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by bhupy 6y ago
Amazon Retail has been profitable since 2018 https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/0... Tesla turned its first profit last year: https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/ch
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> Anti-discrimination laws, human rights, and democracy are also historical aberrations. But I think they're kind of worth keeping around. Nazism was also a historical aberration, but that's certainly not worth keeping around.
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> Both these questions are related in the sense it reflects how large the audience needs to be to a viable business. But as long as the unit economics are positive, why does the audience size matter? AFAIK, Substack's OPEX looks a l
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I guess my questions are: - Does it have to appeal to "MOST" people for it to be a viable dividends-paying business? - Does it have to be the "landing page / YouTube of articles" in order to be a viable dividends-pa
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That's what journalism has always been like, save for a few decades in one specific country (the US). The past few decades of supposed "objectivity" and "neutrality" in American journalism were a historical aberra
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Do you have any examples?
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The Singapore "3 M" model largely takes advantage of transparent pricing and savings-account driven healthcare spending to bring down costs, as well as price controls to introduce an upper-bound to prices. It's, in my opinion
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There's almost nothing in this wall of (mostly unrelated) citations that refutes any of the central claim: the health outcomes across NPs and PAs is comparable to, and sometimes better than traditional MDs, especially for the kind of
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There's also other interesting competition in the space. I recommend checking out Forward: https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/11/forward-health-raises-225m... I think their thesis is aligned with Amazon: to
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Pretty much all empirical evidence so far shows no statistically significant difference between outcomes and quality of care between PAs, NPs, and traditional MDs. "A meta-analysis of 38 studies, comparing a total of 33 patient outcome
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And in the one country where healthcare is a consumer-driven commodity (Singapore), it's 1/6 our cost, and better outcomes!
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How is that relevant to preventive care? That's what Amazon Care appears to be...
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I find myself agreeing with this comment a lot, but I wonder if "mysterious" is the right word to describe it. "Circumstantial" maybe?
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Seriously, I am not trolling. Those are not an examples, you're just re-iterating why you think the quadrants are inappropriate. My question is what are some specific examples of "contexts" in which lib/auth left/
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I don't see any examples in your comment.
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Why, specifically?
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> I'll trade a chicken for bitcoin when the state allows me to pay my taxes in bitcoin. Apropos of nothing: https://www.coindesk.com/switzerlands-crypto-valley-has-star... https://www.newsweek.com/mi
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We agree. Bitcoin doesn't ever have to be a currency, but that doesn't mean that it will ever be "dead".
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> It seems trivial to imagine a thing that is very expensive but still has ~no value as a currency. What are some examples? Keep in mind that Bitcoin doesn't have to ever be a "currency" for it to remain relevant, as a &qu
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I'm not the GP, but I think they're referring to: https://cleantechnica.com/2020/08/01/tesla-autopilot-acciden...
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> Right wing media has been around for decades Not really, right wing media (as we know it) came about precisely because of this problem. Rupert Murdoch created Fox News in 1996 because it was becoming increasingly clear that the erstwhi
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by bhupy 6y ago
In addition, in my experience I’ve found the discussion to be centered around the freedom to express one’s self, but free speech is also very much about the freedom of the recipient to seek out and listen to whatever speech they want.
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Okay, but this is all very different from your original argument that was of the tune that carbon taxes don't work. They clearly do work specifically as it relates to CO2 emissions , but don't do much with respect to, say, road c
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Ironically, I could even cite Popper's Paradox of Tolerance as itself problematic: the more I tolerate the use of that philosophical argument, the more likely we are to lose the ability to freely express ourselves, therefore we ought t
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> There are already CO2 taxes on cars and it doesn't change much, people still buy them and it's still unsustainable on the long term. Taxing stuff doesn't automagically make the negatives disappear Are you sure about that
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> but I don't see such tax happening any time soon Curious, why do you feel this way? From where I sit, carbon pricing has been slowly (but surely) making its way into policy all around the world: https://www.nytimes.com&
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> Except that would generate the same sort of run on solar panels and/or their constituent components that is did for GPUS before ASICs got big. Yes, and there's nothing inherently wrong with that, because supply isn't con
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You can target the energy suppliers directly, who then pass the cost on to consumers of the electricity. With a sufficiently high tax, it becomes unprofitable to mine crypto using non-renewable energy. In theory, if the world had a high ene
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That defeats part of the purpose of a carbon tax. In theory, having all crypto be on non-carbon energy is ecologically safe. A carbon tax applied at the level of energy purchase is the most reliable way to move even crypto energy consumptio
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> And yet— still the same ship, right? Not necessarily. That's the whole debate!

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