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by aianus 6y ago
That's not the same as a minimum wage that is high enough for people to raise three children. We were talking about wages, not state benefits. State benefits are a much better way to address income inequality or poverty than minimum wa
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by aianus 6y ago
> there should be a way for someone to commit to some dish, started at some time, and then others can "hook" onto the order for a discount This is how Uber Eats already works in Toronto. There is a section in the app with resta
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by aianus 6y ago
I don’t think we produce enough for every minimum wage worker to earn enough to have 2-3 kids and raise them in a dignified manner (or the equivalent in Ferraris and hedonism). Kids are really, really expensive.
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by aianus 6y ago
Does it include children? How many is considered dignified? Some people have to have 3 just to keep the population steady. If so, is it appropriate for a childless 18-year-old on minimum wage to earn that much (he could probably lease a Fer
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by aianus 6y ago
FYI the trading volume on global forex markets (fiat currency pairs like EUR/USD) is $5 trillion/day, while global GDP is ~$0.2 trillion/day.
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by aianus 6y ago
> 40 years ago housing, healthcare and education were vastly more accessible than they are today More people go to college now than 40 years ago; the price is high because of the easy credit that makes it more accessible now, not less.
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by aianus 6y ago
> Companies don't even get the money from secondary stock purchases, so the invested money is doing absolutely nothing. There would be no IPO market without a secondary market. Almost nobody is interested in buying a stock at IPO an
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by aianus 6y ago
I live in Ontario where ~250 people get diagnosed with malignant tumors on an average day vs. 500 people getting diagnosed with COVID at the peak of the pandemic (now ~350). Months after the lockdown started and the surge was successfully a
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by aianus 6y ago
Washing your hands and covering your mouth while you cough is obvious too; that doesn't mean the messaging is unnecessary.
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by aianus 6y ago
> Fear is the right response to pneumonia Yes, but not so much fear that you ride out your stroke or heart attack at home because you think venturing out of your house and into the ER is wading into certain death via pneumonia. That is t
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by aianus 6y ago
I guarantee you someone is using MapReduce or Tensorflow or Kubernetes to fight COVID-19 right now.
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by aianus 6y ago
I don't think it's that little money; I just delivered some packages on Amazon Flex to get out of the house and it was CAD$70 gross for about 2:30h of work. Not bad at all for unskilled labor. Instacart is paying ~CAD$30 gross per
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by aianus 6y ago
The hospitals here in Canada stopped doing "non-essential" surgeries by government policy. This is a judgement call that is not always correct [0] [0] https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/he-never-go
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by aianus 6y ago
> Several trillion dollars is still worth it $2 trillion is 10% of GDP or the losses in ~6 months of a lockdown resulting in 80% productivity (with the assumption that everything goes back to normal immediately after the shutdown, which
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by aianus 6y ago
I doubt that much more flour is being consumed. It's probably all logistics and supply chain issues because everything was geared towards delivering 1000lb loads of flour to a bakery instead of 100 x 10 lbs bags of flour to the grocery
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by aianus 6y ago
> Amazon employees can't just quit their jobs and choose to collect unemployment instead You're right, they can't. However, the 26 million Americans who have been laid off from other jobs have negative incentive to sign up
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by aianus 6y ago
> They then go on to essentially say that it won't work (and spoilers: It didn't work, they were 100% correct). How didn't it work? All of the really successful countries at handling this pandemic continue to have signific
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by aianus 6y ago
> Alright, that's just silly. People, very serious policy people, are arguing about that stuff as we speak. > Who is "they"? Who says this? That sounds like a strawman to me. I can't find a single quote from Doug F
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by aianus 6y ago
I don't expect a target date from them, I expect something like "we will re-open (partially, with such and such mitigations still in place) if and only if cases decline monotonically over a period of 7 days and we have 30,000 free
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by aianus 6y ago
> What, exactly is the policy you think needs a protest to be enacted? A plan for re-opening. There should be reasonable targets of X transmission rate, Y available hospital beds, X masks, etc. that we can aim for and achieve. The lockdo
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by aianus 6y ago
~$1/resident/day sounds a lot less impressive
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by aianus 6y ago
Almost everyone has a high school diploma, that doesn't make high school useless. I learned things in high school that I used in college and continue to use every day.
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by aianus 6y ago
> People with no children will have higher time preference -- they prefer today's consumption over investment in the future. On the other hand, people with children have less resources to invest and are generally forced economically
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by aianus 6y ago
> "I'm going to force you to get tested, despite you having no symptoms" is political anathema This seems less extreme and more palatable than "I'm going to force you to stay home and lose your job, despite you h
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by aianus 6y ago
> Uber drivers cannot see if individual riders have tipped them. This is not true, I can see exactly which rides included a tip. However, I can't see this before I rate the rider so I can't penalize a rider for not tipping.
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by aianus 7y ago
How so? It's cheaper than ever to use oil and natural gas instead of renewables.
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by aianus 7y ago
> No, it doesn't. Unless you only buy services from VC-financed startups? I buy things using my salary which trickled down from the VCs and shareholders.
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by aianus 7y ago
> Giving money to the rich does not trickle down to people. All of my well-paying tech jobs have been funded by VC money from rich people and/or IPO money from rich people. Same goes (indirectly and partially) for all the people who
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by aianus 7y ago
> Canada is giving every Canadian $2,000 every month. No they're not, if you worked even one hour, you don't qualify for any of the $2,000. Your income must be zero to qualify for that program.
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by aianus 7y ago
The strain that is widespread in New York is the European strain: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/08/science/new-york-coronavi...

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