for violations.

Poland has actually let in a record amount of migrants, particularly from non-EU countries.[1] Turns out their tough stance was a bunch of posturing and politicking. Perhaps the money they make from selling visas under the table trumps the solidarity payments.

[1] https://apnews.com/article/poland-government-admit-muslim-mi...

The study shows even non-religious people in those same counties have high rates of divorce, so it’s clearly an issue affecting everyone.

This is also pointless if they didn’t control for ethnicity. The South has a greater percentage of African-Americans who have higher rates of divorce. The problems beleaguering black communities has more to do with just living in religious or conservative counties

Maybe the robo ambulance would have froze like the Cruise.

The only source I could find on the tax discussion was a Georgia senator. When doing the math, on just income and not even payroll taxes, taking 6% of the Individual Income Taxes collected in 2022, 2,632 billion, and dividing it by the estimated number of Indians, 4.5 million, gives me at least about 35k collected in taxes per Indian. If I bothered to exclude kids and include appropriate payroll taxes, that number would be even higher. Anyways, since the IRS doesn’t collect the info, I think he might be doing some napkin math.

To address the crux of your point, America should continue to be a place where the best and the brightest head towards to start companies. However, I think it’s fair to value quality over quantity. We only need to look up north to see the potential pitfalls of loose migration policies.

I’ve seen many people in this thread insinuate driverless cars are as safe as human drivers despite the vehicles being subjected to a subset of conditions the average US driver is. I’m surprised to see such disingenuous statements on here.

Well I could say the same for a human driven cab or transit. My rides are often too short to do anything productive anyways. Even if I were driving, I could listen to a podcast for leisure, same as when I take other forms of transport.

I’m of the same mindset. A cab is still a cab to me, even if it’s autonomous. We’ll still have to deal with traffic all the same. Uber and Lyft showed us ride share even worsens congestion in cities. As a result, in dense locales, taking the train can often be quicker and cheaper than hailing or ordering a ride during rush hour.

While other developed nations show us it’s possible to reduce our accident rate per mile driven, we could also make progress on reducing the time spent in a car. So many suburbanites drive the whole way into the city for weekend trips here in my city because their local commuter rail stinks. I see missed opportunities all around.

If cities are increasingly considering offloading public transit burden off to private entities, they might as well consider introducing the private sector into rail…

I agree. Here in the US, and western world at large, we’re even seeing a rise in astrology, paganism, and Wicca corresponding with the decline of the Abrahamic religions. Some just started to ditch inconvenient beliefs.

The IRA is really just accelerating a trend rather than inducing it. The South had already became our hub for EV manufacturing investment due to business friendly laws. Even if Europe attempts the same subsidies, there won’t be the same enabling environment the South has which will likely lead to any initiatives falling flat.

This is exactly how I feel which is conflicting because my company gains from such funds. My multinational employer, based outside of the US, has been expanding into the US for years due to shrinking growth opportunity in Asia and Europe. In recent All Hands, the NA head has mentioned we’re applying for millions in grants through the IRA which is essentially subsidizing what we were planning to do all along.

I hope this at least means there’s no excuse to cut bonuses in upcoming years though.

Boston and Cambridge’s transit is deteriorating rapidly. I used to live in East Cambridge and regularly visited Harvard and Kenmore. I watched as both trips ballooned in time due to longer headways and speed restrictions on the train. The buses also never seem to be on time during 8-10AM and 5-7PM. I soon came to the realization it’s significantly quicker, and more predictable, for me to bike than to take the bus or train for most trips nowadays.

To add to that, the rate of car ownership has actually been increasing here, although I should acknowledge Boston’s percentage of young professionals is greater than in previous decades. Also, our MBTA ridership is still below pre-pandemic levels

NYC does a far better job at moving its citizens via transit than Seattle. As a result, NYC commuters are the least dependent on cars in the nation. For all of its inefficiencies, NYC is the gold standard of density here in the US.

During my trip to Seattle recently, I was really unimpressed with transit. It looked robust where I stayed in SLU, but it’s not really extensive. As far as anecdotes go, the one time I took the train, to get to SeaTac, some crazy guy tried to fight me.

Wikipedia is incredibly biased when it comes to certain topics, especially anything pertaining to Jesus. The irony is, the section you have quoted doesn’t even have a source attached! More reading: https://larrysanger.org/2020/05/wikipedia-is-badly-biased/

It could have also been about Jesus and his death

Luckily the article does provide data…

Widespread bike adoption, especially in the US, is idealistic, but it’s still more realistic than self driving cars being able to solve our transportation woes anytime soon

The situation is drastically different. When considering your example, the source isn’t the leader himself nor are you imprisoned or killed for going against the narrative surrounding the leader.

Not a day goes past where I don’t see someone try to minimize commie atrocities…

Development can sometimes increase demand for previously blighted urban areas. A few years ago, I used to live in expensive re-purposed lofts in an area of Boston metro which was in disrepair in the 90s. There’s a similar story for Bushwick and Williamsburg in NYC.

However, by the time an area has become popular, restricting development will only hurt rent affordability. I guess some would like to prevent their neighborhoods from becoming popular in the first place though.

Whilst I agree with your point that slavery inhibits economic development, your points on the slave trade within Africa come off as revisionist. The transatlantic slave trade took off after the New Laws were passed and African slaves were adjusted to the climates plantations were in. I have never seen anything to suggest Africa was the only place with a local slave trade at the time, and it is definitely not the only place with active slave markets.

Just last week, a woman was arrested in Germany for practicing slavery whilst living back in Syria. It shouldn’t be hard to find news about people being sold on WhatsApp in the Middle East. BBC did a special on it. This isn’t even going into the obvious slavery, and the market for it, that persists even further East.