> I see a lot of articles about tenants having trouble using them but nobody ever attempts to explain the reason is primarily due to the inefficiency of the government organizations providing them.

It’s ‘free’ government backed money… if they need to make a law requiring people to accept it then there’s something wrong with the program.

The bigger risk is if their compensation is adjusted for the stock ownership they are getting. If they are being paid less than prevailing wages, to account for the value of stock ownership they are gaining, then it’s just forced investment.

It’s considered passive income and there is a cap on how much of that loss can pass through to offset your personal income.

Otherwise it just grows as a prior loss and the expenses are used to offset future revenue, but that only happens if they actually rent out the unit.

I wonder if they’d include US states in the belt and road initiative if we asked.

Yeah, but it is a law. So not sure how they get around it. Could have a machine that converts cash to a card but that still doesn’t identify people.

> https://www.nyc.gov/site/dca/consumers/Prohibition-of-Cashless-Establishments.page

I thought NYC had a ‘must accept cash’ law passed not too long ago? How would this circumvent that? Or am I mistaken?

It’s odd to me that any assault isn’t a felony. Almost like it’s a remnant of an older time of ‘boys will be boys’ and to not punish that behavior.

it’s not like people can reasonably say ‘Sorry sir, I didn’t know I couldn’t punch her.’

Or ‘Sorry sir, I fell over and my fist fell into her face.’

Like places that are under lease but only 50% or less utilized due to hybrid/WFH companies who don’t plan on renewing or downsizing if they do?

If it was a different context, I'd argue that the 'Civic Duty' was to work and provide value to your community, not to work 'in the office'. Which I can understand the first part, a society won't work where everyone stays at home all day and the government pays you not to work (as it was said in Sept 2020.)

But 'the market' had a solution to covid infection concerns, which was to enable work from home. So we all got back to contributing to our society while limiting our exposure to each other.

Not sure about NYC but the fed pays you interest in what they owe you, but, AFAIK, only to the extent there is a delay in distributing any refund you are owed.

> That's not true either Fed bonuses are taxed at 22% which is the 3rd of 7 tax brackets.

I guess for you poors... /s

> For payments exceeding $1 million, the rate is 37 percent.

> https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/for-small-business-week-backup-withholding-rate-now-24-percent-bonuses-22-percent-workers-urged-to-do-a-paycheck-checkup

Is there an issue with giving vaccines to people who already had them?

Like, they say they had the vaccine and got it when they were 2 but lost the records. Can you revaccine them at 6 without problem?

Did any DA run on a platform of cracking down on double parking?

I thought people were leaving/population was dropping before the water failed. Sure, no one wants to move to where there is no water but doing a one time fix on the water won’t fix the underlying issues either.

If the city is positioned in an economically important area, then whatever local laws and regulations are driving people away or discouraging people from staying need to be re-evaluated.

If the area isn’t particularly economically important then why put good money after bad?

Either way, the city should be able to maintain it itself.

But all regulations provide utility in some way.

It’s trivial to contrive a valid reason for some regulation. It has to be a cost-benefit analysis of if the regulation is worth the negative impact on housing.

> https://www.vero.fi/en/About-us/finnish-tax-administration/data-security-and-information-access/public-information-on-taxes/public-information-on-individual-income-taxes/

I only read the above link, but it seems like there are a lot of hoops to go through to get the data. If the data should be public, it should be easier to access than having to go into a place in person and write down the data. But maybe I’m wrong, because I saw articles indicating that the government publicly releases a list of all the incomes anyway. Not the media.

Perhaps, but even if they still need food aid, they would need less aid.

All jobs subsidize the welfare programs, even jobs where the employees are on welfare, because the government would have to pay out more if the employees weren’t making any money.

How much funding per immigrant is sent to southern states to house the immigrants until their court case?

That might be a stretch.

There is a lot of screen space dedicated to the manufacturers logo yet it seems that some of the buttons below may hide other information which could be displayed on one screen. If every button below is actually an action button, like if ‘Doors’ opens the doors and doesn’t display data on the doors, then ignore this but some of them are titled such that I think there’s more data.

Also, 3/4 of the wind gauges are indicating 0 wind and blowing due north. My guess is that it defaults to north and 0, but if there’s no data then it should indicate a null value. It’s very much not functional to show incorrect data.

And due north.

They are also comparing the lowest paid workers to apartments which average paid workers afford. Which never makes any sense. The people who can afford more expensive housing are probably paying for more expensive housing.

> Does anywhere else do this whole “99 year lease in lieu of actual ownership” thing?

My office almost did something like this in Charlotte. A developer offered my company millions of dollars for the land and building my office is in. They included that they would cover the cost of relocating our office to a new place as they tore down the existing office and rebuilt. And then after the new building is open, my company would have a 99 year lease on the first 3 floors for $1, same number of floors we currently have.

Thanks for your insight.

So it sounds like the main issue is that adjuncts are capped at 9 credits a semester. Do you know why?

It’s generally a lot easier to get more hours at one job than to pick up a second job where scheduling may clash or an extra commute from a to b.

> Tenant unions are the strangest things.

They make some sense, but not how they are doing it here.

Imagine if every renter in the city join the same tenant union, and the union delegates determined what it’s members were allowed to pay for rent at each apartment.

You’d essentially be changing the metric used to determine who gets each apartment from who is able and willing to pay the most, to something else. Whoever has the best credit score or whomever applies first or whomever is the most attractive.

The hurdle though is that anyone with money probably wants money to continue to be the metric used to determine housing distribution. It even has the benefit that two people with the same moneys can indicate how much they want a specific unit in a specific area (with specific roommates) by changing what % of their income they are willing to spend. If the theoretical union used seniority in the union as the metric, some immigrant who works 80 hours a week isn’t likely to volunteer to continue living out of homeless shelters so that native born, part time cashier Timothy Johnson can get the next apartment for lease.