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by streblo 6y ago
> Saavy multi-national corporations pay little to no tax here, and it is widely documented. > Meanwhile, a 20-something engineer at a six-figure salary can tell you how much of that they get to keep. Isn't this actually a good si
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by streblo 6y ago
The title is kind of inaccurate in describing what's in the article.
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by streblo 6y ago
Can life not be better for us or our children than for our parents? This kind of thinking keeps everyone down.
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by streblo 6y ago
I can't read German so it's hard to consider this source. That said, it doesn't square with other sources I've seen that show Germany importing >50% of it's electricity, much of which is generated from fossil fue
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by streblo 6y ago
Germany imports much of its electricity, which often isn’t generated from renewable resources.
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by streblo 6y ago
Agree about a free trial. I'd consider something like $5/month for email updates, and then upsell into more advanced features that automate a process for me. If this thing could actually help me buy (e.g. hook it up to my Robinhoo
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by streblo 6y ago
I doubt many people will see it like that. This tool is for me if I've been missing IPOs. If I've been missing them, I've probably never made money off of one and I have no frame of reference for how much of a return I'd
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by streblo 6y ago
My question is how do you avoid bikeshedding during this process?
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by streblo 6y ago
> My suggestion: mandate unions in every field, every worker must be part of at least one union, and union dues must be paid as a tax by the employers. I was with you up until this point. So now instead of having one institution that I&#
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by streblo 7y ago
> It was bikeshedding at its worst It's ironic that discussions about formatting are taking up so much mindshare in the python community. For years all you'd hear was that whitespace significance was a sign of the lowliness of
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by streblo 7y ago
Changed their lives for the better? Could you elaborate?
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by streblo 7y ago
My daughter had an allergic reaction to food last year, which required us to give an epipen. We were told when this happened that we needed to call 911 and have her taken to the emergency room for observation and potentially for further tre
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by streblo 7y ago
How does materialize compare in performance (especially ingress/egress latency) to other OLAP systems like Druid or ClickHouse? Would love to see some benchmarks.
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by streblo 7y ago
They've been "forgotten" because they've become so mainstream that they're now part of the norm.
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by streblo 7y ago
Riders don't have to pay for them, but the scooter operators sure do.
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Ten Predictions for the 2020s(alexdanco.com)
1 points by streblo 7y ago|0 comments
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by streblo 7y ago
If you ride a rented scooter from e.g. Lime or Bird, your GPS location is being streamed in real-time to many of the departments of transportation in the cities in which they operate[1][2]. It's not a quantum leap to assume cars will f
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by streblo 7y ago
You're correct that these changes all happened contiguously. The "multiple times" argument isn't very accurate.
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by streblo 7y ago
Disappointed to see so much negativity in this thread. Password management is still an unsolved problem in most peoples lives. Think of your parents - are they using a good digital password manager, or do they still have a bunch of sticky n
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by streblo 7y ago
Account age has no bearing on whether a comment is high or low quality.
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by streblo 7y ago
> I feel like the government should be offering some type of non predatory debt relief comparable to this. Just want to point out the fact that US government-backed student loans are non-dischargeable through bankruptcy. You will have th
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by streblo 7y ago
These companies wouldn't be profitable, but other companies that are founded post-regulation could be. Companies have a remarkable ability to mold their business models around regulation.
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by streblo 7y ago
Why can't the government just regulate the parameters of lending? Isn't that sufficient? Why does the government have to actually get into the business to help solve the problem?
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Uber sues Los Angeles to keep scooter location data private(cnet.com)
3 points by streblo 7y ago|0 comments
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by streblo 7y ago
The grass is always greener. Earning those salaries usually means you're in the bay area, where the median home price is 1.5m USD and you most definitely won't get that 4th bedroom.
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by streblo 7y ago
So when people inevitably do it, they should just die?
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by streblo 7y ago
There is constant misinformation about non-compete agreements in CA, and the HN crowd show know about this, members of which might be involved in the sale of a business. If you sign a non-compete as part of an acquisition agreement, and you
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by streblo 7y ago
Because they can let Uber/Lyft/et al do it, charge them a tax, and have none of the operational overhead or expenditures.
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by streblo 7y ago
Looker has always been owned by a corporation.
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by streblo 7y ago
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