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by xbzbanna 9y ago
Would this choosing this policy option only affect payments to you the policy holder for an incident where you were at fault? Trying how understand how this works, since your insurance company usually represents you when trying to obtain co
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by xbzbanna 9y ago
The appropriate calculation is the amount of it took to find the issue, divided by the probability of not finding the issue.
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by xbzbanna 9y ago
VW actively deceived regulators in a coordinated manner for months after they started investigating and asking questions about the defeat devices. This is not normal behavior for a car manufacturer or any public company under investigatio
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by xbzbanna 9y ago
VW ultimately paid less a lot less in settlement money than the law might have required if no settlement occurred. Furthermore, when negotiating legal settlements with the US government, the level cooperation is a critical factor. VW active
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by xbzbanna 9y ago
When you lease an apartment, you agree to a lease term that secured that apartment for a particular amount of time. That's the arrangement. 99 year leases are possible, if that's what you're looking for.
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by xbzbanna 9y ago
Not sure why you think you're banned, I can see your comment.
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by xbzbanna 9y ago
More drivers means faster pickups for riders, and more riders means less downtime for drivers. Drivers doing more rides per hour means they can be paid less per ride, lowering the price of a ride and further increasing demand. Sounds like a
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by xbzbanna 9y ago
Offerings like Uber Pool and Lyft Line are the future of the business and depend entirely on economies of scale. Putting multiple paying passengers in the car at once and reducing driver downtime completely changes the economics, but only i
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by xbzbanna 9y ago
So I buy a future for 1 bitcoin in 10 days with a price of $10k. The future is cash settled, so in 10 days the exchange will give me [price of BTC] - $10k, or I can sell the future before then. Where does the bitcoin come in? Is the exchang
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by xbzbanna 9y ago
Does this mean that tons of money could be invested in these - let's say a trillion dollars going long on bitcoin via cash settled futures - and the underlying price wouldn't necessarily go up at all? I always thought the play wit
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by xbzbanna 9y ago
It depends a great deal on your household situation and where you are on the pay scale. If you are an average skilled dev in a single income family with multiple dependants who require separate bedrooms, you are probably going to be worse o
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by xbzbanna 9y ago
Bill Gates is part of a system that built Microsoft. The system needs to be maintained if it's going to continue to produce outcomes like that.
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by xbzbanna 9y ago
They could have rent control or prop 13 housing (often via parents).
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by xbzbanna 9y ago
The fact that you used BTC for that purchase doesn't matter, you could also have decided to buy BTC instead of anything you bought with another currency. Although in an environment where the main national currency experiences deflatio
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by xbzbanna 9y ago
"Restricts access to imports" is a really interesting way to put it - weakening a currency of course lowers imports and raises exports. Which can go a long way to fix a depressed economy. Of course bond investors knew the EU did n
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by xbzbanna 9y ago
Home prices are reasonable in the US. The ratio of home price to household income is a little high, but much lower than 2007: https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-CxAYOEkHwSs/WbgZo0mKLBI/AAAAAAAAs... (these numbers are infl
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by xbzbanna 9y ago
During the great recession, Europe decided to do austerity instead of Keynesian stimulus. Just like the textbooks say, this has led to weak growth and deflation.
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by xbzbanna 9y ago
Considering that drug tests for operators of heavy machinery are mostly about legal liability, has a system like you propose ever been tested in front of a jury?
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by xbzbanna 9y ago
This whole tree of comments is a response to someone complaining that it's hard for a company to find workers. Nobody's saying that company is required to hire anyone - we are just making suggestions to help them with their proble
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by xbzbanna 9y ago
I'm not the person you are asking, but I think it means a US shareholder in a US company being taxed both by the state the company is incorporated in, and the state the shareholder resides in. There are a lot of state taxes that Delawa
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by xbzbanna 9y ago
Fascinating. Are the passengers walking to the station and know exactly how long the walk takes? Or is it some closely timed transfer from another source?
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by xbzbanna 9y ago
You're talking about these interest rates as though they can just move around - are these adjustable-rate mortgages? In the US, the standard mortgage has a fixed rate. So people with those mortgages would benefit from increased interes
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by xbzbanna 9y ago
I'm not the person you are responding to, but I limit my cannabis use during the workweek for similar reasons. Most often my goals for the weekend are to relax and enjoy myself. Of course I'm not going to get high if I'm abou
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by xbzbanna 9y ago
Suppose you track all client-side errors. Some portion of your users have a blocker that bans an analytics tool you use. Every hit generates an error. You could disable the error if you wanted in that case, but why not keep it online and us
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by xbzbanna 9y ago
So the people who are the most articulate, beautiful, connected, and who have the free time will be successful lobbying for their own interests, but won't be able to rent out their time to lobby for others.
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by xbzbanna 9y ago
Most employers will pay you with a check, which doesn't require a bank account to be cashed.
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by xbzbanna 9y ago
I like this one: And in a far different proposal, the mayor of the Atlanta suburb of Stonecrest, Jason Lary, said his city would use 345 acres of industrial land to create a new city called Amazon. Bezos would be its mayor for life, Lary s
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Billions in tax breaks offered to Amazon for second headquarters(reuters.com)
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by xbzbanna 9y ago
> A lot of those cities would give anything for Seattle's problems. They have made it clear they are willing to give a lot: https://www.google.com/amp/mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/id...
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by xbzbanna 9y ago
Agreed, the "cash hoard" option should also include assets, and we should also talk about debt and depreciation in that case. I don't think it conflicts with my original assertion wrt. wages.

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