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by glofish 6y ago
another way to say this, hand sanitizing does not do anything (good) probably harms you in ways that today we are not keen on investigating
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by glofish 6y ago
The study needs to stratify the results by the typical driver that buys a Tesla and conditions/situations when Teslas are driven. Already, using their numbers, just having a Tesla with no safety features enabled drops the accidents rat
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by glofish 6y ago
Independence means something else. It means not beholden to certain interests. Simply being in the pocket of the other party (opposition) does not make them independent. (Disclaimer: I don't know if this is the case, simply commenting
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by glofish 6y ago
Your advice only works if one speaks fluent Spanish and is well versed in and comfortable with the way societies work in Latin America. For anyone else it is a recipe for disaster (as in being taken advantage of many times over)
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by glofish 6y ago
The Vanguard Federal Money Market Fund (Settlement fund) has a variable rate but produced 1.1% in the last year and 4% since inception. In addition when you park your money there you can easily invest it at any time. In general going straig
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by glofish 6y ago
Ok I'll bite. How much do you think would entice someone to be a cashier and work 8 hours a day when someone on unemployment in the current system gets say $3600/month. Imagine a poorer state where you can easily make do with $3.
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by glofish 6y ago
I will keep this short but I think paying predermined sums like the $600 is a terrible idea. the number of people for whom this is exactly the right amount is tiny, all it generates massive imbalances between those for whom this is too much
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by glofish 6y ago
you talk exactly like someone that has no idea what it is like to run a small business that serves a community around them. you are jumping to conclusions that he must have been exploiting his staff etc. and you are disregarding the fact th
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by glofish 6y ago
think about what you are saying artificially raising salaries in an imploding economy with high unemployment is beneficial uh, no, it is a recipe for economic disaster.
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by glofish 6y ago
if everyone's salary is raised by $600 what do you think happens? I'll tell you, $600 is the new zero that gets you nothing.
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by glofish 6y ago
consider what you are saying, that the economic policy for raising salaries is to introduce an artificially highly set unemployment benefit
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by glofish 6y ago
I don't see how having only 50% make more is any less ludicrous. Should anyone ever make more money while unemployed than when employed? Won't that completely alter the valuation of work and with that the proper functioning of the
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by glofish 6y ago
Indeed. Most Europeans badmouthing US military spending don't fully grasp how much they have benefited from it. It is hard to imagine a European lifestyle as we know it today without the advantage of the US military being a deterrent t
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by glofish 6y ago
RV's are not a good sign of recovery in this case. Usually RVs are bought in addition to other travel, they are more of a luxury item. In the current environment where booking a hotel is considered by some risky RVs are bought as a n
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by glofish 6y ago
the problem is that masks have a minor effect at best thus in no way represent the solution so many seek
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by glofish 6y ago
I agree. Many people will react exactly the opposite way and just quit working and doing anything useful. they might fall into depression and hopelessness. Counter-intuitively it might make everyone more worse off and more demanding. They m
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by glofish 6y ago
Exactly this. Apple has all the reasons to entice the customer into buying the product and encouraging them to do so by offering a full refund, and they take none of the risks because the make the same money either way. I am surprised of ho
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by glofish 6y ago
Reading the thread here is an interesting datapoint: https://twitter.com/twolivesleft/status/1288491970248077314 - Since 2011 Codea has had 1,768 refunds - Estimate it cost us ~$8,000 USD to pay Apple’s 30% - A si
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by glofish 6y ago
correct, there is a huge difference between taking 3% and 30% one is the cost of doing business, the other is predatory
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by glofish 6y ago
How do you know that? The interface and what you can do/demonstrate in the store is severely limited.
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by glofish 6y ago
That is not the right reason to refund. Price should have nothing to do with marginal costs. it has to do with who is being made to carry the cost, and the griefing that can occur that way. Not worth the trouble IMHO.
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by glofish 6y ago
Perhaps the refund is caused by the store itself? Is it inconceivable that the distribution, visibility and framework caused the customer to misjudge the product?
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by glofish 6y ago
Where this analogy fails is that shipping is not a fixed percent of a product cost. And the cost of refund is the same to Apple for a product that cost $1 just as it is for products that cost $100.
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by glofish 6y ago
what could possibly go wrong with that
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by glofish 6y ago
I am not sure I follow. For any epidemic that is well underway it is impossible for the number cases not to go down over time, it is only the time frame that is under question perhaps.
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by glofish 6y ago
Not sure what you are getting at. The original post is on the topic of whether there are more or fewer infections in the Summer, which it looks to be the case.
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by glofish 6y ago
As counter intuitive as it sounds there is reason to believe that currently the penetration of the disease is much lower than in March. The modeling from IMHE claims that in March the number of daily new infections were above 250K whereas t
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by glofish 6y ago
the problem is with your word "preventable" what you mean by "preventable" is "at a cost that we don't have a way to quantify", hence will call that cost "inconvenience" and only focus on what w
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by glofish 6y ago
Notably there are substantial excess in 2018 or 2019 during the same weeks. Not quite sure what to make of that. If you were subtracting 2020 from 2018 then it looks like you would end up with 80 thousand fewer deaths in the first 10 week
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by glofish 6y ago
Come on, it was pretty obvious from very early on (during the Wuhan outbreak, then validated in Italy soon after) that the disease did not kill 1%, the symptoms for the vast majority of those that get sick are mild (to even being asymptomat

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