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by learc83 6y ago
Full time EMTs aren’t trained enough to make good decisions about when it’s appropriate to administer ketamine and how much to give. A cop who did some EMT training but doesn’t use the skills full time is going to be even worse.
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by learc83 6y ago
My fiancée has to deal with kids in the ER who got injected with too much ketamine by overzealous EMTs all the time. I don’t think limiting it to EMTs will solve the problem.
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by learc83 6y ago
That’s “adjusted” non GAAP EBITDA, or invented bullshit that they can manipulate nearly any way they like. It’s like wework’s “community EBITDA”.
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by learc83 6y ago
I’ve never seen prices that low when browsing for a pool trip.
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by learc83 6y ago
That’s not what Forbes has been saying about Uber since 2017. Look up more recent Uber article by them. One accuses Uber of creative accounting to attempt to make the rideshare business look profitable.
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by learc83 6y ago
Uber and Lyft aren’t profitable—their prices aren’t sustainable in the long run.
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by learc83 6y ago
They mean Uber and Lyft use investor money to subsidize ride costs, so they are able to beat the local alternatives on price. It’s the classic, big company opens a store in a small town and sells at a loss until the local mom and pops are d
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by learc83 6y ago
>However, if every single time you want to change any piece of logic in your game, you have to do the edit/compile cycle, your development will be extremely slow. Especially if you compare with the ability to change code while the g
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by learc83 6y ago
>I can guarantee you that a game will need a scripting language. Better get that done already. Myself and thousands of people before and after me have written games without a scripting language.
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by learc83 6y ago
We had recess when i was a kid too. It lasted for 15 minutes out of a nearly 8 hour day.
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by learc83 6y ago
Most studies show that unless kids come from low income families the differences between kids who go to pre-k and kids who don't are gone by 3rd grade or so. And for low-income kids it's only advantageous if it's "high q
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by learc83 6y ago
Kids can't learn all day long in a classroom. I don't know why we expect them to be able to do it remotely. School has always been 1/3 learning 2/3 baby sitting. When my parents were kids, they only went to kindergarten
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by learc83 6y ago
>Yes it is. If you just got a one time payment compounding interest would not have exponential growth. Obviously. There is an implied only in that sentence. It clearly doesn't make sense without it.
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by learc83 6y ago
>I am saying that it lessens your ability to grow your wealth at an exponential rate. It mitigates the miracle of compounding growth. It doesn't mitigate the miracle of compounding growth any more than a capital gains tax. A capital
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by learc83 6y ago
Well the only trend that we can look at quantitatively, tax rate vs US citizenship renunciations shows the exact opposite correlation to what you've been arguing.
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by learc83 6y ago
Compound has several definitions. The one that we are talking about here is in relation to compound interest: to pay (interest) on the accrued interest as well as the principal. I'm going to take the fact that you keep talking about th
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by learc83 6y ago
The vast majority of consumer spending will go directly to companies who can invest the extra profit in whatever they want (and going down the chain, their suppliers can invest their extra profit). The percentage of savings to consumption c
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by learc83 6y ago
The effective tax rate has been on a downward trend for the past 50 years, so if renouncing US citizenship is a growing trend, that doesn't make a good argument for a strong positive correlation between the two.
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by learc83 6y ago
>I don't think in absolutes. But you speak in absolutes. >If you impose a wealth tax at the national level, rich people will leave America (edit: renounce citizenship) and ambitious people will never come here to begin with. Amer
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by learc83 6y ago
Capital consumption just refers to capital depreciation. Reduced capital investment, and more specifically reduced efficient in capital investment doesn't necessarily follow from increased consumer demand. Just stating that it does isn
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by learc83 6y ago
Even the most aggressive wealth tax that is proposed is for a tax on wealth of over $50 million. So the founder of businesses valued up to around $100 million dollars would reasonably be able to maintain control without paying any wealth ta
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by learc83 6y ago
For most people they start a company to make money, so ultimately it's about the ROI. They think they'll make more by controlling the company than the alternative When we are talking mutli billionaires like Bezos who may be driven
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by learc83 6y ago
You're the one who came up with a house analogy. >In contrast, if you were to take an individual worth $10 billion, whose entire net worth is derived from the ownership of their stock, and were to tax them 2% of their wealth annuall
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by learc83 6y ago
So your source for any wealth tax whatsoever having catastrophic consequences is Pavlov and BF Skinner? You think that a 1% wealth tax on wealth over $1 billion would completely destroy any incentive for an ambitious poor person to immigrat
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by learc83 6y ago
We already have the equivalent for houses--property tax. Every year you have to pay x% of the value of your house to the government.
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by learc83 6y ago
>If you impose a wealth tax at the national level, rich people will leave America and ambitious people will never come here to begin with. America will no longer be the land of opportunity. Has this happened in Switzerland? Would it happ
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by learc83 6y ago
Poor people spend money faster than wealthy people. Taxing wealth (up to some unknown limit) and redistributing it increases the income velocity of money--speeding economic growth.
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by learc83 6y ago
What do you mean "consume the capital". What do you think happens to the money that consumers spend?
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by learc83 6y ago
Sure and if you impose a tax a national level instead of a state (or EU member country) the diminishing returns for increased taxation occur at a higher rate because it's much harder to move to a new country than it is to move to a new
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by learc83 6y ago
1. The French income tax and wealth tax was extraordinary high. 2. France is part of the EU, there are dozens of countries that French millionaires can move to with almost zero friction. Moving to neighboring Belgium is like moving from New

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