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pastor_elm
8y ago
You think Police Departments won't knock down the threshold just for justification to knock down some perp's door? They've done far worse to get the results they want.
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pastor_elm
8y ago
The people described in this article live in highly manicured NYC suburbs or in Manhattan itself, not some podunk town outside Syracuse. They'll be hard pressed to find a Chappaqua in Florida.
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pastor_elm
8y ago
An ideal employee (in maybe 75% of the positions out there) should only know enough to get his or her job done.
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pastor_elm
8y ago
>"She once had her own office, secretaries and assistants, along with titles like “director” that spoke to her decades of experience. Now, she’s a temp — one of many. >Levi was laid off from her job at a law office during a merge
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pastor_elm
8y ago
Your conclusion sounds like the premise of Ready Player One (and countless other dystopian future scenarios). Hooking poor people up to cheap, advanced entertainment is no better than stuffing them which cheap over-processed calories.
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pastor_elm
8y ago
Simplest explanation: Big players are willing to operate at a loss to gain marketshare. Then when bitcoin hits $100k you're dominating the market and bringing in the big bucks.
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pastor_elm
8y ago
There will be a gen 4 keyboard in 18 months.
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pastor_elm
8y ago
They can pay for it. They just don't want to increase taxes.
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pastor_elm
8y ago
I think there is a big difference between the pride of individual being a firefighter (many people feel this and are willing to take the job with no pay or benefits even though firefighters are at risk for a whole range of occupational indu
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pastor_elm
8y ago
Not really. Most firefighters in the US are volunteer, so not enough pride to pay people to do it. In big cities, it's more of an internal camaraderie thing. They live together, cook together, shop together, etc. A lot prefer being at
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pastor_elm
8y ago
Airbnb has to comply though. There is regulation in NYC, and Airbnb doesn't help the city verify at all. So if you show up here, you never know if the cops are going to knock on your door.
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pastor_elm
8y ago
Last time I traveled, I found a bunch of the places I saw on Airbnb listed on other sites for cheaper. More alarming, there were significantly more negative reviews on these other sites (even on a site like Booking), than there were on Airb