google_censors
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Comment · 8 years ago
Comment · 8 years ago
I think you're confusing me with another user. I never made any strawman accusation at all.
Comment · 8 years ago
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.
Comment · 8 years ago
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.
Comment · 8 years ago
ProPublica really did an amazing job of sticking with this, considering that HUD knew what was happening and still dropped the investigation in 2016.
Comment · 8 years ago
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"
Comment · 8 years ago
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.
Comment · 8 years ago
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...
Comment · 8 years ago
Could you clarify what you're looking for? I think I know what you mean, because current tourism review sites are awful.
Comment · 8 years ago
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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WATER_TOWERS,_ANACAP...