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by jogjayr 9y ago
The Last Jedi or Black Panther obviously wouldn't win the Palme d'Or and even if they did the audience for such films would not care a whit. So I've always thought that they simply didn't bother because there's
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Wait wait...French law as in law by the French government? You get hit wit fines by the government if you defy it? Or an industry norm like "If you allow streaming within 36 months of a theatrical release we won't talk to you&#x2F
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Is there a reason Netflix can't do a limited release in a few French theaters, as many as necessary to satisfy the eligibility requirements? Or are they not particularly concerned about being ineligible for the Palme d'Or? Which i
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> But all my free grocery bags get reused as garbage bags. There is no ban on the sale of garbage bags. If I were not getting free grocery store bags, I would be buying small garbage bags and going through about the same number of plasti
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I have two objections to this post: 1. No numbers provided, in terms of actual impacts on poor people. Just a vague angry waving of fists and calling drafters of bag bans "assholes". 2. Carbon footprint isn't the only thing t
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I'm not so sure that's a cautionary tale about unintended consequences as much as an illustration of the lack of public toilets. Do we really want people doing their business in plastic bags?
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I meant replace 401Ks with IRAs wholecloth and raise the limit to $18k. Is it fair that some people are allowed to save (and deduct) $18k for their retirement while others are only allowed $5.5k?
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I would think that employers would be happy if they didn't need to manage 401K plans. It would be one less thing for them to do if employees just signed up for automatic IRA deductions with payroll and provided IRA account numbers in c
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That doesn't invalidate the fact that Canadian savers have more options for what to do with their retirement savings. Largely because they're not beholden to their employers for getting a retirement savings plan in the first place
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Thanks for clarifying that.
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> The other 1% are working at firms like Berkshire Hathaway. Berkshire Hathaway is a conglomerate owning a wide variety of businesses. Not every employee working there is a finance whiz.
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> To wit, your employer, not you, chooses your 401(k) investment options and your choices may be less than optimal either because your employer doesn't know any better or because your employer's interests are different from you
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I don't think there's anything wrong about instant messaging anyone on a work-approved platform, about work, at any time of day. Expecting a real-time response is unrealistic though.
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by jogjayr 9y ago
It's true that an MS is advantageous when applying for an H-1B (albeit an advantage that has been steadily eroding over the years). But equally attractive is the vastly better quality of instruction, facilities, and opportunities avail
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Citation needed. That's not the case in the SF Bay Area, Manhattan/Brooklyn, Vancouver, or Toronto. The new tax bill's provisions to cap mortgage interest deductions has further tilted the balance against expensive houses.
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> I could, tomorrow, go buy a duplex, triplex, or quad with only 3% down and immediately rent out all units except the one I’m living in. But that's not something an average person does. The poster I replied to was speaking of real
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> because of a new housing policy, it's possible their home could drop quite a bit in value Is that even true though? If an area can become more densely zoned because of higher demand, isn't your property more valuable now? I
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> The problem is that no one wants to live there because living in dense cities for whatever reason is extremely appealing now. I think you answered the "whatever reason" with your next sentence. > The price of a house grows
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> you need to pay for housing either way. Yes but you don't have to pay the same amounts. There's a reason "rent-or-buy" calculators exist.
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Do we really want the "average person" investing with leverage? That didn't go so well 10 years ago. Besides, GP stated that real estate ownership was the "only way" for Joe-sixpack to get into the middle-class. Hom
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by jogjayr 9y ago
> Buying a desirable home in a solid market is pretty much the only way for an average person earning the median wage to make it into the middle class. There's also low-cost index funds and ETFs...cheaper, lower barrier for entry, m
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by jogjayr 9y ago
> I like Facebook to keep up with friends who I don't get to see very often...For example, I literally haven't seen some of my high school friends since we graduated 22 years ago, but I know all about their kids and families an
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by jogjayr 9y ago
For non-Indian readers "Vijay Nagar" is a neighborhood named "Vijay", "IFCCO Chowk" is an intersection named "IFFCO" (yes sometimes intersections have names and the names often have nothing to do with
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Uber accused of silencing women who claim sexual assault by drivers(theguardian.com)
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As someone who has tried and failed at entrepreneurship using unfamiliar tech, I'd advise you to treat your startup's work and "learning new tech" work as completely separate. Use the tech that you're most familiar
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As soon as I saw the screenshot from Empire with the unit actions menu ("Fortify", "Wait", "Sentry", "Disband") I was blown away. I had no idea the idea of this combat system was that old!
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> I feel self driving cars need to do everything humans do and then 10x better to succeed I hope that's not the case. Even if self-driving cars are only as good as the median human driver, a universal rollout of that tech would save
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So that you can roll them down and don't need to run the air-conditioning/heating all the time? Examples: 1. Good weather, sub-freeway speeds. Large parts of the US (and the world) have good weather for most of the year. 2. Going
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A taxi driver does not to know how an engine. But I'd be amazed if a professional race car driver didn't understand their car. We all expect software engineers, regardless of specialization, to understand operating systems, networ
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That's a great question and I had to think a lot about how to answer it. I think there are 2 aspects to consider whether something is worth learning: relevance to your current skills, and use of the knowledge. We insist, especially whe

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