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by davidgay 6y ago
> In contrast... there are 135 - 270 MILLION people on the verge of starvation now; due to the policies around covid (or >2% of the worlds population). This looks like a misquote of: "Likewise, David Beasley, Executive Director o
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by davidgay 6y ago
> quasi-mortgage-driven-market-based-rent-control-that's-rarely-enforced-meaningfully. Not enforced meaningfully would mean to me that "it's abused and no-one cares". As opposed to "the rules are mostly followed,
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by davidgay 6y ago
Not Bay-Area rent-control, but: https://www.ch.ch/en/rent-tenant-rights-obligations/ . In particular, rents are expected to follow interest rate changes (both up and down). You can request a rent reduction when int
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by davidgay 6y ago
Switzerland has nation-wide rent-control, but has somehow escaped from the claimed consequence of "Economy and population would stagnate.", i.e., is a counter-example to the claimed necessary consequence of rent-control.
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by davidgay 6y ago
> This is very selfish thinking. What if the whole city was rent controlled? Economy and population would stagnate. Imagine what would happen if the whole country was rent-controlled! You would apparently end up like Switzerland.
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by davidgay 6y ago
> one could pick up and move to another city and essentially "start fresh" with their reputation From the wikipedia article on exile: "In Roman law, exsilium denoted both voluntary exile and banishment as a capital punish
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by davidgay 6y ago
> The only way to know who is stealing is to either watch the drawer or to count the cash every time the employee walks away. At least in the grocery stores I frequent (Bay Area), the employee takes the drawer with them when they walk aw
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by davidgay 6y ago
And, on the general theme, the Bulgarian rules for using definite articles are closer to the French rather than to the English rules (I'm fluent in French and English, learning Bulgarian ;)). I'm not going to try for a Bulgarian e
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by davidgay 6y ago
> My hot Word tip is to use Styles. Wow. That was my hot tip for Word 1.0 too. I felt they did a rather too good job of hiding them subsequently.
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by davidgay 6y ago
> It's a balance. You shouldn't routinely be working a ton of nights and weekends. But sometimes shit hits the fan at inconvenient hours and you need to respond. If not, you have to have routine 24/7 coverage which gets re
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by davidgay 6y ago
It's a reference to these "positions": 'However, the PERM process requires an employer to first demonstrate that there are no qualified and available U.S. workers for the position that the employer plans to offer to the
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by davidgay 6y ago
> I saw a clip of Chinese news broadcast giving shocking rates on Youtube, like a quarter to a third, 20-25% VAT is pretty common in Europe, so while that's high I wouldn't go so far as shocking.
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by davidgay 6y ago
Let's not forget the speed of light (latency) either.
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by davidgay 6y ago
> Here in the UK (though I'm sure this applies globally) Your problem is on word 4 - tomatoes do not grow well in the UK. Places were tomatoes grow well locally do have good tomatoes (in season). I can confirm this personally for Sw
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by davidgay 6y ago
So by this logic, blood transfusions are cannibalism.
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by davidgay 6y ago
If it's who the 'obvious' google search reveals, you've said too much already (and at least one the links that search gives reveals the family name directly).
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by davidgay 6y ago
I would presume that the (not unreasonable) assumption is that "verification that a company's books are drawn up according to prevailing requirements." makes it harder to hide fraud.
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by davidgay 6y ago
> I'm sorry; for "long lasting UK series" it's really hard to beat Doctor Who... The prototypical "long lasting UK series" is actually https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronation_Street (
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by davidgay 6y ago
> Take SATURN [1], for example. It's a microphone powered by ambient speech. Energy is harvested though triboelectric nanogenerators (TNGs). Unpowered (passive) microphones are far from new, e.g., https://en.wikipedia.org
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by davidgay 6y ago
> I think at-will employment in the US is key to their startup ecosystem. It makes their market very "liquid", as you can hire fast and fire fast. Is that really the case? I would have naively assumed the typical (median) start
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by davidgay 6y ago
The US is far from the only country with farm subsidies. Some of those countries (e.g., Switzerland) are in fact not self-sufficient.
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by davidgay 6y ago
Replying to parent as the child is too deep(?): > Places where single family homes exist rarely even have the option for high density housing and, in the US at least, never have the public infrastructure to support it. Berkeley is on the
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by davidgay 6y ago
> Land is expensive due to artificial scarcity created wholly by regulation. Growing up in Switzerland (with expensive land and housing prices), this is quite an insular point of view. Land is expensive in Switzerland at least in part du
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by davidgay 6y ago
> If this was the reason why parents get a free pass, people who provide essential services would also get to do it on their employer's dime, at the expense of their colleagues. They do. They're called government employees, and
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by davidgay 6y ago
https://vegetablegrowersnews.com/news/3-states-produced-76-p...
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by davidgay 6y ago
80 hrs/week is ~4000 hr/year. Your salary was only ~$16000/year?
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by davidgay 6y ago
> When I sell license for access, I charge based on value, not how much it costs me to deliver. The value often depends on the customer's location. Or do you think, e.g., Photoshop provides the same value to a photographers in New Y
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by davidgay 6y ago
> I'm assuming that swastikas have much more universal unpopularity than the confederacy flag. Coincidentally, a news item from yesterday about swastikas: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-53249645
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by davidgay 6y ago
> Discriminating on the basis of sports fandom, haircut or taste in music is perfectly legal. IIUC, correlation of any of those with any of the protected classes will land you in trouble though (and I would guess at least the second two
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by davidgay 6y ago
> one would expect that French would get this right They do get it right, it's just called Comté ;) (really - the Comté area is not very far away from Gruyères) Personally I prefer Comté for eating and Gruyère for cooking.

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