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That's technically tax evasion, not avoidance. The former is illegal.

Just because you wouldn't want to live in an SRO doesn't necessarily mean others wouldn't. I don't think she is suggesting building Hong-Kong style cage beds, but it sounds like something more like a college dormitory. It's not ideal housing, but for many maybe worth the price. Look at all the people renting bunk beds in SF - maybe they would prefer a single room?

Regenerative braking is very straightforward, making hills a great place to use electric. A nice additional benefit of regenerative braking is stop-and-go driving, like buses do, is hell on brakes and efficiency. Regen allows improved efficiency while saving the brakes. And incidentally, my ears - buses and trucks with worn out brakes make terrible screeching noises which IMHO are among the most unpleasant components of city noise. Regen braking saves the brakes and mostly eliminates this problem.

I believe it was an idea that had some popularity in the 60's and 70's where they tried to start math education by teaching students foundational concepts like sets rather than starting them with calculational methods (i.e. arithmetic).

Cooking quickly becomes a bad time/value proposition when you're cooking for one, so that's part of the equation. And some of us value the enjoyment of many good meals over say, having a newer car. I planned to include daily lunches in my budget before I even left college (couldn't afford it at the time). I don't regret it one bit.

No mention here of the fact that European governments went much harder on austerity policies than the US after the financial crisis? I seem to recall reading for years that European countries were lagging in recovery rate due to policies of austerity while the US largely resisted calls from erstwhile deficit hawks to do the same.

It's hard to get a man to understand something if his accustomed lifestyle depends on his not understanding it (to paraphrase Upton Sinclair). It's harder to justify eating meat and supporting factory farming if you believe animals have emotions. I'm not a vegetarian myself but I think that is more uncomfortable for me than for someone who doesn't believe animals have emotions.

The supreme court says corporations are people and have the rights of people (e.g. free speech). If they're people then they are subject to the criminal codes that people are subject to. I don't know how you carry out such punishments, ask the 5 guys who decided to make that the case.

You're assuming perfect information in the market. The GP's point is that if there's trickery involved then that assumption doesn't hold. It's not hard to make a hefty profit in excess of risk pricing if you're conning a revolving set of desperate people.

Historically[0] that was a profit center for contract lenders which people living in redlined neighborhoods (i.e. mostly black Americans) had to resort to if they wanted to buy a house before the reforms of the 1960's. These people would lend money for a house with very predatory terms. It was apparently common for a borrower to have their house foreclosed on for minor missed payments and the contract lender would simply repossess the house so they would have the house and all the payments they collected. The borrowers couldn't easily refinance since the neighborhood was redlined and there were few to no regulations on the contract provisions so a mostly paid off house could still be repossessed with no reimbursement.

This was one of the major ways the black middle class was hollowed out since homeownership was one of the major sources of middle class wealth gain.

[0] https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/contract-selling-redli...

It's because GM can't produce Bolts without a significant loss (for now) and Leafs aren't taken very seriously by most people because of their shorter range, fast battery/value degradation and frankly, funky appearance.

Any many of us are energized (no pun intended) by moving completely away from gas. So while plug-in hybrids are better than ICE cars, we don't get excited about them the same way.

While it seems like a bad idea to cut down a forest to replace it with a solar farm, that's not virgin forest. As cited by the article, the land has been timbered before. There is almost no virgin forest left in the eastern US at this point.

One of the problems with this is that my workflow these days involves fairly frequently using the authenticator apps on my phone for 2fa to log into sites. While the phone is the worst culprit on distraction, I still can't just turn it off and put it away since I have to refer to it often. It would be better if I could at least block particular distracting sites and apps but I haven't found a way to do that that doesn't involve rooting it.

You don't want to rely on it for means because the high incomes are capped at a relatively low level so that they don't out high-earners in sparse areas. But that shouldn't affect medians.

I believe it did last time I looked at a box of it that I had in my kitchen. Maybe they removed them a little while back?

Gboard is terrible. I have to correct one in two words. It's ok for long words but I mostly use short words, and it usually gets those wrong.

I've had the same exact problem with Levis, I don't buy them anymore for that reason.

You're completely ignoring historical context and engaging in whataboutism as well.

Off topic: I love the Jiffy Mix except last I checked it has trans fats in it. I wish they would remove that.

I would think a good LED would need something like a full wave rectifier with a good smoothing circuit to minimize flicker. I bet a lot of the bulbs on the market cheap out on the electronics though.

Perhaps dimmable LED bulbs would be better in that regard? The LED dimmers on the market use a very high rate PWM (afaik) to prevent/minimize flickering at low brightness. I would guess that the dimmable bulbs are designed to work well with intermittent power and so wouldn't have the same problem.

Of course it's still hit or miss, compatibility between bulbs and dimmers seems to be very hard to judge without testing these days.

If you really think that's true I'd invite you to count the number of politicians (in the US at least) who are self-declared athiests. I think the data speaks for itself.

Let's go further with this. It's reasonable to assume that a UBI's cost would have to be offset by increased taxes, this would have to be progressive or the UBI would be pointless. So there would be a cutoff somewhere on the income distribution where the UBI payment would be offset by increased taxes, let's say at $80,000 to have a number. Making less than that, UBI would increase one's total take-home. Making more than that, the tax to support UBI would lessen one's total take-home.

The places with highly desirable real estate and high prices (e.g. SF and Manhattan) are already unaffordable to people making less than $80,000. So UBI would not increase the ability for residents to pay rent in those areas. Rather, it might actually decrease their net income, so by GP's argument it might lower rents in those areas. But in small towns (like City You've Never Heard Of, WV) with a low median income, UBI would increase net income. So it might increase rents there except those small towns are already emptying out as people leave to seek high-paying jobs in big cities, as you said.

So I think UBI would lead to rental/COL costs homogenizing somewhat rather than simply going up. It seems like this could solve several problems at once.

Apparently that's the high end, the low end being "process American product slices". Not even allowed to use the word "cheese" in a name.

Indeed. Not that I plan on being involved in any such crimes (necessary disclaimer?) but a family member of mine submitted their DNA to one of these services. Now it's irrelevant whether I submit mine or not because it's as good as in there anyway. Feels real good having your rights signed away by someone else...

I would argue that everyone is privileged enough to make that choice. Who are these people whose only choice is FB or starve? Surely in this field anyone who can get hired there can get hired elsewhere.

Source on that?

Assuming the results of that study hold up, it seems like a legitimate concern, although at those CO2 levels I dare say there would be bigger problems.

I don't see why this is downvoted, parent brings up a good point. If a phone has a fingerprint or face lock, there is proof whose fingerprint or face (or whether it is a fingerprint or face) is the key. Is that knowledge not similar to a password? If the phone requires a PIN or passcode after say, 3 attempts, that's important information.

Can you explain why what Roku TV does with the HDMI data stream is evil to those of us not in the know?