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by aplummer 8y ago
This situation is actually similar to the black Saturday bushfires in Australia - also caused by power lines. The utility eventually settled for half a billion dollars. Meaningless if you look up the loss of life. (Maybe somewhat different
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by aplummer 8y ago
> If you don’t want to sometimes worry about forest fires, don’t build your house in the woods. It isn’t that complicated. Bushfires in Australia have previously covered more than 10 million acres. Recently people in greek suburbs were l
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by aplummer 8y ago
I like the outside the box thinking for positive, however the environmental impact of crypto makes the latter seem like a net negative, given the compute efficiency :/
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by aplummer 8y ago
I don’t have a horse in this race however: > Is there some dire pressing need where people are literally dying because doctors can't access prior medical history in time People definitely do die from that.
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by aplummer 8y ago
Wait, “can not.. can’t?” Which way are you going with this
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by aplummer 8y ago
Liberty for privileged people like yourself not born with disability or systemic poverty. Thanks for proving my point. I’m no longer participating in this thread, and won’t read any replies.
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by aplummer 8y ago
I assumed just what they sold them for per unit to other countries, but maybe they pitched in for R&D? Seems to range from 90-130. Maybe you get 2 if you buy the non navy version.
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by aplummer 8y ago
Just _one_ F35, depending on the variant.
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by aplummer 8y ago
I understand now, when firefighters save homeless people, the homeless people are stealing from others. This thread is going nowhere, you clearly value money more than the health of people less fortunate than you. Systemic poverty and sick
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by aplummer 8y ago
The right to it even if you are mentally ill, broke, bad at decision making or all of the above. My point is definitely that you have an obligation to provide society funding for healthcare even if they don’t pay. Just like the military wil
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by aplummer 8y ago
> Why would the government need to ban the competition if its so good at providing insurance? In no country ever is private healthcare and competition banned. There is a free* hospital across the street from me and I have private healthc
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by aplummer 8y ago
This is an unrealistic absolutist argument in any realistic view of the modern world with actual governments especially given the extreme excess of resources on earth to provide everyone with good medical care. “Everyone has the right to a
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by aplummer 8y ago
This is a really good point about expectations in job interviews. I think a lot of this comes down to "how you say it" and the data points you have to back it up. For example, "we made several governance mistakes on a project
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by aplummer 8y ago
False, healthcare is a human right
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by aplummer 8y ago
> under it with no perceptible solution It’s to vote, convince and then copy the model from every other 1st world country... super hard sure but perceptible
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by aplummer 8y ago
> What's the coolest thing you've done both in life and at work? - What are your dreams? - Where do you see yourself in 10 years? Hey, I ask a lot of these questions in consulting. What I’m looking for is to tell if a) you can
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by aplummer 8y ago
I think we should tax them based on emissions which includes deforestation / clearing yes. Separately I would definitely like to see animals regulated with X land per animal like free range chickens are regulated. Given the current sta
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by aplummer 8y ago
This was ops point, if you tax the emissions only people can innovate and reduce emissions in all these areas to the same effect.
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by aplummer 8y ago
Yep I hit the same bug, if you answer “yes” the next question has the same bug.
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by aplummer 8y ago
Minor? Read the numbers: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Iraq_War I don’t actually understand how you can even compare “transfer of wealth” and mass civilian casualties, let alone decide that the for
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by aplummer 8y ago
...except for helping create the conditions to WW2, Vietnam, involvement in Afghanistan 1 and 2, Iraq war prison industrial complex (highest prisoner per capita in the world) war on drugs, supplying weapons to places like Saudi Arabia. I ag
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by aplummer 8y ago
Yes I’m Australian - I don’t think people are fleeing given the net emigration from the US, and the high cost of living in Sydney is actually my point exactly - It’s not Sydney’s “progressiveness” that makes it expensive, you could live in
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by aplummer 8y ago
“Progressive” isn’t why people flee. Nobody is fleeing Australia which has higher taxes than SF. I think people would be more inclined to stay if the money went further, I’m yet to understand why the taxes are so high without free hospitals
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by aplummer 8y ago
Really puts into perspective what healthcare and education cost.
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by aplummer 8y ago
It seems like a lot of references to “developed” but really it’s just “designed”. Does one actual unit exist right now, or is this just a thought piece?
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by aplummer 8y ago
> I wouldn't say Breitbart is wildly different in accuracy to any of the rest, not because it's great, but because so many other outlets (like the NY Times, BBC and CNN) routinely publish things that are false as well. I agree
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by aplummer 8y ago
> it seems to me that theories that remove the need for dark energy are researched, and welcomed rather than mocked I don’t think that clarifying this 1) is structural to their process, 2) what the process is and 3) a contrasting example
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by aplummer 8y ago
The primary difference between the scientific method and religion / dogma
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by aplummer 8y ago
I think you underestimate how defensible some businesses are. For example, a supermarket or bank in Australia. “A matter of time” could be your entire career.
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by aplummer 8y ago
Look I love the metric system as much as anyone, but it’s an American website and a lot more than 5% of the readers are likely American...

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