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by gerbal 6y ago
Do you mean RSA[1]? My french is quite bad, but as I understand it, the RSA is tied closely to employment and has complicated work obligation and subsidizes employers for keeping employees at low hours. RSA appears to be extensively means t
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by gerbal 6y ago
Wealth is not distributed equally either, those with a lot of resources find it much easier to maintain and gain wealth. Wealth provides a shield against consequences and accidents.
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by gerbal 6y ago
The US signed a formal treaty, which remains law.
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by gerbal 6y ago
These rights existing because the US government signed treaties with independent foreign nations. Those treaties are valid law until the Congress withdraws from them.
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by gerbal 6y ago
Delivery apps and websites highlight and promote restaurants with "free" delivery. Anecdotally, people like feeling like they are getting a good deal. The "free delivery" that is included in food pricing is more enticing
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by gerbal 6y ago
Yelp also provides DDG results.
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by gerbal 6y ago
Anecdotally, in Northern Wisconsin, GMaps is only slightly better than OSM on abandoned logging roads. There are a lot of private gated or abandoned roads and logging tracks which Google Maps will use for route planning.
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by gerbal 6y ago
If the economy grows by ~3% per year on average, and the interest rate is ~1% on government debt, can the debt actually "catch up"?
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by gerbal 6y ago
> They inherently incentivize not working and punish those who do work. Do you have any evidence of this claim?
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by gerbal 6y ago
I'm from the North Carolina, in US south. In my opinion, Confederate monuments are not mere objects showing the long reach of history. These monuments were built mostly from the 1890-1930 during the worst period of extrajudicial killin
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by gerbal 6y ago
Isn't the issue that Apple doesn't charge the same 30% surcharge to their own business units? Apple controls the entire ecosystem and can use it's control to force anti-competive terms on its competition.
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by gerbal 6y ago
> 3. Social Welfare programs should be limited to Citizens Only. Persons can apply for Citizenship after they have lived here for 3 yrs under the temporary immigration program. How to you handle underclass, i.e. people who become disable
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by gerbal 6y ago
> dealing with illegal immigration has popular support. You presume that "dealing with illegal immigration has popular support" is the same as "the public broadly supports arbitrary cruelty to illegal immigrants". Th
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by gerbal 6y ago
How is "ICE is running concentration camps" hyperbole if all parts of the sentence are literally true? If ICE could be trusted to care for those in its care [1] or respect the legal rights of immigrants [2] then, maybe it would be
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by gerbal 6y ago
> I have to admit that I am not sure what ICE is doing wrong ICE is pretty bad at following US law and pretty good at being cruel to everyone in their path - ICE routinely detains and deports citizens and legal residents (guess their ski
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by gerbal 6y ago
And if the laws of your country are unjust?
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by gerbal 6y ago
So you don't like the questions the term "concentration camp" makes you ask about the indefinite detention of foreign nationals for misdemeanor offenses? Maybe the term isn't the problem and the policy you are trying to
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by gerbal 6y ago
> secessionist monuments You misspelled white supremacist. All of the confederate monuments I know of were built during _CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENTS_ as an expression of power by white supremacist governments and political traditions.
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by gerbal 6y ago
From the library readme [1] > The database is a key value store prepopulated with the english names of countries and their capital cities from the continent of Europe. Selecting the country will perform a search of the matching capital.
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by gerbal 6y ago
Or one of the business units of the CCP is putting lateral pressure on Google. Or an organized CCP/PLA operation to mass report the term.
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by gerbal 6y ago
If this is true, follow the money. HN is run by a Venture Capital firm. What are their incentives? Who does the business have to keep happy?
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by gerbal 7y ago
What's a non-myopic view of slavery? If dependence on a government for basic necessities is slavery, isn't any form of dependence slavery? Are trust fund recipients slaves? Are workers who depend on an employer slaves? Are people
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by gerbal 7y ago
I though slavery was having a job you couldn't quit and weren't paid for? Having no job and guaranteed income seems pretty far from being owned by another human.
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by gerbal 7y ago
US public health infrastructure is less resilient than most of europe, capacity is lower and everything is >10x more expensive. Further the risk of transmission is higher from low wage workers who can neither afford to take time off nor
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by gerbal 7y ago
Maybe conservatism is about preserving existing power structures and not much else?
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by gerbal 7y ago
Berlin has a very large tech industry, a lower cost of living, and lower wages.
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by gerbal 7y ago
No, you subsidize people doing poorly paid but highly educated work in fields like public health work, education, and non-profits. You also subsidize people getting the basic education required for many jobs.
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by gerbal 8y ago
Google Fi a virtual operator using T Mobile towers. T Mobile's coverage is excellent in cities, but pretty bad in rural areas.
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by gerbal 8y ago
Maybe they BuzzFeed's remaining employees should unionize to keep this same shit from happening to them.
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by gerbal 8y ago
Laborers deserve to be paid for their labor, and compensated fairly. Regardless of what one thinks of the labor. The concerns of labor should be given as much weight as the concerns of profit maximization.

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