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iNane9000
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iNane9000
5y ago
Agree with everything but also want to note pulling levers for 30 years is correlated with unionization in those industries. Jobs were protected by unions even if it meant higher costs and lower productivity.
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I don’t think you can have one and not the other. I may be too pessimistic but I would guess other nations will steal this technology and not be so encumbered by their concerns for the environment.
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“The essential point: California has never had enough water. The current drought is simply the latest evidence that this is a dry land, not “susceptible of supporting a very large population,” as an American military officer wrote in the 18
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iNane9000
5y ago
If you want to make a website, that’s your right in our free market system. If you want to allow the public to post on your website, to add value to your product, again that’s your right. If it benefits your business, then you should do it.
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It’s more regulated though. That’s the point is there’s some control in usd, for better and worse.
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I believe the synagogue shooter was paid in Bitcoin. So not pure hyperbole. Edit: might have the details confused about above point, but the general thrust of things is pretty clear. https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/03&#x
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That’s not even close to the main flaw. The main flaw is that it incentivizes crime, human trafficking and accelerates environmental destruction. None of these are huge problems if you can afford a private bunker in New Zealand. It’s a majo
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Well you can’t claim he is not a journalist and also accuse him of journalistic malpractice. It’s one or the other.
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“exaggerated by some researchers” I’m beginning to detect a pattern here. Exaggerating researchers are on the rise. It feels as though researchers might be incentivized to exaggerate. The news media help them with that. Maybe we need more r
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The problem with this and the nnt gatekeeping is that personalized medicine will always require stepping away from massive double blind randomized placebo controlled multiple meta study levels of evidence. From a patient perspective it feel
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As it stands wealthy people can and do find more thorough medical treatment, including more frequent and exhaustive imaging, labs, etc... The conventional wisdom you cite only applies to those who can’t seek endless second opinions from spe
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Similar to recent treatment of the housing boom in the media. People couldn’t afford homes before the pandemic so it’s unlikely they can now. The current market frenzy is what you expect with people moving. It’s not an increase in wealth of
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Or the use the google model and make people pay the subscription cost psychologically rather than monetarily.