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by mcntsh 2y ago
Objectively untrue.
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by mcntsh 2y ago
So once all of the workers get replaced with AI who's going to buy the products these companies sell?
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by mcntsh 2y ago
You could say that some residents aren't paying their fair share, but I'll have to be convinced that California lacks the tax revenue to fix such problems.
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by mcntsh 2y ago
Wow the HN crowd is younger than I thought. Voicemail
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by mcntsh 2y ago
No "they" pay you to ship features.
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by mcntsh 2y ago
People think too much about these things.
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by mcntsh 2y ago
If you opened up a business selling water bottles, you'd probably check what price water sells at across brands, then decide in which segment to price it. "I want to sell my water at the upper end and market it as a gourmet brand&
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by mcntsh 2y ago
Wage fixing is when multiple companies agree to set wages at a certain amount. Sharing compensation data across companies doesn't necessarily mean wage fixing. Company A can use the compensation data from Company B to try and compete b
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by mcntsh 2y ago
The problem is that it's extremely failure prone and not instant. Gotta wait for the buyer to make the transfer, you gotta wait for the transfer to go through, you gotta hope that the buyer put in the order number in the description.
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by mcntsh 2y ago
For p2p transactions yeah but most financial institutions lack the tooling necessary to make taking payments for orders viable.
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by mcntsh 2y ago
Imagine you are an sized e-commerce merchant. Someone checks out on your website and sends you a bank transfer. Then what? You go through your ledger (bank account), find the transaction with an order ID as a memo (hopefully the buyer added
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by mcntsh 2y ago
What changed in 2024 compared to 1924 when it comes to cooking your own food? Kitchen/living situations in cities were much worse then and people stayed alive then without Doordash... why is that not possible now? You even have access
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by mcntsh 2y ago
What exactly do you think that people did before fast food and delivery?
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by mcntsh 2y ago
Yeah if you need to shop for a household every day, but usually you can do it once or twice a week and be fine. People do it all around the world, people who are much much poorer than Americans, people who also do not have cars, people who
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by mcntsh 2y ago
Everyone has time to cook... it takes way less time make a sandwich than it does to go pick up takeout.
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by mcntsh 2y ago
Did you know that the US has one of the best income-to-housing-price ratios in the world?
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by mcntsh 2y ago
I don't really understand your point... that the problem is non-local people making money on housing? Even if it was only local people making money on housing this would be a net negative to local residents. Housing that exists is plac
78.
by mcntsh 2y ago
Probably the vast majority of local residents aren't landlords making money on tourist housing...
79.
by mcntsh 2y ago
Tourists sleep in spaces that could be houses for residents.
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by mcntsh 2y ago
I have a "car subscription" in Germany, which is kinda like a rental car but for longer periods (mine is 1 year). The subscription covers the cost of registration/taxes/maintenance/insurance and I cover fuel and par
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by mcntsh 2y ago
Well most people are struggling as it is, so obviously the prospect of increasing your responsibilities and also reducing your income doesn't seem worth it... If governments were serious about falling birth rates they would invest in t
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by mcntsh 2y ago
Parental leave in Sweden is 80% of your salary and maxes out at 2500 a month for both partners... In Germany it maxes out at 1800. These aren't incentives since you'd be LOSING money by taking parental leave... > child benefits
83.
by mcntsh 2y ago
Which generous financial supports are you talking about?
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by mcntsh 2y ago
They could also do better to incentivize their own people to have families. It doesn't have to be one of two sides of the neoliberal dystopian coin.
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by mcntsh 2y ago
German cars are notorious for having unreliable electrical components. Now imagine the whole car is electric.
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by mcntsh 3y ago
Consumers have the same access to goods in both the US and Europe, but Americans have a much higher carbon footprint.
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by mcntsh 3y ago
Blame is a big issue though. No one is willing to take responsibility for their own behaviors which means ultimately nothing gets done. People will just keep buying bigger cars, taking more international vacations, consuming more single use
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by mcntsh 3y ago
This is why I love Germany, because you don't have to ask questions like this. You have the right to take a year off (or more) as a father and mother and the state pays you.
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by mcntsh 3y ago
In Germany there's no such thing as a "housing ladder," and yet the situation is much worse here than in the US. I don't think the housing ladder can be blamed alone.
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by mcntsh 3y ago
I've seen a couple around Berlin and they're noticably large. In French cities the streets/cars/parking spaces are even smaller.

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