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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
Tesla could always shift most of their production to the ex-“socialist” Eastern/Central European which don’t have strong labor movements and lower wages (of course lacking infrastructure would make it harder).
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> The Model Y is the top selling car in europe. Comparing model sales doesn’t make a lot sense. Tesla only offers 2 different models in the 40-60k range. Now look at VW and then add very similar cars from Skoda, Audi and Cupra. Of course
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> they worked just fine before government started intervening somewhere mid-last century Healthcare industry as we know it today did not exist back then (the costs and available treatments are on another level). > b) their mechanisms
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> Norway was a poor-isj country until a few decades ago. Norway was already the richest country in Europe back in 1938. After WW2 Switzerland recovered it’s number 1 spot but in the 60s Norway still had a considerably higher GDP per capi
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
Serfdom disappeared almost 500 years or so earlier in Western Europe that it did in Russia (or most of Germany for that matter..)
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> In an alternate timeline where Norway has no oil Norway was already the richest European country back in 1938, decades before oil was even discovered in the North Sea.
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> Norway was a lower income country Lower than now? Sure. However it still was one of the richest countries in Europe going back at least to ~1900 (just the gap wasn’t that big as now)
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> here in Europe we got actual pensions, so no 401k needed Right.. you do realize that Europe is not a country? And anyway that’s not really true in many places (or anywhere to be fair if you want to enjoy a decent QoL). > However, a
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> doctors have to be licensed by the government. For perfectly good and valid reasons. Consumers are inherently incapable of evaluating the quality of healthcare they receive in many cases. This is perfectly obvious.
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> But I have a strong incentive to learn about my particular condition that my doctor does not have, and that usually beats the doctor's general knowledge. except your experience is not really generalizable across the entire populat
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> insurance. Insurance is for high cost unforeseen events. Most health care is not high cost unforeseen events; it's foreseen events like physicals, shots, checkups and prescriptions for chronic conditions, etc., or low cost unfores
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
“Free market” can only exist in specific sectors and rarely without extensive regulation. Comparing computer and healthcare industries makes almost no sense (besides extremely superficial ways) due to perfectly obvious reasons. > making
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> given the technology of the time, than what we have now I’m not sure that’s at all a fair comparison. Due to the technology at the time (or lack of it) costs were massively lower because generally doctors couldn’t really do too much un
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> That doesn't mean we can't have private companies offering countless other medical services or additional insurance You can have fully functional almost entirely private healthcare systems (more so than in the US) which are h
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> the final fall of Carthage in the second Punic war The final (non-metaphorical) Fall happened at the end of the third Punic War about 50 years later.
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> This says a lot more about the state of the frontend ecosystem than it does about the OpenAI dev team. The complexity has gotten absurdly out of control. That’s a peculiar way to spin it.. not sure how doesn’t that justify poor UX thou
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
I agree in principle but forcing institutions or governments to allocate money for this and enforce is pretty much an unsolvable problem at this point IMO.
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> More or less I think much less than less for most practical purposes.
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
Someone will need to pay that other group though. Sometimes quite a lot.
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
And do what with them exactly? ; )
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
At least for me it usually works that way when I’m paying immediately/directly in booking. The charge comes from Booking itself and I assume they ten transfer the money to the hotel/etc
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
Well they might have as well announced that they are dissolving the company and the outcome would’ve been similar. If that’s not “overplaying your hand” I don’t know what is
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> value aside from the mission. And you believe they could’ve achieved their mission with almost zero employees and presumably the board (well… who else?) having to do all the work themselves? > non-profit by getting rid of it So the
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
Wasn’t the 70s legislation mainly about married women being able to open their own accounts without the consent of their husbands? I find it hard to believe that there were many banks which refused to open accounts for single women or espec
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
On average decentralization would make it less safe not more though. Most medium/small and even some large businesses would definitely mess something up if they had to do it themselves
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
Can you can elaborate? Which other executives are being fired? Even Riccitiello got an infinitely better deal than he deserved but he isn’t part of these specific layoffs.
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> who held CEOs to that kind of standard held themselves to the same standard Why? It makes perfect sense to hold CEOs to a much higher standard than ordinary employees. There is nothing flawed about that at all. > excuse you could ma
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
The data in that report is somewhat outdated because healthcare costs grew considerably faster in Germany since 2016 compared to Switzerland. Also looking at PPP disposable income per capita and PPP healthcare spending the gap is much narro
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
Median income in Switzerland is also higher than anywhere else by quite a margin. Relative to GDP the Switzerland spends less than Germany or France. Relatively to average net monthly salary healthcare is cheaper by about 30-40% or so comp
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> but Swiss health care costs are also among the highest in the world (and rising steeply), But relative to GDP Swiss healthcare spending is lower than in Germany or France. Adjusted by PPP they aren’t even that much higher in absolute t

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