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by tharmas 3y ago
Don't forget geopolitics as the rationale. The USA sees German and Russian cooperation as a threat.
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by tharmas 3y ago
Please see the story of Jack Welch CEO of GE.
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by tharmas 3y ago
Would like to see a follow up article on how and where the robots used in the aerospace supplier industry are used? Do robots make the robots? Are the robots made in China? Japan? Germany? Washington State? or elsewhere in the USA? How many
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by tharmas 3y ago
In house apps.
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by tharmas 3y ago
Thanks for this link. I've never seen nor heard of this film before.
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by tharmas 3y ago
That was the original intent of AirBnB. What the problem is is "investors" etc buying up properties to effectively turn into hotels and rent out as short term rentals THAT THEY DONT LIVE IN. Workers need a place to live. They cant
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by tharmas 3y ago
This! To add: 900,000 "students" with the option to stay. 500,000 immigrants. 600,000 skilled worker visas. 90,000 refugees. That's over 2 million in a year. And they want to do this EVERY year until the population gets to 10
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by tharmas 3y ago
Jobs and climate determine where people live. There's no jobs in most places in BC so they go to the big city. And then there's climate. BC does have a better climate than most of Canada. However, most of Canada has a harsh climat
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by tharmas 3y ago
In smaller towns in Canada the rent for a 500 sq ft apartment is over $2000/month. And there is the question of jobs in these places that people supposedly can "afford".
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by tharmas 3y ago
How many seats do the "small number of large cities" have compared to the rural parts of the country? I would argue the rural parts have more seats hence determine who gets in power.
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by tharmas 3y ago
"Greenspan, 82, acknowledged under questioning that he had made a “mistake” in believing that banks, operating in their own self-interest, would do what was necessary to protect their shareholders and institutions. Greenspan called tha
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by tharmas 3y ago
I disagree that it is "going reasonably well". If you look at the headlines for this search: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=ukrainian+counter+offensive+failur... it suggests that even the US Govt is not rosy on the out
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by tharmas 3y ago
I agree. Its not a problem free solution but its the only one that seems to be effective at reducing homelessness and increasing affordability. Post WW2 in the UK the gov't built a lot of social housing that was successful. Sure there
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by tharmas 3y ago
Prigozhin's feud was not with Putin. It was with the Minister of Defence Sergei Shoigu. Prigoshin was unhappy with Shoigu's prosecution of the War in Ukraine. Prigoshin wanted to go in harder against Ukraine. He was also unhappy a
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by tharmas 3y ago
He was openly criticizing the CONDUCT of the war. He wanted to go in much much harder on Ukraine.
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by tharmas 3y ago
Sarcasm fails sometimes because there are indeed some people that genuinely hold such ridiculous views.
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by tharmas 3y ago
Its a service. The service should be designed to fit the customer, not the other way around. Clearly, the people who designed the system have the same design philosophy as you. That is the problem.
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by tharmas 3y ago
Not sure if this is of any use: https://github.com/leptos-rs/leptos https://docs.rs/leptos_axum/latest/leptos_axum/
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by tharmas 3y ago
Rent control is a two-edged sword. Does some good, does some bad. Not much is said, but globalism, facilitated by the internet, is a factor driving up house prices. In Vancouver, Canada, they built a lot of condos but the majority of the st