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by bparsons 6y ago
More vaccine for me.
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by bparsons 6y ago
Part of it has to do with the fact that unions have to negotiate for health benefits. In other jurisdictions, primary health insurance isn't a thing, so the union can focus on getting better wages.
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by bparsons 6y ago
Outside of the US and Brazil, I have been really impressed by the ability of people to come together and deal with a massive collective action problem. If anything, it has shown that people have the capacity to pull together when they need
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by bparsons 6y ago
Australia is not going to ban meat consumption any time soon. It is a positive step that they are at least bothering to try and mitigate huge potential sources of GHG emissions.
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by bparsons 6y ago
Try the North face Thermoball line of jackets. I put mine through all manner of environmental abuse this year and it performed extremely well. The materials all seem pretty boring sounding.
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by bparsons 6y ago
Give IBM a break. It isn't as if it would have had some experience in the past suggesting that its technology could be used for monstrous ends.
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by bparsons 6y ago
Leaving your job in the middle of an recession/depression is scary for anyone.
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by bparsons 6y ago
It is not particularly unusual for a nursing home to see very high death rates around flu season. In the UK, where they have an excellent healthcare system, the average lifespan of a nursing home resident is 2.2 years. Link: https:/&#
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by bparsons 7y ago
The title was exactly correct
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by bparsons 7y ago
People interested in this UBI should look at the Canada Child Benefit (CCB). It has been described in many ways, but it is essentially a basic income for children (or the parents of children). It is means tested, which allows for the progra
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by bparsons 7y ago
Real bike lanes make a huge difference. They finally started doing it in Vancouver and it completely transformed the neighborhoods. It is the single cheapest/easiest thing a city can do to improve a street.
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by bparsons 7y ago
I have two monitors, one of them ultrawide. The UW is great. I am getting a second one. It is just more screen real estate and makes it easier to work off of, especially if you type and have research open at the same time.
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by bparsons 7y ago
I live in Vancouver, and the vacancy and foreign ownership taxes have moderately improved the rental situation. It has also just encouraged the worst types of buyers to move onto other jurisdictions. To be effective, they probably need to h
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by bparsons 7y ago
It will go online 15 years after Starlink with users will claiming it is revolutionary. Apple will sell the sleek chrome plated antennae for 3000 dollars, but it will only work when you plug it into your network using a 900 dollar proprieta
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by bparsons 7y ago
San Francisco in 2019 arguably has more wealth concentrated within it than any place at any other time in history. Making poor and mentally ill people sleep on the street is a choice you have made as a society. Places with far, far fewer re
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by bparsons 7y ago
It is actually hard to imagine a manufactured product that would require less water per dollar made than bottling water. Nobody seems to ever worry about the production of beer, wine or soda which requires an order of magnitude more fresh w
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by bparsons 7y ago
This is a function of living in an unlivable city -- not technology. It is physically impossible for there to be enough roads to move 14 million SUVs to and from home each day.
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by bparsons 7y ago
People who call themselves "moderate" in the US would just be right wingers anywhere else in the world.
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by bparsons 7y ago
Fine art is also the most efficient way to launder money. The reason for the rapid increase in value is completely inscrutable to regulators or the IRS, so it is the perfect tool of international financial fraud.
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by bparsons 7y ago
Creative cloud runs wonderfully on a cheap gaming PC.
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by bparsons 7y ago
Weird. I use bluetooth headphones while skiing all the time. Never had an issue.
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by bparsons 7y ago
This is why you want to set legal boundaries at the outset, rather than let the authorities push the envelope and allow bad practices to become the norm. I think most people would be fine with using facial recognition technology in the inst
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by bparsons 7y ago
Telecoms are among the most tightly regulated and jealously held national level industries. If you can put up a global network in a few years that pushes down 4 and 5G speeds, the national telecom companies become obsolete. There will be so
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by bparsons 7y ago
Sustainable forestry is not a particularly complicated business, and if you are selling the wood for buildings etc. the carbon is not released back into the atmosphere for quite some time. A lot of jurisdictions are looking at updating buil
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by bparsons 7y ago
I always wonder why the same argument isn't applied to hotel rooms. If the government forced every hotel room to be converted to affordable housing, the homelessness problem could be solved overnight!
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by bparsons 7y ago
It isn't just rural areas. Even suburbs relatively close to the city are completely unsustainable from a municipal services point of view. This article lays out a convincing case as to why most of America's cities are financially
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by bparsons 7y ago
I suspect the answer is micro transactions. No one has figured out how to do it at scale using USD. Cryptocurrency theoretically offers a solution, but is still mostly unproven. Whoever figures it out could potentially save the news busines
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by bparsons 7y ago
Jack in the box is actually a subversive vegan activist organization.
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by bparsons 7y ago
It is a rule of thumb in any client or contact work that the less you are charging them, the more difficult and demanding the customer will be.
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by bparsons 7y ago
Usually the opposition to density is just cloaked in environmentalism. When it comes down to it, these are individuals who don't want outsiders moving their community, or new units driving down the explosive growth in property values t

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