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I'm surprised this is getting downvoted. A lot of my friends are leaving or considering leaving cities exactly for this reason.

A lot of small businesses got destroyed in riots as well, and I imagine their owners would be leaving too.

On a similar note, why raised fist is not on the list? It's been used throughout the 20th century to commit atrocities on a grand scale and force tens of millions of people into labor camps. It was used to incite violence that killed many millions of people in Russia and across the world. It still used nowadays by people promoting violence and class warfare.

It seems very disingenuous for MS to ban one specific symbol of hate, but not other, much more prominent ones.

That's right, it's just a symbol that has been used historically to kill tens of millions of people, enslave many more millions, and violently steal other people property. No hate here at all, nothing to see.

More like radicalization in general. Left wing got similarly radicalized, if not more so. When everybody lives in their own bubble people get pushed to the extremes :-(

The government could start by removing hurdles to build. The amount of hassle one has to go through in California in order to build housing is staggering.

I'm building a 3d printer control display that would allow you to load/view models and control the printing process. It's currently based on Raspberry Pi, but I was looking at more powerful alternatives like Vim2/vim3 that have a better GPU and higher performance.

Hey, this looks pretty cool and something I was looking for. I’m not using Raspberry Pi however. Do you Plan to support other boards besides Raspberry Pi?

> Most local zoning is controlled by tiny opaque cabals of land owners who use all kinds of tactics to prevent participation by anyone beyond other sympathetic land owners with a vested interest in raising prices

What tactics do they use and why would that not apply at the state level? We already saw huge influence of big interest groups at the state level for many decades now, e.g. with the most recent passage of the rent control legislation in CA (benefiting developers). State-level legislation results in a much more damage than any local legislation could.

On a different topic, I'm surprised people keep bringing up the notion that restrictive zoning benefits landowners. If anything, upzoning always increases land prices as it allows more economic value to be extracted from it (think how big the cash flow would be from a 20 unit apartment building developed on a 10000 sq ft lot compared do a duplex even assuming that per-unit rent goes down). I know plenty of landowners and landlords, and none of them favor restrictive zoning.

The only people supporting low-density zoning are homeowners living in these neighborhoods as they extract value from the neighborhood character and scenery and could not care less what they real estate is worth (until they are selling). These are not the people you whose voice in the matter of town governance you'd want to take away. That would be a textbook definition of tyranny of majority.

I'm struggling to see how local people influencing local politics is a bad thing. Would you prefer for remote corporations to control local politics?

Which will make housing even more scarce.

My point is that it should not be discretionary. Either apply the law universally (without taking the viability of the company into account), or lower the fines to a meaningful level.

They are accountable to their users. If a company is negligent with user data and their customers actually do care about this issue, this company will either eventually improve or go out of business. And if customers don't deem this important, it's not a government's role to decide it is.

To be clear, I'm not arguing for no control at all. However, fines should not be so egregious that it ends up being up to bureaucrats to decide whether a company lives or dies. This will easily lead to selective enforcement and corruption.

On the other hand, they could have bankrupted them if they wanted to. Do we really want the government to have that much say in whether businesses live or die?

You can write or buy an option on anything — it’s just a legal contract.

What are the redeamable qualities of metric units?

Taking other people money by force is even more dangerous for democracy and economy.

They were pretty consistent in their critic of polices of both GOP and democratic governments, and are usually pretty open in addressing issues in business from all sides. What do you find to be unbalanced in their reporting?

I was referring to @ucf_socialism and other similar antifa groups. Whose activities led to an actual physical harm to people and property.

I was replying to a post asking for examples of far-left extremism. Harassing people is never an acceptable form of free speech (actually a crime), just so you know.

This is just one example. My complaint is that accounts like that stay up despite numerous reports. And Alex Jones is saint compared to these guys...

Check out @ucf_socialism or videos of Senator Maxine Waters calling for attacks on members of administration: https://news.iheart.com/featured/joe-soto/content/2018-06-25...

Are you saying that tweets in that picture are falsified? Or that the fact it was posted to the Donald makes it inadmissible?

So the offending tweet got deleted by twitter, but the account is still up. I scrolled through the first page and they are literally calling for doxing ICE agents right there. Pasted both pics to imgur

https://m.imgur.com/a/wsHPMUD

Twitter should either be banning both far left and far right extremists, or nobody. Otherwise it should be considers a media, and not an internet service and regulated as such.

We can begin here: https://tinyurl.com/y8rk9yjn

I personally reported many accounts, including an antifa group that called for killing cops and white peoples to no avail. At the same time twitter bans people for sharing news about job growth. Go figure.

WSJ, Economist, FT and New Yorker are all western publications, and way closer to providing an balanced journalism. Guardian destroyed their own reputation in the last two years by openly publishing paid pieces and propaganda, even advocating for property seizure (see all their articles on “nationalization” of FB). Economist/New Yorker on the other hand are great examples of a quality left-biased publication.

Have you considered that it might not be a marketing campaign, but rather other people having an opinion different from your own? That unions indeed can potentially be damaging for society (and there are plenty of example of that) and it's not just a propaganda?

Facebook has a similar project, called Workplace which other companies can use as a private social network: https://www.facebook.com/workplace?_rdr

I have not seen a single gas station in California that does not accept credit or debit cards for 10 years, let alone in the Bay Area. If they do exist, it’s most certainly a tiny minority.

And what exactly is intolerant in Thiel's views?