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sonnyblarney
8y ago
If police can stop you randomly for 'drunk driving checks' - and they can stop you randomly if there is an 'active crime scene' (i.e. they are looking for dangerous baddies on the run) then I don't see why spot-chec
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sonnyblarney
8y ago
Those are great points, but mostly municipal, not organic or community oriented. Toronto is very civic, the busses run, it 'has everything', it's 'safe', the cops are ok, etc etc.. But communities are organic, you c
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sonnyblarney
8y ago
"software engineers and knowledge workers " make up a tiny portion of workers in the economy. Tiny. Is my point. Also, having written software for quite some time, in my experience would be that yes, at the end of the day, 50% of
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sonnyblarney
8y ago
I'm originally from Toronto and I find this concept absolutely horrific. First - to give some self-serving private enterprise such leeway in our communities - can you imagine 'McDonalds' creating an entire neighbourhood to se
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sonnyblarney
8y ago
I worked in a Fortune 50 consumer electronics company, sitting right next to our procurement team. It's not my field and I'm not an expert but I know enough to be wary of a founder who makes such claims, moreover, there's eno
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sonnyblarney
8y ago
I think the simple economics of it would completely rule out this being used for 'fresh groceries' ... or rather only to people who want to pay 10x for their groceries. My bet: the military/security/coast guard, for far
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sonnyblarney
8y ago
I'm not sure I agree with this because if it were thus, I think 'most organizations' would be out of business quickly. I think the answer is more plain: shared offices cut cost, and and the resulting immediate an ongoing incr
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sonnyblarney
8y ago
This is a brilliant answer. (Possibly against the rules here to post such a thing, but oh well, report me if you must ...)