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by netfire 10y ago
United isn't the first US airline to do this. I believe Spirit, Allegient and Frontier all charge for carry-on luggage -- but you can get flights for $20-40 one way, if you buy direct. You get what you pay for though...
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by netfire 10y ago
This is just not true. Both Trump and Clinton had some of the most unfavorable ratings of a presidential candidate for a major party in recent history.
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by netfire 10y ago
"will likely" vs "will"
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by netfire 10y ago
The title is a little misleading. The screenshot shows that Google is showing that "prices will likely increase" which is different than the "fares will increase" in the title. "fares might increase" would be m
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by netfire 10y ago
I think there is a big difference between working completely remote vs working an hour or two a day remote. Some companies provide flexibility to work remotely when a person is sick or has to be home to get a package or be there for a repai
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by netfire 10y ago
I'm wondering if it will continue to decrease as demand decreases. If the amount was eventually lowered to go up by something like $5, it might be sustainable for quite a while...
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by netfire 11y ago
This just isn't true. Small businesses can't afford to hire accountants and set up and manage global offices and tax codes. That means small companies are disproportionately taxed for their profits. In addition, isn't the who
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by netfire 11y ago
It's relevant because companies that are not multi-national can't afford to engage in these sort of tax reducing practices. If you want to get rid of corporate taxes altogether, that would be different, but suggesting that it&#x27
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by netfire 11y ago
Couldn't Colorado just use the additional tax income for more long-term projects (building new schools or upgrading existing ones, for example) or products that could enhance education in schools (more computers, tablets, textbooks, et
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by netfire 11y ago
It would be interesting to see a cost breakdown of the police, EMT and fire department labor, transit and equipment costs too see the potential savings (or lack thereof). Given that the SFFD is only responding 1.5% of the time to fire-relat
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by netfire 11y ago
You've got to draw the line somewhere. There's always situations where having more people/resources would have made the difference between life and death. In an ideal world, you've have a fire station on every block, ded
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by netfire 11y ago
The EMTs aren't going to sit around, they are going to be performing first aid and calling the fire station for additional assistance. Do we really need to incur such additional cost on the odd chance that first responders will need to
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by netfire 11y ago
Yes, it makes sense to have firefighters with better equipment/muscle power present in those cases (the smashed car is also a potential fire hazard). Those seem like more edge cases (most people don't weigh 600 lbs and most car ac
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by netfire 11y ago
Right. I'd definitely share the video feeds not only with the 911 dispatchers, but with local fire, police and EMT workers, so everyone is on the same page and could provide additional insight from their knowledge of the area and/
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by netfire 11y ago
Why use firefighters at all in situations where there isn't the potential for a fire to happen? It seems like police and any needed EMT workers could handle the situation without needing bigger fire trucks that are more expensive to ru
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by netfire 11y ago
Agreed, that's what I would choose as well, but would the people that are already homeless make that decision as well? It seems like part of getting someone off the street is building a support system to help them stay on the path to r
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by netfire 11y ago
You obviously need to address the core issues of homelessness first. But then what? Once someone has marketable skills, mental health treatment and is in a better condition to contribute to society, do you ask them to leave the city because
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by netfire 11y ago
Requiring a picture seems like a little much, but having the option of some sort of video chat for 911 calls (maybe like Facetime with a cellular audio call fallback) seems like it could provide a number of benefits, both in eliminating fal
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by netfire 11y ago
"By the end of this year 500 new single-occupancy units will be built and existing homeless resources will be expanded." Are these units temporary housing for people on the street? What does the path away from homelessness look li
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by netfire 11y ago
Yeah, perhaps a better solution might be to have the federal or state government impose fines on local city governments for incidents where citizens' constitutional rights are infringed. I'm not as interested in personal compensat
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by netfire 11y ago
True, but I believe such stops have to be for every car passing through a checkpoint or some other non-discriminatory 'random' way (every 4th car, for example). The stop in question here was clearly unconstitutional, as the appell
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by netfire 11y ago
Can you sue someone simply for the violation of your constitutional rights? In this case, the defendant had to pay fines, was a victim of false arrest, spent 25 days in jail and changed jobs to avoid driving through the town. What I'm
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by netfire 11y ago
“Godwin’s testimony shows a complete lack of knowledge of the restraints imposed upon police conduct by the U.S. Constitution and the laws and Constitution of the State of Louisiana.” This. The 4th amendment protects against seizure (which
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by netfire 11y ago
That is the video title on Youtube and is the goal of the project, but the video itself shows a 100K ARM cores machine, not a million.
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by netfire 11y ago
Aren't they both official sites though, just of their respective versions? (although admittedly, Angular 2 is still in the Developer Preview stage)
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by netfire 11y ago
Why isn't there a single domain for the angular project? From what I can see there seems to be 2 main ones: angular.io (for angular 2) and angularjs.org (for angular 1.x) as well as angulardart.org and other sites for angular material
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by netfire 11y ago
Not true, unless the train is only hauling a single container (highly inefficient and impractical). Once a truck is loaded, it can leave. A train may have thousands of containers to load before departing, and may have to wait for other rail
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by netfire 11y ago
I'm not suggesting they should. My alternate solution was a toll based system where the trucks would pay extra for roads that can withstand the extra weight. You could just increase the weigh station fees, but then you'd have to m
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by netfire 11y ago
I agree that rail seems ideal and much more economical and environmentally friendly, but is the system designed to handle consumer shipping with its demands for quick delivery with tight deadlines? (Which I'd argue constitutes a large
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by netfire 11y ago
Unions seem like a good solution on the surface, but it seems like many unions quickly degrade into organizations focused more on self-preservation and expansion than looking after the interests and well-being of their members. It seems lik

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