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by tmnvix 9y ago
For me, there are a couple of motivations: 1) Financial freedom and security. Aside from ensuring material needs this is important because it provides a good foundation for autonomy - an important part of self-fulfilment. 2) The means to ma
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Well, you (and I) wouldn't work for a weapons manufacturer, but many people would - and do.
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In most cases I think that would necessitate owning a car. I think not owning a car and living an urban lifestyle is a better tradeoff for me at least.
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Yes. An example would be when you say one thing but mean your mother.
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I've considered using "magic login link" emails but greylisting[1] seems to be an insurmountable problem. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greylisting
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> Who's making all the money? An example of where it goes: "On June 24, 2013, The Wall Street Journal reported that McKesson Chairman and CEO John Hammergren's pension benefits of $159 million had set a record for "th
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Even in New Zealand skiing is a slightly exclusive pursuit. I don't think I ever had a Maori classmate that mentioned a skiing holiday.
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I find it telling that you don't have 'walk' as an option. Are you in the US? Where I live 15% of people walk to work.
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Maybe that wasn't the typo. "...and they are probably there only once"
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I assume one interpretation of 'ride sharing' is sharing the same pool of cars, but not the same car at the same time.
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Kim Dotcom Suing New Zealand for Billions(engadget.com)
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Save it and retire earlier?
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> Time is money. Consider that this way: the time you spend sitting at a desk to earn the money to pay for your car is commute time. How long does it take the average person to earn 8-9k (after tax)? I think at $50/h that might be a
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> People with psychosis tend to die 20 years earlier than the general population. One of the reason is that people with some types of psychosis smoke a lot. Is this a significant reason relative to suicide amongst psychotics?
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> First you are going to make all the people in the cars nuts because they can't find parking, so they won't come. Maybe they will come, but won't bring their car?
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Unfortunately I didn't attempt this.
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> Public health insurance is most of the times miserable. I expect that your statement is about public health insurance in post-communist EU countries (I have no experience of this). Public health insurance in Australasia is very good
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Yep. An interesting bit of data that highlights just how profitable this industry can be comes from the wikipedia page for McKesson Corporation[1]: > On June 24, 2013, The Wall Street Journal reported that McKesson Chairman and CEO John
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If a client rejects my initial quote but accepts my lower one (for exactly the same service), did I also 'pay for it'?
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Adobe employs similar tactics. Even though I was paying per month for the Creative Suite, I was told that I was only able to cancel my subscription during a small timeframe each year. If I didn't take advantage of the opportunity at t
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As a debtor, I would rather debt that can be discharged through bankruptcy, so there is incentive there to prefer this offer to that of another similar offer that doesn't include the debt transfer. In other words, there is benefit to b
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Or maybe just start taxing wealth more (and, ideally, income less) then using the revenue to fund a UBI.
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> The roads are narrow and there is no place to walk The place to walk in that situation is on the road. As someone who has decades of experience as a pedestrian, that road looks eminently walkable.
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The dystopian Halo Ice Cream ad immediately comes to mind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4IFNKYmLa8
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I can assure you that in Australasia there is both high demand and high prices. Even in season, avocados are typically $2.50 ($1.80usd) each in NZ (and this is a crop that is widely grown locally). It's worth noting that the 'smas
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> the bank is sending it out, so it is economically productive anyway Even if the bank is just 'sending it out' to someone that is using it for property speculation?
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Can they walk to visit friends, the local shops, park, school, library, etc? All of these things were much more important to me as a child than a big backyard.
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Am I missing something here? The website states that it will "Identify devices across browsers and websites — without cookies." When visiting the site in Chrome it calculated a unique device ID for me. Out of curiosity, I then vis
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> the more you have the more you benefit from the status quo. Also, as a general rule, the more land you own, the more you benefit from public expenditure. This is because the value of land rises as taxes are spent improving the surround
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Revealing the review rate for properties sounds like a very good idea. I wonder if there are any downsides. On a related note, I was talking with an airbnb host yesterday who had just hosted some fairly messy guests that may or may not have

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