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by jobs_throwaway 10mo ago
> People already driving generally aren't likely to change their destination They are if you price it properly. If it costs $1000 to get on that road, a lot of people are going to find alternative means of transport, carpool, or for
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by jobs_throwaway 10mo ago
Couldn't disagree more. People should be able to pay more for use of better infrastructure. If $3-$8 a day isn't worth it for you, there's a free option that's totally acceptable.
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by jobs_throwaway 10mo ago
Ah yes, the government famously never gets it wrong or seizes the assets of innocents
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by jobs_throwaway 10mo ago
that wouldn't be bitcoin, idiot?
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by jobs_throwaway 10mo ago
What does 'get dinged' mean? It seems like this would lead to a strong incentive against making any changes, lest you introduce bugs, perhaps due to no fault of your own.
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by jobs_throwaway 10mo ago
Lmao Please explain how bitcoin can be inflated And recognizing a movement has ideological reasons while making no claim as to the strength or rationality of those reasons has nothing to do with faith
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by jobs_throwaway 10mo ago
What have I said that indicates worship? I am simply pointing out that what you claimed was objectively false, and in response you moved the goalposts.
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by jobs_throwaway 10mo ago
> These things don't have any utility otherwise and no reason to exist outside of those. Lol. Permissionless payments certainly have utility. Making it harder for governments to freeeze/seize your assets has utility. Buying stu
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by jobs_throwaway 11mo ago
$200k a year only qualifies you to spend $5k a month on rent max. You won't be able to get a more expensive apartment. And no, the US gov't does not give them free housing in DC. Learn some of the basics before you start weighing
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by jobs_throwaway 11mo ago
How has it not been a store of value?
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by jobs_throwaway 11mo ago
>lymph node swelling you mean immune response? Which vaccines are supposed to induce?
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by jobs_throwaway 11mo ago
Lmao. $200k a year doesn't even get you a nice 1 bedroom apartment in many of the cities these representatives represent. Let alone pay for the 2 separate residences that they effectively need to maintain. And you are arguing against s
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by jobs_throwaway 11mo ago
Yes, of course they are. Not solely by money, but the most capable workers are not going to work for less than market rate because they don't have to. They can get meaning and power and everything else they want, and still make way mor
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by jobs_throwaway 11mo ago
You're wrong on both counts It is illegal for Congress to trade on insider information (it just isn't well enforced) It is NOT illegal to trade based on a list of stocks they bought after the fact. That's not insider informat
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by jobs_throwaway 11mo ago
Because the most capable among us are able to command high salaries regardless of whether they're 'in it for the money'. Congress needs to be competitive with industry for the best talent. Also, giving politicians legitimate
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by jobs_throwaway 11mo ago
Good way to make sure that the most capable people absolutely never go into politics.
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by jobs_throwaway 11mo ago
Yes it would. It'd make Congress a viable career path for ambitious-but-not-yet-wealthy people. Currently, you have to already be rich to be able to make it work. Public service should be a viable path to wealth for ambitious, capable
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by jobs_throwaway 11mo ago
> It's much more likely that simply changing the way they administer these tests had a more significant impact on test scores than phone bans. Why do you think that's more likely?
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by jobs_throwaway 1y ago
A lot of crying to say "there will be another option beyond the first party store". If you don't want those apps, don't get them. Imposing your choices on everyone else is not the solution.
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by jobs_throwaway 1y ago
That source is from 2008. Now ( https://dqydj.com/household-income-percentile-calculator/ ) its at 11%. And its not a binary. Anyone making six figures (nearly half of households) should be able to easily afford the best
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by jobs_throwaway 1y ago
How much money and how does it suck? At ~$250k TC I get better care than I could in any of the socialized systems. Concierge care, advanced treatments if I want/need them, out of pocket max that is easily affordable, etc
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by jobs_throwaway 1y ago
Well put. Most SWEs on this very site probably require a smartphone for id verification for work. Acting like that is a personal choice is not useful
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by jobs_throwaway 1y ago
If, as someone with money, you look across systems, the US is one of the best. That's the point I'm making. There's plenty of places where all the money in the world won't buy you the quality of care you can get in the U
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by jobs_throwaway 1y ago
No that isn't universally true. There's plenty of countries (eg Cuba) with entirely state-run healthcare systems where more money won't get you better care.
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by jobs_throwaway 1y ago
> US health care which is probably one of the worst in the world Not really. If you have money, the US system is one of the best. It just really, really sucks if you don't have money.
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by jobs_throwaway 1y ago
> wahwahwahwah
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by jobs_throwaway 1y ago
If you care about the money aspect, why are you ever buying a new car though? You can get a massive discount by buying a barely-used one.
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by jobs_throwaway 1y ago
markets are good
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by jobs_throwaway 1y ago
He didn't say those words exactly but he did say "The scalable method is you learn from experience. You try things, you see what works. No one has to tell you. First of all, you have a goal. Without a goal, there’s no sense of rig
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by jobs_throwaway 1y ago
you generated it? It should be trivial for you to delete it then Oh what's that, you actually just want to control other people's data?

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