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by jellicle 7y ago
> packages with essentials These are literally boxed meals. Packages...with essentials.
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by jellicle 7y ago
When you actually look at any of these systems, you find there is such great government control of these nominally "private" insurers that it's effectively Medicare-for-All. All insurance offered at a standard price, subsidiz
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by jellicle 7y ago
If you spend $1 on food, the farmer gets like 12% of that. Total. For everything. Seeds, fertilizer, gasoline, labor, tractors, whatever. You could quintuple the pay of fruit pickers and your grocery bill would go up maybe 50%? Less?
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by jellicle 7y ago
I would suggest advertising some fruit-picking jobs at a guaranteed $50/hour to test your theory that Americans don't want them at any pay rate.
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by jellicle 7y ago
> I'd say that they are very interested in the very large part of the public who voted for them. You may be interested in the research of Page and Gilens, which shows the opposite is true.
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by jellicle 7y ago
The US failed because very few - nearly zero - people in the political leadership of the US are interested in working for the general public, thinking about the interests of the general public, etc. It's a failure of power - the inter
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by jellicle 7y ago
The USA is something like 6th in median income adjusted for PPP. If you adjust for how many hours worked to get those wages, it would fall a lot more - 20th? Lower? If you adjusted for public services available it would be lower than tha
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by jellicle 7y ago
This doesn't have anything to do with the Census Bureau and isn't the current title of the page. ?? Yes, marketers have excellent info on all Americans and sell it to anyone. No, it doesn't have anything to do with the Censu
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by jellicle 7y ago
Yeah, this is no time to criticize grifting. Previous commenter has nailed it directly: opportunists see a mountain of money heading out from government to the public and they want to insert themselves in the middle and grab a big chunk of
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by jellicle 7y ago
Poster seems to be thinking about the "UK approach" which is declared to be managing the situation until population immunity catches up and helps snuff it out. But, since we're starting from zero natural immunity and a virule
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by jellicle 7y ago
It's now legal for a bank with $1,000,000,000 in deposits to have absolutely zero cash available to pay out those deposits if people want their cash out. What could go wrong.
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by jellicle 7y ago
Perhaps you can explain why reducing all reserve requirements to 0% isn't a "wholesale elimination of reserve requirements".
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by jellicle 7y ago
For some reason car drivers always think that bus service needs to be reduced (fewer stops) in order to provide "better" bus service. The studies show that decreasing stops has minimal effect on transit times. Two stops with ten p
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by jellicle 7y ago
You're assuming your conclusion there, buddy. The point of the robosigning scandal was that Wells Fargo (and a bunch of other banks) were often swearing in a court of law that a) Fargo owned the mortgage and b) the homeowner was in def
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by jellicle 7y ago
"Somebody walked by the outside of a house where a 97-year-old said something was stolen" wasn't previously sufficient grounds to search every document you had ever written or received, but now it is.
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by jellicle 7y ago
> Google Location services asks before storing this data. It certainly does not. In fact, the general prompts are just along the lines of "Maps won't work unless Location Services is on. Turn it on? [Y/N]"
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by jellicle 7y ago
Right, and then the discrimination is AI-washed - security personnel can say they're just following people flagged as "high risk" around the store, not discriminating, even though the "AI" mostly used skin color to
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by jellicle 7y ago
Unfortunately all the people who are going to make the decisions about whether the world burns are first-world people, and their problems are the only ones that they care about.
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by jellicle 7y ago
Alternatively, if they started handing out lifetime bans to everyone fully or peripherally involved, you can expect the peripheral ones to come forward with all they know, hoping to avoid the ban.
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by jellicle 7y ago
No, not the entire winter. What seems to be happening is that the normally very reliable wind patterns around the poles are breaking down as the poles heat up, and that's creating temporary warm patterns. As one of the articles notes,
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by jellicle 7y ago
That headline seems really bad. Windows has been in "bullying" mode for years now. Installing without a Microsoft account has been very difficult for a long time. The change now is to refuse to install at all without a Microsof
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by jellicle 7y ago
Dahlia Lithwick described how the courts are intentionally making the political choice to slow-walk various Trump matters in order to enable his behavior: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/01/courts-slo
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by jellicle 7y ago
Yes. The commissioner of the IRS is appointed by the President (current one appointed by Trump) and can be dismissed at any time without cause. So if you want to continue in that role, you will do what the President wishes. You can always
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by jellicle 7y ago
New York state changed their laws on January 1, 2020, to alter the previous practice where the government only had to provide the evidence they had to defense lawyers on the day of the trial, and only if specifically requested by the defens
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by jellicle 7y ago
Civilization is a balancing of competing interests. Your rights in your property are enforced by the community, with limits and conditionally. The community which you are asking to enforce for you has interests too.
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by jellicle 7y ago
A little bit of a non-standard sort of HN post, but it illustrates an interesting sort of system failure. My speculation, never having set foot in an Amazon warehouse: 1) Amazon stockers are told to put the incoming inventory in a spot, and
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I ordered a box of boxes from The Packaging Wholesalers via Amazon.ca(twitter.com)
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by jellicle 7y ago
If Tesla starts triggering airbags in the faces of people who fall behind on their car payments, I won't buy those cars either.
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Right. The complaints seem largely about being unable to understand the map. If rural western Kentucky gets 2 climate migrants and Chicago gets 100, this may represent a much greater increase in Kentucky migration rates than Chicago migrati
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by jellicle 7y ago
Most of your comment is flat-out false. That page shows current instantaneous sea level change; it doesn't show future predictions (except in, say, the paper linked at the bottom about predicted sea level change). Sea level rise is inc

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