tsotha

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by tsotha 11y ago
How is it not true in Uber's case?
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by tsotha 11y ago
In the US this has all been litigated, and companies know exactly how close to the line they can get without going over.
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by tsotha 11y ago
Yeah. There's a big semantic difference between saying something is a tax and saying something is taxed.
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by tsotha 11y ago
Yeah, but there's a fence for them.
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by tsotha 11y ago
That was my experience. If you don't use pesticides spiders and ladybird beetles will come along and eat the aphids... unless the ants are protecting them. I ended up having to put tanglefoot around the base of all my trees.
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by tsotha 11y ago
>I am. Over the past five years "my" apartment building has changed hands several times. No, you're not. You're only trapped by your own insistence on living in that particular neighborhood in SF. I don't see w
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by tsotha 11y ago
Yes, I live in the SF bay area. Proposition 13 just caps one of the many kinds of taxes you pay as a landlord.
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by tsotha 11y ago
To see why your argument is flawed, you need only realize the rental market in SF is not a monopoly.
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by tsotha 11y ago
>Circumstantial scarcity of housing aside, unless the landlord is paying more in building maintenance and property taxes, the assumed lost of revenue due to inflated land costs is not actually "costing" anything. Sure it did.
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by tsotha 11y ago
Sure. The people have the legal right to do a whole lot of things they shouldn't do.
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by tsotha 11y ago
>I live in San Francisco [0], am not wealthy, and am trapped in my rent-controlled apartment by the skyrocketing rents of the non-rent-controlled (and reset-to-market-rate-after-vacancy) units around me. You're not trapped anywhere.
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by tsotha 11y ago
> Interestingly some evidence shows that those living in rent-controlled flats in New York also tend to have higher median incomes than those who rent market-rate apartments. This isn't surprising at all. Whenever you have a constr
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by tsotha 11y ago
A lot of that depends on the job and the type of people involved. I once supervised a small group of computer operators. The work was more interesting than factory work, say, but it did get a little tedious after awhile. I could not trus
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by tsotha 11y ago
This rant brings to mind Stroustrup's observation about there being only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses. What is BEOS's market penetration?
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by tsotha 11y ago
Europe and the Far East from the US. Not very often, though.
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by tsotha 11y ago
I'm not sure you'd actually save much money even if you could get by with EMTs. You still need a certain number of firemen on duty in case you actually have a fire, and it's not like you don't have to pay firemen while
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by tsotha 11y ago
I guess I do it the brute force way. When I get to my destination I force myself to stay up until bed time in that time zone, and then get up after eight hours. I'm out of sorts for a day and that's it.
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by tsotha 11y ago
>The EMTs aren't going to sit around, they are going to be performing first aid and calling the fire station for additional assistance. Right... and it's going to take that guy an extra five minutes to get to the hospital. They
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by tsotha 11y ago
The problem is they often don't know what they're going to find until they arrive on scene. If that 600 pound guy is having a heart attack you don't want to have everyone sitting around for an extra five minutes waiting for
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by tsotha 11y ago
>Once someone has marketable skills, mental health treatment and is in a better condition to contribute to society, do you ask them to leave the city because there isn't anywhere they can afford to live? Why not? There are a lot of
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by tsotha 11y ago
>Why use firefighters at all in situations where there isn't the potential for a fire to happen? They have the equipment and muscle power to move people. What are a couple of EMTs going to do with a 600 lb guy on the third floor of
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by tsotha 11y ago
You have to be able to show you've suffered an injury (in the legal sense) that gives you standing to sue. Just getting pulled over and let go might count as such an injury, but how much can you reasonably expect in compensatory damag
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by tsotha 11y ago
Printing currency costs money, so they probably shouldn't actually destroy it. But you can certainly destroy money without destroying currency.
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by tsotha 11y ago
This is the key to running cities based on ticket revenue. Residents would would never tolerate it if they were plundered like this. Heck, most of them probably don't realize what's going on until they've been there awhil
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by tsotha 11y ago
This is all true. The title could have had some more context, though, for people who have no interest in this particular Unity.
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by tsotha 11y ago
Which makes it no different from any other industry. But the profit motive is the best we've come up with to get people to produce.
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by tsotha 11y ago
This is where you need to do some research on what Libertarians really believe.
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by tsotha 11y ago
... which is the purpose of class-action law. When you have a small number of plaintiffs with large claims it's not really the right way to go.
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by tsotha 11y ago
This is an underappreciated concern regarding spy agencies. What difference do laws that prohibit domestic surveillance make if spy agencies can just enter reciprocal agreements to share data? If you're running an agency in the US tha
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by tsotha 11y ago
People always think that, and it's rarely true. I don't see any indication it's true now.

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