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by blamazon 3y ago
To that end, to put the $400MM in perspective, Amazon has received $671MM of disclosed tax breaks and other subsidies from New York State. [1] (Context note: NYS 'jobs for tax cuts' program may be the most aggressive in the nation
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It's also in the ballpark of what one AMZN warehouse in Alabama may have cost to build. ($325M)[1] I'd like to compare this $400M action to the effort AMZN has spent on paving the planet. ('Making a dent', one might say)
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by blamazon 3y ago
UPS is only paying experienced drivers (with experience at UPS) those rates, at the entry level it's more in the neighborhood of part time work 20 dollars an hour, which is a common entry level rate in warehousing and logistics these d
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by blamazon 3y ago
One idea: It is possible to 'stick weld' with a car battery(ies).
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More like the free market inaction.
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by blamazon 3y ago
Something about 'the devil you know', I guess. Don't blame me, I'm not in charge of the world.
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by blamazon 3y ago
Not that crazy - corruption and malfeasance are primary risks to your effective yield when trying to distribute aid like that. Middle-men and middle-women inevitably appear, one to one authentication is one way to keep them away.
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by blamazon 3y ago
If I take it as axiomatic that Tesla's approach carries a higher level of mortal risk, and I boil this down in a reductive way, I interpret you as saying: it's better to increase the loss of life and limb than slow auto traffic. H
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by blamazon 3y ago
https://archive.ph/C9vps
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by blamazon 3y ago
It's also neat that you can review almost everything in google maps. Wanna leave a review for a cool rock in your neighborhood? Sure! Why not.
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by blamazon 3y ago
Fair enough - by the same token a Miata and a Hummer EV almost always pay same price due to having same number of axles. But I think this is a technological limitation rather than a social one, it's a lot less expensive to count axles
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by blamazon 3y ago
It's not necessarily working to even raise it either - Pennsylvania has the highest gas tax and the second highest number of bridges in poor condition in the country.
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by blamazon 3y ago
So, under this political hypothesis, how do you explain the many (popular) toll roads currently in the USA that charge higher prices for heavier vehicles? Does that not constitute acceptance of a similar type of taxation?
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by blamazon 3y ago
Horn OK please! (Note: considered outdated, but I still love the phrase) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horn_OK_Please
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by blamazon 3y ago
Off the top of my head I think it's basically using the same publicly undocumented API that the Twitter-hosted front ends use - Twitter did successfully block nitter et al recently with the "must be logged in to view tweets"
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Also mining - Florida has a majority of the phosphate mining operations of the USA.
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Thinking more intangibly outside those three - the qualification of previous experience, however you wanna try to evaluate that in yonder Wild West.
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by blamazon 3y ago
Unfortunately I don't really see much of a difference between that and the behavior of many incorporated business units in construction. It's a moldy part of the piece of bread that prospective workers have to eat around, whether
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by blamazon 3y ago
And, I feel it should be said, that unless you are in a union-hostile environment you can generally in a similar way pick up a toolbelt, walk into a few union halls and ask for steady skilled work with good pay and benefits and they'll
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by blamazon 3y ago
You can probably still do that in lots of places in the residential single family rapid copy-paste development space (there's a reason why so many of those new homes are terrible quality these days) but unless you have trade qualificat
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by blamazon 3y ago
Every major urban city has these jobs - population is not the only type of growth. Industrial, commercial, infrastructure projects demand just as much if not more of these jobs than residential.
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These jobs are not generally posted online because it is a fractious world of zillions of tiny business entities that aren't exactly computer or even record keeping centric. Those PM/management type jobs are posted by general cont
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by blamazon 3y ago
Chicago does have an incredible density of suburban garages, perhaps at a scale which is unique in America. Row after row, column after column, copy-pasted outwards on a massive grid.
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by blamazon 3y ago
I would also imagine most police officers in USA patrol their jurisdiction in automobiles, not on bicycles. Number 2 is probably motorcycles. I would also venture to guess that most officers don't cycle to work or in their free time.
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by blamazon 3y ago
Perhaps to defuse the denigrative aspect of the term we should think of it as analogous to the 'lizard brain' as not a disease but something of an interior module we all have within us - on a day to day basis most people can gener
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by blamazon 3y ago
I don't mean to spoil the fun, downvote me if this is not in the spirit, but it took me way too long to figure this out and others may be as slow as me and save some time by reading this comment: > The Pacific Northwest tree octopus
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by blamazon 3y ago
I propose, somewhat tautologically, that the primary reason why car theft is generally well policed (in USA, where my lived experiences have primarily been) is that it's generally a small enough problem for most police departments to g
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by blamazon 3y ago
Cars once upon a time required a secure storage space for security. Technology improved, comprehensive insurance became a social norm, etc, and now you can just snug it against a curb, hop out of your car and press a button and generally no
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by blamazon 3y ago
The first problem you outline has a very simple solution: insurance. Just like cars. E-bikes can also be leased, to lower the barrier to entry. As an alternative to providing costly downtown parking, many employers in USA subsidize month-to
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Social researchers have dubbed this phenomenon "motonormativity"[1] and it is remarkably powerful. [1]: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/17/motonormativit...

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