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by jellicle 8y ago
"We know our village has been beset with wolves. We have hundreds of attacks in recent months." "This morning I found a sheep dead with bite marks." "Your singular data point doesn't mean anything!" To be
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Every debt is someone else's asset. If you deposit money in the bank, is that a bad thing? You're creating a bank debt to you every time you do. If you deposit a million dollars you just put the bank massively in debt to you. Is
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US stats don't include the 25%+, more like 50% really, of the population who are financially excluded from medical care (even though some are "insured"). Anybody who does this: "I have a medical issue but I'm not go
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There's a major PR effort behind American care exceptionalism, though by any statistic you care to measure, US citizens get very poor care compared to any other first-world nation.
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There aren't, really. If the USA implemented anything similar to what, say, Canada does today, right now, it would be: - everyone can go to any doctor without any payments or paperwork, all of that being done behind the scenes - you&#
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by jellicle 8y ago
The US government undertook real and widespread environmental monitoring of radioactivity from at least 1947, and perhaps earlier. Many samples were taken of air, water, soil, vegetation, human bone and other materials to understand the ex
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Commenter looks at a field that hires only white men, and excludes everyone else, and sees a meritocracy. If an single extremely competent, outstandingly-qualified black man is hired, it's because of his identity. Remarkable.
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That does not actually say that Twitter will delete your account in any specific timeframe. Given the mostly-public nature of Twitter, it's sort of a moot point, but still. Ambiguity should be held against the drafter, especially in
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What's proven about PPPs is that the government always overpays and always shoulders all of the risk anyway. So there's not even the slightest benefit to the public, it's just a way for politically-connected companies to mil
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The IPCC certainly has never said that "pre-1990" carbon emissions were balanced. https://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/trends/full.html
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Is there any evidence that the driver didn't do the braking here?
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But for the rest of my life, if someone asks me about X, I'll remember the experience and give my opinions about it. And our remembrance of a thing is heavily weighted by the last or most recent part of the experience. Businesses will
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Right. You can get all the supposed advantages of each system, if you want. Use a touchscreen, fill out a ballot, hit the print button, receive a paper printed ballot, inspect it for errors, drop it into a scanning system that scans and ret
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by jellicle 8y ago
Plants may grow more easily, also wildfires may burn more easily, areas may get more water, also areas may get less water. Areas may be hotter, but also areas may be colder. The specific results that humanity gets depends on the particular
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> While the passenger is at work, the self-driving car will be giving rides to other people, or delivering packages and meals (not parking or driving around empty). Says who? I certainly don't want random people inside my car when
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In a majority of US states, there is no law requiring owed vacation time or PTO to be paid out on separation. In a few states there is. I don't know where the Buzzfeed employees were located.
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You're free to build your set of competing roads next to the public ones if you wish. Good luck.
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Simply untrue. Solar panels are cheap. We do some unsustainable things, for sure, but the idea that everyone has a choice between killing the Earth or living in medieval times and hoeing the mud like some Monty Python peasant is just the r
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I guess we're going to do this every year now. Like last year: if the politicians gathered at this conference agree and do anything - literally anything at all - to combat climate change that they wouldn't have done otherwise, the
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But in fact what climate scientists are doing here, and what they're doing in general, is leaning hard to downplay the science, because they're afraid of being described as chicken little or afraid of terrifying the public into
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"You should definitely make these major changes to your lifestyle, and if you don't, in about ten years or so we will fine you $25." Will you make those changes?
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Err, isn't the first thing they do is link up the new submission with every other submission ever received in the past or future, almost none of which are anonymous? Sure, you can be anonymous, but you're the son of John and Jane
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Of course it is. You can immediately and permanently eliminate all of your CO2 production going forward. That's a big help to the world, not very useful for yourself though. Obviously if we eliminate humanity we also eliminate humanity
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Restaurant owner: "everyone walking past my door is paid so much in salary that I can't raise my prices" Me: Think about what you just said.
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> figuring out how to pay him more without having him lose access to different low-income programs for which he currently qualifies Wow, the charitable impulses here are overwhelming. You'll pay him more, as long as it doesn't
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The Chromecast audio does one thing and does it (pretty) well. You can connect it to any dumb thing you have lying around. I am not going to buy an eavesdropping microphone setup for my house, so if that's all Google will sell, I guess
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Completely unrelated: Real wages falling in 2018: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/feeling-poorer-thats-because-re...
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Most drug research is paid by the US taxpayer through research grants, not by private companies. Pharma company marketing budgets much exceed their drug research budgets.
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Sufficiently advanced regulation is indistinguishable from single-payer - insurance is completely reliable, covers everything, and is completely fungible. Who cares what name is on the card? The easiest way to accomplish that is just to h
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People will go to great lengths to say "greed is good", but it still isn't.

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