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by bosswipe 7y ago
But it's only the portion of consumers that get rewards that don't lose, as much. And its the more well off portion of consumers that are offered and receive good reward cards. Those without end up subsidizing those who do.
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by bosswipe 7y ago
Consumers lose as a whole but rewards allow a portion of them to win. Mostly higher net worth individuals that get offered more rewards are subsidized by lower classes.
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by bosswipe 7y ago
I don't understand why Apple telling Chinese factories to build PPE is helpful. There's massive worldwide demand for this stuff, the factories don't need apple's help to figure that out.
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by bosswipe 7y ago
If it's only for that narrow use case then a million per week seems excessive and unnecessary.
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by bosswipe 7y ago
It is a fact that they were sued by the Department of Labor over it.
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by bosswipe 7y ago
I avoid them because of their known racist and sexist employee segregation.
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by bosswipe 7y ago
That would be so useful to identify hotspots within counties. Also information about new cases such as if they are working from home or are considered "essential workers". How are transmissions occurring despite all the stay at ho
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by bosswipe 7y ago
> What isn't right is when someone votes for a tax they won't feel the burden of. The real freeloaders are the well off republican voters that keep voting for more and more tax cuts, deficits be damned, putting trillions of dol
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by bosswipe 7y ago
Good.
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by bosswipe 7y ago
It's also annoying how conservatives use epithets like "snowflake" to describe liberal grievances while being extremely sensitive about their own grievances. But we live in the age of grievance politics. Politicians have figu
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by bosswipe 7y ago
3. Art is an investment and can be seen as a way of diversifying.
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by bosswipe 7y ago
Your correction from "some" to "just about every" is not very useful. Every single large gathering is newsworthy because they endanger all of us.
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by bosswipe 7y ago
Is there science behind that WHO rationale? Trying to use mass psychological tricks instead of direct communication also has a big cost because it reduces people's trust in authorities which can lead to more deaths.
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by bosswipe 7y ago
Verbosity makes the programmer slower not the program.
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by bosswipe 7y ago
They test everyone that might have had contact whether they have symptoms or not. Though they haven't been able to squash it they've able to keep the growth rate linear instead of exponential like it is everywhere else, which migh
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by bosswipe 7y ago
In my experience developers that integrate the FB SDK into their apps just copy-paste whatever code snippet Facebook tells them to do, which is always maximum data capture, without thinking of any of the implications. There's usually a
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by bosswipe 7y ago
That doesn't help the millions of recently unemployed. Especially if it takes months for the economy to recover and for those unemployed to be rehired.
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by bosswipe 7y ago
How many hours do you expect for $2-3k/month?
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by bosswipe 7y ago
Do you mean the bottom or the top class?
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by bosswipe 7y ago
In a way we have an experiment going on between California and New York since New York has so far declined to issue a shelter in place order. We'll really start to see if the curves diverge in another week, but new cases in New York al
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by bosswipe 7y ago
Two and half years is a hell of a lot of jail time. I seriously wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.
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by bosswipe 7y ago
At which level do you start having real negotiation power?
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by bosswipe 7y ago
I think you're wrong. I explained more here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22622231
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by bosswipe 7y ago
"I'm not an epidemiologist but" that South Korea number is misleading because it's calculated as death/"people that tested positive". That undercounts the death rate because some of the people that tested
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by bosswipe 7y ago
South Korea has done the most extensive testing of any country and there death rate is running around 5%. But here we are playing "I’m not an epidemiologist but".
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by bosswipe 7y ago
I bought SDS which is an ETF for shorting S&P500 2x. It's up 41% since I bought it. The trick though is knowing when to cash out.
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by bosswipe 7y ago
The spark for the Tea Party was a viral rant by CNBC's Rick Santelli against a program to help individuals avoid foreclosure. Look it up.
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by bosswipe 7y ago
The anti-mask thing in the west is so upsetting, and it's more aggravating because it's the health care workers giving the horrible advice. I don't care that we don't have enough N95 masks for everybody, N95 are for prev
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by bosswipe 7y ago
The problem is when everybody takes a hit except the "too big to fail" banks. That's what happened in the last financial crisis, the government bailed out only the big banks by buying their toxic loans at face value. When Oba
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by bosswipe 7y ago
There are many classical physics experiments you could do where you understand all the physics and formulas to excruciating detail and you control every variable but you still can't get the same results everytime. Things like throwing

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