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by aianus 7y ago
You can infer a lot of information from the metadata, like the volume and timing of messages.
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by aianus 7y ago
This is the real problem right here. I live in Canada and the government pays for healthcare but (or maybe 'therefore') the providers do all sorts of sleazy things to get more money like schedule separate billable in-person appoin
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by aianus 7y ago
Someone will still become a school teacher, they'll just be incompetent at it: https://www.thestar.com/yourtoronto/education/2016/05/13/for...
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by aianus 7y ago
It's still cheaper to export those machines to Brazil or something and have someone poorer drive the tractors and combine harvesters around and maintain them. No winter either so the utilization would be higher.
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by aianus 7y ago
> nobody has mass shootings like the US, not even other countries with lots of guns This is a good argument against gun control as a solution to that problem.
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by aianus 7y ago
I imagine if food production was not subsidized, much of it would naturally move to other countries with cheaper labour forces. The USA doesn't want to be dependent on other countries for basic goods like food; imagine if there was an
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by aianus 7y ago
> Okay but all else is not equal, and in the real world, it is never equal. These thought experiments do nothing to improve conditions in the real world, since they are based on flawed models of how people behave. By that logic, nothing
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by aianus 7y ago
> Yes, there are those who drive a few hours occasionally as a hobby or for extra side income, but they don't count much. The post from Uber clearly states "In the US, 92% of drivers drive less than 40 hours per week, and 45% o
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by aianus 7y ago
This comment doesn't make sense to me (as a part time Uber driver myself). First, the driver doesn't see your destination until he picks you up. Second, there is no competition or reason to rush to "mash" the button, the
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by aianus 7y ago
> Why does rent control deter creation of new housing? If you have a lot of money and you want to build/buy a rental property, would you do it in a) a growing city with no rent control where your discounted future cash flows are unb
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by aianus 7y ago
SF has extremely harsh rent control laws. In SF you are seeing the result of rent control run amok (amongst other factors).
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by aianus 7y ago
Yes my personal auto policy explicitly covers Uber. I did need to inform them, but my premiums did not change. "ridesharing drivers operating on the Uber platform in Ontario can now be covered, at no extra cost. All you have to do is c
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by aianus 7y ago
I can only answer for Toronto, Canada but the answer was nothing. Uber has a deal with one of the insurance companies up here so you’re covered at no extra charge. (Intact / Belair Direct). Uber pays them directly for a big commercial
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by aianus 7y ago
The same payroll taxes are paid whether you’re self employed or employed. Including Uber drivers. You just pay both sides of the CPP and EI if you’re filing as self employed.
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by aianus 7y ago
You often need two different phone numbers to create two different accounts on the same service. Otherwise you will get errors like "phone number already used, did you forget your password?".
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by aianus 7y ago
Yes, so it is not the lack of money that makes one unhappy (say, at ~$24k/yr and no health problems), but comparison to others and attachment to worldly things. This is what causes people in the West who earn $35k and $350k alike to fe
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by aianus 7y ago
I strongly agree with this. A lot of people are happy in college and they're almost all living on less than $24k a year despite working over 40h a week (although schoolwork is a lot more engaging than industry IMHO).
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by aianus 7y ago
At least for Ruby, it was easy to pin a specific commit SHA in the Gemfile to guarantee immutability.
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by aianus 7y ago
> "top talent" isn't going to charge bargain-bin prices for their labor Purchasing power differences in the world are insane: $65/h in Vietnam can represent a much more luxurious life than $200/h in San Francisc
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by aianus 7y ago
Damore's memo isn't 1/10th as disturbing as these comments from his coworkers. "I will keep hounding you until one of us is fired. Fuck you." - Alex Hidalgo, SRE at Google And he's still employed. Yeesh.
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by aianus 7y ago
> $65 per hour was a "good" rate for the Bay Area I'm confused, I thought Toptal workers were remote. Why would your location factor into the rate a client is willing to pay? FWIW I charged even less than that as a remote
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by aianus 7y ago
Either those people are breaking the law and driving impaired or not. If they are driving impaired, then the solution to the injustice is not to let them go, but to arrest more impaired white drivers. If they are not driving impaired, but b
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by aianus 7y ago
> At what levels of THC concentrations is driving empirically impaired and is this measurement consistent across everyone? What evidence do you have to support that THC impairs driving? The Government of Canada has already legislated [0]
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by aianus 7y ago
The device adds reasonable doubt over the status quo in the case where a blood test shows positive for THC and the device shows negative.
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by aianus 7y ago
> Can you not just refuse to give out your SSN and still get on with life in America? (I get on OK without one) That's really strange, is it because you're not employed in the US? I am not a US citizen but I have a US SSN becau
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by aianus 7y ago
Would the factory be in Shanghai if it wasn't for Chinese protectionism? Or is that why they built it there?
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by aianus 7y ago
> And you can install alternate browsers on iPhones, you know. More like thin wrappers around Webkit. You can actually install alternate browsers on Android, you know.
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by aianus 7y ago
There are plenty of good reasons why China deserves tariffs, why not start there as the root cause? Protectionism, IP theft, banning or heavily restricting US tech firms from operating in (aka exporting to) China, the list goes on.
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by aianus 7y ago
> require employers to provide paid time off This isn't phrased quite accurately; I know that in Canada maternity leave is guaranteed by law but it is not paid for at all by the employer (it is paid by government insurance schemes i
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by aianus 7y ago
I live in Canada and my experiences are with the Canadian health care system in Ontario. Edit: I have friends that live in the US and work in tech and enjoy better care. Like I said, the Canadian system is much better if you're poor bu

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