Naritai

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by Naritai 9y ago
The "crime of the week" never really gets any better, and since it was an ABC drama it needed to hew pretty closely to that formula. From S02 onwards they start building a mythology about the machine and where it comes from etc,
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by Naritai 9y ago
To directly answer your question: people buy autopilot so they can check their phone while commuting down the freeway to work. I was talking to a group of people about the difficulties of commuting in the Santa Clara Valley, and one guy sh
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by Naritai 9y ago
Yeah I think OP is highlighting the presence of the over-broad definition of neglect in the first place.
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by Naritai 9y ago
While my only source is the Fall of Rome podcast that others on this thread are raving about, one key point he makes is that whether or not it was a 'Fall' depends a lot on where you lived. Yes, there was lots of continuity in Aq
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by Naritai 9y ago
I wonder what the retention rate would be if one tried to do laundry while reading a traditional book :)
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by Naritai 9y ago
Because there is a third category, 'exciting but not true', which is at high risk of distorting the decision making process and getting funding that is badly needed elsewhere (see, for example, Scott Kelley's DNA, anything to
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by Naritai 9y ago
Xbox is almost certainly manufactured in China. If you know otherwise, could you provide a source?
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by Naritai 9y ago
There are lots of 'condotels' in tourist areas, which are essentially full-service condo buildings that explicitly sell on the idea that the owner can use it for their own holidays, then rent it on AirBNB/VRBO in all the othe
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by Naritai 9y ago
AirBNB has their own version of a 'showrooming' problem as well - last time I went to Hawaii, I found a nice condo that I liked, then searched for that same condo online, found the owner's standalone website offering similar
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by Naritai 9y ago
It's the hosts who are stuck paying mortgages on rooms they can't rent, not AirBNB. To AirBNB a recession just shows up as a decline in the number of transactions on the site.
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by Naritai 9y ago
It's a simple task to model a tax-funded healthcare system as an insured system (with monopsony), where the government is the insuror and the taxes that are directed to the are the premium. (And since the government is the sole payor i
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by Naritai 9y ago
And, I'm going to guess, not having children.
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by Naritai 9y ago
To riff on your concept, I met a woman in SF who was signing up for a lease at an apartment building. Knowing that she'd just moved from the midwest, and therefore not used to living in a big city, I asked her how parking was. "
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by Naritai 9y ago
I was going to comment on this one too. There are lots of projections of which sections of SF will be underwater, and those are the cheapest places to live. It is already priced into the market.
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by Naritai 9y ago
Betteridge's Law: Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word "No".
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by Naritai 9y ago
While I agree cost of living is a tough pill to swallow in California, a salary table is irrelevant to the concept of 'furthering ones's career'. To further your career is, in fact, usually about taking something that is not
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by Naritai 9y ago
If the motel housekeeping or management is the one planting the camera, then the corporation will be held account. On the other hand, if a host plants the camera, AirBNB's language makes it clear that there is no accountability or res
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by Naritai 9y ago
While I'm guessing you're being sarcastic, a number of corporate head offices use 'secret shoppers' or other similar techniques for ensuring their retail locations are following corporate policy.
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by Naritai 9y ago
You actually do. An employee of Motel 6 (the housekeeper) sweeps your Motel 6 room every single day, or at least between stays. Furthermore the onsite management is explicitly expected to enforce corporate regulations. Yet no ABNB employ
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by Naritai 9y ago
You mention skyrocketing tuition, but haven't mentioned the second major cause of declining admissions, which is that employment rate for new grads _still_ hasn't recovered from 2008-2009 declines[1]. [1] https://www.nal
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by Naritai 9y ago
I don't think that's cynical at all. If you're going to spend a ton of money on something, you'd better have analyzed it more closely than has the general public.
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by Naritai 9y ago
It's more akin to holding a conspiracy theory that Apple/Google/etc. exist primarily to make money.
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by Naritai 9y ago
A tiny fraction of the alternate, yes. Though of course much of the logistics planning an operations is easily outsourced.
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by Naritai 9y ago
OP is talking about a small toy store, but regardless - an international franchise that has a location in your home town employs people from your home town, whereas Amazon (for the sake of argument in this case) does not. That's the c
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by Naritai 9y ago
What is your goal for pointing out that nobody cared when Obama was in charge? Showing that you were opposed to it before being opposed to it was cool? If you are objectively opposed to something, and now suddenly everybody else doesn&#x27
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by Naritai 9y ago
It's entirely possible to be in favor of open democracies supporting democracy-friendly candidates in other countries, while being against autocracies supporting autocracy-friendly candidates in other countries (including your own). Th
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by Naritai 9y ago
"Whataboutism is a variant of the tu quoque logical fallacy that attempts to discredit an opponent's position by charging them with hypocrisy without directly refuting or disproving their argument" https://en.wikip
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by Naritai 9y ago
And, for that matter, if you counted all adjacent cities that would reasonably make up a metro area.
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by Naritai 9y ago
roughly equal _spend_, perhaps, but not size (since by 'size' I assume you mean # of users)
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by Naritai 9y ago
Ah, but many countries (including the US) expect their citizens to report your income regardless of source. If you don't, it isn't really tax-free, just 'not reported'

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