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by bhupy 6y ago
Isn’t that what flagging is for?
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Oh, I absolutely do not doubt that it could happen again more often, but at least we have Racketeering laws and a system to essentially minimize the degree to which it happens with impunity .
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They're not presently a thing; it's just a scandal that happened at one time in history. It's also corruption, and corruption exists in both the private as well as public sectors. In the case of the Kids for Cash scandal, t
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by bhupy 6y ago
What you're proposing here doesn't scale. What if everyone decided that there's no value in justifying the legitimacy of the next steps following the existence of laws they each saw has harmful? If everyone did that, there
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by bhupy 6y ago
Although private prisons exist (in strikingly small numbers[1]), private corporations can't just decide to throw you into a private prison on a whim; the government decides that. [1] https://www.sentencingproject.org/pu
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by bhupy 6y ago
I think the idea is that it discourages certain kinds of consumption, and that's carbon-based consumption. Once upon a time, that could have been construed as a broad-based consumption tax simply because there were no non-carbon alte
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by bhupy 6y ago
The graph is already adjusted for inflation, it’s in 2018 dollars. You can’t adjust it a second time.
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The Misinformation Congress Peddled to Combat Misinformation with Tech CEOs(rstreet.org)
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by bhupy 6y ago
No, this whole thread is about Alabama. The US is almost exactly as diverse as the EU ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_terr... ). Alabama is more comparable to Estonia than it is to Germany. If y
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by bhupy 6y ago
Believe me, you're preaching to the choir. I personally adjudicate claims, and some of the stuff I see is downright asinine. All that being said... > I mean, this doesn't sound reassuring you know. "unlikely" and &quo
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by bhupy 6y ago
> So for an above average, but not exceptional student, or a student who doesn't have a strong support network, the rational decision can be to go to a worse school because maintaining the GPA requirement will be easier. Yes, and I
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by bhupy 6y ago
I'm from Georgia as well (I went to Georgia Tech). In addition to HOPE, you also have Zell-Miller which is even more generous (covers housing, food, and books). The fact that Georgia's aid is tied to merit is a system that I perso
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by bhupy 6y ago
I went to Georgia Tech, and another huge advantage in Georgia is the HOPE and Zell-Miller scholarships. IMO a model that should be replicated by other States in the Union.
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That's ignoring Federal grants. Once you factor in all external grants, the median per-year tuition is half of that, if you read the last link. And that's the median . The bottom quintile is ostensibly much less.
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by bhupy 6y ago
Most FAANG companies cover all of the premium amount. The only difference is in the deductible. Some engineers might choose a higher deductible plan so that they can take advantage of an HSA and enjoy the triple tax advantage. Warehouse wor
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by bhupy 6y ago
I can try to give you a theoretical tax breakdown using real numbers. In 2018, the household income quintiles were as follows ( https://www.taxpolicycenter.org/statistics/household-income-... ) Lowest quintile mean: $13,
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by bhupy 6y ago
Sorry to hear that you had $80k worth of debt, that's certainly a lot. It's also several standard deviations above the median. The median student loan debt in the US is about $17,000 ( https://www.forbes.com/sites&#
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by bhupy 6y ago
Kaiser operates in Alabama too, just FYI. You're correct that there's regional variation, but that's mostly a function of the medical networks. For instance, UHC's network may have more coverage in the Northeast than Blu
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by bhupy 6y ago
Full disclosure: I work in this industry and am a claims adjuster on fiduciary plans that fall under ERISA Everything you're saying is partially correct, but it heavily depends on the specifics of the plan. FAANG companies, in particul
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by bhupy 6y ago
Sure, and healthcare isn't "literally free" in loads of high standard of living first world countries. In France, for example, there's a 20% coinsurance that's paid on all treatments. With a few exceptions, most sin
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by bhupy 6y ago
No, exactly the opposite. ERISA is a Federal law that strictly regulates how plan fiduciaries can operate employer-sponsored health plans. A key element of ERISA is that an employer cannot offer more generous benefits to some employers over
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by bhupy 6y ago
The same is true at the in-state universities. At that salary, your kid can study at University of Alabama (a perfectly fine institution with great campus life) basically for free.
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by bhupy 6y ago
The warehouse workers get the same (extremely generous) healthcare as every other Amazon employee (due to ERISA). And even if they didn't, through the Affordable Care Act, someone at that income level can buy a "Gold" plan wi
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by bhupy 6y ago
> Every space in the physical and digital world limits speech Just because some spaces limit speech, doesn't necessarily mean that "every" space limits speech. As you go further down the stack, the fewer limits there are.
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by bhupy 6y ago
> these cases read like a market inefficiency in venture capital, rather than one-offs. Considering that venture returns have historically out-performed public markets[1], they're probably just that: one-offs. I think there's a
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by bhupy 6y ago
> Indians are not a person and do not act uniformly in the interests of India. No, but they can act uniformly if they so choose . That's the entire point. The US Constitution doesn't ascribe group assignments, but the argument
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by bhupy 6y ago
Well, taking a step back, this is all a very very poor analogy to describe the mechanics behind why the Yahoo Answers team might choose not to maintain static web pages; bringing up Mitt Romney's arguments in that context is...perple
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by bhupy 6y ago
> Corporations, unlike Indians and men, also have the legal status of "personhood" This is purely a semantic argument. At least in America, Corporations aren't classified as "persons" in an official sense; rather
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by bhupy 6y ago
> corporations aren't people. If something isn't advantageous to at least one individual decision maker, it won't happen. By this logic, no collection of people can be considered "people". Indians aren't peo
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Correct, and it's accountable to voters, it isn't some opaque black box (or rather, it shouldn't be). The whole point is that, in a democracy, the press (NYT et al) is responsible for fully reporting on the workings of the go

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