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721.
by aianus 10y ago
It's 2017 and a $60,000 Audi still won't let you start it up remotely from your phone and run the heater/AC so it's comfortable by the time you leave your house. Seems like the most basic, obvious, easy to implement feat
722.
by aianus 10y ago
In Canada there is no capital gains tax on primary residences. In the US, $500k is exempt. I imagine the laws are similar in most parts of the world, no?
723.
by aianus 10y ago
What else are the drivers going to do? Flip burgers at McDonald's? Driving an Uber is still as good as you're going to get with flexible hours and no skills. I say this as someone who drives for Uber (albeit part-time for fun).
724.
by aianus 10y ago
They don't need an income; they have paid-off houses worth $1.2m that they picked up in 1972 for $100k.
725.
by aianus 10y ago
> Very similarly, a simple way to incrementally implement UBI would be to lower the "retirement age" every year Why would you first give UBI to the richest people (old people at the peak of their careers with a lifetime of savi
726.
by aianus 10y ago
Did you tell them the truth about the product they'll be working on before you hired them?
727.
by aianus 10y ago
If it's going to be so hard to flog anyways then why does government feel the need to mandate kitchens? Sounds like the free market should take care of it.
728.
by aianus 10y ago
The cache/proxy just needs to install its root certificate into your system store and no changes to the browser would be necessary.
729.
by aianus 10y ago
It makes me angry that I have to pay for a kitchen by law (if I rent or buy a whole 'dwelling'), despite never cooking. Different strokes.
730.
by aianus 10y ago
I'm more terrified of being put to sleep than I am of the operation or the post-op pain. What if you never wake up? Who knows what they're doing to you while you're asleep? shudder
731.
by aianus 10y ago
It's slightly worse than condoms at around 96% per year vs 98% per year. Hormonal BC is 99.9% in comparison but is not in the man's control :(
732.
by aianus 10y ago
Google makes $1m per average employee; it's not hard to believe they can make many times that on an AI researcher.
733.
by aianus 10y ago
> If someone makes $100M by inventing an amazing product, and someone else makes $100M by earning interest on the fortune he earned from his mother, which of those behaviors do we want to encourage? What's the difference between inv
734.
by aianus 10y ago
> We basically are subsidizing investing and rich people are the biggest investors. What's wrong with subsidizing investing? Without investment in capital we'd all be subsistence farmers tending the fields for 12h a day. If som
735.
by aianus 10y ago
> However because it is so cheap, it's difficult for the company to make a profit. Why does it have to be cheap for the consumer? They can charge $5k for this (honestly a bargain) even if the gel and syringe cost $5 to make. Isn&#x2
736.
by aianus 10y ago
The court doesn't enforce that the woman spends all the child support money. So if you get impregnated by a rich enough man it can certainly be a meal ticket for life.
737.
by aianus 10y ago
You've never heard of people relying on withdrawal? It was still pretty popular when I was in college three years ago, usually when the woman got nasty side effects from hormonal BC.
738.
by aianus 10y ago
> I don't know what kind of peace of mind you get by living for your own pleasure The peace of mind that my non-existent children cannot get hit by a car or get cancer or get killed in Iraq or any of the myriad worries that are at t
739.
by aianus 10y ago
Ability to take risks (like starting a business or moving to a new city or country) is the biggest one. Otherwise: money, sleep, free time, dating pool shrinks significantly, peace of mind, ability to travel
740.
by aianus 10y ago
They will not give you a vasectomy in the US as a young childless man. Something about 'changing your mind later'. It's very patronizing.
741.
by aianus 10y ago
Children are worse than the worst STD. You can live a pretty normal life with HIV, Syphilis, herpes, etc.
742.
by aianus 10y ago
> You're practically a serf, with no real control of your own life, owned by a huge corporation that will discard you like wet tissue paper the moment you ask for the privilege of having a human life. To be fair, if you're will
743.
by aianus 10y ago
The government monopoly in Ontario runs advertising campaigns, sales, and loyalty programs to encourage people to buy more booze. It's a sleazy regressive tax program, not a health program to reduce consumption.
744.
by aianus 10y ago
> "family dad" and "decent, professional coworker" seems to fare nicely I'm not a woman but I've had girlfriends who've complained about being sexually harassed at work and it's always been a &quot
745.
by aianus 10y ago
> What changes around that age? I'm pretty sure it has something to do with women being pursued by men at that age and generally having better things to do than sit in front of a computer screen throughout their teenage years. Then,
746.
by aianus 10y ago
This will either kill people in poor countries that can't afford to pay more or it will cripple new development of drugs since the successful drugs really do need huge profit margins to pay for all of the losers that never made a dime.
747.
by aianus 10y ago
Apparently they both have thousands of employees and all in high-cost areas like SF, Seattle, and NYC.
748.
by aianus 10y ago
Why would Lyft have any better margins than Uber once the subsidized growth period is over? If anything Uber will have better margins as they can distribute their fixed costs across more rides due to their global availability.
749.
by aianus 10y ago
As a part-time Uber driver in Toronto I haven't noticed any drop-off in ride requests whatsoever. Uber will survive, at least unless someone else beats them to market with an autonomous alternative. I don't get any incentives or b
750.
by aianus 10y ago
In case you're not being facetious: the price would change overnight not during business hours.

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