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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
Wasn’t that made illegal at least ~15 years ago?
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
Maybe you should you should be asking this the person that comment was aimed at? Because all of those things they mentioned are heavily dependent on the premium which they decided to omit in those hypothetical calculations
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
Not without a massive cut in doctor and (especially) nursing staff pay. Which might be problematic considering all the medical school debt they have.
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
To what degree is that because of inherited wealth? I’m not sure median wealth is a better indicator of social mobility than income.
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
Mainly low income and unaffordable real estate (compared to the US)? I mean it depends, depending on where you live and where you go to crime is not necessarily such a big issue in the US. Healthcare outcomes are also heavily variable and d
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> Then EU > US. In the EU most people have a shot at this, with free education and possibilities. Not with very low salaries and even more unaffordable real estate than in the US. Yes jumping from “lower” to “middle” class seems to be
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
Would just > 100k (adjust by CoL depending on area) and decent employer provided insurance be enough? Healthcare is usually ~10% in Europe or less (if your income is high) in countries with privatized systems but most of that is clawed b
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> I've never met a libertarian who believed in the right to secretly adulterate product Yes but they are not necessarily able to clearly explain how can that be prevented from happening without the ‘nanny state’. Which I assume what
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
I don’t think the smallpox vaccine for instance was particularly controversial? There were already several states in Europe which required compulsory vaccination before 1810 a few decades after it was developed. I think it seemed like a no-
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
But is generated by Adobe? The picture is being sold for $100 which seems weird when you could just generate the same on the same website for free
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
Capitalism doesn’t really attempt to be a coherent ideology with some set of predefined dogmas. > The historical reality of both systems is anything but. To what do you attribute the massive improvements in life expectancy, medicine, ove
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
And Hogwarts was supposed to be in the Highlands of Scotland. Yet the actual castle shown in the movies is in Northern England.
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> Philistines were Greek sailors that were invading Egypt There is a thousand year gap between that and: > a Philistine Gaza that was a Greek stronghold, was conquered by one of the revolt leaders (Jonathan the Hasmonean). In reality
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
Many civilizations have various myths related to flooding and most of them probably have a basis in history. On its own that doesn’t mean much.
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
The name ‘Zeus’ is derived from ancient Indo-European god of the sky ‘Dyḗus ph₂tḗr’ from the days when they were still living in the steppe (Jupyter has the same etymology). While the Minoans weren’t Indo-European (of course it’s very likel
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> There is tiny problem with this theory It’s indeed very tiny if we assume that Plato’s story is almost entirely fictional (I don’t think there are any reasons not to) and partially based on some ancient myth or his interpretation of it
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
Pytheas, born about 2 years before Plato’s death did sail to Northern Europe and possibly even reached the arctic circle. It’s not at all inconceivable that other Greeks might have reached Britain before him.
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> it would have been well-known at the time whether it was shallow or not, since the Greeks were well-established in that area I’m not sure that’s true. Or rather the Greek civilization was so widely dispersed that whatever Plato heard m
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> about Ravana - the last, rogue, king of that empire. Maybe it’s based on the last capital of the Western Roman Empire, Ravenna? It was situated between swampland and flooding was certainly a threat.
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
Well.. for centuries going back to the Ancient Greeks at the very least some people believed that earth must be balanced and that land must be more or less equally distributed across its surface otherwise because.. I guess that how they tho
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
And Utopia is.. it’s perfectly valid genre. Inventing a fantasy world to convey your theoretical ideas in a more approachable way seems like a very sensible approach. For that matter Tolkien to claims that his world is actually set on our p
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> whats strange is that plato's account of Atlantis is detialed with specific measurements and descriptions of the layout of the city Not at all strange . The opposite, that’s exactly what I would expect from an author designing a s
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
It’s not unlikely that he based it on some (maybe even commonly know at the time) ancient myth. Plenty of civilizations had flood related ones (and there is some historical basis for it). Of course all the government/society descriptio
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> grounded in some form of historical tradition. I’m sure that many cultures had some sort of ancient flood myths because of what happened after the last glacial period. But beyond that… > detailed and concrete, Which would be the opp
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> Library of Alexandria. Was greek, staffed by Greek speaking scholars and stored works written in Greek. I’m not aware that they had many Ancient Egyptian texts there > just we can't use absence of evidence to infer evidence of
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> Did ancient Egyptians poses knowledge of the Americas and encounter its population? Why would you ask this question? I we might as well say “Did the aliens build the pyramids? Who knows” if we assume that nobody “knows” anything.. >
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> communism the same way. Both beautiful systems I’m not sure what can be be beautiful about it on a non extremely superficial level.
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
Most supermarkets do not rent out a significant proportion of their floorspace to third party retails which they directly compete with? (and therefore have an arguably unfair advantage because they have full access to their sales data but n
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
Not really . Or rather not only. The only two things I hate about Apple’s hardware is the lack of repairability and the price gouging for memory/storage upgrades. Otherwise they are objectively miles ahead of their competition Of cours
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
Every other place seems to claim that the RRP is $119. So this must be a mistake/scam? Or did the price go down this much?

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