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by cascom 8y ago
It’s not only speculative wealth or property that get’s taxed, ask yourself how many low-income senior citizen’s who are home owners now living in gentrified communities are put into a position where they need to sell their home due to prop
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by cascom 8y ago
A. It’s very easy to go over budget building a house, and therefore a riskier proposition for low-income people B. It can be much harder (higher down payment/harder to qualify) to get a land loan and a construction loan, Vs. a mortgage
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by cascom 8y ago
Just ask my local police department - no point in pissing off your neighbors and voters issuing tickets when you can stick it to people passing through...
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by cascom 8y ago
I don’t think the things like the Do Not Call list has entrenched anyone’s position? Happy to hear how I’m wrong. I think there is a big difference between prohibiting certain behaviors and installing a regulatory compliance regime
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Yes - and most times candidates will sign some form of blanket consent allowing companies to go beyond the the supplied references, and potentially run a background credit check/investigation. Which I’m by no means saying not to do. Bu
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by cascom 8y ago
1. If you work in th US I’d suggest a conversation with HR about your current practices - this issue is frought with legal issues and liability (as the reference giver as well). 2. Passive diligence (looking someone up online) is very diffe
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by cascom 8y ago
This is even more disconcerting - just out of curiousirty what does this cost?
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by cascom 8y ago
Yes - restaurants typically buy at that $33 wholesale price - hence the rule of thumb is restaurant prices are 3x wholesale and 2x retail. Generally, I don’t believe restaurants can but direct from the winery as a result of absurdly complex
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by cascom 8y ago
Country x region x sub-region x grape variety x vintage? Obscenely hard randomly, multiple times? I believe there are multiple levels that get progressively harder so even more unlikely unlikely.
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by cascom 8y ago
See this article/thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17078319 Basically in the US a $100 wine in a restaurant retails for $50, Wholesales for $33, and the winery sells it for $19, and it costs them ~$14.25 to
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Gross Margins: Breaking Down the Price of a Bottle of Wine(wine-searcher.com)
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I don’t know about studies - but the people who are master sommeliers that can do incredible blind tastings consistently give me comfort that it’s not all hocus pocus
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by cascom 8y ago
Won't better helmets just lead to harder hits? Go back to soft helmets and behavior will change...
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by cascom 8y ago
There is a big difference between embellished and fake. I always assume there is some title/responsibility inflation on resumes i read, but i generally assume that those people did in fact work at those companies in those groups, etc.
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by cascom 8y ago
Almost every job I ever had had an intermediate step with background/biographical reference checks after I accepted the offer, but before I started.
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by cascom 8y ago
It is generally understood that candidates must consent to have their references checked. In what part of the application process did the candidate consent to you letting anyone you choose know they are looking for a job?
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by cascom 8y ago
I read somewhere that essentially any wine that retails for less than $15-20 is generally the wine equivalent of fast food and industrially manufactured, wines from $20-$40 vary considerably in their process, and wines $40+ are generally ma
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by cascom 8y ago
Key for me is are the pesticides and additives beyond yeast ending up in wines.. "Yet, as natural wine advocates point out, the way most wine is produced today looks nothing like this picture-postcard vision. Vineyards are soaked with
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by cascom 8y ago
This is a non-issue, and the people writing about it are either A. Trying to smear the subject of the article B. ignorant.
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by cascom 8y ago
Then shouldn’t the margin of error tolerance of the machine be part of the law as well?
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by cascom 8y ago
Sorry - in my town the police pull over drivers late at night trying to get DUI arrests - the “reason” for the stop is almost always a minor lane violation - then a mandatory breathlizer if you pass no ticket is issued, and you’re on you wa
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by cascom 8y ago
Her husband died over a decade ago - the accounts being in just her name is literally proof of nothing, if they maintained separate finances prior to his death in most cases the assets would all be re-titled in her name. For all we know her
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by cascom 8y ago
There are are a lot of laudable things in this story, but it seems rather odd to attribute so much of the wealth accumulation to just Ms. Bloom. She had a husband who seems to have had three careers, two of which potentially had very genero