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by timwaagh 7y ago
I am basing this on the news reports which say a german company is ready for in-human-trials which last months. after that, they would be able to produce millions of vaccinations in weeks. I think it's very promising. The us president
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by timwaagh 7y ago
I'm sure if china can shut people inside their houses to prevent spread, so can we. We just have to adopt a different attitude towards fundamental rights. Besides, medicine development seems to go rather quickly. I am sure it will be m
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by timwaagh 7y ago
Very nice, now if only they'd actually sell them...
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by timwaagh 7y ago
How would that coccooning even work? I don't think it's viable for them to isolate for months or years.
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by timwaagh 7y ago
I do not know how south korea managed to get as many test kits as they did, but Italy (and the rest of europe, the us, everyone except south korea and singapore) simply do not have enough testkits to be able to copy them. So instead we have
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by timwaagh 7y ago
Except this isn't a tool. It's a value. You will have no choice but to become that 'jerk' if you actually adopt this value. I wouldn't say those people are jerks at all. They just believe in a certain thing. But tha
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by timwaagh 7y ago
I think it's not a great article. I mean 'improving your passion'? Really? Yeah collecting garbage currently sucks but in ten years time I expect to look forward to collecting everyday.
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by timwaagh 7y ago
the competition is KIA as they are the cheapest. but VW also has a few models. Their ID.3 which will come out soon even has the range issue fixed.
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by timwaagh 7y ago
People quitting their jobs means a not-quite corresponding economic decline because labor productivity can't change in the short term (not quite because these are lower-productivity jobs). Which means less taxes and thus less money to
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by timwaagh 7y ago
Maybe I'm mistaken. I thought a pay it forward system like what we have here is pretty unique. So workers do not pay for pensioners directly then? At any rate it can't be much what they're paying because the rates are too low
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by timwaagh 7y ago
I'm not sure how this would work. 'facebook' is after all a generic word which had meaning before Facebook existed and is not only used in the context of the social network named after it. So the judge could reject it.
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by timwaagh 7y ago
We shall see how French uber drivers will fare in future but I don't share your optimism.
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by timwaagh 7y ago
Yes. Some (mostly) very low tax places won't have this problem. But there are reasons for it. There is the underlying principle that government likes to incentivice new business creation over just taking a job someone else could have g
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by timwaagh 7y ago
Same here. It turns out west Europe doesn't differ that much on these issues. In fact your answer only strengthens my conviction this is a major underlying reason. You think the French government would take it on the chin and just acce
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by timwaagh 7y ago
It is a 'detail' not to us but from the perspective of the government. You are still pretty likely to get pursued by the tax services for 'freelancing'. At least where I live. I hope you manage to slip through the net th
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by timwaagh 7y ago
"nearly three-quarters of respondents who were working when the pilot project began kept at it despite receiving basic income." So can we infer that 25% of those working chose to actually quit full time? I think it's safe to
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by timwaagh 7y ago
The problem is Tesla autopilot only works on highways and has been implicated in a number of crashes. Waymo seems to be taking the much more cautious approach of using every advantage they can get. Perhaps one day there will be self driving
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by timwaagh 7y ago
The classification of uber drivers as employees mostly means they have to pay more tax and less money goes to drivers and uber. People will argue employees have more rights and this is good for them, but the primary benefit of someone being
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by timwaagh 7y ago
a layoff is something a lot of people go through. And those Indians are generally more competitive. It's nothing special. I'm pretty sure they will find other jobs.
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by timwaagh 7y ago
I don't think I'm mentally capable of following this kind of diet for a very long time. It just makes you hungry and less productive. It also weakens you in terms of physical strength.
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by timwaagh 7y ago
Um if you're near utrecht i've got a garden to fix. i never get around to it. i dont know where in the netherlands you are, but if its utrecht it might be the trouble of walking/biking. I will offer a meager ten euro for it.
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by timwaagh 7y ago
the logic is they don't want the economy to shut down just yet, whereas they wouldnt like unnecessary things like parties to infect people that could then force them to enact measures that would shut down the economy.
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by timwaagh 7y ago
my employer/client (Dutch government) is taking the same approach. I don't like it, especially because they are the government. They should be a little bit more paranoid about these things.
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by timwaagh 7y ago
That's a good point. It would be perfectly reasonable to enforce some labour rules there. I don't think the article is all bad and some of the things mentioned definitely can't continue.
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by timwaagh 7y ago
The problem with the argument is that they distinguish between 'informal because it's the only choice' and 'illegal law evading scumbags slumlords'. So if you follow that line of thinking, if you enjoy only slight s
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by timwaagh 7y ago
Yes, we're the part-time champions of europe.
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by timwaagh 7y ago
Well, i made a few leaps. I will try to explain. In economics there are no free lunches. That's a pretty basic economic dogma (it might sound extreme to an outsider, but take a 101 class and it's what they will tell you). So you d
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by timwaagh 7y ago
Lawful workweek in nl is 40 hours I'd wager the others are similar, with perhaps one exception.
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by timwaagh 7y ago
honestly would be pretty bad for singles who just want to hustle and make some money to afford plans later in life. i can see the appeal for families to take some time off, but currently there are enough facilities for dad-days and the like
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by timwaagh 7y ago
I think this should be old news by now. Yes, climate change will cause economic damage. And well, quite a big number, because it is well, rather global in scale and this is economics, where numbers tend to be big anyways. No, there is no so

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