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by beerandt 5y ago
Parking garages cost over $500k per space to build. Probably more in California. No one is building one with as part of a short term plan with the intent to tear it down in less than 30-40+ years.
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by beerandt 5y ago
LA is 5th cir.
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by beerandt 5y ago
I was recently at an office where there were a dozen or so student workers studying for a test that required them to print out some things to bring. The buildings internet was out, and not a single one of them realized you could save a file
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by beerandt 5y ago
Yea- if you're not making money, you're usually spending it. Idle time costs more than the $0/hr you make while not working.
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by beerandt 5y ago
The way to get young/unskilled people to build skills earlier in life is to lower the minimum wage, not increase it. No one is going to hire a 12 year old for a part time job if the minimum wage is $15. It just increases the minimum sk
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by beerandt 5y ago
One requirement for such an injunction is the high likelihood of winning on the merits.
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by beerandt 5y ago
No- they say play by our rules for everyone or the majority of your revenue disappears.
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by beerandt 5y ago
You got the premise wrong, not the phrasing. With firecodes what they are today, a bomb is a more comparable danger to what a fire was 100 yrs ago, anyway.
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by beerandt 5y ago
Also, it's not like doctors are doing it based on medical judgement. Their jobs are being threatened too, and are more likely to have large debt from school and to be the primary breadwinner of their family than nurses. Nurses just hav
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by beerandt 5y ago
>A bit under half of Americans have already caught covid No- that many have had a positive test or other diagnosis confirming covid. There were plenty of non-hospitalized, non-diagnosed cases before the tests existed. And plenty of peopl
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by beerandt 5y ago
And is only an increased concern because it might be more adept at evading the spike-based vaccines. If you're not vaccinated or have natural immunity, there's likely zero increased reason for personal concern.
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by beerandt 5y ago
That doctors being coerced by the risk of losing their job shouldn't be judged as if their choice was based on medical knowledge.
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by beerandt 5y ago
The mandates blocked are for healthcare workers nationwide, it's factually correct.
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by beerandt 5y ago
This is why nationalized/ government healthcare implementations, even at the level of Obamacare, are so dangerous. It literally gives government moral authority over who deserves care and who doesn't. "Universal" healthc
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by beerandt 5y ago
Not quite. It's an implicit right (whether fundamental or not), and the courts recognized freedom of association as being implicitly necessary to fully exercise the rights explicitly recognized in the first amendment. It's not
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by beerandt 5y ago
There are multiple reasons for signs to have different shapes, sizes, and colors, and this is one of them. An orange diamond "detour" sign isn't easily confused for a smaller rectangle "one way" sign. Additionally,
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by beerandt 5y ago
It's an easy target that neutralizes point of entry, but that also adds a great deal of selective pressure for mutations of the spike proteins, which we already know have an effective/successful mutation rate much higher than the
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by beerandt 5y ago
That study only tested against the spike protein, not the whole virus. It ignores any benefits that other vaccines or natural immunity might have compared to the mrna vaccines "spike-only" approach.
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by beerandt 5y ago
Or there's UPS, which switches the prominence of the login / sign up links seemingly at random. And does something similar with logging in via a 3rd party auth vs using your actual 1st party username. I'm sure there's so
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by beerandt 5y ago
It's both. Without local resources, whether economic or life-sustaining, you're not really a colony, but a scientific expedition or military outpost or both. Both of which put you under the political authority (and reliance for su
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by beerandt 5y ago
No, you're just rephrasing "the ends justifies the means", except the with added moral superiority of "I'm voting so that makes use of force ok". 'Voluntarily' supporting mandatory laws misses the ent
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by beerandt 5y ago
Also, for any of this to work, no matter the theory or rationale or lack thereof, the otherside has to believe that you're both capable and willing to execute any given plan. Meaning that floating crazy-but-rationlized war strategies,
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by beerandt 5y ago
Which shouldn't be mistaken for expertise.
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by beerandt 5y ago
>So batteries are way ahead on efficiency. Conversion efficiency is a different thing than storage efficiency or transmission efficiency. Unless your gas tank is leaking, it's efficiency as a portable energy storage device approac
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by beerandt 5y ago
>equality, forgiveness and understanding the other, as well as loving everyone, even those who do not reciprocate. But these things only hold personal spiritual/ redemptive value if done voluntarily. Forced charity isn't chari
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by beerandt 5y ago
No- this is unintended consequences of anti-discrimination laws. Capitalism had contractual things like deed restrictions and binding neighborhood covenants to deal with this problem, which were all but eliminated in the name of integration
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by beerandt 5y ago
Either deterred or jailed, either way you end up with less shit on the street.
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by beerandt 5y ago
Which is why he got the benefit of the doubt until he opened his mouth. Being a CEO doesn't necessarily mean fully understanding the technical aspects of your companies work, and it certainly doesn't mean understanding technical a
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by beerandt 5y ago
>matching orbits You don't need to match orbits, for kinetic satellite weapons. You just need to change to an orbit that directly intersects, or comes close enough to it at some point to launch a daughter projectile. For a kinetic v
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by beerandt 5y ago
Which is why the optimistic side of renewables needs to include the capital costs of whatever is providing the supply when solar and wind aren't.

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