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EdwinLarkin
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Comment #26871332
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Comment #26866678
Are you paid by the CCP? Honest question.
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Comment #26855853
It cant be regulated to the same standard that's not possible by design. You have abnb units in private residencies.
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Comment #26855433
Airbnb should be simply banned.There's no way short term rental is any good for any city. That's what hotels with different price ranges are for.
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Comment #26851972
You live here? So do I. Wait time is not propaganda.It's real. I can get any type of healthcare service in SK without even thinking about it. >Private healthcare is simply immoral …
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Comment #26851170
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Comment #26851164
Densely populated areas are worth the shot even if you compete with 14 other providers.
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Comment #26851156
That's such a ridiculous take on it.Have you actually used that "free healthcare in Europe"? It sucks ass. I get better healthcare in South Korea that is both cheaper and more effe…
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Comment #26850902
Question: How do you pull all this info? Web scraping? Official APIs?
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Comment #26850752
That's completely normal and does not only apply to India but all other offshore centers like Eastern Europe or the Philippines. You guys are a cost centre.
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Comment #26846281
Since carbon taxes primarily benefit local production...yes? Emerging nations are too far away from the US to care about it as much as you think. >That doesn't mean the costs of a …
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Comment #26846214
If you have to preach something like a zealot it means it is not as good as you think it is. Most people dont look up whether "something will work" on Windows or Mac.They just simp…
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Comment #26835983
And does your company employ hundreds of people or is it a small biz < 99 ppl?
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Comment #26835975
Coming from a nation whose borders shifted all the time I definitely dont see it like that.
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Comment #26833114
Believing that everything will shift to remote work and borders will disappear is in my opinion naive.
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Comment #26832479
Even today carbon taxes are the stupidest idea people from rich nations thought about. Around 5BN from the developing world will laugh at this proposal. They will not be able to tr…
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Comment #26832393
That's absurd. >I think we need a carbon tax, that is specifically a financial disincentive towards any means of energy production that directly pollutes the atmosphere. Ok then le…
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Comment #26830326
Singapore style development model is a nice theory but it does not work. It's exploitative in nature and gets its revenue by churning through thousands of immigrants that have no a…
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Comment #26824802
I think you just don realize the scope of numbers you need to play with especially if you dont start with a reasonable amount in the first place. Real estate is worse than crypto w…
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Comment #26822525
I have yet to find a tech company that is not about extracting as much wealth as it can by min/maxing on human suffering.
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Comment #26822499
Working conditions in the US are a lot better than in Africa or the poorest post-USSR countries.What's your point? 1st world countries should not boast about basic human rights.Tha…
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Comment #26818331
Are you South Korean? What do you know about South Korea's real estate? Either way I would say housing in Japan (considering all the constraints) seems to work great.
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Comment #26818115
Quite the opposite actually.Increase capitalism and reduce government control and you get more housing.
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Comment #26818106
In 99% cases it's the government/zoning rules that prevent increasing the supply of housing not private investors not wanting to build enough.
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Comment #26818077
The only way to balance the market is to reduce demand and increase supply. Build more.