kindatrue
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Comment · 9 months ago
Comment · 1 year ago
Those are all optional fees.
What they want is a return to the old pre-Obama days where all the taxes and mandatory fees (government and stuff they made up) were only displayed at check out. Kind of like resort fees on hotels.
Comment · 1 year ago
If you live in the SF Bay Area, it's pretty blatant: most of the economic gains go to property owners - both landlords or people who bought real estate early on (or inherited real estate early on) - due to the self-perpetuated housing shortage.
Comment · 1 year ago
What's a good number to memorize if you get detained and have the right to ask for a lawyer?
Comment · 1 year ago
Could've been an international (overnight) flight. Maybe alcohol was involved.
Comment · 1 year ago
Deep cut of "Long Island Iced Tea Corp" -> "Long Blockchain Corp"
Comment · 1 year ago
The problem might be music rights clearance if they used a lot of contemporary music from actual artists.
Comment · 1 year ago
Previously Boom's CEO said this:
“That’s not travel, that’s like a thing you might hope to do once in a lifetime,” says Scholl, before adding, “Versus where we want to get, which is anywhere in the world in four hours for 100 bucks.”[1]
Anywhere in the world in four hours for $100 USD really caught people's imagination and attention. I'm puzzled by how they will achieve this.
[1] https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/boom-supersonic-four-hour...
Comment · 2 years ago
This link should be mandatory reading for everyone who thinks the general public aren't drooling morons: https://awrestaurants.com/blog/aw-third-pound-burger-fractio...
tldr: America fast food restaurants don't offer 1/3rd pound burgers because the general public knows that 3 < 4
Comment · 2 years ago
I've met people who thought that the IRS makes money from collecting taxes - like that employees there get a cut.
Comment · 2 years ago
Anti-tax people like Grover Norquist and Republicans who have made his pledge have long been concerned that if paying taxes were easy, then the American people might not despise taxes anymore. So making paying taxes painful is part of the plan.
https://www.propublica.org/article/how-the-maker-of-turbotax...
Comment · 2 years ago
"Not very, absolutely everyone hates doing their taxes and the whole shady process behind it all"
That's the Grover Norquist (and Republican) argument for not having IRS Direct File to begin with: if filing taxes becomes easy, people might not hate the IRS and hate taxes.
https://www.propublica.org/article/how-the-maker-of-turbotax...
Comment · 2 years ago
"I really hope US cities head in this direction"
The US is headed on the path of autonomous vehicles as the solution. It's the perfect combination of things our society loves: 1) No new public investment. 2) Continuous, end-to-end air conditioning
Comment · 2 years ago
Counterpoint: I don't love getting sticky paper menus full of stains... or for the ones that are in folios, full of crumbs.
Comment · 3 years ago
Not surprising at all. It was also taught at B-School that loyal customers are the ones you should hike prices on. They're loyal after all.
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jul-12-fi-indym...
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2009/oct/11/banking-cri...
Italy had to buy 3% of Parmigiano Reggiano production.
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/europe/rome-stage...