wow, the linked related article about NYC school segregation was depressing: https://www.vox.com/2016/2/16/10980856/new-york-city-schools...
especially the part about charters having two times during the year when low-performing students are forced out into the public school: one in October after per-student funding is allocated to the school, allowing them to grab the funding while pushing a now-unfunded student onto the public school, and again in Spring right before standardized testing, when they can weed out the ones who did poorly on prep tests. Seems like the city/state should step in and disallow this practice.
this sounds like it's ignoring political realities. if you find against the employee, they are gone; if you find for them, now there is a manager, maybe an important one, at your client who's pissed at you and might make noise about it to higher ups. better for business to do what the manager wants.
i don’t think taxpayer provided medical etc care is any different than getting it from parents’ employer-provided (tax-code-subsidized) insurance or from inherited wealth from generations ago. in all cases it’s manna from heaven as far as young kids know. is there some problem with european or canadian children who get these things from a single-payer government scheme?
actually that's not the case here, google and its competitors will only be subject to the same price hike if its competitors cross a certain gross revenue threshold, so biasing the market in favor of smaller players.
they must have installed one of these single-shot timers on the uptown A between 50th and 59th. it always crawls through 50th, stops in the tunnel, then crawls into 59th. didn't used to until a couple years ago.
because the symptoms of the disease come and go with frustrating unpredictability, it’s easy to imagine that lifestyle changes can have drastic differences in outcome, and easy to sell desperately sick people on that idea, just like praying to the gods for rain.
there are various legal reasons (e.g. parole) why you might be denied a passport that have nothing to do with whether credit should be extended to you.
let's see, in a battle between employers pushing down on insurance costs and the morass of corruption on the healthcare side, who is the least politically organized? it would be a miracle if individuals don't get screwed.
I had problems with my google home mini controlling my android tv and went to the help page for it. A chatbox appeared and for about an hour a support agent talked me through various things to try (the only thing that worked was factory data reset on the TV). Pretty sure it was not a bot, unless they've gotten really good.
parking on most streets in NYC, including mine, is free. you would only get towed due to alternate-side parking rules for cleaning. lots of people who don't live anywhere near here (or even in manhattan) take advantage. some building supers actually perform the paid service of parking and retrieving residents' cars in whatever street spots they can find around the city. we need a residential parking permit system to bring control back to neighborhoods and revenue to NYC. the city council has passed this plan but it was killed in Albany because upstate commuters demand free parking in the city.
> Also in Sweden for apartments, you don't own it. Most apartments for sale is so called "Bostadsrätter" which means you own a percentage of the association that owns the apartment building(s). If the association/organization has a bad economy and can't pay the debt they could be forced to sell the entire apartment building(s) and you'd loose your apartment while still having a loan to the bank.
In the US we call these co-ops and they are mostly an NYC phenomenon. Fun fact, some co-ops don't own the land they sit on, they rent it. And those rents get renegotiated every 30 years, potentially making a bunch of co-op owners suddenly unable to afford their monthly maintenance payments.
isn't this already a problem for RSU's, where you get taxed at vest time (or on the value at vest time)? Are there startups out there granting illiquid RSU's? seems like a bad fit.
When an area gets better economically, it becomes more desirable, so home prices (and land prices) go up. Outside of California, property taxes go up too, and retired owners often do the math and cash out.
home price increases in my neighborhood of manhattan have substantially slowed their rise in the past couple years as a bunch of new construction has come on the market. this will probably continue through next year as stuff in progress finishes up, and then probably rise again because homebuilders don't start projects when prices are flat.
> An adult sleeping only 6.75 hours a night would be predicted to live only to their early 60s without medical intervention.
I wonder if this controls for other lifestyle factors. Eating a lot before bed makes me sleepier and I could go 7-8 hours a night. Small dinner several hours before bed results in about 6 hours. No alarm clock, that's just how much I need. I find it hard to believe that I'm shortening my lifespan by eating less at night.
> In the behavioural analysis, cyclists at the stop line glared at the signal, almost willing it to turn green.
This is amazing. I have never seen a cyclist waiting at a red light. I think you need this kind of culture among cyclists before you can do something like taking away lights. I have never been hit by a car, but I have twice been hit by cyclists either ignoring stop lights when I had right of way, or ignoring bike lane markers and veering into pedestrian walkways. This was in Boston and NYC.
this is the perspective of someone who lives in a housing market in dire shortage. basic income might enable people, for the first time, to try living outside these places, where they are tied to their current job. in the rest of america, there is competition between landlords to attract tenants.