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by around_here 8y ago
Nothing? Unless use drops because of the news/awareness/users injuring themselves, capitalism demands that they offload the costs to the public, minimize their liability, and maximize their returns.
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by around_here 8y ago
I think it's obvious that the smaller and less dangerous something seems, that the more risk people will take and the more injuries will occur. The fact that people use them on the sidewalk is bad enough.
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by around_here 8y ago
Bicycles powered by humans are "helmets only" mostly out of necessity. You're generating a lot of heat, and things can go really badly for you if you're working up a sweat in full motorcycle gear. Well, talking about the
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by around_here 8y ago
This is a massive assertion on your part, and the quality of "green"space can vary widley in urban areas. Yards without rooty vegetation are safer for houses, they're good for warehousing children, they're nice to relax
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by around_here 8y ago
File under "pretty obvious if you think about it". On motorcycles, the rule to live by is All The Gear, All The Time. On mopeds, it's apparently Helmet With Maybe A Jacket. On electric scooters, it's Lol. The truth is th
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by around_here 8y ago
I agree. Otherwise the biggest capitalists who claim to love competition just s'damn much wouldn't have created a cabal to keep salaries down.
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by around_here 8y ago
You mean overpaid, right?
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by around_here 8y ago
While I agree with you here, but if you're doing a 9 hour work day with an hour on the shoulders for your commute, then you're looking at 19 hours dedicated to work alone. Say, 30 minutes for dinner (if you're not the one coo
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by around_here 8y ago
Just go raid the BCIT GIS program. Find the ones who have management success.
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by around_here 8y ago
I really love all the Japan articles lately because they're all the "Japan is weird" thing, but take everything totally out of context. Customs, much like words, lose their meaning when taken out of the cultural context.
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by around_here 8y ago
Mate, there are things you can do. Hop on the Tokyo slack, come have a chat in the #advice channel.
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by around_here 8y ago
This is probably the best breakdown I've seen in quite some time. Asks the right questions as well rather than stating it. I think the "Worth it section" isn't so great. You won't always have a job, and while being
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by around_here 8y ago
Not too mention when the features just become some massive bloat and ruin the core features of the product. Chat applications are pretty much the worst offender for this kind of thing.
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by around_here 8y ago
I got Office 2003 and it works for all of the home based stuff that I do now. I paid $70 on a sale. If I had been doing 365 since then at $48/year, I'm looking at $720.
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by around_here 8y ago
Surgeons do different things. However, CS is close to something else: Economics. People spend 4+ years learning about economics, but don't know shit about how it really works. They found a solution for that: business schools. CS at a U
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by around_here 8y ago
> I vehemently disagree. People should be doing what they want, not what some other random person thinks they should be doing. Cities have dead periods all the time: people leave new york in the winter, or buenos aires in the summer. The
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by around_here 8y ago
> That requirement is as sensible as saying that vancouver should outlaw residents from vacationing outside vancouver to ensure there are no vacant properties. Its not the goal to maximize each minute within a housing unit, thats not som
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by around_here 9y ago
Many researchers out there state that it just doesn't matter very much: https://fredrikdeboer.com/2017/07/31/the-academic-success-se...
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by around_here 9y ago
And generally to some relatively small radius around the consumer's home location.
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by around_here 9y ago
Then there can be only one. Either by the destruction of all competitors, or the amalgamation of the few remaining such that they behave as one (telecoms aren't that far off here). Then the market isn't free, it's just lords
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by around_here 9y ago
They're literally the same thing since the person pushing these things are the ones who set the pricing? Well, we were going to sell at $10 without ads, but NOW we sell at $15 without ads, and get $10 with ads.
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by around_here 9y ago
The "don't go there" answers only hold true if there are actual alternatives. It's a shit argument, and collusion to monitor and track customers is pretty much universal.
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by around_here 9y ago
Breaking popular taboo is exciting for a lot of people when they feel they can do it without reproach. They get a rush from breaking the "rules".
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by around_here 9y ago
Probably quite a bit because this is "private". Most people don't witness these kinds of things off the internet, or run with groups who never do this outside of one-to-ones with mostly disconnected people. I don't dispu
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by around_here 9y ago
That's only true if the employees get a large enough stake in the company and it's structured in such a way that they can't get screwed by the owners.
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by around_here 9y ago
They totally should on those sweet less-than-minimum contract wages. The lives of a high-flying contractor doing skilled work are very, very different than someone who faces a the "gig" contracts.
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by around_here 9y ago
"Up to" meaning if you have 20 years of working there. They've extracted so much excess value from their employees that this is basically a laughable insult. Their rank and file will lose much more than they will ever gain. &