throwawayfire

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by throwawayfire 6y ago
I would much prefer music notation where time - the duration of notes and rests - was indicated by space, rather than symbols. That would be one less thing to decipher. (This website does not appear to cover that option, considering this un
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by throwawayfire 6y ago
As such, we should also admit that this benefit is potentially worth $0 to a healthy person. I didn't do that calculation on a "for me" basis: I looked at the generally advertised cost. Paying in advance is cheaper for anyone
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by throwawayfire 6y ago
Did you reduce your employee wages each by $7800, at that time, or have you declined to give pay increases of $7800?
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by throwawayfire 6y ago
That's your choice, but it might be useful for you to know: I checked some private healthcare insurance where I live, and the difference in cost between these plans was in fact only $800.
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by throwawayfire 6y ago
Counting [public] healthcare as "income" from labor seems extremely... Republican. Should we also count caring for relatives as 'income' to the people being cared for? (We don't.)
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by throwawayfire 6y ago
>If you didn't get a padron (local residency certificate for your municipality) Worth noting that local registration (padrón) is a requirement in Spain for all residents, including EU resident citizens, and also that there was 11+
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by throwawayfire 6y ago
It seems to me most likely that the speaker had continued to be "resident" in the UK for tax purposes, and effectively had a second home in Spain. As such, they were claiming welfare benefits in the UK, meanwhile working in Spain,
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by throwawayfire 6y ago
The EU-UK Withdrawal Agreement allows for existing residency to continue on the same terms as EU residency, i.e. no language testing. The group of people in the article either: have chosen not to apply for residency in Spain (noting that th
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by throwawayfire 6y ago
> If the globe reached herd immunity as fast as possible then there wouldn't be enough time for any variant to become established. That's obviously false, given that we are observing many meaningful variants without anything cl
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by throwawayfire 6y ago
My point was to observe that: - first, government spending is highly scrutinised, by the convention that people expect every tax dollar to be spent in a way that they deem worthy; - whereas, most private businesses are not scrutinised in an
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by throwawayfire 6y ago
I'm not sure this is true, except that you are comparing the worst of government projects with the best of corporate projects. Most businesses fail. Hell, most Google products have failed. As such, overall private spending is woefully