LurkingPenguin

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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
Political organizations, on both/all sides, are in my opinion a big part of the problem in California. Everything in California is turned into a political issue when it doesn't need to be.
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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
Who are these people? Why are they homeless? Where are their families? Do they want to not be homeless? What is preventing them from not being homeless? Before you try to answer the question of what they should do and where should they go,
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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
I find it interesting that you apparently have the belief that such encampments should or need to exist.
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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
Hope springs eternal in California, but unfortunately water does not.
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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
Even if, for argument's sake, one accepts your claim, it's quite clear that the policies are not going to change. I'm a native Californian who left and now lives overseas, and every visit back has not only provided a stark de
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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
Nobody talks about the harder truth: even with its exclusionary housing policies, California is increasingly not capable of supporting the population it has. The 2021 fires and worsening drought conditions are just a taste of things to come
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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
> My office has a janitorial staff. Why don't public spaces? San Francisco spends tens of millions of dollar a year cleaning its streets. https://www.businessinsider.com/san-francisco-spent-54-milli... > Too many
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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
The problem is that it's easy for people to get addicted to the money. Human psychology is frequently such that it's harder for someone making well into the 6 figures annually to take a pay cut to low 6 figures than it is easier f
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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
I suspect that long COVID risk is lower in vaccinated individuals (and hope so as an expat who traveled halfway around the world to get vaccinated) but the risk should be quantified. There are a growing number of reports of people with brea
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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
Highlights the irony of the fact that in the US, your reward for getting vaccinated is...2 free Krispy Kreme donuts. https://edition.cnn.com/2021/08/25/business/krispy-kreme-fre...
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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
> Acute infections in vaccinated and unvaccinated people feature similar proliferation and peak Ct... If this is the case, what is the "long COVID" risk to people who experience breakthrough infections?
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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
There are homeless encampments and tents on streets in the Marina district now, so these issues aren't isolated to "tourist areas". Yes, some parts of the city definitely have it worse than others, but I don't think it&#
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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
> Per my own experience SF is not a bad place to live. I have the opposite view. In SF, your risk of the following occurring is non-negligible and in some cases, shockingly quite likely: - Being mugged/robbed - Having your car
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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
This is just politics. Given Delta and the number of breakthrough infections, if the EU was truly interested in reducing risk, its policy would recognize the fact that vaccination is no longer enough. For comparison, I am an expat resident
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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
The problem you might run into is that if you're not spending at least 330 days out of every 365-day period abroad or, alternatively, don't establish bona fide residence in a foreign country, if you're an American citizen or
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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
These are international plans designed for Americans living abroad. They might offer coverage within the US for temporary visits home, usually at additional cost, but they are not ACA plans, do not have to comply with the ACA rules, and do
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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
You might want to consider separating the businesses, with the core IP you franchise held in a parent company. Any company-operated restaurants would be separate entities. Not a lawyer/accountant though, so as always, you should seek p
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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
> One should absolutely, 100% make a good faith effort to learn the language of any country you intend to long-term reside in. This is a good ideal but as an expat currently living in East Asia, reality doesn't always match the idea
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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
Expat here. Reality is that there aren't a lot of "cheap" places, easily accessible to foreigners, that meet this criteria.
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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
> Vaccines are as good as natural immunity. The study directly calls this into question: > This study demonstrated that natural immunity confers longer lasting and stronger protection against infection, symptomatic disease and hospita
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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
Ok, the OP's wording was weird. If this is the case, basically he was granted stock options and failed to exercise them, which would have also had tax consequences since they must have been NSOs if he wasn't an employee. Not quite
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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
You should speak to a lawyer ASAP obviously but I'm confused: you signed a contract that required you to sign the contract at the end of the contract?
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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
There is evidence of possible "long COVID" symptoms in breakthrough infections. https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2109072 In breakthrough cases where the individual has a high viral load a
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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
I did a T-Detect test. Their website states "A recent study demonstrated 95% of patients tested positive for T cells up to five months after a confirmed positive PCR test.1 Clinically validated data for T-Detect COVID performance beyon
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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
Well, given how many people have already dropped out of the labor market, I suspect some people will use this as another justification not to work.
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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
> I think in the end we will all get infected over the coming year or three as protection from the vaccine wanes and we have repeated exposure due to multiple waves and increased social mixing, but the vaccination should significantly re