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Gig economy: California bill granting employee status passes assembly(theguardian.com)
3 points by lr 7y ago|0 comments
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by lr 7y ago
"hired car" // been in use for decades "ride for hire" "car for hire" "fee for service"
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by lr 7y ago
Not to mention that, as a contractor, they have to pay SS and Medicare payroll taxes, which total an additional 7.65%. So, that $20/hour, given the overall expenses, is probably not even equivalent to the new NYC minimum wage of $15&#x
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by lr 7y ago
Can we please stop referring to these services as "sharing"? Lyft actually started as a company that coordinated the sharing of rides, i.e., no money was involved. But the "sharing" pretense has long since past for all o
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by lr 7y ago
The whole point of surge pricing is to get more drivers on the street. If they decrease it that quickly, then there is zero incentive for a driver to leave their house and get in their car and get out on the street, because by the time they
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by lr 7y ago
Some people actually do not want to be at home (I once had a taxi driver who drove us from Manhattan to Brooklyn, then waited for us to go home, hours later, all the while texting his family that he had to keep working). Also, leaving the c
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by lr 7y ago
As has been noted by several other posters, western countries have exported their recyclable trash to China for years. That has pretty much come to a halt, and I don't think it will be long before countries like the US realize just wha
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Is Conference Room Air Making You Dumber?(nytimes.com)
2 points by lr 7y ago|0 comments
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by lr 7y ago
I know Elon loves cars (and rockets), but what about selling batteries for other things? BMW sells its batteries for electric vessels (boats). It would be great (for the world at large) if Tesla did the same.
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by lr 8y ago
This is the real "sharing economy"! The planet is not going to be survivable for humans and many other species if we don't start cooperating. If that means one has to give up enforcing their own patents in order to take advan
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by lr 8y ago
Exactly! And it also does not stop Netflix from playing by the MPAA's rules, which have requirements for showing the film in a theatre for a given period of time. Newcomers love to throw out the "rules" (or outright knowingly
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by lr 8y ago
The Academy Awards are for "movies" that are to be projected onto a screen in a movie theatre. Netflix has chosen to not play by the rules that govern that way of distributing a film. There is no antitrust in this case. Now, if th
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by lr 8y ago
NYC streets are worse because of 250,000+ (obviously, not all at the same time) Uber/Lyft/Via/etc. vehicles being on the streets. I don’t care if there is demand, they have made congestion worse, period. I think all municipal
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by lr 8y ago
The cars parked across the sidewalk are individuals parking their car at home. Bird scooters littering the sidewalks is a business model. How do you not understand the difference?
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by lr 8y ago
I love how Hollywood gives us futuristic UIs from movies like Iron Man, the Matrix, etc. And then you have Google. They predict a future that looks like...to use another Hollywood reference, The Truman Show.
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by lr 8y ago
If someone were to directly buy a distressed property in one of these zones using money from capital gains, and fix it up (and even live there for 5-10 years), would they realize the same tax benefit as investing in a "fund"?
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Yuki Kawauchi Is Distance Running’s Elite Oddball(nytimes.com)
30 points by lr 8y ago|3 comments
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by lr 8y ago
I am in NYC, which is pretty far east in the timezone (although not as east as others), and I still vote for DST being the permanent time.
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by lr 8y ago
Who do you think passes the laws that are then (supposedly) enforced by law enforcement and the judicial system?
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by lr 8y ago
Nor have health care.
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by lr 8y ago
This guy actually goes to a lithium "mine" in the middle of the desert... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KX2qw79qpk
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by lr 8y ago
I think both the US and Australia (and probably other countries), should just do away with the $50 and $100 bills. It becomes a lot more inconvenient if you have to carry around 5 times as many briefcases of cash for illegal transactions.
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Clocks Slow in Europe? Blame Kosovo-Serbia Row(nytimes.com)
3 points by lr 9y ago|0 comments
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by lr 9y ago
Even the super strong HDPE bags at "luxury" grocery stores like Citarella, Grace's Market, Agata and Valentina, etc., get double bagged for absolutely no reason other than this is what the people who shop at these places have
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by lr 9y ago
I bought a Performa 6360 (the lowest-end Mac that could run the BeOS at the time) so I could run the BeOS. Even the installer blew me away (you could move the dialog around while it was installing, and it was updating live on the screen). I
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by lr 9y ago
Not sure what city you live in, but the ad on the top of the cab is not "the light". I can't imagine a fare system that is not hooked directly to the actual "driver is available for a fare" light, i.e., once the far
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by lr 9y ago
I would think it would be more about "managing" the resource, than income to a government, but I could be wrong.
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by lr 9y ago
Don't forget about using collection agencies to collect local government fines. Like, how a $30 parking ticket eventually turns into $1000 and ruined credit.
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by lr 9y ago
Before the tax info was public, they still fined people based on their income; they just expected people to tell the truth. They have even gone back and re-fined rich people who they found to have lied (back before officers could look up th
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by lr 9y ago
Every single state employee’s salary in the state of California is public. Look it up yourself: sacbee.com/statepay (warning, horrible search mechanism). The UC system alone has 250,000 people. Student salary data is the only data anon

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