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by Splendor 5y ago
That's the 2022 budget which has been in effect for less than four months. And so far in 2022, crime has not "gone way up" -- at least not according to the city's crime dashboard[0]. That shows a grand total of 47,612 cr
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by Splendor 5y ago
Brilliant insight.
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by Splendor 5y ago
> These bills are mostly useless if they don't include bonus and stock compensation Most employees in Washington State receive neither. Step out of the tech bubble for a second.
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by Splendor 5y ago
You've already changed your argument from "they never said anything about that" to "okay they said it but I think they were making assumptions". Log off. Go touch grass.
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by Splendor 5y ago
The fact that they can afford to build a second mansion while millions are homeless. It's a pretty simple equation.
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by Splendor 5y ago
> They literally mentioned nothing about societal issues I guess you missed the phrase "extensive societal advantages" in OP's comment.
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by Splendor 5y ago
I guess we can file yours under "callous indifference". Someone complains about the societal issues that allow a couple to build a SECOND mansion like this in the woods while millions of people are homeless and your response is to
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by Splendor 5y ago
There are lots of places to play sudoku and crosswords for free too. Yet people are happy to pay the NYT for those games. Why wouldn't the same be true of this game?
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by Splendor 5y ago
> Meanwhile, green is used to represent decreases in stock value. Okay. Now explain why the "chart decreasing" emoji is blue instead of green.
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by Splendor 5y ago
What an incredibly rude thing to say to another person.
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by Splendor 5y ago
It would appear that the difference between your hypothetical scenario and this one is the introduction of scientific data. Interesting huh?
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by Splendor 5y ago
That link isn't working for me, but I think this is the same article: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-11-10/methane-p...
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by Splendor 5y ago
He is terrible, but in today's GOP there is nothing exceptional about Governor Parson.
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by Splendor 5y ago
Maybe because no advertisers have requested that ability.
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by Splendor 5y ago
One third of US workers don't have any paid time off. https://qz.com/1702181/a-third-of-americans-dont-get-paid-va...
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by Splendor 5y ago
Can you think of any reasons why we moved away from that model?
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by Splendor 5y ago
> It’s probably <$200 flight almost anywhere in the country. This is the kind of privileged naivete I come to HN for. The cost of an airplane ticket isn't the only cost to travel out of state for a medical procedure. At a bare mi
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by Splendor 5y ago
You're using the term "walled garden" incorrectly. A public repository is the opposite of a closed ecosystem.
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by Splendor 5y ago
You seem to have missed the part of my comment where I said "if an automaker was allowed to make their new vehicles only available from a direct showroom". If the automaker didn't allow other dealers to sell new vehicles, the
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by Splendor 5y ago
> There wouldn't need to be laws restricting Tesla from selling direct to consumer if that was the case. That's just not true. Consumers wouldn't have a choice if an automaker was allowed to make their new vehicles only av
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by Splendor 5y ago
Here's a direct link to the report from the Treasury: https://home.treasury.gov/news/featured-stories/the-case-for...
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by Splendor 5y ago
The US didn't exactly "win".
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by Splendor 5y ago
> "She had not been trained in handling dangerous prions or responding to accidents and did not wear both metal mesh and surgical gloves, as she was supposed to, says Julien Bensimhon, the family’s lawyer."
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by Splendor 5y ago
> or rich With that definition, your assertion that "all successful people are hardworking" is clearly false. Lots of people become rich without hard work. Inheriting a fortune, winning the lottery, etc.
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by Splendor 5y ago
> all successful people are hardworking That really depends on your definition of "successful".
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by Splendor 5y ago
I hope we hear more from the operator of SaveVideo. Their post was very vague so it's hard to tell what exactly happened at this point.
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by Splendor 5y ago
Unemployment insurance hasn't necessarily ended. The extended benefits have in many case though. Those extended benefits included things like more money per week and benefits for longer. Regarding increased competition for people worki
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by Splendor 5y ago
Yes.
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by Splendor 5y ago
Ending the extended unemployment benefits only reduces the weekly unemployment payment. In my state that was an extra $300/week. Our Governor got rid of that, but the labor shortage remains.
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by Splendor 5y ago
> is there something else here that I'm missing about why that wouldn't also mitigate the current labor shortage - 600k+ dead people. - Increased hiring competition from more remote-friendly jobs. - Workers who don't want

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