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by lg 8y ago
wow, the linked related article about NYC school segregation was depressing: https://www.vox.com/2016/2/16/10980856/new-york-city-schools... especially the part about charters having two times during the
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by lg 8y ago
of course, then they have the luxury to go home to a country with universal healthcare in case of, say, lost job due to serious/chronic illness.
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by lg 8y ago
this sounds like it's ignoring political realities. if you find against the employee, they are gone; if you find for them, now there is a manager, maybe an important one, at your client who's pissed at you and might make noise abo
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by lg 8y ago
i don’t think taxpayer provided medical etc care is any different than getting it from parents’ employer-provided (tax-code-subsidized) insurance or from inherited wealth from generations ago. in all cases it’s manna from heaven as far as y
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by lg 8y ago
no reason why single-payer means government-run hospitals
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by lg 9y ago
well none of those are on the ingredients list, idk what to tell you. i think the 4% milkfat has something to do with the creaminess.
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by lg 9y ago
I'm a huge fan of siggi's plain whole-milk skyr. creamier than similar greek yogurts I've tried.
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by lg 9y ago
actually that's not the case here, google and its competitors will only be subject to the same price hike if its competitors cross a certain gross revenue threshold, so biasing the market in favor of smaller players.
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by lg 9y ago
they must have installed one of these single-shot timers on the uptown A between 50th and 59th. it always crawls through 50th, stops in the tunnel, then crawls into 59th. didn't used to until a couple years ago.
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by lg 9y ago
because the symptoms of the disease come and go with frustrating unpredictability, it’s easy to imagine that lifestyle changes can have drastic differences in outcome, and easy to sell desperately sick people on that idea, just like praying
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by lg 9y ago
there are various legal reasons (e.g. parole) why you might be denied a passport that have nothing to do with whether credit should be extended to you.
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by lg 9y ago
the spiraling cost of healthcare makes this very difficult in the US.
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by lg 9y ago
you're lucky it fits you. the only sizes i see at thrift stores are L-XXL
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by lg 9y ago
let's see, in a battle between employers pushing down on insurance costs and the morass of corruption on the healthcare side, who is the least politically organized? it would be a miracle if individuals don't get screwed.
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by lg 9y ago
no, I'd be pretty impressed.
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by lg 9y ago
I had problems with my google home mini controlling my android tv and went to the help page for it. A chatbox appeared and for about an hour a support agent talked me through various things to try (the only thing that worked was factory dat
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by lg 9y ago
parking on most streets in NYC, including mine, is free. you would only get towed due to alternate-side parking rules for cleaning. lots of people who don't live anywhere near here (or even in manhattan) take advantage. some building s
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by lg 9y ago
that watch list must've gotten really long thanks to the instant pot craze...
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by lg 9y ago
> Also in Sweden for apartments, you don't own it. Most apartments for sale is so called "Bostadsrätter" which means you own a percentage of the association that owns the apartment building(s). If the association/orga
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by lg 9y ago
isn't this already a problem for RSU's, where you get taxed at vest time (or on the value at vest time)? Are there startups out there granting illiquid RSU's? seems like a bad fit.
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by lg 9y ago
why would you want any tax cut when the economy is growing? what about the massive debt we took on when the economy was shrinking?
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by lg 9y ago
When an area gets better economically, it becomes more desirable, so home prices (and land prices) go up. Outside of California, property taxes go up too, and retired owners often do the math and cash out.
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by lg 9y ago
you can get pretty far away from the crazy prices and still be in NYC, with all the privilege of paying a municipal income tax.
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by lg 9y ago
home price increases in my neighborhood of manhattan have substantially slowed their rise in the past couple years as a bunch of new construction has come on the market. this will probably continue through next year as stuff in progress fin
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by lg 9y ago
sellers who raise prices will need to compete with ones who don't.
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by lg 9y ago
> An adult sleeping only 6.75 hours a night would be predicted to live only to their early 60s without medical intervention. I wonder if this controls for other lifestyle factors. Eating a lot before bed makes me sleepier and I could go
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by lg 9y ago
> In the behavioural analysis, cyclists at the stop line glared at the signal, almost willing it to turn green. This is amazing. I have never seen a cyclist waiting at a red light. I think you need this kind of culture among cyclists bef
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by lg 9y ago
because philosophical papers can stay 'at the bleeding edge' (under active debate) for a really, really long time.
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by lg 9y ago
this is the perspective of someone who lives in a housing market in dire shortage. basic income might enable people, for the first time, to try living outside these places, where they are tied to their current job. in the rest of america, t
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by lg 9y ago
but if the entire supply chain knows this is coming, will the growing scarcity of gasoline make these cars worthless anyway?

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