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by shados 7y ago
Taking away people with gambling addictions, children, etc (all good reasons for these games not to exist at all), I've felt for a while that their success is a great example of disparity in disposable income. I'll be forward and
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by shados 7y ago
> There are suburbs all over the place if that's what you want. Not SF obviously, but most places where these debates pop up ARE suburbs. Thats the whole problem. People spend forever finding a place that suits their need, and then
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by shados 7y ago
> Not a lot of ten story apartment buildings go up in the middle of a hundred square miles of farmland. You already said "The problem obviously being that there are people who work in the city and would like to live there". So
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by shados 7y ago
> The solution to things changing in a way you don't like is to vote with your feet Or you know, just vote in municipal election or go to cityhall hearings, since that's how cities work, and that's exactly how people do it
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by shados 7y ago
The thing is somewhere that occurs naturally could change tomorrow. I live in a quiet dead end by a small park with nothing interesting near by. Or well, nothing USED to be interesting near by. A small family shop around the corner sold the
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by shados 8y ago
k, makes sense! There's so many people who think homeopathy and naturopathy is one and the same that I thought its what was happening here. Fascinating (and horrifying!) situation you describe, though!
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by shados 8y ago
> homeopathic medicines for infants with potentially-lethal levels of belladonna > More commonly, homeopathic medicines for adults like ear and eyedrops end up causing deafness and blindness Homeopathic, or "natural medecines&quo
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by shados 8y ago
> I don't trust the "move fast and break things" approach with for-profit healthcare. This a million times. At the end of the day, tying money to people's lives instantly means people are willing to do anything (it&#x
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by shados 8y ago
Thats what I meant when I wrote "but they only indirectly pay for what they get (the landlord pays it from their rent).". The other poster explained it better than me, but basically it's too indirect. A renter sees rent go up
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by shados 8y ago
> that's incumbents using government power to dictate lifestyles for their neighbors and potential immigrants As opposed to? People trying to force a change to the lifestyle of people already there in favor of their neighbors and po
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by shados 8y ago
> Unless you’re twiddling atoms Or married to someone twiddling atoms, or needing to support someone twiddling atoms, or married to someone who needs to support someone twiddling atoms... Or have such level of arrogance and greeds (:gasp
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by shados 8y ago
One could argue that tying it to the value of the property (or owning property AT ALL!!!) is not great either. Why do renters not pay taxes? Sure, they're "property taxes" so from that angle it makes sense, but really they&#x
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by shados 8y ago
Out of curiosity (I dont know Cali's rules well), how does it work in Cali as you own the place (that is, lets take out the inheritance part for a sec). If your taxes go up like crazy because property value increase, are you out of luc
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by shados 8y ago
As someone mentioned, those trackers aren't that accurate. However, if you think you don't get much deep sleep, for the love of everything, get tested for sleep apnea. A home sleep study is quick and easy if you have reasonable in
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by shados 8y ago
> or forget your child in a car. Ironically people with kids, especially early on, frequently have 4 hours of sleep...if they're lucky.
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by shados 8y ago
Work culture? Im not talking about work, and just in general. And people don't do it as a joke, thats how they talk. Annoying as hell.
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by shados 8y ago
Another similar one, even in person, is someone shouting an (often negative) exclamation and making everyone wait a minute before explaining themselves. "Oh crap!" <long pause as everyone around is panicking, waiting on what ac
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by shados 8y ago
I literally gave up on Funimation because every time I had to login, and looked at my password manager's randomly generated password, I died a little inside, since they didn't use the typical "just enter those couple of digit
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by shados 8y ago
Its even more absurd because your health, well being, and potentially life is held hostage. Like, if the choice is "you pay this or you die", it's not exactly a choice. They can charge whatever BECAUSE OTHERWISE YOU'RE D
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by shados 8y ago
Fair point. That is from good old Quebec, and friends from Ontario do tell me it's better over there. My anecdotes do match with numbers and stats I've seen at the time (but it's been a while since I've lived up north).
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by shados 8y ago
Someone else beat me to it, but being Canadian who moved to the US, I can kind of see where some people are coming from. If you're young healthy, have a good job and are a bit short sighted, you're way better off in the US (with l
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by shados 8y ago
Yup. It really makes it hard to test out your TV too... eg: LG OLED Tvs are pretty nice, but they have color banding issues. Also have really good contrast. Fire up an average Netflix show, and the banding is absolutely insane, causing one
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by shados 8y ago
There was also probably some "Well, financial sites/tax softwares do it and they have much higher security requirements than we do!". Let's not underestimate the power of precedents: someone else said it was crazy at ANO
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by shados 8y ago
I hope you've never argued for a raise when you could have asked your boss to give someone else a raise instead. It's like, yeah, we should think about others, that's great. But not every and all attempts at raising one'
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by shados 8y ago
Wait until you learn how titles work in big financial firms and how everyone with enough experience is a VP.
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by shados 8y ago
I have colleagues on Facebook who post literally everything their kids do, which means it's out there for everyone to see, and it will never die. God forbids Facebook gets hacked too. It annoyed me when I was a kid that my parents were
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by shados 8y ago
As mentioned already, it wasn't that long ago when big corps like banks didn't touch open source or free stuff with a stick. People who worked at those big banks, companies like Oracle, etc, back then will be able to tell you that
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by shados 8y ago
Faxing is a headache for a lot of people. The problem is that the industries that use fax are in a position to force it on others. Certain healthcare departments, some mortgage related stuff, financial garbage, etc. Places where if you HAVE
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by shados 8y ago
No. I'll take the privacy I can get. However there's a subset of things that I can't hide because they're all over the place, so while I won't post my address here, I'm not particularly afraid at the prospect o
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by shados 8y ago
Bingo. There's a subset of battles I just gave up on to spend my energy elsewhere. The info Facebook has on me is extremely trivial compared to what's actually out there for anyone to see (like my home address, my phone number, as

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