JAlexoid

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by JAlexoid 5y ago
Because they are... Have you ever had to haggle about the cost of your trip with a taxi driver? Have you ever ordered a taxi and one never showed up? Have you ever missed your flight, because a taxi - that was scheduled to pick you up at 5A
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by JAlexoid 5y ago
The laws were intentionally created to restrict supply of services. Restricted supply = higher prices. Uber should not have been buying cars for their drivers... but if Uber is to be forced to have employee/employer relationships - the
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by JAlexoid 5y ago
If the community doesn't like it, then they should have setup an HOA(or another form of a binding perpetual contract). Going the post-factum-legal-force route is hardly fair.
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by JAlexoid 5y ago
You're missing the reason why they don't want to be called timeshare. Because some locality decided that shared ownership is not allowed in their locality. (I guess no one told them that every married couple co-owns any house they
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by JAlexoid 5y ago
A) They're not a tech company, as many people love to claim for investors these days. B) They are, however, solving someone's problem. Just because you don't share the same desires, doesn't mean that they're not add
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by JAlexoid 5y ago
If you don't want shared ownership for properties in your area - then advocate for the local government to buy out all of the properties... but that would be shared ownership of all properties. Imposing restrictions on forms of owners
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by JAlexoid 5y ago
You're forgetting that in the current market theres a likelihood of a very good RoI for that share. Various investment vehicles are buying up houses all over the world.
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by JAlexoid 5y ago
The amount of planning you already need to do to fly a plane makes shared ownership of a plane makes sense. And to be fair, a lot of the clubs will do shared ownership of a fleet of planes. Not just one.
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by JAlexoid 5y ago
That's what's called NIMBYism. It seems to be much more prevalent farther west. California seems to be the crown jewel for them.
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by JAlexoid 5y ago
Yes, that's why an LLC and a contract associated with it is a much better form of ownership. NIMBYs subverting these contracts makes things much worse.
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by JAlexoid 5y ago
They could have put things into the incorporation documents. It's not a secret, what you're signing up-to. They don't need to retain any controlling ownership.
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by JAlexoid 5y ago
I disagree that it functions in a logical way. I literally have to have an app to make my bluetooth mouse scroll in the opposite direction than the trackpad, because there is "Scroll Direction" checkbox in both mouse and trackpad.
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by JAlexoid 5y ago
So... They will have humans looking at pictures to determine if it's child pornography? Well... That's a dream job for a pedo
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by JAlexoid 5y ago
Is a picture of a naked kid going to trigger this algorithm? In a few places taking pictures of your child naked while swimming is considered child pornography. Other places having children run around naked on the beach is the norm. (I have
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by JAlexoid 5y ago
ACM tried to define it: >"In a general way, we can define computing to mean any goal-oriented activity requiring, benefiting from, or creating computers. Thus, computing includes designing and building hardware and software systems
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by JAlexoid 5y ago
Apple is literally going to spy on you... and then report you to the authorities. I'd rather give all of my DNA to an advertising company.
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by JAlexoid 5y ago
Which is definitely absent in mobile phone space.
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by JAlexoid 5y ago
Informed decision is a high bar. I'm pretty sure that most go with habit and convenience. I mean.... Apple could lock MacOSX down tomorrow and charge you $100 for terminal access and "informed decision" people would still arg
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by JAlexoid 5y ago
We also forget, if Newton were truly a "Lone Genius"... then we would be using Leibniz's calculus. How many millenia did it take for heliocentric theory to be adopted? Yet we attribute it to Copernicus, as he managed to convi
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by JAlexoid 5y ago
Or, maybe, we recognize a genius only after their idea has been validated. It's the same situation as with "prophets". Take 1000 people and ask them for an open ended prophecy. If one of 1000 gets something perfectly right, w
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by JAlexoid 5y ago
> This is especially true for foreign relations. Their latest issue literally has a massive article against vaccine nationalism. Their opposition to breaking of the Iranian deal. > A good barometer I have for journals as far as foreig
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by JAlexoid 5y ago
> NYT as being less ideologically diverse NYT has lost my subscription, after they just straight up started running exaggerated stories. > Your list is incredibly West focused I read in 4 languages, would you like some news sources in
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by JAlexoid 5y ago
Free trade and non-interventionism.
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by JAlexoid 5y ago
> upthread claim that you can’t be a conservative and an economic liberal Nowhere I claimed that you cannot be economically liberal. You intentionally removed context out of my claim that conservatives will use economic policy to make an
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by JAlexoid 5y ago
Yes. Substance is critical here. Arguing that Economist is bad, because it was complex to cancel your subscription (I see a massive button on my account page) is like arguing that a restaurant is bad, because they don't accept gold coi
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by JAlexoid 5y ago
They routinely repeat that their editorial policy is liberal. Straight up in the articles they publish, they note that. I listen to their articles and they often repeat this. Literally typing this into Google would have provided you with th
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by JAlexoid 5y ago
> As a relative politico-economic position, conservative is “defense of the position of status quo elites”. That's a very narrow understanding of conservativism. > “conservative” in the relative sense is always economically liber
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by JAlexoid 5y ago
Classical liberalism - complete laissez faire market, no government interference and individual wealth creation. Today's libertarians are closest to classical liberals. The term classical liberal exists specifically, because conservati
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by JAlexoid 5y ago
So you're using conservative(adjective to mean slow), as not same as Conservative(political philosophy). Because as political movements they are vey much at odds.
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by JAlexoid 5y ago
You're using conservativism vey much in American GOP understanding of the term, which has stopped being conservative a while ago. Conservativism is a relative position, but you can't be a conservative liberal. Economist literally

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