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Comment · 7 years ago
> The union that opposed the project gained nothing and cost other union members 11,000 good, high-paying jobs.

I want to see this feature film so people stop wasting their time with them

Comment · 7 years ago
Yeaaaaah but it was on topic, in a chain of threads making fun how unsubstantive people’s skepticism was back in 2010

Your team tells me that upvotes/downvotes are noisy, but once you have downvotes it is unsubstantive and the account is rate limited

Pick

Your team also never explains how you mods interpret a guideline or substantiation, just unilaterally say it violates and pray for classical conditioning as if you want community standards to be decided by the community

If you are judging this primarily by flags and downvotes, you arent noticing that a lot of the collective conscious is just incorrect. It isnt as open to ideas as you might think

Comment · 7 years ago
The federal courts can create law solely because overruling them is nigh impossible. The Supreme Court exists to rule on constitutional matters, but it is merely the final arbiter and uses that to its advantage based on case law they made for themselves.

Overruling the Supreme Court requires a constitutional amendment and this won't happen, and the court rarely does something untenable or an impossible outcome for a functioning society as it wants compliance. It tries to match a partial collective conscious understanding of a topic.

When it does act as fill-in legislature, Congress/Legislatures are capable of simply changing the law it ruled on, such as repealing the legal framework supporting enforcement agency.

The courts can also overrule itself in a future court case.

(The Supreme Court exists by the constitution, the other federal courts are created by congress and have a path to the supreme court.)

Comment · 7 years ago
I’d say your paranoia and justification for any tool to be used for a potential unknown threat deserves to get discounted like a child’s

Yes it would be better for the world if the US took a more collaborative approach with other regional powers that it disagrees with

Comment · 7 years ago
Writing this from the West, pointing this out is a great way to lose friends

Different kind of firewall

Comment · 7 years ago
A long long time ago, check out the new ‘more’ button
Comment · 7 years ago
And also a non-negligible probability that people have a shared experience of and may want to objectively consider avoiding it?
Comment · 7 years ago
True, lets do more of it
Comment · 7 years ago
So you mean a system could exist to lower costs for some parties?
Comment · 7 years ago
The point is that disrupting local industries gives only a narrow field of what can get funded

The graveyard of seemingly pointless portfolio pieces is a key component which nyc cant replicate

Comment · 7 years ago
Your whole post missed the important part about what can get funded and where.

NYC is coming up, but the graveyard of quirky disruptors would still only be pursued in Silicon Valley. These non revenue generating companies acting as developer daycare need to be flipped from one portfolio to the next until you have a deal size big enough to matter, swap out the board and executive team and shop it to the public markets, ka-ching. New York VCs and other markets cant and wont chase developer daycare companies on a broad enough scale to grow these into deals.

Comment · 7 years ago
Also you dont need hockey stick growth if you dont take VC capital or any outside capital

Businesses like this make more for founders when they dont take outside capital. With obsessions on growth and liquidation preferences, a business like this likely wouldnt result in a windfall for a founder during an exit event.

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