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by dunpeal 8y ago
> Few providers have focused on the loneliest population: 18- to 22-year-olds. While typically a low-risk population, young adults experience rates of loneliness and social isolation far higher than any other age group according to Cigna
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by dunpeal 8y ago
> It's also noteworthy that amendments to subject drivers working for corporate medallion owners to a minimum wage were struck down. Of course it was, because it's a law bought and paid for by the big taxi corporations. It&#x27
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Yes, it's messed up. Just as you describe, nobody should get the Developer Edition. The vanilla edition is regularly on sales for hundreds of dollars less. Also, many attractive configurations aren't available at all with the Deve
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Their negligence exposed the most private details of over half the US population. The whole "security based on SSN" system was a joke before. Thanks to these clowns, it's an outrage. When are we going to see meaningful improv
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by dunpeal 8y ago
Exactly. Not to mention that by the time it gets to the elected official's desk for signature, it's been negotiated between government employees and their senior managers, who are also government employees... It's basically a
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In some specific cases it's actually quite clear that specific tax increases drove out a large number of high-income earners and were thus a net loss. See for example Rhode Island's Millionaire Exodus: http://theluxuryh
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I checked FakeSpot with FakeSpotFakeSpot, a website to check the authenticity of fake-review spotting websites, and it received an A with 99% authenticity.
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Not much, I think. It's already about tied with NYC for highest state+local taxes in the nation. Also, no reason to believe just 5% will fix the issue.
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Indeed. Also notice that some of the worst problems are in locations that already have very high local and state taxes, such as California. There's simply no reason to believe that throwing more money at these systemic problems will fi
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> Pensions are not inherently unsustainable. Please read the link I posted above: https://www.investopedia.com/articles/retirement/10/demise-d... Defined Cost pensions are sustainable. That's what we
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by dunpeal 8y ago
Are you kidding me? You are saying in the current market, there's no demand for highly skilled and educated R&D employees?
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Read sykhic's comments below. These unsustainable sweetheart deals were negotiated by the government employees and their unions.
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> I have no interest in seeing Chicago fix its pension problems by using funding taken from the US military. Chicago made its bed by intentionally, dramatically over-promising, it gets to sleep in that bed. Taxpayer money should be not b
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> I don't cause the government to write its contract with me to be the way it is. It's negotiated between my union and the state Department of Education. Exactly. So one group of state government employees (your state's Do
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> And what would you do with the large number of unemployed people that would result? US demand for labor is at an all time high. They can find employment in the private sector and produce goods and services that benefit others.
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> The problem is public sector employees are promised pensions higher than county/city can afford. Precisely. But in fact, it's worse: The people doing the promising and those receiving the benefits are in fact the same. Who
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Defined-benefit pensions are economically bankrupt when lifespan keeps increasing. This has been known for decades[1] and is the reason why none of us reading this have a DB pension, except those lucky few state employees who got a sweethea
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> As a result infrastructure is poor, toll roads are increasing, privatization of prisons, intelligence gathering, war, etc. are rising too. I wouldn't bundle military expenditure with the rest of public spending. Our military budge
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And Softdisk had John Carmack and basically the entire original Id software team on their payroll. And Fairchild Semiconductors had the entire executive founding team of Intel, and Xeroc PARC had not only several key people but essentially
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by dunpeal 8y ago
Yeah, I think discussions like this one tend to focus on price, which is certainly one of the benefits Uber and Lyft bring to the table, but certainly not the only one. I typically travel for business, so I don't care about the price s
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by dunpeal 8y ago
I had so many similar issues with NYC cabbies. Off the top of my head: 1. Cabbie turning off his meter right before my stop, then quoting me a price that was x3 times the meter when I last caught glimpse of it. 2. Cabbies flat out refusing
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Why Trump Is Right About the E.U.’s Penalty Against Google(nytimes.com)
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> I’m saying it’s nothing new, and things are still churning along just fine, whether it is in reference to the deficit or CA. Most economists will disagree with you about the deficit :-) It's not something we tend to think about on
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by dunpeal 8y ago
> Sure, the Mother of all Demos showed off remote collaborative work in 1968. ...and was certainly an exciting futuristic demo, but unfortunately neither practical nor feasible with the actual widely available technologies of its time.
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> Still, it's unlikely that food service and retail workers in these cities are having an easier time making ends meet. The article you linked acknowledged that the cafeteria workers were making well above CA minimum wage - do you t
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by dunpeal 8y ago
This is an informative comment, thanks. It does make more sense for a development like the Village, but I'm still concerned about the encroaching and escalating intrusion of local lawmakers in a benefit employers wish to provide their
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by dunpeal 8y ago
They'll have to provide access to the public, i.e. allow anyone to walk into their campus and have a meal there. Plus it can't be the exact same entity, so they'll have to "partner" with some vendor to create and op
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by dunpeal 8y ago
> As of May 2017, the average market value for homes was $380,000 within the Austin city limits and $310,000 in the Austin-Round Rock metropolitan area, reported Austin HomeSearch. https://www.tripsavvy.com/austins-cost-o
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> I was reading articles about people and companies picking up and moving out of California to places like Nevada...thirty years ago. That's like saying "I was reading about government deficit 10 years ago, and look at it, it&#
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by dunpeal 8y ago
From TFA: > the city prohibits companies from fully subsidizing meals in the Village, and the rule could spread to other Bay Area cities in the future. So no, it doesn't apply "only to Facebook", it applies to new office c

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