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by simfree 3y ago
VAT especially at 21% seems like a very regressive tax, as are most sales taxes. Taxing the commoner rather than the wealthy is one way to ensure the supremacy of capital over labor though, protecting entrenched interests.
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by simfree 3y ago
Creating a moat slowing or preventing other entrants through arbitrary regulation seems to be the goal, free and open source models would be at a huge disadvantage under the new models being pitched today.
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by simfree 3y ago
That is a very hopeful (and naive) view of liability in the merchant processor space. By default all liability falls onto the business, not your merchant processor unless you specifically negotiated for a liability shift. Stripe will not ea
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by simfree 3y ago
Telnyx is not doing well financially, nor is Bandwidth.com, that is why both have upped their rent extraction tactics with shenanigans like offnet texting enablement fees when you use a different texting enablement provider, long support re
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by simfree 3y ago
The ACH transaction goes in the morning or evening batch file and that should be that. Malleability in funds availability is just business logic of the credit union or bank after that, not a slowdown in the ACH system.
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by simfree 3y ago
The corruption amongst the ownership of concrete companies and the city's politicians has been an enduring feature of the local political landscape, not too long ago SDOT would only build roads out of concrete unless there was a very g
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by simfree 3y ago
But is the staffing and standard of care different? Do the patients of investor owned hospices suffer with a higher incidence of bed sores? Do they suffer longer?
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by simfree 3y ago
Regular checkups give your doctor the opportunity to encourage you to seek relevant services (like OPs doctor did).
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by simfree 3y ago
Physical manipulation is cheaper than a scan tho! Besides, the insurance would only cover a brisk walk by the general vicinity of an MRI machine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0URHKdXMmwo
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by simfree 3y ago
Most utilities are natural monopolies, running water, sewer, gas, electric, telephone, cable and internet to a premise are expensive, generally thousands to tens of thousands per home passed. Utilities celebrate when they can service an add
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by simfree 3y ago
It's not just the performance incentives that Uber and Lyft are paying either, they operate staffed offices in many markets to engage with potential, new and current drivers. Leasing office space, paying employees and doing this in eac
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by simfree 3y ago
T-Mobile has yet to fully sunset 2G/3G support.
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by simfree 3y ago
Depends on the charging network your car has access to (CCS or Tesla), and how much pain your willing to put up with to charge (eg: is spending hours at a Level 2 6Kw charger acceptable?). Perhaps another aspect to consider is whether you m
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by simfree 3y ago
Sending most of the citizens below retirement age of a province to concentration camps certainly seems like a normalized practice in China today. It was wrong when we did the same here in the USA with Japanese Americans (George Takei wrote
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by simfree 3y ago
Nope, there are zero ads in NewPipe. No ad blocker needed!
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by simfree 3y ago
Cisco phones are rough even with CUCM as the central server. They freeze randomly when connected to CUCM, to the point that its a pastime to walk into an office and look at the time and date shown onscreen on all the frozen Cisco phones. No
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by simfree 3y ago
Part of said "real world knowledge" is regulatory capture in this case, which a well compensated career civil servant wouldn't be so beholden to.
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by simfree 3y ago
Storing heating oil is risky, expensive and is a dirty use of a property due to the need for an underground or above ground tank. Abatement of tank leaks can run into the millions as you have to dig up all soil contaminated by heating oil w
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by simfree 3y ago
Micropayment rates are usually much lower, think 4 to 5 cents plus 5% for small dollar transactions with a normal merchant processor that actually underwrites your account upfront unlike Stripe. The Visa/MasterCard auth fee can be belo
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by simfree 4y ago
Generalizing the forest while ignoring large swathes of what it consists of is a bad idea, not every metro area has the same building makeup and composition as NYC. NYC already has seen many extreme building conversions, for example turning
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by simfree 4y ago
Hmm, are you working B2B or B2C? Seems like you could run the call through OpenAI's Whisper then cross reference times and darws with the clients calendar/crm to track conversions at a lower cost, and validate the value of the wor
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by simfree 4y ago
This really depends on the specific building. There are many office buildings that could have slapdash remodels done to make them habitable and revenue positive, and there is plentiful pent up demand for affordable rents in urban cores. Nev
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by simfree 4y ago
Linspire was a delightful OS to run! Truly, I feel like the major Linux distros never got to the same level as Linspire on friendliness and ease of use, the competition to Click-N-Run on modern Gnome Software Center just doesn't feel q
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by simfree 4y ago
Damn, your using very little power. All power use under thr first 500kWh is discounted here in Seattle, your not even burning half that in a month. Sounds like you live in an apartment or condo tho with other heavy power draws like heat off
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by simfree 4y ago
Some areas like Kelso and Longview, WA have 4 cent per kWh delivered rates, but your paying a meter base charge of tens of dollars a month, which makes low usage households pay more to remain grid connected. The marginal cost of generating
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by simfree 4y ago
Is that the base daily meter rate or monthly meter rate causing the extra $0.14/kwh cost? Sounds like your using very little power. Local grids are generally a fixed cost to maintain, if there was no base charge your neighbors would be
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by simfree 4y ago
Those hydroelectric dams need better grid infrastructure to enable easy export!
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by simfree 4y ago
Read their GitHub, there is an issue where they cover the feature flag you need to set to enable ROCm on unsupported platforms.
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by simfree 4y ago
It seems stable with Whisper and a few other models...
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by simfree 4y ago
Calling, texting or emailing said contacts from inside the app. Having this data was for the exclusive benefit of the end user, and the permission was optional and did not block use of the app. There were no social SDKs integrated, and the

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