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by travisp 9y ago
Talk to a lawyer and don't follow this blindly. In most cases, this is a bad idea and Family LLCs, entities within entities, offshore trusts or corporations, and other such things in estate planning often border on scams themselves. A
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by travisp 9y ago
If that's the case, it's not a free-market economy, and you won't get those benefits of the free-market economy.
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by travisp 9y ago
The data centers don't run on renewable. They just purchase the equivalent in renewable energy. In theory it results in reduced emissions, but it provides a misleading view into how viable renewable energy is.
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by travisp 9y ago
And when you make the car lighter and smaller, you worsen passenger safety, and possibly increase costs (depending on what you're using to make the car lighter).
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by travisp 10y ago
On the other hand, if the ride ends up paying the driver $6 because the driver has to change routes because of construction/traffic/etc, I believe Uber eats the $1 difference
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by travisp 10y ago
You've misread the article. It in fact says that the driver is paid for actual miles/minutes. > Meanwhile, the software utilized in the driver’s application, which navigates the drivers to the User’s destination, utilizes traff
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by travisp 10y ago
I would normally agree with you, but did you actually read this study or the article? This is not the usual "epidemiologic" nutritional study. This was a "rare randomized controlled trial." It was in fact a double blind
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by travisp 10y ago
In New York, many grocery stores delivery to you. Personally, I just order on FreshDirect and don't bother going into grocery stores.
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by travisp 10y ago
Renters lost the following things: - The ability to rent out their home when they go away for a long weekend or take a couple weeks of vacation somewhere, most likely financing a good portion of their rent or vacation. - Affordable ways for
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by travisp 10y ago
What are you basing this on? According to the DoT, they "took detailed measures to reduce any risks associated with the self-driving delivery project including testing validation, ride alongs and escorting the delivery" (source:
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by travisp 10y ago
I've taken a taxi or Uber in Manhattan even when a train would be faster when I have a business call I need to take. I know that cell service/internet availability is a reason others I know will sometimes choose to take a car. I d
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by travisp 10y ago
In New York City, "Wash and Fold" is incredibly common. Most places will even pick up/drop off from where you live.
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by travisp 10y ago
Yes, but most oils are not subject to that level of testing.
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by travisp 10y ago
This was 2014, so it may be different in 2015, but is a reasonable benchmark: https://www.ise.fraunhofer.de/en/downloads-englisch/pdf-file... You can see that during 2014 the minimal combined solar and wind produc
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by travisp 10y ago
> But also, aren't they huge on solar even though they get a fraction of the sun that the USA does? They've put a ton of money into solar and wind, but these are extremely variable and there are days of the year that solar and
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by travisp 10y ago
> Life would be much more pleasant for existing New Yorkers if the city upgraded its transit infrastructure before it allowed the building of massive numbers of new apartment buildings. This is true, but essentially making it illegal for
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by travisp 10y ago
> You realize that the parent was talking about Manhattan, right. They have more than a few tall buildings there. I see the Manhattan skyline every day. A lot of it does not have tall buildings and much of it has had severe height restri
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by travisp 10y ago
Manhattan could be much denser. Most of Manhattan is not skyscrapers or high rises. Manhattan currently has a population of 1.6 million. In 1910, it has 2.3 million. In 1950, it had 2 million. The current density of Manhattan itself is just
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by travisp 10y ago
The Lower East Side is plagued with height limits, zoning restrictions, heavy parking requirements, etc. Thankfully, DeBlasio has been fighting these rules in order to allow more building, but for the most part, the Lower East Side's p
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by travisp 10y ago
>First, people who live in apartment buildings do not want transients living there for personal safety and other reasons. This doesn't need to be a legal issue. It's simply a rule of the building. People violating it are violat
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by travisp 10y ago
> I do, however, feel concerned that a rich person like Thiel can buy litigation. What about when rich people fund the ACLU or EFF in order to support a lawsuit by those organizations?
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by travisp 11y ago
Brin has arguably created significantly more value than the 40-year-old Doctor. A doctor who likely uses Google to research medical information on a daily basis (as well as uses it for looking up personal information), possibly using a Goog
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by travisp 11y ago
I see drivers doing this all the time, and here's a guide for drivers to doing it: http://therideshareguy.com/how-to-drive-for-uber-and-lyft-at... "Once that is complete, you will be back online with Uber. Switch
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by travisp 11y ago
Securely storing information about a driver's trip on that driver's phone is hardly "offloading their costs to society." I assume the driver does not want the information about the trip they are providing to be lost, and
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by travisp 11y ago
Absolutely true. But that has nothing to do with the original comment which was about traditional law enforcement requests for information. Given that 23andme says they haven't actually given any information to the police, it seems unl
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by travisp 11y ago
Probably not: https://www.23andme.com/transparency-report/
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by travisp 11y ago
>I don't believe corporations in the U.S. pay taxes on dividends they disburse. Generally the principle in the U.S. is that whenever you receive money you get taxed. This is not true. While many countries do not do this, dividend pa
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by travisp 11y ago
Amazon contacted many of these users and the people targeted in the lawsuit were offering guaranteed 5 star reviews and/or to let the purchaser write the review. Given that Amazon actually contacted many of these users, it may not be s
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by travisp 11y ago
You may have been misled by my autocorrect. I meant "tautology" not "totality". Saying that "too much" is bad for you will always be true because by definition "too much" is more than you should have.
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by travisp 11y ago
> Absolutely, too much sodium, sugar, etc etc is unhealthy, and this absolutely not nonsense. But "too much is unhealthy" is a tautology. There are a number of studies that show that sodium-restricted diets may increase all-cau

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