mikem170

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by mikem170 1y ago
Reagan cut regulation, and manufacturing still left, quick as ever. I assume that is due to larger trends. Population growth has slowed considerably and there's more competition than ever. Worldwide fertility rates have dropped from 4.
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The Japanese deal with this by zoning policies being set at a national level. Localities pretty much can decide what part of town the smelly/industrial businesses go, and the rest scales based on population. The locality will plan wher
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The home businesses in Japan are supposed to be low-impact. It sounds like the airbnb you mentioned was not. Japan has a set of regulations for airbnb rentals [0], depending on the size of the living space, whether it is owner-occupied, or
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by mikem170 1y ago
It's my understanding that houses in Japan are zoned to allow a percentage of the space to be used for a low-impact business, like the coffee shop in the article, and that bigger businesses are allowed on the bigger roads and in dedica
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Isn't intent usually decided by a jury/court, taking the actions of the alleged perp into account? Most law breakers won't just admit their guilt, and most legal systems don't let defendants unilaterally declare themselv
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I wouldn't agree that using an understandable word that's in the merriam-webster dictionary is being ignorant or lazy. Nor would I call something AI slop because of a single word, without otherwise engaging with the content. I do
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by mikem170 1y ago
The word "conversate" is in the dictionary [1], labelled as "non-standard". That doesn't mean it's not a word. Most people would be able to easily infer its meaning. English is a living language, words come and
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Then again having an extra $2k in the bank might prove beneficial - perhaps preventing a personal catastrophe in a the near future. Or open doors that might make a significant difference down the road. Risk is complicated, anything could ha
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by mikem170 1y ago
What about taxes? The corporate tax rate was much higher during the 1950s and 1960s [0], which would seem to encourage companies to invest in research to grow their business instead of giving the government the money. I don't have a st
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by mikem170 1y ago
That's half the story... As you said, McConnell and the Republican Senate refused to hold hearings on Obama's Supreme Court nominee, in March more than seven months before the election 2016 election - "Give the people a voice
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It is my understanding that the normal procedures mandate that government supplied locked down devices be used for classified communications, not personal phones running Israeli cloud-connected messaging apps. This is comparable to everyone
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Is this [0] the Snopes article you were talking about, on the Bernie Sander rally? They rate it "mostly true" and in the summary mentioned the true attendance and the false photo, just like you said they should have. I don't
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They've always seemed informative and do a good job of showing their sources. How big a deal is the single-word true/false judgement for an ambiguous claim if all the relevant details are summarized?
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by mikem170 1y ago
> Obamas biofuels come to mind triggering the arab spring by raising bread prices. Why do you call them "Obama biofuels" when biofuel mandates were passed while Bush was president? Standards for biofuels appeared in the Energy
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by mikem170 2y ago
Might be a way to give the post office something useful to do. They already have offices everywhere.
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by mikem170 2y ago
Small usb bluetooth dongles work, they show up as a regular audio device. I use one and sndiod can set set to automatically switch back and forth to it. I run openbsd on my laptop, a thinkpad x260 with an ssd, and it works great.
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by mikem170 2y ago
My rule of thumb while travelling: Most people are good and will help you if go up to them and ask, and most of the people who initiate contact with you want your money. While travelling I've never had a problem walking up to someone p
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by mikem170 2y ago
I appreciate the input, but that doesn't really answer my question.
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> I feel like this is some overly romanticized picture coming from Americans or rich northern europeans who think people in southern Europe are lazy and chilling all day instead of working their butts off I understand what you mean, but
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> For this reason I think WFH is a massively more risky social experiment than most realize. It works for folks who were either already inclined to "go out and do things" or those who already had established social groups. We w
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One factor: It's an investment that you can get for 20% down, or less. You can't borrow that much to gamble in the stock market. All is well as long as the value of the house doesn't go down. People like the idea of making mo
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by mikem170 2y ago
Does that mean all self reported studies are worthless, in your opinion?
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by mikem170 2y ago
So it's possible that the numbers have changed even more than this study shows?
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> A simple change ... may skew numbers over years Is this your guess, or is there other conflicting data?
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You've got plenty of money, you're living on 1% of your savings, which is great - controlling expenses is significant. You should be able to invest the money with the goal of beating inflation and grow your pile. There's peop
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Then maybe the government (i.e. the public) should pay for more of these regulations, as opposed to unfunded mandates, which small operators cannot afford. In the example of the individual doctor's office, perhaps the government should
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> substantial increase in quality of life crime and petty crime Do you have any sources for that? I was only able to find numbers on violent crime, which have gone down recently, and weren't as bad as thirty years ago. The 70s throu
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Did that have anything to do with the cancellation of congestion pricing? I heard that was supposed to generate $16 billion through 2030 for the MTA.
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Your game reminds me of some ideas I've kicked around, with players being nobles of some type, and having the same point of view (receiving updates and sending orders). In my game these player nobles would functionally act as kings&#x2
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U.S. citizens are arrested and convicted for breaking laws in other countries all the time. It's rare that they get out of it because they are a foreigner. It doesn't matter if the laws and punishments are different - whether that

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