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by jellicle 8y ago
If any non-rich, non-corporate individual had done the following: sent out a vehicle on city streets, driving fast under computer control, which did not have any capability to brake and which did indeed strike and kill someone, I think that
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by jellicle 8y ago
a) the headline is bullshit. This is a small panel of economists selected from a right-wing economics association. b) It's clear from the responses that none of the individuals surveyed (in 2014) had any understanding of the issues inv
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by jellicle 8y ago
I think previous commenter is saying every year of full-time college costs you a year of salary, in addition and on top of any tuition or other expenses it may cost you. Few students manage to work full-time and make real progress towards
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by jellicle 8y ago
They don't need oral approval or any approval. GEICO is only asking so that their customers won't freak out when GEICO magically knows where they are. The customer service rep probably had the data up on their screen already whe
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by jellicle 8y ago
The much more likely situation is that a municipal ISP can undercut the competitors on price charged to the public and still throw off a healthy profit to the local government (opposite of a subsidy). Which is why Comcast et al. are so vig
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by jellicle 9y ago
Uh, no, it is not safe to say that salaries are normally distributed, and they certainly aren't. The salary distribution graph for a large corporation is likely to look something like this: http://www.visier.com/wp-cont
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by jellicle 9y ago
Private health insurance for covered procedures is generally forbidden in Canada, to avoid creating exactly this sort of two-tiered system. Works great.
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by jellicle 9y ago
The ER is only required to assess patients and if you come in uninsured, unable to pay and with a GP-level complaint (flu, whatever) you'll receive no further treatment other than the assessment. A lot of people seem to think ERs are s
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by jellicle 9y ago
Idaho's entire population fits comfortably in a small segment of any of the nation's larger cities. When three people walk into the state, it leads in percentage growth. It's extremely silly to draw some conclusion from the
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by jellicle 9y ago
This is a similar problem to the ratings of religious books on Amazon and similar sites. Appeal to a very narrow niche, disappeal to anyone else, satisfy that niche, and your percentage ratings will be very high (even though almost all cus
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by jellicle 9y ago
This reads like a guy who has "not invented here" syndrome. You know, the guy who starts changing all your code from tabs to spaces or vice versa, and won't play along no matter what. Every person should have the humility to
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by jellicle 9y ago
Well, you're in luck. Science has zero effect on government policy in all nations that I'm familiar with.
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by jellicle 9y ago
That's because we know what a "house" is - a bunch of private property with a wall around it (even if the wall is not locked). Usually comes in sets with other bunches of private property with walls around it. And we know th
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by jellicle 9y ago
Each individual event is unplanned and urgent (life-threatening). But he has a lot of events. He spends a few days in intensive care, gets stabilized, gets sent home, and then is fine for a while... until something happens. There are lot
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by jellicle 9y ago
I have a friend dying of congestive heart failure. He'll be dead within a year. But in the meantime, he calls 911 a lot. Not sure what the solution is supposed to be here. A lot of these calls are perfectly legitimate and not the r
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by jellicle 9y ago
When was the last time a hostile .50 cal round struck a US Navy ship (any)? Vietnam? shrug
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by jellicle 9y ago
These are supposed to be small, cheap ships. Now they're being criticized for not doing everything. That's... odd. US military in general goes through cycles where one vehicle is supposed to do everything (that way we can save m
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by jellicle 9y ago
Everyone, including Uber, said this would happen, so... To all the people talking about giving up their car to use Uber, just realize that once Uber realizes you don't have a car, your rates just doubled.
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by jellicle 9y ago
The credit, insurance, and health industries predate data harvesting by 1000s of years.
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by jellicle 9y ago
I would write that as "Boycotts are one of the least effective methods consumers have to enact change."
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by jellicle 9y ago
Hard to get a man to find a bot when his job depends on his not finding it.
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by jellicle 9y ago
The provided budget for food is obviously going to be roughly set at the minimum necessary to provide barely adequate nutrition, because that's how legislatures operate. So if most of that money is being stolen by the sheriff, starvat
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by jellicle 9y ago
> For a long time there's been an excellent well balanced feedback loop, more productivity = higher pay, Um, that feedback loop existed until 1972 or so, but has not existed since then. For most people in the United States, it has
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by jellicle 9y ago
> they didn't believe that it would be net positive for their area. The assumption that political leaders invariably make decisions that are the best for the general public is not one borne out by evidence. > It isn't this z
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by jellicle 9y ago
> as if that money could go to the homeless instead. Why couldn't it?
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by jellicle 9y ago
If there's only one, and it's not run by you, how can you scam people with it? Get with the program!
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by jellicle 9y ago
Regardless of what you think about the current state of Google's evilness, becoming a military defense contractor is not going to do anything good for their corporate morality. Both in the broad, "killing people is bad mmkay&quot
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by jellicle 9y ago
All of the strongest proponents of "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" start hemming and hawing when you talk about eliminating inheritances and truly creating a level playing field. Bootstraps for you, inheritance for me.
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by jellicle 9y ago
Mudbound - https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/nov/16/mudbound-review... - is a very good film about poverty, among other things. It doesn't smack you in the face and say "I'M A FILM AB
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by jellicle 9y ago
> They may be completely dominant in web search, but they are a tiny player in web advertising in the grand scheme of things, Are you forgetting that Google owns Doubleclick? Facebook and Google represent 63% (and growing) of internet a

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