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by jellicle 9y ago
I suppose your solution of "murder is a problem, so let's decriminalize it" could work, but I think there may be better ones.
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by jellicle 9y ago
"Since you uploaded a video which was removed from Youtube, your Google Driving account has been permanently revoked."
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by jellicle 9y ago
100% of it would be tax-deductible. Corporations don't pay tax on any money spent on salaries, equipment, expenses, etc. Whether there would be ADDITIONAL subsidies, I do not know.
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by jellicle 9y ago
I expect you'll find that your city core pays for it. Every calculation I've ever seen about the expenses of suburbs ends up with downtown paying for suburban development. It's cheaper to service a downtown property, more e
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by jellicle 9y ago
It doesn't say that anywhere on the website. The language used is specifically vague to accommodate a wide range of fee percentages. "Legalist funding varies from case to case, depending on your case details and our risk assessme
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by jellicle 9y ago
>in a safer environment Cities are safer than rural areas or suburbs.
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by jellicle 9y ago
Yeah. Inspectors use a 5-gallon container to test gas pumps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9HG_3SIsEM So, your gas pump has to be accurate for the first five gallons, but then you can cheat as much as you want. The only
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by jellicle 9y ago
In what way do you think it is superior to the current system (say, an Oracle RDBMS running in a county land office)?
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by jellicle 9y ago
How do you reconcile your beliefs with all the evidence that income mobility is much higher elsewhere than in the USA?
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by jellicle 9y ago
> Credit would dry up overnight and interest rates would go through the roof on many loans. That's a silly thing to say. Will the Moon fall down too? > Also why would anyone ever offer a student loan under these conditions? Prob
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by jellicle 9y ago
Is it your assertion that other janitors at Kodak didn't get paid vacation, tuition reimbursement, bonuses?
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by jellicle 9y ago
You don't live in that country . Many other countries do indeed have much stronger consumer protections. Regulatory ministries in other nations often have nearly plenipotentiary authority in their area of regulation. Once your busi
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by jellicle 9y ago
No, there's no evidence that paid maternity leaves harm women's wages or career progression. Uniformly across the world, paid maternity leaves correlate strongly with more gender equality in the workforce, including in pay and ca
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by jellicle 9y ago
I hope people are ready for Facebook to be fully integrated into Zuckerberg's political campaign.
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by jellicle 9y ago
> should be debated and refuted If you have even a passing acquaintance with the subject, this has been "debated and refuted" for hundreds of years. Should "did NASA land on the Moon?" also be debated and refuted? Wh
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by jellicle 9y ago
I don't think there's any evidence that any of your claims are true.
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by jellicle 9y ago
"federal income tax" is not even close to "tax burden of the federal government". Income tax is less than half the revenue of the federal government. Payroll taxes are huge, and disproportionately borne by the poor. Ex
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by jellicle 9y ago
There are actually several US states that have political activities as a protected class. But you are correct for most US states, that is, employers in those states are free to say "All Democrats - you're fired!" and it woul
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by jellicle 9y ago
> That growth might not be built on the most sustainable principles, but we are slowly getting there. Despite what you hear about electric cars and so on, every year the human race increases the amount of environmental damage it does com
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by jellicle 9y ago
You're comparing latency to throughput. Visa intentionally has slow latency, to reduce fraud, which is a major problem with Bitcoin. Visa has excellent throughput, beating the pants off of Bitcoin, which is another major problem with
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by jellicle 9y ago
To extent that there are a few minimal laws protecting individual investors in the U.S., they exist because scam artists try to steal everyone's money. That rule - which you or someone else has ranted about before - vastly increases th
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by jellicle 9y ago
Suppose the current price for "two tylenol handed to a patient in a paper cup" is $50, and a giant insurer^W^W EVIL GOVERNMENT says it will only pay $40 next year. What do you suppose will happen? Societal collapse?
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by jellicle 9y ago
0% for both, for any money spent on salaries.
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by jellicle 9y ago
There's really been a considerable change in HN in the past few years. A couple of years ago, a thread like this would have been 100% apologists and victim-blaming, laced with a heavy dose of outright misogyny. It would have been fla
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by jellicle 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopsony
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by jellicle 9y ago
But of course that "service" is mostly waste. If you self-refer yourself to Dr. Smucker, the best [foo] surgeon in the business, you're likely to find that your [foo] isn't broken at all and even if it was, it doesn&#x2
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by jellicle 9y ago
> they could still see the same PCPs and specialists they can see today What do you think single-payer is? There's no such thing as "out of network".
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by jellicle 9y ago
But the net cost to voters is highly negative, and voter support is very high. If you can save $10 by paying $5, and your argument for why you won't do it is that it costs too much, I'm going to tell you that you need a math cours
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by jellicle 9y ago
The point is that that "dot" of Toronto GTA represents more human beings than all of Alberta. You're judging by "geographic space taken up". Your conclusion is actually that geographic land area leans to the right,
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by jellicle 9y ago
I thought that was well known: http://inequality.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/Pathways-... The US does not do well on social mobility. Generally, poor families stay poor and rich families stay rich. Also

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