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by pandaman 3y ago
The afore-mentioned Austin had free-for-all "urban camping" 2019-2021 [1]. It took a referendum and a bunch of lawsuits to repeal.
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by pandaman 3y ago
Most houses consume electricity for the purposes other than heating too.
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by pandaman 3y ago
If it takes more than an hour of car travel then how long will it take without a car? I imagine your argument is that without cars the city wouldn't be as big, but the math doesn't work out: the travel time is proportional to the
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by pandaman 3y ago
> However if you have a niche interest you may discover not enough people live within range to support a place for your interest even though across the entire city there are enough people. How are the cars limiting here? It's quite
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by pandaman 3y ago
I am pretty sure Walmart does the same with their webservers. I am also pretty sure that your home is less secure than a Walmart store, for one Walmart has armed guards and your home does not. Will you apply your reasoning to yourself and w
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by pandaman 3y ago
I do buy industrial strength pesticides on Amazon but apparently if you were to buy off a reputable supplier you'd need to give your exterminator credentials. I spray Bayer's Polyzone outside and use Tempo between walls/floor
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by pandaman 3y ago
Given that roaches were affected by the GHI it appears they were immune to other pesticides and were not simply evading bait/poison? It could be the issue with the pesticides sold to consumers being too weak (understandable, as some co
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by pandaman 3y ago
You are using the term "straw man" but I don't think you understand what it means. The discussion so far: "Why police should prosecute theft in Walmart?", "Because Walmart pays taxes", "Are you sure (
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by pandaman 3y ago
Taxes are not fees for service, local governments though should be aware that if they suppress their major tax payers they should expect their tax revenue to decrease. It's counterproductive for them and the community to chase away lar
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by pandaman 3y ago
You can purchase copper pots and pans right now and they won't work still, it's not the time of purchase but the material. Non-ferrous materials won't work with induction. Copper, aluminum, clay, stone, glass etc. won't
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by pandaman 3y ago
I am not even sure what is the point you are trying to make. "Loopholes" is just reddit-speak for paying taxes. Do you take deductions on your own taxes? Do you challenge assessments on your property? Have any pre-tax deductions f
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by pandaman 3y ago
>Are you really so focused on just this one sort of crime, or does your opinion extend equally to all other crimes? In the US, there are thousands of crimes on the books, which are not enforced and are ridiculous [1]. So no, I do not thi
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by pandaman 3y ago
Emacs predates Lisp machines, but a version of Emacs was written in Lisp and used there (EINE[1]). The point of a Lisp machine was that it ran Lisp natively or, at least, closer to native than, say, a 8086 DOS box. 1. https://en.
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by pandaman 3y ago
That article does not say that Walmart does not pay local taxes but suggests that it should not have used legal allowances it was given and pay more than it should by law. Your shopping experience in Walmart does not seem to be relevant at
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by pandaman 3y ago
Police is funded with the local taxes: business, property and sales. Your articles show no evidence of Walmart not paying those, just the US taxes, which do not fund the police (at least directly, there are some federal grants to local po
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by pandaman 3y ago
This theory is always posted in these threads but there is no answer how come the places with the most expensive real estate have no homeless. Aspen, Hamptons, Malibu, Beverly Hills, Martha's Vineyard etc. etc. do not have homeless enc
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by pandaman 3y ago
I am not sure how your observation in Denver translates to SFBA? Some teardowns/lots will go for $550K or more, depending on location. It does not mean a house under $1M is unlivable in SFBA. Teardowns do not have staged interior pictu
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by pandaman 3y ago
Even in SF proper there are plenty of houses under 1M, much more in the Bay Area. Same with NYC: quite a lot of houses in the city proper, much more in NJ over the river [1]. >You’re only “qualified” for what you can make the down paymen
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by pandaman 3y ago
You mean top speed, probably. It's very unlikely that your small car can accelerate and decelerate at a similar rate to a high end sport car.
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by pandaman 3y ago
Common people != people who excluded themselves from the economy. Yet, even the OP who started this thread, while excluding him or herself from the economy still benefits from it, owning a vehicle, getting welfare payments and even receivi
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by pandaman 3y ago
If you define "high COL" as the area where you cannot afford a house on 300K income then sure, but you definitely can afford a house pretty much anywhere in the US with such an income, which qualifies you for over $1M loan.
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by pandaman 3y ago
The compensation for coders is high because there are few of those and the high compensation attracts job applications. I don't see any discrepancy here. If you could actually close any vacancy with one of the applications you got in a
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by pandaman 3y ago
I've tried Android Auto a couple of times and it was much worse than the BMW's iDrive for navigation and for the entertainment. Perhaps different consumers have different preferences?
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by pandaman 3y ago
That is orthogonal to having another citizenship, it affects anybody with just the US citizenship as same as somebody with a citizenship in every other country in the world all at once. >Tax implications only really affect you at high in
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by pandaman 3y ago
The US will tax its citizens no matter what other citizenship(s) they have.
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by pandaman 3y ago
Active Steering is dynamic. It's not in every BMW though, you can test if your car has it by turning the steering wheel when stopped: it should only require 2 turns between locks with AS.
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by pandaman 3y ago
It's a system that changes the ratio of the steering wheel rotation to the wheel angle dynamically while still mechanically linking the wheels to the steering wheel. It does not have the same parameters as Lexus system but many other t
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by pandaman 3y ago
BMW had this on mechanically linked system for 20 years. It's called "Active Steering" in their marketing speak.
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by pandaman 3y ago
> I wonder why they still do that, seems like it only hamstrings developers. Two reasons: 1. It exposes you to patent trolls, which is fine if you have no money so they won't come after you or have too much money to bleed them dry i
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by pandaman 3y ago
China is not? Tesla's revenue from the US is double that from China and from China is more than from the rest of the world yet Sweden is so important?

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