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by pempem 5y ago
That's a possibility The other possibility is that we should root out the corruption in this process. I am not generally a fan of privitization at all. In the private market however you're building 2/2s in LA for less than ha
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by pempem 5y ago
This is what I don't understand: - I agree with your frustration and stance - I am prone to think "Wow, people are really scared of the police. Why?" not "oh clearly they just love authority". You can find the latte
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by pempem 5y ago
Honest perception. The stopped person is more likely to die. Even when they are the 'suspect' of more than a traffic stop.
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by pempem 5y ago
I'm not sure this is disgusting. We can find it to be hilarious or something to ridicule but: 1. its never quite that simple. "he wanted to be taken more seriously" also might mean "pending agreements with news companies
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by pempem 5y ago
Completely completely unavailable across two organizations
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by pempem 5y ago
In general I would suggest starting with a design approach to the problem rather than an engineering one. Yes its frustrating, but maybe also some empathy would go a long way. You have people who are tasked with - finding someone to do a j
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by pempem 5y ago
Americans overwhelmingly want this social service. We aren't able to break through the oligopoly that has a hold on our democracy. Its also seen in gun laws
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by pempem 5y ago
People do manage to do so. In fact I work with folks to help them find the right words for this situation and others. Still a trend I'm seeing is occurring in negotiation. Specifically "do you have a counter you want us to match?
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by pempem 5y ago
in CA the pricing is simply different online for delivery vs online for pickup vs shopping in the store. so are the coupons.
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by pempem 5y ago
But then they would never work again! Look at where rent moratorium and $6,000 got us! /s Sorry, hearing this ^ bs logic every day in outlets from WSJ to NPR is beyond frustrating. We have helped our citizens so little during a pandemi
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by pempem 5y ago
There were also side effects, i.e. many small banks closing because they were not 'worth' being saved. So what we saw was big banks getting an infusion, paying it back and finding themselves at the top of a more consolidated marke
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by pempem 5y ago
That would be because they and their friends are on only one of the two (welfare/corporate welfare) lists you mentioned.
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by pempem 5y ago
The most important line of this was "we may not like those decisions" and "software awareness will affect his decisions". It's not difficult to project how software might affect the decisions of someone who allows
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by pempem 5y ago
Usually bc you create a life and then get the killer job and have to make a decision around partners, families, other less flex options
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by pempem 5y ago
So you're trading those four hours for potentially years of earlier retirement. Do we not think that matters, complainer or not?
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by pempem 5y ago
Yeup. Anecdotal opinion: it is easier to keep finding new strategies to deal with my career, including building my own business, when I'm not drained by my personal life.
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by pempem 5y ago
I would argue that the edge cases are simply propped up political tools so that people can keep creating these inequalities. America, it feels like, is egalitarian in the fact that we all have the ability to sell our souls to be rich. Some
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by pempem 5y ago
Happiness is a caveated crapshoot I'm fairly certain we are all capable of the google search and you can and will find the multitude of studies, anecdotes, memes and conversations about: - women's unpaid labor at home, with their
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by pempem 5y ago
Generally I agree with you however It doesnt work here. As a progressive we keep chasing these goals and somehow they simply get perverted to be even worse for the taxpayer in the end. i.e. you must have RealID however you must also pay f
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by pempem 5y ago
!!!
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by pempem 5y ago
Well, first they need to be caught and brought up on charges. Then they can be prosecuted. The bigger question is where even is the LAPD?
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by pempem 5y ago
Maybe its because the LAPD has such a little budget? /s.
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by pempem 5y ago
This is a false argument. You're switching the goal posts from cost of ingredients to cost of time in a society that literally purposefully ensures that you dont have time so you spend money. We can discuss the system but its not a giv
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by pempem 5y ago
First mover is definitely an interpretation. There are tons of places offering this service, they just dont post on HN.
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by pempem 5y ago
Brilliant however in many cities in California this legislation has not yet been applied. By that I mean the local building and safety offices, city planning offices, and others do not have memos on how SB-9 will work in their cities. Until
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by pempem 5y ago
At least in LA, its not the schools. Its, as an earlier poster said, administration. The mental association of "school" is usually a group of teachers and maybe a principal. In multiple cities, political leadership at the mayoral
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by pempem 5y ago
In my experience we take these estimations and have a conversation or set up a pair. "Great, Ben and Dara can you handle this together?" To give Ben a chance to grow and Dara a chance to show leadership/mentorship/develo
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by pempem 5y ago
I think we all are willing to bet on your side. People will kitt out their cars after this, but having lived in PA, NY and DC I can firmly say that in PA and NY I owned a brush, had water in the car and the like.In DC I legit brushed it off
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by pempem 5y ago
No one kitts their car out like this in DC bc this amt of snow is basically unheard of...?
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by pempem 5y ago
In which countries is it not cheaper to cook your own food than to buy it out? The only things I can think of are: - truly street food in areas like sinagpore or india which is not a sustainable every meal option for most digestive systems

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