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by cascom 8y ago
Read the parent
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by cascom 8y ago
you mean $31/hr + medical + pension and medical in retirement... again for teachers you are forgetting the fact that they have similar generous benefits and only work 3/4 of the year...
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by cascom 8y ago
Employee costs are 60% of the expenses for the MTA [1] and employees are making $30/hr + generous pension and medical benefits[2], I'm not sure how you can possibly justify your position. That being said, paying union construction
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by cascom 8y ago
this is sad, but I find that fact that the harassment level was so mild the more surprising aspect
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by cascom 8y ago
While your right that most end users just want it to “work” you have to wonder about informed consent.
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by cascom 8y ago
“Generally” just doesn’t cut it when the stakes are that high.
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Announcing ProtonVPN for iOS – Free and Unlimited VPN for iOS(protonvpn.com)
1 points by cascom 8y ago|0 comments
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by cascom 8y ago
I’m curious what sort of notice was given to this person that the phone was evidence. For example was she arrested, and had her phone on her, and then the police never returned it, or was there a search warrant/subpoena and she was giv
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by cascom 8y ago
If they don’t actually move away (and find work locally), then they just trade rent $ for a lower net hourly wage (hours worked + commute time), perhaps to their benefit - changing jobs is not frictionless, but it’s not like it’s a bad eco
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by cascom 8y ago
Alternatively - if all the engine mechanics decided they could no longer afford to live in the city and moved away, what do you think would happen to engine mechanic wages?
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by cascom 8y ago
The Cato Institute has been pushing for class action suits for exactly this type of situation https://www.cato.org/multimedia/cato-daily-podcast/libertari...
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by cascom 8y ago
Two things, public consumption and interest of local news has gone down, and local newspapers etc. have gone out of business/severely curtailed their coverage of local town hall meetings etc.
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by cascom 8y ago
What could have have been a contributing factor in his not being discovered for so long: “The [car] windows were tinted.” That might have been useful information in the first 80% of the article.
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by cascom 8y ago
alternatively, it means that all those other institutions are actually loss making when one factors in their pension obligations
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by cascom 8y ago
am i wrong or is this really an endorsement/marketing campaign rather than some sort of integration.
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by cascom 8y ago
If you call losing ~$1B+/qtr self funded, yeah they’re “self funded” https://about.usps.com/who-we-are/financials/financial-condi...
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by cascom 8y ago
I think he just means that in relative terms gas taxes are lower in the US - but you’re right, there is no subsidy.
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by cascom 8y ago
His phone must not have been that far away? Any thoughts on how he may have set this up?
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Newspaper says Turkey has [apple watch] audio of Saudi writer’s slaying(apnews.com)
1 points by cascom 8y ago|1 comments
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by cascom 8y ago
its not super clear who is making and losing money in this saga
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by cascom 8y ago
I'm of two minds they are either: A. A clever way of effectively outlawing something without saying as much (because the legislator understands the implications but has cover as they are "merely keeping them out of residential nei
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by cascom 8y ago
I feel like a municipality should have to create these maps when proposing legislation, and maintain them on an [annual?] basis There are so many areas of our lives where its becoming de facto impossible to comply with all the laws/reg
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by cascom 8y ago
The math here doesn't seem to make much sense to me (ignoring your own labor costs and imputed rent), but i suppose it makes sense on a super simple cash basis. The back of the envelope math would seem to imply that it costs $17k/
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'Siri I'm getting pulled over': New shortcut can automatically record the police(businessinsider.com)
566 points by cascom 8y ago|338 comments
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by cascom 8y ago
Potential discrimination or other adverse consequences (insurability, hiring, etc.) down the road (3,5,15 years from now) based upon the results.
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by cascom 8y ago
I thought this was fascinating as well - while I found many aspects/linkages tenuous at best - it was really entertaining. I did find quite compelling the thesis around the idea that politicians have become incapable of confronting the
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by cascom 8y ago
It's hard enough to get people to use signal...
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by cascom 8y ago
Having worked in one of these businesses - I would have been classified as a “faker” - but that is the wrong way to interpret it, if you are: inefficient, can’t prioritize/identify what’s really important, can’t make yourself available
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by cascom 8y ago
yeah - i don't even know how you begin to compare a rural police department with a handful of officers (who hand off major cases to county/state investigators and are really there to break up bar fights/domestic disputes, kee
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by cascom 8y ago
Are you liable for unauthorized withdrawals? Here in the US the bank is usually liable - so while it can be an administrative headache - from a customer perspective 2FA seems like a pain

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