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by yokaze 5y ago
As a man, I found it made me feel a bit uncomfortable, but that is maybe kind of the point. I like speculative fiction, when it makes you re-evaluate your preconceived notions, and it did that for me. From your choice of words and the fact
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by yokaze 5y ago
Important to stress here: mRNA vaccines do not modify your DNA.
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by yokaze 5y ago
> To have someone at Merck... It is not someone at Merck, it is a company release, which goes through a release process, involving a fair amount of people. So more than "someone". > suggesting there is a "lack of safety
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by yokaze 5y ago
That has been already done, as far as I know: https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/n3ht2a/how_to_disabl...
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by yokaze 5y ago
> Having the rules change in the middle of the game won’t affect investments? The rules of the game change all the time. Every business plan has to take into consideration the risks/benefits of possible regulatory changes. And yes,
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by yokaze 5y ago
> I feel like this is killing the goose that laid the golden egg. That is quite hyperbolic, because at worst it will reduce profits, but hardly "kill" them. > I want the companies and investors in the pharmaceuticals that ha
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by yokaze 5y ago
> Not many people want to get a job How can one reconcile your hypothesis with the recent employment statistics: https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/210409/dq210... There is a clear uptake from
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by yokaze 5y ago
> We are against any type of charity and at the same time we do voluntary activity I am getting more confused. Who is "we"? [Edit]: Sorry for being dense, you are a volunteer for Save the Children? If so, I can better empathise
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by yokaze 5y ago
And what should I do with those two facts? You are also receiving a salary while a lot of children are dying... Working for a charity is proper work and deserves correct renumeration as any other work. The insinuation seems to be, that it i
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by yokaze 5y ago
What impressed me when visiting the area, was the density of IT companies and startups. When going out, you could easily meet people working for those, and get a foot in the door, as you may have made already a positive initial impression i
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by yokaze 5y ago
I think, it's simply not high importance for the commercial backers of the project. It's not a hobby those people get payed for it. Raid5/6 seems to me more popular in home use.
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by yokaze 6y ago
Sparked from the the post, I read a bit up on it, and actually 0.8%-2% is actually on the lower side. 2-3% is supposedly the right amount for a well functioning market according to a local government source. Keep in mind, what I wrote about
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by yokaze 6y ago
The point is, it wouldn't matter if it is trapped in the hands of landlords who want to speculate, if there is enough housing to go around, because they couldn't determine the market. It is illegal to keep an apartment empty for m
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by yokaze 6y ago
> They should build up instead of sprawling like the most terrible cities in the world do When I was in Berlin, it seemed to me people in Berlin wanted the impossible combination: - Continue to afford to live in the city (ergo more hous
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by yokaze 6y ago
> Even in Friedrichstraße, which is a hype neighborhood with great amount of activity, you have hundreds of square meters completely unused, with wild plants growing around and random waste accumulating. Two things: I think you put too m
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by yokaze 6y ago
Okay, then the lack of housing.
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by yokaze 6y ago
From what I've heard, the problem here is a bit with expectations. Institutional investors have higher expectations of return of investment and are more likely willing to forego a small rent in the hope for a larger future rent. They h
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by yokaze 6y ago
From Science Table Covid-19 Advisory board to Ontario: https://covid19-sciencetable.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/S... Which is the newest I could find on that matter. > VIPIT seems to be rare, occurr
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by yokaze 6y ago
Correction: The risk is not 0 for men, only a fair bit lower.
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by yokaze 6y ago
It all comes down to guessing how to best convince the unconvinced to actually vaccinate. People usually react badly to getting "second-class medicine", if it is mandated. (Elderly people were asking, which vaccine they would get
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by yokaze 6y ago
> Would you look at that... So, from the article: "When medical countermeasures injure people in the United States, “we don’t have a lot of tolerance for that, and that tends to undermine vaccine confidence,” Marks said. "So we
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by yokaze 6y ago
I had a look too: "Modern stylish, Paseo de Gracia", 1 bedroom apartment, the whole of June: 25.347€. Maybe an outlier. Looking at Idealista, I would put it the rent at 2500€/month tops.
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by yokaze 6y ago
> These contracts are private, as long as neither party seeks to break the deal - then no regulatory agency will intervene. Not sure about the US, but in many parts of Europe, contracts are subject to law, and cannot override it. But new
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by yokaze 6y ago
> aka, you want a wealth tax that you yourself are not subject to, in order to pay for services that you yourself _do_ utilize. Ah, classical ad hominem. And on top of that based on assumptions about an pseudonymous person, which is ofte
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by yokaze 6y ago
My philosophy is, whatever is bad, make people pay so much for it, that it will be (net-)positive. If they still do it, what's the problem? > 1. Ultra-luxury properties are generally speaking bad for a city. They take up a dispropor
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by yokaze 6y ago
First off, I agree with you on principle. I do think it is too prone for circumvention. Whatever criticism is thrown at you in detail, it can likely be adjusted in the contract accordingly. So, keeping that in mind, (and that IANAL) lets d
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by yokaze 6y ago
> 2) How to prevent corporations from paying individuals/employees to manage property? How should managing the property make them tax exempt? Do they transfer the ownership?
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by yokaze 6y ago
2. I would suggest to have the same tax for everyone, but make it (and rent) deductable to a certain degree, if it is for your primary residence . Ideally, it should be net-zero for people living there.
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I get the first one (under pressure), but how do you get to the other ones?
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by yokaze 6y ago
It fails to stick with you. It doesn't fail to stick with the doctors which chose the treatments. I presume they know better the implications of COVID-19 over other diseases.

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