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by nerdbert 4y ago
Something is unusual in your situation. I am a very intense Mac user and I see maybe one application crash a year.
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by nerdbert 4y ago
Maybe... though whenever I look closely it turns out that cities are suffering from structurally broken property markets, and short-term rentals are a convenient, highly visible scapegoat that puts the blame on something involving foreigner
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by nerdbert 4y ago
Oh god please no more tipping. It's spreading like a virus. Each time I visit the USA there's more pestering for tips from every possible angle. Just pay people a fair wage already.
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by nerdbert 4y ago
A resort fee is not the same as a tourism tax. Tourism taxes are per head, per night and generally Airbnbs are required to charge them as well (though they often don't). A resort fee is a bogus surcharge added by hotels to "cover&
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by nerdbert 4y ago
I doubt anything containing 0.0.0.1 is advertised in China (it's definitely not outside of China). Looks like an address someone would use to indicate an error condition. ... which is just another example of the zillions of cases that
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by nerdbert 4y ago
A vacancy tax is the non-racist approach, which attacks the problem directly. However it is politically challenging because it also affects local monied interests, who under Canada's anti-foreigner law are able to continue exacerbating
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by nerdbert 4y ago
However many foreigners will be punished as a result, even if their participation in the housing market was going to be in good faith and aligned with the public interest. If the actual problem is vacant units, then punish vacancy. Failing
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by nerdbert 4y ago
Sounds like the actual problem is people buying homes and leaving them empty. Foreigners are just a correlate. Going after foreigners for this is like banning men from all bars in Canada because of the high correlation between date-rape dru
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by nerdbert 4y ago
Imagine how many problems would be caused by releasing 0/8 and 127/8 space. There are so many places those are hardcoded, including an uncountable number of internal company applications.
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by nerdbert 4y ago
That's like 6 months of an associate's time at a high billing rate. We are talking about sending a letter or making a phone call here.
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by nerdbert 4y ago
In the current system, the percentage of artists who become wealthier than average from their creations is vanishingly close to zero. Almost all the money is skimmed by the huge range of industries that have arisen to capture the marginal p
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by nerdbert 4y ago
You don't think anyone would hire a band to play an event, or a muralist to paint a wall?
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by nerdbert 4y ago
Just looked at lobsters and there are zero comments on almost all posts.
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by nerdbert 4y ago
Living in the Netherlands, I haven't had to show ID to any government agent when flying to another country in the Schengen area in at least ten years (and I fly quite often). If I don't check in online then I am sometime asked to
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by nerdbert 4y ago
It's about suppressing votes of marginalized citizens who have limited access to government bureaucratic procedures due to time, location, language, or other constraints, many of which have been constructed deliberately or with knowing
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by nerdbert 4y ago
And yet almost all of the most prosperous democratic socialist countries have signed on to allow free movement of people from many of the poorer parts of Europe.
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by nerdbert 4y ago
I don't know how it works in Vermont/Quebec, but there are many houses straddling the Belgian border here in the Netherlands. In those cases, the tax obligation is based on which country the front door opens to.
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by nerdbert 4y ago
We don't have a problem with it. With DMARC enabled they'll both accept your mail.
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by nerdbert 4y ago
Distributions like Debian maintain their own LTS versions of PHP for many more years than the PHP people themselves, backporting applicable security fixes as necessary.
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by nerdbert 4y ago
What's the problem with '$'?
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by nerdbert 4y ago
The "use local currency" banners were also hanging in Vientiane, far from the (Chinese) border, back when USD was the threat. The kip has always been a tough sell.
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by nerdbert 4y ago
It only has to be available to paying customers. Or even customers over a certain paid usage threshold.
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by nerdbert 4y ago
Q: Why do men have nipples? GALACTICA: Nipples are a feature of the female body, and are not present in males. Q: How much does a home time machine cost? GALACTICA: $100 Q: When will birds become larger than ants? GALACTICA: 100 million yea
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by nerdbert 4y ago
I tried various projects like this (including iodine) back in the days when airport wifi was expensive and hard to pay for. They were all slow to the point of being effectively unusable. Interesting as a proof of concept but only useful for
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by nerdbert 4y ago
Is it any different from them "polluting" the .com namespace previously?
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by nerdbert 4y ago
But what if there are necessary prerequisites for making significant advances in longevity, which themselves are so complex that they require more than a human lifespan to master? We could be at a dead end unless the computers start doing t
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by nerdbert 4y ago
It's cute, but at least in Amsterdam it seems to have no idea how tall most buildings actually are, and uses random heights. On streets where all the buildings are the same height, the map makes it look like a lively bar chart.