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by mikem170 4y ago
I think they were referring to how the article seemed to be one-sided. It didn't mention any of the controversy around their activities, like the article link [0] provided by the (currently) top rated comment in this discussion, which
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> Property theft and wage theft are two very different categories of theft. This kind of reinforces the parent's point. They are both theft (shoplifting and wage theft), and yet so many people are ok ignoring the numerically worse p
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I agree that perl can be complex, its feature list is longer than C. Trying to be artistic in it, to me, means trying to make it so my code reads as much like pseudo-code as is reasonably possible. At its best the users are able to read the
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It's more than just framing. It's one set of people telling another set of people what they can and cannot do with the land they own. That seems to be a bit of a tie breaker. The parent you replied to wasn't telling other peo
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From the article: > the policy that Charlotte approved last week: abolishing single-family zoning. Charlotte’s Comprehensive Plan prescribes legalizing duplexes and triplexes citywide, giving more people more access to more types of hous
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Thanks for the additional explanation. You seem to be describing how people bid on houses with offers based on the highest mortgage payment they can afford, and this sets the market prices for housing. I don't argue that this is not a
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I think that I follow what you are saying, but what happens now that first time buyers have to pay higher interest rates, and can't afford a large enough loan to tempt sellers out of the low-rate 30 year fixed mortgages that they are c
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I think I follow, but I'm not sure if you're capturing all the factors. For example, let's say you lived in Canada and bought a house 4 years ago for $300k with a 5 year 3% mortgage. You can't get a 30 year mortgage in
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On the one hand, if the government helps to lower mortgage interest rates, which they have, then they are acting to increase the price of housing some amount, given the laws of supply and demand. In Canada and the UK people will have to ref
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> an FHA mortgage only requires 3-5% down and a credit score of someone with a pulse Those kinds of loans are a huge government subsisdy, contributing quite a bit to the unaffordability of housing. So many mortgages today are backed by
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What's the worst that happens, someone buys an older roomba without a camera, or gets some exercise using a vacuum? Is it a bad thing if people err on the side of being too private, for a change, instead of blindly trusting big tech tr
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I brought up in-store security because the police force is not designed to prevent property crimes in progress, which is what the top-post I replied to seemed to be talking about. There are places that do this. I agree it is far less than i
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Security guards legally could do more than observe and report, but for understandable reasons (liability and pay, I assume) it is the policy of large stores not that do so. Moonlighting police officers are better trained and cost a lot more
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Understood. That's probably how we got to the current situation, given that large stores don't want to have to deal with the liability of thousands of employees having to make these decisions. We have these large anonymous cities
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Those are all valid points, about store security guards. Some of what you said applies if the police are doing this work, also - the costs (to society), violence (putting police in harms way to protect store items), the d.a. (and lack of ja
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> Walgreens has security guards, they can't do anything physical. I think this is store policy, not the law. > Shoplifting is a crime as it is a form of larceny or theft. Different states may refer to shoplifting in different way
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> It’s interesting to me that private citizens and businesses in some places can reliably expect that the law won’t protect them The courts have ruled that there's no obligation for the police to protect and serve [0]. The police ha
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> this was an okay response because they stole from a big company, felt it was a victimless crime. I wonder if Walgreens thought about hiring their own security guards. It seems to make sense to pay for your own security, right? I assume
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> You will never gain the ability to pick and choose what your taxes fund This is interesting to think about, though. Ideally people shouldn't be forced to pay for things they are opposed to, right? Or do we just take it for granted
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> That water isn't destroyed, it'll be back eventually, assuming we're not consuming fossil water. I agree. But I'd add that the idea of a mist shower is great if you are doing something off-grid or boondocking in a c
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I too like things my way, and got sick of having to fiddle to keep things working... I settled on openbsd. I've got two thinkpad laptops (which are well supported), and a vps. I've tried to avoid apps and customizations that are m
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> I will never understand how some working class Americans can be against unions I've wondered if this is because unions in the U.S. are considerably different than unions in other places? This was an interesting article [0] I bumpe
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That assumes that people would not have changed their habits around sex and birth control. I've heard this is what has been happening in states that recently restricted abortion. Also there are illegal abortions, which have always been
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I'm a numbers guy. I happened to just stumble onto this article [0], summarizing a study on the vaccines and long covid: > Compared to an unvaccinated individual, the risk of long Covid in a fully vaccinated individual was cut by on
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I happened to stumble across this [0], on the effectiveness of a third covid vaccination for 18-29 year olds, while looking for recent (omicron) studies quantifying how well vaccines keep people out of hospitals, and thought I'd pass i
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That's a good answer to this. They should be responsible for what the algorithm decides to inject into people's feeds, when they are acting as a publisher. If they don't have enough resources to review the outputs from their
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> Private property is also inherently oppressive, you need to violence to maintain it. I'd also add that those with an interest in profit often end up using resources that are held in common, to the detriment of everyone else, which
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> decision making when you're working with other people in a real world environment I've always thought this is important. So much of modern day politics is far removed, abstract, and/or impersonal. In our current system w
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> Confederating doesn't work. The US tried that back in the 1700s and it was a disaster I'm not sure what you mean that confederacy doesn't work. The U.S. has always been a confederation of states, as per the current const
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> Basically, you live in a fantasy world. Hoping to make the world a better place, via more democracy... I objected to your original assertion that we should consolidate states in the U.S., because that would be less democratic, and I th

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