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by cascom 5y ago
So any business that accepts cash generates suspicion? I think not. The reporting you are referring to only relates to bank transactions. In the US, When a business deposits their cash receipts, the bank generates a report. There is no obli
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by cascom 5y ago
I “hide my identity” daily when I make transactions, it’s called cash, guess that’s a red flag.
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by cascom 5y ago
Slightly off topic: I’ve asked several people I know in the energy industry how they’d feel about having fracking done on their land where they drank the well water, and the response was pretty universal, no problem, as long as they knew wh
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by cascom 5y ago
I think it’s a little bit more like blaming advertisers and Hollywood for promoting smoking, rather than the producer or consumer
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by cascom 5y ago
You’d think this would be good fodder for a class action lawsuit, no?
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by cascom 5y ago
Wonder if working from home will do to this, will change the demand for nursing homes in the future?
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by cascom 5y ago
This. But would also add 1) live in socialist countries that provide home care, or 2) or live in countries where there is extremely cheap labor due to endemic poverty (much of the third world), low rates of labor participation, or importe
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by cascom 5y ago
I think it’s the same reason that developers in SF make more then their counterparts in say Denver. It’s purely supply and demand and labor doesn’t markets are inefficient (especially geographically) If I had to guess there are probably 10x
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by cascom 5y ago
I think part of it is around what the HR organization is built for, construction companies that do self performed construction are used to hiring growing their workforce 10x and shrinking it down again. I think the thinking at more knowledg
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Ask HN: Should I participate in class actions?
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by cascom 5y ago
This would be great - it’s such a sad state of affairs that there is a need for products that “just fo what they’re supposed to do - without acting against my best interests”
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by cascom 5y ago
Agree with you. Separately I have several hundred thousand dollars of auto liability coverage but no collusion/coverage on the actual car, and am often surprised to learn others don’t do the same (with middle aged used cars)
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by cascom 5y ago
To simplify when purchasing insurance typically the first question is: 1) would this be a loss I could afford to bear, if not most people insure and stop there (Home insurance, health insurance, Auto (liability), etc.) 2. If it’s a risk the
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by cascom 5y ago
I don’t think the implication was they shouldn’t pay a fee, but that the term itself is loaded. An honest accounting would indicate the very few of us pay our fair share of anything
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by cascom 5y ago
For this of you that never saw it, The Wire is truly worth watching. It’s also worth turning on the subtitles, as it will make it easier to pick up on s the slang.
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by cascom 5y ago
My question is whether that functionality can be triggered remotely (rather than a user creating an unencrypted message digest and sending it to Facebook)
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by cascom 5y ago
True, but I think the question at hand is how do you apportion cost to those most responsible for it
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by cascom 5y ago
100%. But do you take into account how much road use is consumed, and what type of roads, and where they are?
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by cascom 5y ago
You took the words right out of my mouth. Would also add there is an miles travelled does not equate to time on the road (highway vs local driving) and state funding has biases as well (highway vs local roads, urban vs rural infrastructure)
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by cascom 5y ago
Rant: Whenever I read the words “pay their fair share” when it comes to tax I stop reading, it’s clear the author doesn’t think for themselves. The goal posts of what is fair are so arbitrary/subjective as to have no meaning when it co
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by cascom 5y ago
Putting in more hours is key in jobs where you need experiential learning / want to get proficiency. e.g. doctors become good at their jobs after their schooling by seeing as many patients as possible / doing as many procedures Th
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by cascom 5y ago
GnuCash is free, and can do most of what quickbooks does. https://www.gnucash.org/
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by cascom 5y ago
I agree totally agree on both points. I also think though there is an opacity element, If you can’t see/will know if these service providers did a good “quality” job corners are habitually cut. E.g. if I have a new button that’s been s
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by cascom 5y ago
I would have assumed so, seems to cover all manner of high risk activities (including attempted suicide)
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by cascom 5y ago
It’s not an A vs B problem, it’s mix optimization problem, because we need baseload, dispatchable, and peaking power sources. So you have to talk about the entire portfolio not sub one for another.
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by cascom 5y ago
Isn’t this just brokered deposits - which are nothing new?
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by cascom 5y ago
This guy seems to be conflating “how to get rich/create wealth” with “how to not behave like a child financially”. Basically only four groups of people get richer 1) business owners, 2) people at the apex of a profession (professional
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by cascom 5y ago
Often times there is tremendous uncertainty around how much of the cost is actually sunk, and whether there is some liquidation/going concern value that can extracted
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by cascom 5y ago
I’ve now had 10 different commutes in my career (home>office combinations), and I think that the stress/comfort factor is an exponential modifier to how painful a commute is. Anecdotally - a client who lived in Texas who and had an
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by cascom 5y ago
This is the type of thing where private prosecutions make sense. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_prosecution

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