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by jljljl 5y ago
Does “Very New” match with “10 years old”? 10 years is the average or target lifespan of a tractor-trailer and you can still drive them up to 2023. AB 5 might have a bigger impact though
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by jljljl 5y ago
It sounds like the chassis traditionally will arrive with an empty container, and then swap it for a full container. They can't do that now if here isn't a place to drop the container. Temporarily lifting the zoning restrictions +
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by jljljl 5y ago
I don't think this matches what the thread is saying. Longshoremen are highly unionized, but they are not the bottleneck -- they are blocked because they have nowhere to put the containers they unload. Fixing the problem requires ident
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by jljljl 5y ago
A Decoy is when you introduce an option in the menu that is "absurdly" or illogically priced, in order to make other options seem like a better deal. Some examples: - Some restaurant menus will have 1-2 incredibly expensive entree
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by jljljl 5y ago
The first definition in this post is wrong -- Increasing the money supply will not result in higher prices if the real economy is growing alongside it (i.e., the ability to produce real goods and services that people demand). Holding the mo
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by jljljl 5y ago
> Plus hospitals have monetary incentives to record these covid deaths Hospitals have been deferring elective procedures, which are big revenue and profit drivers, due to COVID. I doubt this has been a huge moneymaker for them
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by jljljl 5y ago
The article says that 3% of employees are not vaccinated, but have an accommodation. So there must be a way for people who cannot be vaccinated to continue working. > unreasonable requirements for employment A pandemic that killed >70
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by jljljl 5y ago
But to have a claim, you need to show that you were discriminated against because of your protected class. Vaccination Status is not one of those
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by jljljl 5y ago
92% of employees are vaccinated. The % who quit or were terminated over the mandate is 3%: > A separate 3 percent of employees, 1,887, have left their jobs or were terminated as part of the mandate.
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by jljljl 5y ago
The problem is that anyone can mint an NFT. Verifying that an NFT is actually minted by the artist would likely require some sort of external certification that you can trust. This is done for paintings and other collectibles as well. What
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by jljljl 5y ago
The Marilyn Monroes are still limited by the number that Warhol prints, and you have ownership of the print that you bought. Maybe it’s not as valuable as it would be if there was only 1 Monroe print, but you are paying for a physical objec
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by jljljl 5y ago
I think the situation was a bit different pre-vaccination and mandate
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by jljljl 5y ago
This is pretty standard from what I’ve seen: You wear the mask when you’re walking around the restaurant or before you start eating/drinking, but you don’t mask up between sips/bites.
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by jljljl 5y ago
I would suggest that ownership and “gun culture” are closely related. A gun culture like Norway’s, where there are greater restrictions on registration and purchase of firearms, would probably lead to a reduction in firearms if applied to t
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by jljljl 5y ago
The United States has 4x the number of guns per capita than any of the countries you've listed. Just taking Norway, the rate of handgun ownership is also significantly higher in the US. It could be the case that below a certain thresho
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by jljljl 5y ago
1. The number of households that own a gun has actually declined, according to surveys (US law prohibits collection of gun ownership data). We may have added guns, but the number of people + gun availability seem to be declining. If we look
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by jljljl 5y ago
Homicides and crime overall are at almost historic lows globally, for various reasons (see this entire thread). To prove that gun culture and ownership doesn’t lead to crime, you’d need to show more than the data linked, such as a compariso
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by jljljl 5y ago
Walgreens shuttered a portion of their SF fleet as part of a pre-announced plan to shutter 200 stores nation wide: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/08/06/walgreens-to-close-200-store... I would consider their stat
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by jljljl 5y ago
Is there evidence that this is actually the case? Otherwise, this seems like there is no way for the stats to contradict a desired story: If the numbers go up, it's a sign that crime is increasing. If the numbers go down, it's mer
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by jljljl 5y ago
Total SALT paid as a % of income actually _decreases_ the wealthier you are, since sales and vehicle taxes tend to be regressive. It varies by state, but on average for the top 1%, it looks like average effective tax rate in the US comes ou
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by jljljl 6y ago
This isn't really convincing. If NFTs are only valuable when celebrities sell them as part of a fad, then they have absolutely failed to meet the "correspondence to ground" point.
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by jljljl 6y ago
The problem is that if you can’t easily convert it, the OTC price is going to plummet. Since the ledger is public, if the government knows which wallet is linked to you (easy if you’ve done KYC in order to use an exchange), they could also
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by jljljl 6y ago
If the USG (or Europe, or China) still have a strong military, or a lot of influence over the financial sector at that point, you may have a tough time finding a bank to convert your crypto into Fiat. At that point, you’d have to find a cou
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by jljljl 6y ago
It’s true that prices fluctuate and vary, but some assets are less speculative than others. Gold has value for its industrial or commercial uses, even if that’s a small part of its value. USD has value over other assets as a currency becaus
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by jljljl 6y ago
Wealthy people can do this with their stocks and other assets as well. Basically a mortgage but without the FHA
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by jljljl 6y ago
Medium of exchange is a bit different. Successful currencies generally need some price stability, otherwise they are avoided or hoarded, and their use as a medium of exchange vanishes. Historically this would happen with coins minted from p
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by jljljl 6y ago
How are taxes for Bitcoin any different? Like stocks, you’d still pay taxes on the gains from selling.
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by jljljl 6y ago
I think this gets the “incumbents” argument slightly wrong. The argument is not that Bitcoin is “valueless”, but that it is a purely speculative instrument with little to no intrinsic value. It doesn’t seem to have a path towards becoming a
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by jljljl 6y ago
I’m not sure which profit margin you are talking about (gross? Operating?) But Toyota had a net profit margin of 6.95% in the last reported quarter, vs Tesla’s 3.77% net profit margin
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by jljljl 6y ago
A reserve (or government cash deposit) is not technically required for a bank to issue a loan. Its _risky_, since it could lead to a situation where someone tries to cash out and you have nothing to give them, which would destroy your busin

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