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by Twixes 7y ago
They must have really big data on all purchases, could probably prevent hoarding in a crisis by algorithmically imposing a limit of items from a particular category bought by a member in a timeframe in case of a massive statewide surge in
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by Twixes 7y ago
That's true, but nobody's going to move now with all the hazard and uncertainty, and when the world boots up again, the distribution of jobs is rather going to stay similar.
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by Twixes 7y ago
He's for some public option, but nothing mandatory. Generally nothing that would hurt big business too much, although he has shifted a bit to the left in recent years (and even weeks) as the Democratic Party has been doing so (Bernie&#
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by Twixes 7y ago
There's no good solution to this crisis. But "pausing" the economy, even at a huge cost, is a better option than letting everything fall apart.
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by Twixes 7y ago
Poverty is a consequence of a specific type of liberty: economic liberalism. Few poor people are where they are because of simply having made bad deals. Mostly they were just dealt a bad hand in life and are being exploited by those who wer
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by Twixes 7y ago
Yang-style UBI would not be livable without a job anyway, it'd just allow landlords to pocket even more dollars from urban dwellers. That would not help the unemployed and minimum wage folks at all – especially if we cut other benefits
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by Twixes 7y ago
Temporary hospitals are being set up, but we simply don't have the capacity to build life–saving machines fast enough to handle the no-social distancing scenario. Neither did China, really.
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by Twixes 7y ago
If your savings are diverse stock, you'll probably get your value back just fine in 3 years if you go long.
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by Twixes 7y ago
2-4% is huge for a novel highly infectious disease. Our healthcare system is not prepared for that at all, without aggressive measures that's potential for hundreds of thousands if not millions of deaths in the US.
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by Twixes 7y ago
The $1.5 trillion was in basically short term loans (bond repurchase agreements) whose purpose is to increase liquidity of financial institutions that have assets generally in investments.
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by Twixes 7y ago
What do you mean by through multiple doors? Pretty sure that all buses are boarded through multiple doors.
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by Twixes 7y ago
Well, that's how these graphs tend to look like for a while for infectious diseases. All we can do at this point is reduce the growth factor so that doctors don't have to choose who gets to use lifesaving machinery and who dies li
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by Twixes 7y ago
That's outrageous. Every living person deserves full healthcare coverage. Leaving people behind by private insurers is inhumane, and in difficult times like these it's in fact a hazard for the public at large.
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by Twixes 7y ago
In most cases personal problems are the reason why children/young people skip school, not the result – that's why skipping school sounds problematic. But there are cases when it's entirely justified and it's entirely m
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by Twixes 7y ago
Hmm, I mean the Cyberpunk one. Your insurance must really be good.
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by Twixes 7y ago
Trauma Team too?
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by Twixes 7y ago
Well, it's one of the causes
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by Twixes 7y ago
Now you're idealizing struggle. It's easier (doesn't mean easy) to influence a group from the inside than from the outside. Quitting Google to avoid its money would be just a nonsensical self-sacrifice.
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by Twixes 7y ago
No company is a benevolent hand feeding you – it's a machine for making the owners and decision-makers as much money as possible. If you get something out of it in the process, that's just luck. So biting is the correct reaction t
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by Twixes 7y ago
There is a reason: these companies aren't just the biggest offenders, they are the biggest in general, on a global scale. Silicon Valley is a powerhouse, there's no way around it.
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by Twixes 7y ago
Classic NYSE mistake
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by Twixes 7y ago
It is. It's not that leadership should get nothing. They just shouldn't get everything .
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by Twixes 7y ago
You know, I respect Mike for what he created and I believe he should be doing very well. Still, he didn't do all the work himself. And billions of dollars is a ridiculous amount of wealth for someone to own. Employees should have gotte
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by Twixes 7y ago
Even if you had been earning your current salary since the day Jesus was born, you still wouldn't have today even a quarter of a billion dollars. That's the outrageous part. That kind of wealth should not be attainable for any sin
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by Twixes 7y ago
That must have been in some completely rural area, as cities were alright for amenities. Commie blocks never were super pretty, but they did have electricity, heating, hot water without a boiler. Shops still poorly stocked though.
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by Twixes 7y ago
That's what big business would like you to think, so that you leave them alone. Truth is, the government is the only thing with power that may actually give a damn about you, even if just to get re-elected. Business cares about the bot
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by Twixes 7y ago
OK, so do you want them to make life harder? Or just sit around? Because I prefer it when they actually do something for the ordinary citizen. Fortunately we didn't have Reagan here in Europe, so we still care about ordinary citizens.
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by Twixes 7y ago
Making life convenient is kind of one of the things that governments should do for their citizens. And intervention is the only way to make that XKCD strip about standards not true.
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by Twixes 7y ago
Landlords are to blame for squeezing people like lemons (which extracts a lot money from software engineers and the like while leaving lower classes without decent housing), but the underlying problem is indeed insufficient supply. But what
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by Twixes 7y ago
Maybe because that's where the best jobs are. Maybe because that's where they're from and it's not their fault they're getting priced out (gentrification). Maybe because they just really like the place. In any case,

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