MarchHare

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by MarchHare 7y ago
>is it democratic for most elected governments to keep pushing for legislature again and again, waiting a bit between attempts? Repeat it ad nauseam um 'till people get bored of protesting. Yes. This is how slavery was ended in the
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by MarchHare 8y ago
I wonder to what point some of these methods just increase housing prices. For example, having the developer plant trees along the street means the price of the new build goes up (of course the developer will pass along costs), and existing
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by MarchHare 9y ago
Sounds like your lot just went up ~100k for free?
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by MarchHare 9y ago
Being from central Kansas, I always say I'm from the great plains. Lumping the prairie into it's own group always seemed useful to me.
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by MarchHare 9y ago
It's not only foreign banks refusing American customers. American companies such as Fidelity, Vanguard, Charles Schwab and so on won't open investment accounts for Americans abroad and will freeze accounts if they discover you are
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by MarchHare 9y ago
The same crowd also appear to be the ones worried about voter fraud, so they're consistency has limits.
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by MarchHare 9y ago
>avoiding taxes, perfectly legally Given the undemocratic and privileged positions many enjoy in the house of lords, some could say the legality of their methods is nothing more than corruption.
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by MarchHare 9y ago
My point about the US is that at least the option of good beer is available pretty much everywhere, which is a big improvement over the last few decades. I left the US for the UK and the beer scene here leaves much to be desired. While bett
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by MarchHare 9y ago
The US used to be known for terrible beer (and there is plenty of that still) but there are now thousands of microbreweries producing great stuff. I hope there could be a similar awakening for bread. And cheese.
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by MarchHare 9y ago
Food banks exist already, why would UBI change that.
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by MarchHare 9y ago
Ireland may be where many corporations are registered but is not necessarily where the employees are located. Similar to how many companies are registered in Delaware.
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by MarchHare 9y ago
Getting to use a car quickly becomes having to use a car in much of the U.S. There is a lot of middle room between suburbia and NYC for build environments.
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by MarchHare 9y ago
I love how vanguard.com will redirect to vanguard.co.uk, which will then proceed to inform that they do work with US persons.
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by MarchHare 9y ago
Out of curiosity what SIPP provider do you use? Interactive brokers are the only broker I've found to actually advertise as for expats, but the 10k min is a bit much for me.
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by MarchHare 9y ago
I find myself in the odd position of hoping for republican tax reform to happen, if only for the repeal of FATCA (S. 869)
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by MarchHare 9y ago
It's not a big deal if you haven't made the egregious choice of investing any extra money you may have earned, perhaps via an ETF. Furthermore, good luck finding a place to invest in the first place. If looking for a US company, t
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by MarchHare 9y ago
Isn't that an argument for more urbanisation and less destruction of habitat via suburban sprawl?
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by MarchHare 9y ago
Whats wrong with urbanisation?
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by MarchHare 9y ago
The tax cuts were sold with the phrase, "supercharge growth". So yeah, that kinda was a bit of the point.
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by MarchHare 10y ago
While I do empathise that people are making a living, I look forward to the day when the black cabs are gone. The amount of pollution they put out is awful.
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by MarchHare 10y ago
Which country are they leaving and where are they going?
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by MarchHare 10y ago
Yeah, one and two are obviously tory/labour, after that it gets confusing.
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by MarchHare 10y ago
The SNP are the third biggest UK party.
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by MarchHare 10y ago
One factor nobody has mentioned yet, social stigma. Busses in the US are often associated with poor people who can't afford a car or have lost their licenses. Trams do not have the same stigma.
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by MarchHare 10y ago
I grew up on a farm in Kansas outside of a town of 650 people. No minorities, 7 different christian churches. One thing that stuck out, we had a gay tennis coach who everyone loved. Easy to hate the unknown, paint a picture of the other, ha
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by MarchHare 10y ago
Depends on the role, for junior devs my company doesn't care if you have ever programmed before. If the person is clever, we can teach them to program. For example, the most recent hire has a masters in maths from oxford, he may have n
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by MarchHare 10y ago
Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.
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by MarchHare 10y ago
>Sure but rather than directly hiring N people to run the water works and plumbing crews, the city could contract out the maintenance of those things to a private company. It would still own the pipes and be on the hook for the maintenan
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by MarchHare 10y ago
My understanding is the Vancouver has light regulation in some aspects, hence the term Vancouverism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vancouverism