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by avocado4 7y ago
You should move to Canada or Europe, they'll take care of your rare diseases.
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by avocado4 7y ago
Employees will move to the UK/US/AU out of EU if Google moves out. There's no need to be second sort at a local low-paying EU firm if you can work at a company in a country that actually values your talent.
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by avocado4 7y ago
> I also don't get the anti-Google movement It's virtually all political propaganda from hostile nations. Europeans understand that they desperately need to develop a tech sector to compete with China and the US while their pop
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Breaking the medical cartel – patient ordered tests & treatments (Stanford MedX)(youtube.com)
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US Physicians' Opinions on Medicare for All(auntminnie.com)
2 points by avocado4 7y ago|1 comments
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by avocado4 7y ago
> the poorest people pay the price In this case it was a middle class family losing their 4 bedroom house due to "$164,000 in medical bills for emergency surgery". It's not just hurting the poor, it's a relatively sma
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by avocado4 7y ago
Excessive working hours are used as an excuse by medical cartel to justify practices that drive down the supply of providers through licensing requirements, and drive up salaries for doctors and everybody else up the chain. "See how ha
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by avocado4 7y ago
> Either way, it exposes a flaw in SpaceX’s design What is this statement based on? You are saying yourself that there's no information available to the public about this due to lack of transparency, yet in the next sentence you are
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by avocado4 7y ago
> In 2018, ESA performed 28 #collisionavoidance manoeuvres across its fleet.
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by avocado4 7y ago
Would ESA satellite hit Space X or the other way around? How do they determine it?
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by avocado4 7y ago
Might want to clean your phone if you have photos of dead children on it.
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by avocado4 7y ago
Back when liberal democracies were still united against tyrannical theocratic authoritarian regimes. Seems like it's been forever ago.
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Iran warns it will take 'stronger step' if Europe doesn't act(thehill.com)
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by avocado4 7y ago
> As I understand it, YouTube remains unprofitable to this date. Source?
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by avocado4 7y ago
It's intellectually dishonest to say that Congress barely does anything.
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by avocado4 7y ago
Due to past 1 child policy China's average age is on par with US now, and much higher than other developing nations. But the level of development is still very low relatively speaking. 10 years from now they'll have 400 million ol
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Why are products for older people so ugly?(technologyreview.com)
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by avocado4 7y ago
The problem with waiting for another president is that both Democrats and Republicans hate China alike. And China can't afford to wait because they are sitting on a demographic time bomb due to 1 child policy (10 years left or so). So
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by avocado4 7y ago
> Information being PII or non PII isn't binary. It is binary in Google's data structures (marked as annotations on protobufs), and in law. Things you listed aren't considered PII.
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by avocado4 7y ago
How do they connect phone numbers in Android users' phone book to their respective Gmail accounts?
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by avocado4 7y ago
Even if they do (for Android users only), how would they connect location data to my credit card history? Are you claiming that Google reverse engineers PII by correlating Android location data with credit card purchase location history?
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by avocado4 7y ago
> Most people have a phone number with google for gmail (you didn't need one in the beginning, but do now) I just created a new Google account without a phone number 10 seconds ago. Phone number was optional and of course I didn&#x2
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by avocado4 7y ago
> Google buys your credit card data for advertising purposes How do they connect my credit card data to my Google activity? My Google account isn't connected to my personally identifiable information in any way. I.e. they don't
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by avocado4 7y ago
10500 rides, 70% are rated 5 stars (perfect). 10% increase from last year.
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Xi: China Must Never Adopt Separation of Powers or Judicial Independence(thediplomat.com)
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by avocado4 7y ago
The toxic echo chamber was one of the worst things about working at Google. The pinnacle was being peer forced to walk out during one of the recent outrage events - how can you possibly be the only person on the team to not walk out? To mak
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by avocado4 7y ago
You're right about the Chinese having lives through an economic miracle. But it's important to remember that the miracle was in large due to China's liberalization and integration into global markets under D Xiaoping, J Zemin
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by avocado4 7y ago
What you describe (secure anonymous voting with unique ID) can be implemented online as well.
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by avocado4 7y ago
If we've managed to move the entire commerce and financial sector online we should be able to security digitize voting too with proper authn/z.
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by avocado4 7y ago
Why would anybody claim it's a tech company? What kind of tech do they leverage to differentiate?

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