mikem170

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by mikem170 7y ago
>You don't suddenly get a new bill when someone is let go The link you provided mentioned that an employer may/will have to pay a higher percentage of unemployment payroll insurance/tax after more former employees collect
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by mikem170 7y ago
>This in Houston. They already have some of the most lax zoning in the country. Houston has zoning, they just don't call it zoning, and it's a mess. https://kinder.rice.edu/2015/09/08/forget-what
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by mikem170 7y ago
Both the U.S. and China spread propaganda. Both governments do bad things. Both do good things. The world is not black and white. You don't need to pit the two against each other. The world is a big place, with a varied history. We&#x2
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by mikem170 7y ago
> That is a market. What might improve matters for actual humans is a non-market solution of some kind of rationing. Max 1 per customer, locals preferred. Would be a much better market if supply were not restricted by so many zoning laws
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by mikem170 7y ago
Schwabb gives you an rsa token for the asking.
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by mikem170 7y ago
256k mp3 using youtube-dl. Works for me. To me 192k is borderline, 96k is very low. Prefer high quality lame vbr encoded, but I'll take what I can get :-)
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by mikem170 7y ago
In the U.S. it varies by state. Many/most states have a yearly inspection covering safety and emissions. Headlight alignment would be checked. I'm not sure about brightness. States that do not have yearly inspections leave it to p
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by mikem170 7y ago
There's pros and cons to the electoral college. At the moment the states can award electors however they want, including deciding on their own to commit them to the winner of the popular vote, as some have done. The states legislatures
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by mikem170 7y ago
A QR code can be displayed as a saved image. The Amazon Go app on Android requires the following permissions: Identity find accounts on the device add or remove accounts Contacts find accounts on the device Locat
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by mikem170 7y ago
I think it's $320 billion spent per month. ($320 billion x 10% vat = $32 billion revenue / 32 million people = $1000 per person per month) That just over $3.8 trillion per year of California spending that needs to be taxed at 10%.
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by mikem170 7y ago
an mssql user account
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by mikem170 7y ago
I bumped into that at the office - connecting from a linux server to a microsoft sql server. We were able to connect after installing unixodbc and microsoft's odbc driver for sql server on linux. Note that a local mssql account is requ
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by mikem170 7y ago
>It's a whole 'nother issue when you have "blacks-only water fountains"... And having rights means you can do horrible things cause it's your right. The idea would be that the federal constitution would be amende
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by mikem170 7y ago
I've been running Firefox on OpenBSD on a Thinkpad X260, for about a year, and it's been working great, including videos and scrolling.
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by mikem170 7y ago
>Capitalism is a prerequisite for lobbying. Regulations are not. I strongly disagree, or am missing your point. Is not the purpose of lobbying to get favorable treatment from those in power? What does capitalism have to do with it? Or do
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by mikem170 7y ago
As a thought experiment: What happens if a society stops having children? Eventually all of the adults become too old to work. They might have money in the bank, but there's nobody to grow food, pick up the trash, etc. The concern in t
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by mikem170 7y ago
Are you taking into account that health care is being delivered in most western European countries by for-profit doctors, clinics and hospitals? (the UK being the big exception) Also the U.K. is not one of the better systems out there. I&#x
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by mikem170 7y ago
> CCTVs are the number-one reason that South Korea has the 5th highest rate of people that think walking around in the dark is safe Seoul was considered very safe when I visited there ten years ago. I believe that was before CCTV cameras
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by mikem170 7y ago
Maybe the price of the product cannot be raised enough to cover the higher cost of an employee? Maybe those products don't get made, and nobody misses them.
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by mikem170 7y ago
That would seem to be a concern, but it didn't stop Massachusetts from implementing Romneycare, nor Vermont from passing a single payer system, nor NY and California making plans for the same. It was happening before the feds got invol
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by mikem170 7y ago
I didn't mean to make the case that we should forget about the whole thing because we're all going to die anyways. It's just that in this whole debate it seems we never have the honest discussion about how to deploy limited r
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by mikem170 7y ago
>The number of people who die due to lack of healthcare is ZERO for countries that have universal healthcare. The design of any health care system needs to acknowledge the fact that people are going to get sick and die even with an unlim
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by mikem170 7y ago
>I think having differing regulation in each and every state is the thing that will create complications. And having one federal system creates corruption - a one-stop shop for lobbyists. Do you really want congress and the president dec
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by mikem170 7y ago
I'm 100% opposed to federal health care, but would be in favor of letting the states do whatever they want. How about that? Like you said, small countries already do this. When 2/3 of the states can agree on a system then we make
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by mikem170 8y ago
Did you take into account that trees have died since the start of the industrial revolution, taking their carbon with them, and that new trees grew and are sequestering more carbon? I.e. if there were 200 GtC of trees and the average tree l
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by mikem170 8y ago
I wonder if this is all a problem of scale. Maybe it is unreasonable for us to expect very large companies and governments to be anything but corrupt and minimally responsive, nothing like the smaller scales that humans are evolved to deal