YokoZar

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by YokoZar 7y ago
Mountain View underwent a dramatic political change within the last decade - housing/rental prices got so bad that the entire city council was replaced. Prior to that the situation was much like it was in most places in the US: current
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And having everything firing at once is a seizure. But somewhere between that and normal is unclear. It's also possible the association is in the other direction - people with neurons that fire less might be less stressed in general (
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> One company recently released a model, but refused to release the decoder. Apparently they had trained it on some Reddit posts (or something like that) and the results were sometimes so offensive that the company wouldn't risk the
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It's less confusing when there is more than 1 decimal point. 4.11.4 is clearly not a regular decimal number.
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Note that Wine is one of those confusingly-versioned projects where 4.20 is the one that comes after 4.19
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Are you saying large cities self-insure so that they can hire officers who are uninsurable due to committing crimes? That doesn't sound like a reasoned policy decision.
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A defined-benefit pension is a bet that your employer will remain both solvent and completely honest for the rest of your life. This is an enormous risk compared to just having your own personal retirement account. If you as an individual
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The review isn't visible to anyone until the period expires. It's not just hidden from the specific host account.
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How were they planning on doing this? They don't get to see the rating you gave until after their review of you is finalized, and vice-versa.
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AirBNB reviews are unpublished until both sides either finish their review or time out. It is simply not possible to read a bad review and then write a bad review in retaliation.
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Vacuously
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They could do a direct listing instead - it's like an IPO but without raising additional capital. Just put your existing shares on the market. WeWork, though, needs a lot more than new capital.
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The illegal conspiracy here was real, but "wage theft" has a specific, different meaning.
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> Sure. You just need more people to keep an eye on what your consumption rates are. Or to handle access control systems or manage service accounts and client certificates, ensure firewalls, additional tooling around firewalls to ensure
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Do you have a video link to an example of this by chance? I'm having trouble visualizing the bouncing effect you describe.
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Why can't your local LAN DNS resolver support DoH itself if it can act as a DoH client to authoritative servers? That way the browser would know it can trust it to begin with.
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https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/piercing_the_corporate_veil > "Piercing the corporate veil" refers to a situation in which courts put aside limited liability and hold a corporation's shareholders or d
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by YokoZar 7y ago
The US indeed has this concept, known as "piercing the corporate veil". Excess payments to ownership (especially if you think the company is about to face a huge liability) is a classic example of one of the justifications for a j
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Could you explain how taxes are involved? What about reclassification causes the state to see more taxes raised?
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Imagine you want to run a survey to determine how many people have had an extramarital affair. There are obvious problems just asking people "Have you had an affair?" on a survey, especially a live one. So instead, you ask the pe
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Since you need the road for the car to drive on, it's kind of fair to assume the road is a given.
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> A key point in EU law is that "competition" is encouraged for the benefit of the consumer. US antitrust law is based on protecting smaller sellers from big ones. This is exactly backwards from most legal understanding. In US
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There are other ways to do road pricing: odometer taxes, toll roads, even fuel taxes.
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> I personally think that all new housing should have a state "transit expansion" tax per unit of housing it introduces, to allow the system to keep up with growth. Why not just tax the transit use directly? That way you remov
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Deer in headlights is probably a much simpler explanation - their eyes+pupils are adapted to the dim light, and sudden application of headlights is blinding. If you were suddenly blinded, you probably wouldn't respond by running either
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This is known as the "Winner take-all effect". The electoral college also has a small-state bias (smaller states get more electoral votes per person than larger ones). Historically, these two have often approximately cancelled ea
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Pollution is the most obvious example of externalities leading to "market failure". Clean air, similarly, is the most basic example of a public good subject to the free rider problem. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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> The argument that there's no way local governments could come together and offer a comparable solution is dubious. Local governments can't even agree on regional transportation or housing policies. Every one wants to cheat
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> Not if they made more money ripping people off than it cost them in the courts. This is why class actions can assess punitive damages.
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> What the final product reveals is a 2018 where the top 1 percent owns nearly $30 trillion of assets while the bottom half owns less than nothing, meaning they have more debts than they have assets. Does the bottom half own less than no

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