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by erentz 7y ago
And one of those companies may now be entering bankruptcy after they were looted by Private Equity and loaded up with $7 billion of debt.[1] [1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-20/kkr-s-env...
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by erentz 7y ago
This reinforces the belief I have that antitrust regulation of online companies needs to force them to pick between being a platform or being a store (or publisher), but they're not allowed to be both.
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by erentz 7y ago
2. Yeah I have dealt with these people a lot as I and my wife have a chronic condition. I sympathize with them, most realize they have a horrible job and just need to make money to eat. Some are just bad people because systems like that eve
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by erentz 7y ago
M4A gives everyone, rich or poor, the same base standard of coverage. And if you want coverage for other things that aren’t included under Medicare then you can get supplemental private insurance for it. That’s absolutely not outlawed.
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by erentz 7y ago
1. FWIW this is a recognized problem under M4A plans those people would be taken care of. 2. Nobody has a right to earn a living by causing suffering to others.
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This is a really good argument for carbon taxation to appropriately increase the cost of dirty energy. Send the correct price signal everywhere rather than making your own software do the equivalent of looking out the window at the weather
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Ah! Thank you both, I’ll try this later.
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One of the things I’ve wanted to do since my iPhone started showing weird behavior is the equivalent of a nuke and rebuilt from a verifiable source just to make sure any malware was removed. But I couldn’t find way to do this, it seems you
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FairVote: Ranked Choice Voting(fairvote.org)
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We can solve America’s corruption crisis(represent.us)
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by erentz 7y ago
To all those who are simply saying voting is the answer, no that’s too simplistic and ignores the root of the problem. When the real difference between both parties is down to nothing and they’re both representing the monied and corporate i
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by erentz 7y ago
I don’t know why you’re downvoted. I am a solid social democratic left person. But whatever his motivations, the fact is Massie was the only one that wanted to force a record of the vote. Good on him. For those that claim it was dangerous,
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by erentz 7y ago
There are two parties and they both represent the interests of the large corporations that fund them. The media are all large corporations that benefit from this system, and get funding from those same large corporations in ad revenue. The
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by erentz 7y ago
Dear god. Reading the comments and tweets under that makes one thing clear. Twitter is toxic as all hell. Is there any way to do social networking that promotes healthy discourse and surfaces fact based information? Or are we doomed to this
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Russians Withdrew $13.6B in Cash from ATMs(newsweek.com)
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Elon Musk says he sent ventilators to hospitals, they got something else instead(cnn.com)
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Is Private Equity Having Its Minsky Moment?(mattstoller.substack.com)
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by erentz 7y ago
Only talking about where we are in terms of progress to herd immunity. Edited it to say “presumably [now] immune” which hopefully is clearer. See my other comment below for elaboration.
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Not concluding prior immunity but concluding that they now have immunity after having been infected. That is in progress towards herd immunity this number of people actually infected being revealed by these antibody studies is what is inter
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by erentz 7y ago
It’s hacky and I’m happy to be told how wrong it is. But based on these recent antibody studies in Germany, Finland, and now here in CA, I’ve been assuming an actual fatality rate of about 0.4, and thus an actual infected rate of 250x our k
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Chamath: I argued billionaires, speculators should get wiped out [video](youtube.com)
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by erentz 7y ago
Lay person here. As I understand it the problem is in order to stave off deflation over the past decade we’ve continued to provide cheap government debt propping things up in the US and Europe and most of the western world. After the 2009 b
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by erentz 7y ago
Any history on the use of the word “Have” in project names like this? I’m thinking of “Have Blue” also but didn’t realize it seems to be a theme. It’s always sounded weird as hell to me. Edit: oh I found something to answer my own question:
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The Postal Service Deserves a Permanent Bailout(nymag.com)
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The Normal Economy Is Never Coming Back(foreignpolicy.com)
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Just a reminder that the bill that destroyed the USPS finances was backed by both Democrats and Republicans in 2005. It required the post office to fund pensions and health care 75 years in advance as an intentional way to screw up their fi
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by erentz 7y ago
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/10/nyregion/new-york-coronav...
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Yes this is something that needs to be looked at more. How much does their wealth grow from the time they enter to the time they exit congress. Some politicians seem to get very wealthy while in congress. “You can’t get rich in politics unl
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by erentz 7y ago
If they didn’t know they wanted it before an advertisement played on their psychology to make them feel they needed it, then they didn’t really want it. And if they did know they wanted before the advertisement, then they’d go look for it a
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by erentz 7y ago
Does targeted vs non targeted really have an impact on sales? And if targeted was gone everywhere would it really cause a drop in revenue? It seems (from the little I’ve seen over the years) that targeting doesn’t have much impact. And that

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