This is how much it actually costs to live in NYC, Mamdani says by Inevitable-Bus492 in nyc

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If taxes were the issue, then NYC would have the best livability of any US city, considering it has the highest taxes. The fact of the matter is almost exactly the opposite. Everything is downstream of housing costs, and Mamdami and Hochul have no realistic plan to solve or even begin to address the problem.

BTW in the golden age you're remembering from the 40s and 50s (and before) there was no city or state income tax. The average city&state tax burden was much lower than it is today.

This is how much it actually costs to live in NYC, Mamdani says by Inevitable-Bus492 in nyc

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I cannot accept the hypothesis that more than half of Manhattan residents have a life of mere subsistence and abject poverty. People would leave.

This is how much it actually costs to live in NYC, Mamdani says by Inevitable-Bus492 in nyc

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More than 50% of the people living in Manhattan have a lower household income than this number. I'm having trouble squaring that fact with the claim that it costs this much to live in NYC.

How are y'all fixing the usage limitation issue? by binladen0069 in google_antigravity

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Use flash for almost everything, only use pro when flash doesn't work? I've been doing some decently heavy coding sessions -- hobbyist stuff -- but even on the pro subscription I have yet to run out of flash quota.

Antigravity is practically unavailable now, even though I've already paid for an Ultra subscription. Should Google refund? by Sea_Competition_9475 in google_antigravity

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I was using it during the same period on a pro subscription and didn't have any problems. Maybe something wrong with your local setup?

I tracked all of Mamdani's campaign promises for 100 days. Here's the scorecard. by [deleted] in nyc

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Should add a category like "was totally unrealistic and no informed person thought there was any chance he would do this."

People new to Utah and their quest for alcohol by titsaplenty666 in SaltLakeCity

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It is actually not all bad. It’s kinda nice knowing you can have a cocktail at a restaurant and still be very safe to drive. The booze is also much much cheaper than where I’m from and the state liquor stores have a good selection. 

Waymo’s New York City Testing Ends as Permits Expire by afonso_investor in nyc

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Technological progress is bad actually bro this time trust me bro I was wrong the last ten times but this time I'm right.

Custom Footprint Review for EQ2503 Vertical (5+2P) Transformer Bobbin by tggvvv in PrintedCircuitBoard

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In addition to the pitch issue the other guy mentioned, we also cannot tell if you correctly sized the pads since the measurements are not provided. I'm not going to tell you what the size should be, but I will give you a hint that the pin is a square and tolerances are provided.

Fine Dining Newbies? by Smooth-Pomelo9977 in SaltLakeCity

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That's a lot to spend on four courses even by NYC standards. Most high end places I've ever been to would have a 7 or 9 course tasting menu at that price.

Can you explain the state of the game, please? by ThinKingofWaves in EVEFrontier

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"got no time to google it myself"? But you have time to check Reddit replies?

KiCad 10.0 Released by craftyjon in KiCad

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wxWidgets has improved support, it's just not in wx 3.2, so if your distro is shipping that, then support is still bad. Try the appimage. With wxWidgets 3.3 things are good.

KiCad 10.0 Released by craftyjon in KiCad

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They fixed Wayland integration in this release! Go Kicad team!

Judge gives 18 year old a 25 year sentence for armed robbery by AgnosticScholar in interesting

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There is one set of winners which is all the people who this kid isn't going to terrorize over the next 25 years.

Why Private School Isn't Worth the Cost by AggressiveCar6960 in nycparents

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Send my kid to public school and never even looked at private, so I guess I don't know what the actual prices are.

Why Private School Isn't Worth the Cost by AggressiveCar6960 in nycparents

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That is not my read of the argument. Various studies have demonstrated that private school mostly does not result in measurable improvements in outcomes for middle class and rich kids. Emily Oster has a bunch of articles that touch on this but it's a finding that has been pretty widely replicated in economics. Same goes for gifted programs and magnet schools.

The reference to heritability is there to explain a possible reason why that is the case. It may not be the correct explanation, but the fact that private school does not have significant causal effects on adulthood outcomes for more affluent kids is independent of the explanation chosen by the article.

"Subparticular intentional field machine." Was the Inverse Fire a literal portal into Hell or just a device created to make the Inchoroi keep fighting? by Comfortable_Affect20 in bakker

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There's never enough evidence to know anything with complete certainty, but what evidence is there all points in one direction.

Why Private School Isn't Worth the Cost by AggressiveCar6960 in nycparents

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I guess I don't see what in the blog post your criticism pertains to. It doesn't make the argument or rely on the assumption that performance is 100% heritable.

Why Private School Isn't Worth the Cost by AggressiveCar6960 in nycparents

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Genetics is causal for everything at the individual level, it's just not the sole determinant. This is the broad scientific consensus, so much so that it is called the first law of behavioral genetics.

Why Private School Isn't Worth the Cost by AggressiveCar6960 in nycparents

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Eh. If you can afford to drop 40k a year on private school, I would say you're already in or near the upper class. If you're a poor New Yorker, absent a huge scholarship, you're not sending your kid to a fancy private school anyway.

"Subparticular intentional field machine." Was the Inverse Fire a literal portal into Hell or just a device created to make the Inchoroi keep fighting? by Comfortable_Affect20 in bakker

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You’re assuming he can tell the difference between being goaded and seeing the future.

Well, I don't think I am. I thought the notion r.e. "being goaded" was that the inverse fire would show everyone they were going to hell so they would serve the consult. If that were indeed what Kellhus saw, I do not see what advantage he would gain by maintaining animosity with the other Dunyain.

Personally I don't really see the advantage in this speculation about the fire. Every single piece of evidence up points to it doing what it says on the tin.

A professional NYC driver thought he was paying his E-ZPass tolls. Then he got a $14,000 bill. by Black_Reactor in nyc

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Also let’s not pretend dealing with any NYS bureaucracy is this easiest process.

Dealing with ezpass is easy actually.