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A simple solution is that the amount should be be based on the value stolen by the entire organization. RICO laws work much the same way with the mafia. So, if your crew stole $10,000 worth of stuff over the past year, you’d be looking at a
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The difference is that drugs are a victimless crime. Vast networks can operate outside the law, because no one has any incentive to defect. Outside extensive and ubiquitous surveillance, it’s virtually impossible to disrupt a disciplined dr
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Even murder is ambiguous over time, because trauma care has substantially improved. The same gunshot wounds that would have resulted in a homicide 50 years ago now are now just assaults (which may not even be counted) because of skilled ER
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Imagine if we were making chocolate chip cookies and rat poison in the same factory. Periodically a family would drop dead after buying a bad batch at the grocery store. Reformers loudly cry out "Can we please stop making chocolate chi
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Exactly. It all comes down to fentanyl and fentanyl derivatives. Moving opiates to the black market heavily incentivizes suppliers to substitute relatively safe traditional opiates for highly dangerous fentanyl concentrates. Because fentany
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> The second prescription was a lot more reasonable No it wasn't. Fewer than 1% of post-surgical patients given opioids develop any sort of abuse whatsoever.[1] Under treating pain is in no way medically responsible. It is true that
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This is going to probably not be received well given HN’s famously visceral hostility to crypto… But you can get 5%+ yields on Euro stablecoins in DeFi. And I’m not talking fly by night ponzi pools. This is like on battle tested bluechip p
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Also add this is per person including beneficiaries . So a family of four has $1mn in FDIC coverage.
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When you're dying from the compile time of functional languages, you really appreciate Golang's near instant compiles.
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Hmm... That's a fair point. The wrinkle is not all government services scale linearly with users. For example, if there were twice as many Americans we probably wouldn't need twice the defense budget.
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Child tax deductions don’t even come close to canceling out the lost revenue of a potential future taxpayer over their lifetime. Especially given today’s near zero interest rate environment. Look at it this way, properly incentivizing child
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Adult children of senior citizens can help with light care that might otherwise require very expensive home health aids or senior care facilities.
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I would guess that people who are socially isolated and unemployed are more likely to engage in drug abuse.
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As an addendum, I’ll also add that the psychiatric system was the main Avenue for suppressing dissidents in the post-Brezhnev USSR.
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SF has very high property crime, but fairly low violent crime. Most of the America’s incarceration rate is driven by a small number of prisoners serving long sentences. Usually for violent crime or drug trafficking. An amazing statistics is
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Many companies do want to solve that problem, but they’re hampered by the conventional financial system which really doesn’t like interfacing with anything crypto related.
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What does this have to do with trust? Clearly the current users trust OnlyFans, and I doubt very many people are worried they’re going to disappear in the middle of the night and turn off the porn. “Yeah I’ll throw $50 into this OnlyFans su
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“Notice you’ve been missing a lot of work recently, Peter?” “Well, I wouldn’t say I’ve been missing it, Bob.”
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Interesting… Out of curiosity, do people in profit centers get paid more to compensate for the stress? I’m thinking in terms of Wall Street banks, where for example traders might have very stressful jobs but receive huge bonuses that far ou
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Except people don’t live on land. They live in homes. There’s plenty of empty land. But to house people you need to make the deep capital investment of building housing on that land. Capital accumulation requires capitalists.
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Median Danish carpenter makes $63k/yr. Very few make over $75k https://www.erieri.com/salary/job/carpenter/denmark
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Median Journeyman Plumber in Seattle earns $40/hr https://www.indeed.com/career/journeyman-plumber/salaries/Se...
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It’s not an issue of how expensive houses is, it’s an issue of how many houses are being built. California has the slowest housing starts of any major state in the country. That same carpenter would have his pick of job sites in Florida.
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Median HVAC tech salary is $50k. Is it possible to make $200k or higher? Sure. But the HVAC people pulling down that comp are generally at that level primarily because of their business skills not their HVAC skills. It’d be like saying you
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The biggest downside I see is that it makes language much harder for young children. It’s rare to see someone under 6 be able to whistle.
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The problem (and this extends to many policies in the US as well) is that it’s deceptively easy to offload the cost of welfare benefits to employers. Paid maternity leave is just welfare for new mothers. I’m not saying that’s a bad thing, b
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> I really don't believe a person with that kind of experience would earn 300k a year in SV. I just spoke with someone two years out of CS undergrad who’s starting at $350k TC at one of the big SV unicorns.
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I think that example really exemplifies HN's biggest blindspot. A lot of successful companies are built around taking an existing technology, then packaging it in a way that drastically reduces the frictions for the user. The typical H
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Public companies that don’t maximize profits will usually be targeted by activists who will replace the board and management with people who will max profits. Say a company exists that doesn’t aggressively pursue profits. It makes $1/y
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Most corporate entities have a fiduciary duty to maximize their shareholders’ returns. If your solution to a problem is “companies just need to stop trying to make money”, then you’re probably going to be disappointed.

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