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by fuzz4lyfe 7y ago
I don't. Most free market thinkers aren't the GOP talking heads you see in the news. Those guys made their fortunes via regulatory capture, war and protectionism for the most part. Frankly it seems they have ridden that train into
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by fuzz4lyfe 7y ago
These people will complain about "the 1%" while being in the .1% globally. It's very strange to watch if you have perspective on global poverty.
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by fuzz4lyfe 7y ago
>So... you will never use publicly funded (often emergency) healthcare? When the overweight start getting hauled off to prison I'll find this argument compelling.
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by fuzz4lyfe 7y ago
>what do you think happens to that business? Generally nothing, the hospitals don't actually expect you to pay the bill they just want the tax write off they get when they send it to collections. Jeff Bezos might have to pay but if
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by fuzz4lyfe 7y ago
With things like this it is helpful to work from first principals. Ask yourself, are all people with poor credit homeless? Are most?
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by fuzz4lyfe 7y ago
>One medical emergency will end it all. One medical emergency and your credit will be ruined. Wait a seven years without contracting the debt collector and the debt becomes uncollectible. After three years roughly three quarters of the e
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by fuzz4lyfe 7y ago
I'm talking about with no insurance. You know the debtors prisons were closed a century ago right? It will screw up your credit score for a couple of years and that's about it.
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by fuzz4lyfe 7y ago
The constitution protects against warrantless search and seizure specifically against "their persons, houses, papers, and effects". Courts in overwhelming number interpreted that to mean cops can take paper money from you without
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by fuzz4lyfe 7y ago
My experience is that "crunch time" never actually ends. It just becomes the new normal and expected over time. Its better to deliver under the maximum you are capable unfortunately. Think of it this way, is the company providing
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by fuzz4lyfe 7y ago
Preventing engineers who are working on it from working at the competition?
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by fuzz4lyfe 7y ago
For me, I haven't worked in an organization where I would be rewarded in any concrete way if the business achieved it's goals. (0 equity, pay based on market forces more than effort) So I don't particularly care about busines
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by fuzz4lyfe 7y ago
I had no idea my daughter costs my entire post tax salary. I wonder how we pay the mortgage?
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by fuzz4lyfe 7y ago
If you get a bill but don't actually pay it does it still have a five-figure price tag?
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by fuzz4lyfe 7y ago
Those sound anti-competitive as well
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by fuzz4lyfe 7y ago
Similar statements can be made about insider trading or constitutional violations.
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by fuzz4lyfe 7y ago
>What's your evidence that working for information helps with convincing? I can't say I had any hard evidence while I wrote that. I admit it's more of an observation from my experience. That said there this study[0] seems
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by fuzz4lyfe 7y ago
Real expertise isn't a problem. A expert plumber is shown to be so by his actions. Nobody would install a leaky faucet and be able to call himself an expert. An expert psychologist for example? Her patients can remain depressed, mutila
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by fuzz4lyfe 7y ago
>Why did they offer to pay $400K to recover ~100 PCs if they had backups? "Backup is lets says weekly and someone high up the chain really wants the power point he put together on Tuesday." is probably what happened in my exper
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by fuzz4lyfe 7y ago
Know how you get a human to believe something? Make them work for the information. The more someone works for information the more likely they are to believe it is valid. I think this is why you see modern educated people with such deferenc
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by fuzz4lyfe 7y ago
If you want something a little nicer than a trash bag. I've got these[0] in every bedroom in my house. Keeps the heating and cooling bill down as well as blocks out light really well. [0] https://www.amazon.com/Best-Home
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by fuzz4lyfe 7y ago
Such a store would have so few customers that it would cost $14k for such a keyboard. That same keyboard will go for $100 - $200 online.
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by fuzz4lyfe 7y ago
Yes, and my point is it's an entirely useless definition. If 40% of the population were billionaires and the remaining 60% were millionaires. The millionaires aren't in poverty. "delusion: an idiosyncratic belief or impressio
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by fuzz4lyfe 7y ago
That measure won't work on the vast majority of the planet. The global per-capita median income is less that three thousand dollars a year. People making 4 grand a year aren't out of poverty.
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by fuzz4lyfe 7y ago
>The usual threshold for poverty (for good reasons) is 50 or 60% of the median income in a country. If you think half to 40% of people in the Congo are not in poverty you are delusional
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by fuzz4lyfe 7y ago
My bet is simply that you go where the money is[0]. [0] https://www.justfacts.com/news_poorest_americans_richer_than...
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by fuzz4lyfe 7y ago
The democrats can never seem to manage to tax the wealthy (themselves effectively) when push comes to shove. I'm not trying to be partisan, Republicans similarly are unable to cut spending. Perhaps this time will be different but I&#x2
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by fuzz4lyfe 7y ago
While that is true it is printing money for distributive purposes that I'm more worried about. Spending a few billion on bombs to blow up houses on other continents, or to prop up the stock of oil companies for example won't reall
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by fuzz4lyfe 7y ago
You could open up lanes a quarter mile at a time even depending on traffic demands. Eg. Between exit 1 and exit 2, 8 northbound lanes are open. Between 2 and 3 we have 6 northbound lanes. It's would be pretty disconcerting to travel in
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by fuzz4lyfe 7y ago
A number of factors: 1. Money is essentially free at current interest rates and I don't see a sign of that reversing course. 2. Large firms are hording cash and have more than they know what to do with. They are at the point where they
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by fuzz4lyfe 7y ago
I was about 13 years old I didn't have much capitol to invest. I just put together the two pieces of the puzzle that housing prices were rising much faster than wages and that a products price can't continuously rise faster then t

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