KorematsuFredt

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by KorematsuFredt 5y ago
> You can absolutely be fired for cause as a tenured teacher in California, and it happens all the time. It's certainly more difficult than most other professions, but there is no law or policy preventing teachers from being fired.
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by KorematsuFredt 5y ago
Shutting an existing plant without having an alternative in sight is just plain stupid even if it was coal powered power plant. Higher energy prices and lack of energy also kills people and damages environment. Do you really want people to
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by KorematsuFredt 5y ago
Facts don't matter only feelings do - One of the California politicians. When people say X must be treated and utility and politicians must control it, I show them PG&E as a glorious example of California's corruption and over
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by KorematsuFredt 5y ago
Happy to donate for the cause as well. Please do this.
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by KorematsuFredt 5y ago
Again depends on the book. Some textbooks might be fairly valuable which students might sell to their juniors after they are done with its use.
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by KorematsuFredt 5y ago
> I live in India and flavored soda is considered luxury item here. I worked for a B-School program which looked at growth opportunities for Cola in India. One of the challenges were lack of electricity in large parts of the country. Eve
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by KorematsuFredt 5y ago
> deletion of their account from within the app. Can't the app be reset to a state as if it was just installed ?
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by KorematsuFredt 5y ago
This is not just banks but (nearly) all companies who deal with payment data will not delete anything related to payment for many many years. In India this use to be 10 years. USA I think it is 5 years.
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by KorematsuFredt 5y ago
Depends on the book. If the book is less valuable then membership costs yes, else people might make a business out of selling overdue books.
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by KorematsuFredt 5y ago
It is a massive spending program that gives government too much power, probably will harm our infrastructure and any impact on climate is purely speculative. I am pretty sure a lot of digging holes and filling them back up kind of work just
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by KorematsuFredt 5y ago
If it is SF, I would worry more about people shitting in those cars or injecting themselves with heroine.
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by KorematsuFredt 5y ago
This is not reddit or 9gag bro/sis/them/their/nb.
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by KorematsuFredt 5y ago
Imagine you are a farmer and you actually see an endangered species. What do you do ? Kill it and hide it so that no one finds it. If you by mistake report it, boom, your land is not your land anymore. Check this report by John Stossel here
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by KorematsuFredt 5y ago
If it is San Fransisco city than 30 MPH is not bad at all. I do not imagine other cars driving > 40mph.
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by KorematsuFredt 5y ago
I wish Google had not done this sort of thing. I am not an anti-vaxxer but I think we should not silence those who question vaccines, their studies and their effectiveness. By banning vaccine criticism in public domain we essentially ensure
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by KorematsuFredt 5y ago
It also had immense influence on eng part as well. Stripe despite being a fintech startup set benchmarks of what we can expect in terms of developer friendliness.
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by KorematsuFredt 5y ago
Market failure is applicable only in limited cases to the extent that it matters. Employment in this case is not one of those.
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by KorematsuFredt 5y ago
Did you try rate limiting, shadow banning, ip banning etc?
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by KorematsuFredt 5y ago
I think OP made a correct argument that that we quickly make this right vs left without dissecting the actual impacts of workers unions. Your comment kind of demonstrates that. > In terms of overall welfare What is overall welfare ? If y
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by KorematsuFredt 5y ago
Right to association is a fundamental American value something that American conservatives must value and something that Libertarians have always valued. There is no argument that employees should have the right to form an association. The
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by KorematsuFredt 5y ago
Sadly we live in the times where nuances are completely ignored. We can all agree that climate change increased fuel aridity in forests (which is what lots of research indicates) and yet agree with Stossel's point that bad forest manag
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by KorematsuFredt 5y ago
> Services handling recurring payments need to compulsorily have a cancel button. We don't really need a law for this nor anyone needs to implement a button. Visa, Mastercard etc. can simply run a service where all the transactions
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by KorematsuFredt 5y ago
It is a huge legal hassle at the moment in India. For amounts greater than 10K they have to KYC you. KYC is not only complex but also needs to be renewed on regular basis and failing to do it can lead to several punishment from Indian gover
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by KorematsuFredt 5y ago
I am so pissed with this rule. Every month I have to login into my AWS account and pay the bills manually even if it is just < $10.
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by KorematsuFredt 5y ago
Planet Fitness requires you to visit one of their branches to cancel or write a letter to the branch where you enrolled. I cancelled my membership last week.
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by KorematsuFredt 5y ago
I remember the socialist India where workers unions opposed any kind of computerization/automation. This especially hurt Indian banks as they continued to use costly manual calculations which employed army of clerks. However one of the
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by KorematsuFredt 5y ago
Yes. A rare baseball card (physical one) might be worth some non zero money to many people. But only as long as it is physical card. Any digital asset that represents it would be valuable to if it is NFT. This is nearly same as holding some
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by KorematsuFredt 5y ago
NFTs don't sell ownership rights. NFTs are equivalent of buying photographs of a celebrity. You may own NFT that represents Taylor Swift, but she aint going on a dinner date with you. Not to mention you are not the only one to hold it
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by KorematsuFredt 5y ago
May be I am too old but completely fail to see any value in the notion of NFT. I do see value in Bitcoin. Bitcoin has basically thrown a wrench into all government controls on cross border payments. I don't know if Bitcoins will be ver
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by KorematsuFredt 5y ago
I have seen the video and it is pretty sensible and definitely helps the debate around the fire. Either ways what caused fires is far from settled, the fact that climate change has anything to do with it is also disputed "fact".

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