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by Jochim 4y ago
The taxi industry where I am was fairly well regulated. Card payment was sometimes contentious. It was generally polite to ask to stop at an ATM on the way to the destination but if it was the only option they'd rather get paid. Now mo
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Frankly these companies operated as criminal enterprises, intentionally creating programs and taking action to evade law enforcement officials in multiple countries. The companies and the executives responsible are criminal should be treate
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> No, in what are now surge pricing situations, you used to usually simply not be able to get a cab at all. A tiny fraction of the time you'd get lucky and get a cab, maybe after waiting on a street corner for an hour trying to hail
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by Jochim 4y ago
If you had an airport flight why would you ever be waiting for a taxi instead of having pre-booked one? Uber, at least in my city, has given us a lower quality, less reliable, more expensive service. To the point that it's physically i
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There is very simple explanation though: Investors and VC funds burned literally billions of dollars (apparently over $30b according to [0]) to fuck up a functioning market. The result is that existing players were forced out of business by
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> Does nobody remember regularly waiting 30-60 minutes for a taxi from a dispatcher? Only at extremely peak times. On the other hand I could actually book a car and have it show up at a pre-arranged time. Availability during the day was
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by Jochim 4y ago
"World class" health and education brings you some of the worst maternal mortality rates in the developed world[1]. Doubling Canada's rate and adding a bit more really screams world class. You do pay out the ass for it though
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While this may be true for individual cases. Statistically the argument is worthless. Frankly, it's a comforting lie that encourages harmful inaction by instilling a false sense of the playing field being close to even. The children of
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Where's the limit? Perhaps we should award copyright over specific notes. After all we've all heard them before. Music has so many variables that even direct covers often end up conveying something entirely original or unique. The
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I disagree. Reusing, reimagining, and retelling are fundamental concepts and key to human development. Copyright is almost unjustifiable as a concept in from that perspective. Copyright sets an arbitrary limit on what is considered "or
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> We might find that there are some tasks where having people take on risky enhancements really helps “team humanity.” But certainly wouldn’t want “takes on risky enhancements” to become a trait required to get by. You may already have h
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> I have wondered how real the accusations of anti-semitism in the Labour party were. Is it a deliberate conflation of anti-Israel with anti-semitism by political opponents (who I assumed were Conservatives, rather than Labour)? This is
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The centrists of the Labour party conducted literal purges after intentionally smearing their own party with fabricated allegations of homophobia and anti-semitism which they spread through the media[0]. Not to mention sabotaging campaign
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The BBC say it's ~£86k in 2020. Not too far off. [0] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-53628115
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Knowing the law is useless when the law doesn't protect you. As a student my landlord wanted to do electrical work that required me and my partner to vacate the property. The law states that he has a duty to provide alternative accommo
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> * Healthcare - as a naturalised brit I will never understand the sacrosanct nature of the NHS. We plough a ton of money into something that is very equitable but is terrible for outcomes. Most folks who have money I know always tend to
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I don't want millionaires to pay for their own care. I want to tax them more than it'd cost them to pay for that care privately. Millionaires paying for their own care is how you end up with a terrible, underfunded, and eventually
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At this point it's difficult to believe that the situation isn't the goal of those currently in power. A former Prime Minister privately admitting to stoking xenophobia and that they believe the country with some of the poorest wo
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The need for them wasn't that widespread until recently. Heating was relatively affordable. People on low incomes and the elderly had enough assistance to stay warm. The British government have taken very little action in comparison to
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by Jochim 4y ago
Hi Dang, I appreciate the desire for polite conversation. How though, maintain a veneer of curiosity when discussing the fact that people are freezing to death in their homes due to the actions/inaction of a specific, corrupt[0] group
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I'm interested in whether you feel the same way about drug use in competitive sports? My assumption from your position on cognitive enhancement is that you'd support a separate category where your allowed to dope as much as you&#x
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> And that's how you get to a 3 trillion ponzi bubble in crypto that solves no problem, while similar investment into medical startups would create thousands of products, treatments and long term wealth. I'm extremely glad that
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Take the ratio of global revenue against national revenue and apply it to global expenses. Allow some leeway around any particularly unique national expenses and you've immediately put an end to the bullshit games these sociopaths play
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If it was in my power, anyone who hires a software consultancy would be immediately sacked.
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I hate separate infrastructure teams with a passion for this reason. Far too frequently you end up in a situation where someone makes an environment change and blows everything up because they have no understanding of the services they&#x27
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AFAIK the majority of Zigbee products only act as end device nodes and don't act as routers. So they won't actually be doing anything to extend the mesh. The main benefits of ZWave over Zigbee is superior penetration, improved int
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You've got to love a $7k/year fee for the privilege of paying $3k per product to say you support their standard.
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The location of a private plane is also not the same as publishing an individual's whereabouts. The solution to people knowing the location of your private plane is really simple: Don't own a private plane. Most of us are already
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Bottom line is: You can't claim to be a free speech absolutist and only apply that absolutism to platform far right politicians and Nazis.
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The manner in which those taxes are distributed is a choice made by a person. Convince your countrymen to vote for people who will direct taxes towards those things. While not an easy feat, the way things are today are not the way they must

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