ThrustVectoring

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by ThrustVectoring 4y ago
Sure, you technically have the right to file a lawsuit, possibly in small claims court. The question is whether exercising your rights leaves you better off as a practical matter. Like, there's a similar issue with most credit-card b
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In this hypothetical, the rest do object to the pet issues of others in the coalition, but only weakly. Like, I personally would vote against corn subsidies by itself, for abortion rights, and for a package of (corn subsidies plus abortio
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> What if you have a dispute with this landlord - can you compete in court with their lawyers? Bold of you to assume that they wouldn't just cancel your lease, share your do-not-rent status with the other mega-landlords, and hope th
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by ThrustVectoring 4y ago
Okay, make the hypothetical be malaria nets or insulin then. The exact specifics don't matter all that much, it's just an illustration that you can't use issue-by-issue majoritarianism to generate a coalition that can pass
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Something like a policy proposal costing a low but non-zero amount of money for exactly zero benefit outside of the eyes of the 10% who really care about their pet cause. The non-packaged proposals get voted down not because the majority
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> So when a democracy is representative, the minority's will can override the majority's will? Yes, and this is a feature, not a bug. Majority voting on issues one at a time cannot generate a deal that a majority would prefer
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Pure majoritarianism isn't necessarily best either, it just always takes the majority's side in disputes where a strongly-held minority opinion comes in conflict with a weakly-held majority one. Like, it's obvious that you sh
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At $1200 it's likely cheaper to buy a used car at your origin and sell it at your destination. Availability is also probably less fucked up than the rental market.
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> I'm based in Europe if that matters. You'll have to do research into your particular retirement programs and what tax advantages they have, but other than that it should be roughly the same as anyone else's. > What op
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>keep more of the profit in Australia It really wouldn't. China has decided to turn an absolutely massive amount of iron ore into steel for non-economic reasons, which means that the profits to be made are largely in supplying the
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Elasticsearch or a functionally equivalent competitor is a straightforward commercial-off-the-shelf solution for text search. Default settings for it include fuzzy matching and returning "relevant" results instead of only exact on
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They're careerist, not bored. The promotion process at Google is how you advance your career, and shipping new applications and features is how you get promoted.
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It's principle-agent problems all the way down; the compliance and enforcement teams do not care about the best interest of Amazon as a whole. They care about ensuring that the specific KPIs they're evaluated on look good, from
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Referrals from business associates, angel investors, etc. There's a decent amount of various bits and bobs of domain knowledge that comes along with funding, and referring you to a lawyer is one of them. Past that, any good lawyer work
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This sounds like a significant business dispute covered by specific contracts and regulations. You should get a lawyer. If you do not have a lawyer and have a board of directors, funders, or the like, this is a good resource to use to get a
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Mortgage-backed securities weren't exactly the problem, it was merely the vehicle in which a trans-Atlantic banking regulation arbitrage trade was carried out, and the trade accidentally became fully self-financing. US mortgage origi
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Commercial speech is speech, and ought to have first amendment protection. The regulation should be structured in terms of requiring licensed surveys for specific uses (eg, mortgage underwriting), not making unlicensed line-drawing illega
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> Why should residential property values increase anyway? Total non-worker consumption is equal to the unconsumed portion of total worker production, the worker-to-retiree ratio is getting worse each year, and total productivity gains ar
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Every real dollar you add back to worker consumption via housing affordability measures is a real dollar you remove from non-worker consumption via a reduction in investment income via rents, mortgages, and housing sales. Housing is a marke
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If you're at all the target audience for this website, you and your entire social circle are soft targets for debt collectors. You have a high credit score and care about it, you have bank accounts and non-retirement investment account
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You can't get blood from a stone, and there's no law that says you can't deliberately set up your finances to be maximally stone-like. IMO you should be doing this anyways so that the medical billing system can't decid
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Far more likely than a mortgage modification is a straightforward sale of the property to new ownership (who then goes on to refurbish as residential and sell or lease the units). The banks have a specific dollar amount that pays off their
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The $350 is the cost to the department in terms of things that scale per student (specifically faculty for teaching, grading homework, etc). The university as a whole has many other expenses.
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This is an organized campaign to shut down a website by targeting their third-party infrastructure website. Kiwi Farms is a terrible place by pretty much any objective measure, sure, but do you think the people responsible for this campaign
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To be fair to CloudFlare, their entire business model is dependent on the US regulatory environment and section 230 protections. If there's a credible threat from Congress along the lines of "if the internet won't self-regula
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> short of contacting a legal department that has no public contact info All corporations are required to have an "agent for service of process" in the state they are registered in, and the secretary of state should maintain a
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Everything other than "sit on rooftops with a camera" in the post is just technically wrong. 1. Needles do not have the aerodynamic properties necessary to be effectively fired. 2. Chemical explosives and kinetic payloads are far
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Apology accepted, and I'll take that as permission to try to re-explain myself while I'm three beers deep. There's an economic analysis trick that can cut through a hell of a lot of cruft and confusing abstraction - whateve
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https://ibb.co/BVfgYj2 This is the best I could do, and it's pretty much just putting the vast empty expanses of the Pacific and Atlantic oceans in the higher-distortion areas near the top and bottom.
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An autism diagnosis means that you're too autistic to function in society without causing mental health professionals to be involved in your life. There's at least two easily identifiable non-genetic factors: society can lower the

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