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by vacri 9y ago
What counts as 'foreign' to LA? An investor from SF? From outside CA? From the east coast?
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by vacri 9y ago
There are multiple factors driving up housing prices in New Zealand (and Australia as well), and foreign buyers are a significant contributer (just not the sole cause). Keep in mind that there are single cities in China where the population
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by vacri 9y ago
> Why not just allow more or denser housing to be built? Neither of those things are "existing housing". Foreign cash can still be used to build new housing.
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by vacri 9y ago
> As it is, barely a day goes by without "Twitter" being mentioned in national news. What are you talking about? Before Trump was a thing, Twitter was routinely mentioned in the news. It was the lazy source of react quotes: &
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by vacri 9y ago
Yeah, patreon should shut [1] down, because otherwise kids might incorporate the lessons learned and just engage in space battles with their spaceships all willy-nilly.
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by vacri 9y ago
So am I. You didn't seriously think I was suggesting we outlaw minimum wage jobs?
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by vacri 9y ago
Fair enough, I just took it from here, which doesn't list the specific processing fee. https://patreon.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/204606125-How-...
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by vacri 9y ago
It's a bit rich that you require me to provide proof to back up my claims, but are happy to settle for 'plausible' in the article. Why am I held to the stricter standard? How can I disprove something where no solid claims are
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by vacri 9y ago
> When someone asks for evidence, they don't necessarily need citations. You could just refer to something they already know, and provide a logical argument from there. Maybe that's the case in the lunch room in an academic d
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by vacri 9y ago
It's the same with driving skill - the bulk of people think that they're better than average drivers.
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by vacri 9y ago
> In contrast, people typically do not "lawyering" for recreational fun. Indeed, it's the opposite - industry bodies have to mandate pro bono work, which wouldn't get done otherwise.
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by vacri 9y ago
Software development is a craft, not fully art and not fully engineering. It definitely is not science.
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by vacri 9y ago
One company I work for rejected a candidate based on Github - he'd cloned some repos and stamped his name on it, and claimed they were his. The hiring tech smelled something fishy, and the candidate said that he worked with these vario
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by vacri 9y ago
> The anti-PC crowd immediately latched onto these few sentences and now HN top upvoted thread is all about how the letter made the HN crowd feel uncomfortable. I'm pro-PC and have routinely come out in defence of the concept here
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by vacri 9y ago
I think you're grossly underestimating the work involved in being a payment handler - even just the legal work alone would be crushing. It certainly isn't going to be a side-business for a lone developer.
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by vacri 9y ago
If being uncomfortable while working was to be made illegal, there'd be few minimum-wage jobs left. From burger-flipping to call centers, people do it because they have to, not because they want to. Coercion is a different kettle of fi
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by vacri 9y ago
The whole first paragraph is completely overbearing. "Quick, pull in every non-mainstream group we can think of, and then describe them all as literally in fear of death from an ambiguous policy about fringe content. Oh, and of cours
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by vacri 9y ago
5% is a pretty small middleman 'take'. I agree with the 'you shouldn't rely on an independent entity you don't have leverage over', but not because they're taking a cut.
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by vacri 9y ago
It's not government puritanism, it's because pornography payments take place in the shadier parts of the spectrum, where there's a hell of a lot more fraud.
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by vacri 9y ago
Why are demographics not defined by their sexuality (disabled, PoC, english-second-language) more likely to make sexual/nudity content, and hence be more affected by this issue? I'm big on egalitarianism, but I'm not keen on
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by vacri 9y ago
Not 'intelligence', but 'capability'. There are plenty of intelligent-but-not-capable people out there, and plenty of capable-but-not-highly-intelligent folks as well.
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by vacri 9y ago
The US's corralling of the Cherokee into camps predates the First Boer War by 40-odd years (1830s). Still, I find it hard to believe that the 'concentration camp' is that recent an invention.
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by vacri 9y ago
This is the truth of it. The gaming system in use is less important than the game world and the story you're telling.
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by vacri 9y ago
When has google misled about how it makes its money? It's been pretty upfront about the tradeoffs and how googlestuff is paid for. This kind of argument has been going on for well over a decade at this point - to suggest that google is
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by vacri 9y ago
It does increase size a little, as you need to account for the extra thickness used to make the compartment wall and the inside wall of the battery pack. Additional constraints are that these compartments generally have to be straight-walle
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by vacri 9y ago
> Google is the cheaper alternative. Google and Apple charge the same amount for maps, music, apps, mail, and operating systems. Google isn't seriously in the hardware game - it had a couple of smartphone handsets, but mostly left
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by vacri 9y ago
I didn't say Apple was obliged. I said Apple didn't care about that user. > Have you seen any cases where Google has done this? I haven't seen any case where Google has sent in the police to raid someone's house and
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by vacri 9y ago
> If Google wasn't dumping prices, there would be a local cheaper alternative Apple's not dumping prices. Where is Ghana's local cheaper alternative to Apple? > The only way to stay afloat is to sell with hefty premi
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by vacri 9y ago
> Between Apple and Google, you think APPLE'S business model is the harmful one?! Google provides services to everyone in the world. Apple provides services to the social elite, and only them. A person of moderate means living in
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by vacri 9y ago
> Telling people it was insecure did not make it insecure - it was already insecure. It's a common tactic for burglars to look for when homeowners are going on holidays. The homeowner being on holiday makes the house less secure,

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