ErikVandeWater

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Medicare and Medicaid Fraud Became a $100B Problem in the U.S.(youtube.com)
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by ErikVandeWater 4y ago
> Property taxes are a large source of funding for these investments. The idea isn't to get rid of property taxes and do without that revenue; the idea is to tax things that aren't beneficial that we want more of. I think our p
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by ErikVandeWater 4y ago
> * Cost of living only works for so long. We've seen areas in the last decades that have an influx of population and they usually see a corresponding increase in COL. There are approaches governments can take to slow down the growt
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by ErikVandeWater 4y ago
Whether something is disturbing or not doesn't say much about whether it's a good idea, just that it is different from the conventional. Around the world, governments act like abusive parents. If people could migrate freely (crea
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by ErikVandeWater 4y ago
It's a false dichotomy to say the only two options are walkable and cramped, and spacious and car-dependent.
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by ErikVandeWater 4y ago
> I love that so many people are convinced everyone but them is doing nothing and somehow getting paid for it. That's not the point. The point is what they are producing isn't contributing value to our lives, or actually creat
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by ErikVandeWater 4y ago
Is there a fundamental reason that cuts would have to be to benefits? Why not cut xx% of the government budget anywhere but pensions?
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by ErikVandeWater 4y ago
In 6 months drivers killed more pedestrians than all the people that died on 9/11.
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by ErikVandeWater 4y ago
Your comment is just vague talking points. I see literally no one justifying poisoning the environment and the town by saying this is an acceptable cost of the free market. Blaming MBAs for this instead of the JDs that are writing and enfo
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by ErikVandeWater 4y ago
> While there is certainly much to criticize in these areas, you would think one solution to this issue would be to advance a society in which women are valued equally to men. Women are valued moreso than men. Men are 10x more likely to
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by ErikVandeWater 4y ago
Disappointing the article didn't specify the marketing that was used to sell the cameras five years ago. Obviously planned obsolescence is bad, but I'd like to know how misleading they were when selling the product.
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by ErikVandeWater 4y ago
> someone had been convicted of a crime The issue isn't that people who commit crimes can hide their past, but that "corrections" facilities to not rehabilitate criminals into law-abiding members of society. Having a crimi
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by ErikVandeWater 4y ago
> the new net wage is $23 an hour. > At that higher wage, more people will apply for the job. The increased supply of labor will allow the boss to pay less than $10 an hour; it might suffice to pay only $7. How is the boss taking adva
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by ErikVandeWater 4y ago
> States have become more ambitious in their policies for tackling the insulin affordability crisis because the scale of the problem continues to grow and the federal government seems capable of taking only limited action to address it.
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by ErikVandeWater 4y ago
> It cost my mother $150. Sure, but by being taxpayers, your parents already paid a substantial portion of the cost forward by paying for the healthcare of other people. Perhaps they were net takers from the system, but presumably peopl
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by ErikVandeWater 4y ago
He didn't say no gas would flow. He said the pipeline would no longer exist. Also, why would he be hesitant to use the word "sanctions?" Sanctions would be a totally reasonable explanation. What he said clearly implied th
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by ErikVandeWater 4y ago
It takes people's time to build runways. That's time they won't be building other valuable things. You're ignoring the core truth of the comment you're replying to: Scarcity exists. There is no way to have it all;
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by ErikVandeWater 4y ago
People tend to complain about the safety of airplane even though it is in the top echelon of safe modes of transit. There's no reason to try to reach the highest-hanging fruit trying to make it even safer when people are dying in drov
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by ErikVandeWater 4y ago
If no one ever electrified a car, I feel the world would be better off so people wouldn't be mislead thinking electric cars are a green solution to transit. Trains, busses, and bikes are the green solution.
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by ErikVandeWater 4y ago
I wish this article were more specific on what "housing first" means. My understanding (correct me if I'm wrong) is that homeless shelters across the country have empty beds, and that these are not considered housing. When t
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by ErikVandeWater 4y ago
> Across the country, many laws are passed by red states that might not hold up if they are challenged in Supreme Court. This is definitely not specific to red states.
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by ErikVandeWater 4y ago
> You suggestion kind of sounds like: Let's teach kids how to grow an apple tree by giving them apple juice. This is a poor analogy because apples and apple juice don't involve social dynamics. I can easily see a man who is ex
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by ErikVandeWater 4y ago
> Women have 2x the rates of depression as men. But is there any reason to think that 200 years ago it was even more so? That's interesting. I would have thought men would have it more since it's an abnormality, and with only
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by ErikVandeWater 4y ago
> Our knowledge of the genetics, however, is incomplete. Krystal noted that studies of twins suggest that genetics may account for 40% of the risk of depression. Yet the currently identified genes seem to explain only about 5%. I see the
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by ErikVandeWater 4y ago
A good day to be thankful for short sellers.
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Edits should be made clear upon release of the audio recording. The investigation is either incompetent or corrupt if it is not being forthcoming about edits to information released to the public.
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by ErikVandeWater 4y ago
According to experts hired by NBC news, the audio between the pilots and ATC were edited: https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/missing-jet/missing-jet-re... For whatever reason, this doesn't seem to be widely di
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by ErikVandeWater 4y ago
Good leadership taking a stand against bad management.
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by ErikVandeWater 4y ago
Yeah, starting of a note about layoffs talking "reiterating" about the "most defensible business strategy" is extremely tone-deaf.
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by ErikVandeWater 4y ago
How do 52 heads of state and 600+ CEOs of the world's largest companies not have "any control or vision of what's going to happen?"

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