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by jogjayr 7y ago
> the company just ate the paperwork legal costs and the role they hired for might not even stay filled for long, Would you expect a company to be able to retain US citizen employees if it underpaid or gave boring work? Switching jobs is
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It's a one-time grace period, not 60 days cumulative over a lifetime. The second time you get laid off without a new job in hand no grace period for you.
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Google's offers a bit more than "a search engine and Youtube." They also have Android, Maps, Drive, Chrome, Photos, Cloud, and hardware (Nest, Pixel, Chromebooks).
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India, and large parts of China and Africa will be heavily impacted by climate change, far more than the US. India and China are already taking it very seriously - building tons of renewable energy capacity, high taxes on fuel etc. And that
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by jogjayr 7y ago
> (E.g. a carbon tax in the US would do essentially nothing in the big picture, except create an economic disadvantage vs China and the rest of the world. Wrong on two counts. 1. It gives the US tremendous moral authority in demanding ch
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Your friend couldn't take a B12 supplement?
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> We HOPE drivers will drive less if the carbon tax hits their pocket book, but there is no guarantee. Gasoline costs twice as much in India as the US, and the average income is far less. People drive a lot less, use public transport, bu
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> Humans who cause accidents will have remorse and learn never to do it again, or be punished if alcohol was involved. With an AV, currently nobody knows. Easy to turn that around. Only individual humans learn from their mistakes - and e
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IIRC from reading his autobiography, his position was slightly more nuanced. It went something like the following: 1. The government requires Chrysler (like every other manufacturer) to put in catalytic converters and other things 2. But fo
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India's fertility rate is at the global average, has been dropping for decades, and that trend is expected to continue.
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> the wasteful rich will never create as big a carbon foot print as the countries with the billion+ population: india and china. They have done exactly that for all but the past 10 years or so. On a per-capita basis, they still emit way
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by jogjayr 7y ago
It's not blind Europhilia. You've presented one statistic, but I can't tell if it's good or bad. Of course there will be some accidents and injuries with any mode of transport. Are the numbers for biking better than the
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by jogjayr 7y ago
Electric bikes are the shit! Every single person who can ride a bike should own one. They can eliminate up to 75% of car trips[1] (those under 10 miles). You hardly notice hills, never get sweaty, and never have to worry about parking. The
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> There is no plan to upgrade infra! Maybe now that the law is in force, they'll start to make plans so they're ready. It wouldn't have made any sense to plan for higher density previously when laws forbade it.
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> Or parents with young children. Works in NL. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfLJ876lXsQ
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I'm aware that far-reaching changes need to occur in society and the economy to solve the climate crisis. Reduction of consumption, renewable energy, planting more forests, efficient transportation, heating and cooling, re-evaluating
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I can build those things on land zoned for those things, as long as I pass safety regulations, pay taxes and registration fees etc. The neighboring foundry can't say "Don't let them build a more efficient foundry next door be
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by jogjayr 7y ago
Unrelated question: VMMXX has a higher yield (2.35% currently) compared to VMFXX (2.29%) but also has a higher expense ratio (0.16% vs 0.11%). Do these cancel each other out?
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None of those are housing.
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If I'm a homeowner/landowner who wants to build a condo complex on my land to profit from increased demand, zoning laws don't allow me to. On my own land. YIMBY seems accurate to me.
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by jogjayr 7y ago
It's spelled "Nobel". I'm also not the first person to suggest it. So if it works, the prize wouldn't go to me. Either way you haven't made a case, or provided sources, for why it wouldn't work. Some metho
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by jogjayr 7y ago
Thanks for doing that calculation. I really appreciate that you put in that much work. > People killed by climate change 250,000/year Is that a current number? Or a projection of what might happen with 2 degree or 4 degree Celsius i
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Would stuffing it down in empty mine shafts or oil wells, and sealing up the opening, work?
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Paper straws won’t save the planet – we need a four-day week(theguardian.com)
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Inaction will lead to climate change killing millions of humans. If someone won't consider eating vegetarian more often, switching to chicken is far better from an ethical standpoint than doing nothing.
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> Balanced ventilation (not sure what the English term is) Heat exchanger: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_exchanger#HVAC_air_coils
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> Pak has vowed to use tactical nukes on any invading Indian force. True. But in a nuclear conflict there are no winners.
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Pakistan is nowhere near strong enough to defeat India in a conventional war. India would almost certainly lose a conventional war with China. All 3 nations have nukes. Doing anything more than maintaining that equilibrium is a waste of res
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Pakistan will use nukes if they feel like they're losing a conventional war.[1] 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_doctrine_of_Pakistan
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> Unbound population growth India's fertility rate is at or below the global average and has been falling for decades. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_and_d...

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