GavinMcG

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by GavinMcG 4y ago
Depends. If competitors aren't playing by the same rulebook, you're at a competitive disadvantage, and that risk could outweigh the risks you'd prefer to avoid. Regulation is needed not just to prevent risky actions, but to
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Putting all their eggs in an illiquid basket was not “conservative” and the interest rate exposure they had for some time was not unforeseeable.
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But that alters the content, and copy/paste would carry that forced pairing into a different line-length context.
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by GavinMcG 4y ago
Shopify serves online vendors.
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Arbitration, by the way, not arbitrage. Arbitrage is done by arbitrageurs.
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Yes. Plenty of medical providers are focused on making a profit while still emphasizing other values, rather than sacrificing them in the name of maximizing profits.
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by GavinMcG 4y ago
Never once. At best you're describing children , in my experience, not adult women. But especially if it is an involuntary expression of anger, as you say, then advancing the sexist "You're Cute When You're Angry"
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by GavinMcG 4y ago
Eh, it’s retribution. Self-defense is harming someone to prevent their harming you.
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Ah, okay. Then to answer your question: because those cars' rapid rise into the top 20 on that list means that there's an uncertain risk calculation (and one that old rates do not reflect) and so the insurer isn't willing t
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by GavinMcG 4y ago
Yes, that's how science works. The point the comment was making is that it's not enough to be citing a reliable source. That source has said contradictory things, so someone could build an argument on incorrect premises.
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by GavinMcG 4y ago
... you're ignoring the underlying availability. The total number of Hyundais sold in the US is comparable to combined sales of Honda Civics and Toyota Camrys alone. The question is whether the risk of a Hyundai/Kia being stolen i
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by GavinMcG 4y ago
Fair enough. Though I guess where that leads me is that by encouraging that level of interaction, this medium may still be leading to the state OP is concerned about. You suggested OP might be reductionist - but if that’s the case, it’s evi
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by GavinMcG 4y ago
I think one thing that makes me doubt this is the frequency with which I see replies to other comments that are obviously unaware of the context those comments were made in - even the immediate parent! I accept that many people will not rea
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by GavinMcG 4y ago
Sorry, “not in the business of” does not mean to me that they never do it. I’m aware they sell refurbished. I’d imagine margins are not all that great because it’s not a huge part of their business, there’s a fair amount of labor, and a fai
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by GavinMcG 4y ago
Worth $1k... to Apple, who isn't in the business of selling one-off used products. So what?
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by GavinMcG 4y ago
Does it seem more absurd than the fact that innocent people can be killed by drunk drivers? Or that they can be dismembered in industrial accidents? It seems like you have an expectation that human systems could be perfect, and I’m curious
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by GavinMcG 4y ago
One would imagine that a significant portion of the time they tried to put the person behind bars because they believed the person to be guilty. I’m curious what your “Blackstone number” is. The Blackstone principle is that it is better for
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by GavinMcG 4y ago
Fair enough. I guess I read your statement as universalizing that feeling. That is, when you said "this type of messaging ... does nothing for you except make your mental health worse" it didn't seem like a statement about y
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by GavinMcG 4y ago
Who said anything about existential dread? Perhaps the fact that dread is your reaction speaks more to your relationship with mortality than to the site’s approach.
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by GavinMcG 4y ago
My dream, as someone who writes text rather than code, is to move that next step along the continuum. I want a motion for "change sentence to future perfect tense."
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by GavinMcG 4y ago
What would "strong rights" look like? They can pursue violations of contracts, as this landlord is doing.
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by GavinMcG 4y ago
Nothing necessarily changed. Efficiency can become fragility, and quality is rarely measured in a way that includes rare events—partly by definition, and partly because we tend to ignore externalities and unlikely scenarios when we make eva
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by GavinMcG 4y ago
Slow Horses?
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by GavinMcG 4y ago
What crime would it be? It might be dishonest and antisocial but those things usually aren’t criminal on their own.
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by GavinMcG 4y ago
Could, sure, but that would mean you pay them less money. They want you to pay them more money.
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by GavinMcG 4y ago
https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2022/01/the-revenge-of-the...
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by GavinMcG 4y ago
Not as to doctors: https://www.aamc.org/data-reports/workforce/interactive-data... Nursing (which is a huge industry of course) is the notable exception within medicine. But it’s still subordinate.
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by GavinMcG 4y ago
Not sure why you're objecting, here. No one said "directly," and "primarily" specifically leaves room for the fact that they could sail into the wind. Maybe you missed the context: the comment responded to the claim
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by GavinMcG 4y ago
You're speaking universally, but what you're describing is only true about fore-and-aft rigged sails. During the "Age of Sail" those were not common for oceangoing ships, which predominately used square rigged sails an
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by GavinMcG 4y ago
I don't think a question like #2 has to be destructive, but it seems clear to me that it was here. The comment tossed out an extreme position—"You should just give it to them on day 1, right?"—and suggested that an executiv

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