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by jellicle 10y ago
The solution is not to elect prosecutors (or judges, same reason). Almost no countries worldwide elect judges or prosecutors, that is to say, this is already a solved problem almost everywhere on Earth except in the USA. No need to spend a
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by jellicle 10y ago
Uh, is that true, at all?
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by jellicle 10y ago
Incorrect. Independent contractors cheerfully 'sharing' their vehicles have made 100% of the difference; Uber does not employ anyone to drive anywhere. The number of drunks driven home by Uber employees is ~0. Thanks independent
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by jellicle 10y ago
A great deal of agricultural regulation and subsidy goes into ensuring the food supply is consistent and in excess of demand. Also, food is almost entirely substitutable - you don't NEED any particular food item. (And for items where
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by jellicle 10y ago
We don't want them to be "sold". We want them to be prescribed as needed by medical professionals.
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by jellicle 10y ago
If you're selling $5 bills for $2, funded by venture capital, are you really disrupting the dollar bill industry? I mean, you are , in the dictionary sense of disrupting - you're messing it up. But in the Silicon Valley sense, t
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by jellicle 10y ago
This is sort of the best of all possible worlds. Any time there's a problem, everyone involved can just say "oh, she should sue" and "why doesn't she sue, there are lots of legal remedies". And then if she spo
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by jellicle 10y ago
HN hates anything that bashes the misogynist culture of Silicon Valley. This story will be flagged dead shortly.
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by jellicle 10y ago
Seems to me the author is trying to characterize herself as boring, intelligent, hard-working, skilled and educated. A model employee. An asset to the company. As opposed to the standard MRA characterization of all women as flighty, bitch
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by jellicle 10y ago
The net neutrality battle is over shaping traffic to maximize profits, not shaping traffic to maximize throughput/usability. In a dollar-shaped traffic paradigm, you might slow down traffic even when your link is 3/4 empty, in ord
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by jellicle 10y ago
Those are opposites.
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by jellicle 10y ago
Yeah, the U.S. throws people in jail because women claim they were harassed at conferences all the time. The risk is real!
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by jellicle 10y ago
If you call a lawyer in such a situation, they'll tell you that Customs has 100% discretion to admit or deny non-citizens and there is no such thing as "challenging" it.
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by jellicle 10y ago
So your argument is that Instacart will profit by delivering long distances to sparse neighborhoods of people who can't afford a car but like marked-up groceries?
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by jellicle 10y ago
Why wouldn't the people in their self-driving cars just.... drive to their destination?
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by jellicle 10y ago
Well, at least in the U.S., general strikes worked great and were so effective for labor that they were banned by law, and remain illegal today.
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by jellicle 10y ago
Oh, so the rebuilding is done for free, funded by the value of the original building? No. The rebuilding requires additional work/money inputs to create the new building. The value of the original building is lost forever.
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by jellicle 10y ago
When a bomb destroys a building, to whom is the value of the building redistributed to?
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by jellicle 10y ago
What medical care is available to the general public in the USA but not available in Denmark? I'm curious.
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by jellicle 10y ago
The vast majority of life-threatening conditions aren't required to be treated at any ER, and won't be, unless you can pay.
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by jellicle 10y ago
Uh, submitters typically pay for all submissions, either in cash or in the requirement to sign over copyright to the journal. Open Access is a trend to combatting the walled garden model of scientific publishing, and is perfectly legitimate
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by jellicle 10y ago
> For all that is wrong with the US system it at least have access to almost any possible treatment in existence. Oh, not at all. The dialog goes like this: A: I'd like a treatment, but I can't pay for it. Hospital: Go away. M
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by jellicle 10y ago
As it turns out, we don't have to speculate about single-payer since most other advanced and some not-so-advanced nations use it, and it works great. Costs are vastly lower than the U.S.'s system.
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by jellicle 10y ago
Actually, it has saved Americans trillions of dollars: http://fortune.com/2016/06/21/us-health-care-costs/
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by jellicle 10y ago
Really baffling that HN management doesn't understand that paywalled links are poison to a discussion site. They're broken links.
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by jellicle 10y ago
What has happened to many municipalities that tried is that the incumbent telcos went to the state legislature and had laws passed making it illegal for cities to run their own telecom infrastructure. Basically, the political will has to be
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by jellicle 10y ago
If something goes wrong, as we've seen with Tesla, the car tends to barrel full-speed into very solid obstacles. Because, duh, something went wrong. Human errors tend to be misjudging something and then getting into a situation that, d
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by jellicle 10y ago
Why would that be? Self-driving cars should want to stay on the road in all cases. The edge of the road is soft, not well marked, contains rocks and nails and housepets. The road proper is hard, well-marked, and vehicles should want to st
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by jellicle 10y ago
You could also choose what the U.S. is choosing now, which is to reduce U.S. life expectancy.
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Actually, the 75% number is when there is no trust fund whatsoever and all outgoing payments are funded directly by incoming payments. > But when we start redeeming the IOUs You are aware, I'm sure, that said IOUs have been redeemed

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