mikem170

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by mikem170 6y ago
That makes sense. And above-ground tracks also make sense as some other replies mentioned, less capital costs. Maybe driver-less buses would be a new sweet spot? Maintain detailed road maps for the driving software instead of tracks?
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by mikem170 6y ago
I grew up in a midwest rust-belt city, and traffic wasn't crazy, and still isn't, even in the suburbs. Probably because the population is still rebounding. I'm in Florida now, and most of Florida is horrible. Sprawl on top of
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by mikem170 6y ago
Aren't buses better then subways for most places, given their lower costs and greater flexibility? Isn't this true for most of Europe, also? Or does the typical mid-sized city in Europe have subways like London, Paris, and NYC?
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by mikem170 6y ago
It sounds like you are biased, in favor of the U.S., and discounting Iranian interests.
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I did some more reading on this, and found various fuzzy and confounding factors. I have to admit that much of it might boil down to "winners get to write history". For example, whoever won their civil war was going to end up bein
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by mikem170 6y ago
> politician with the balls I wish that these decisions wouldn't need to be deferred to politicians. So many of them are selfish idiots. I'd more trust the vote of relevant medical specialists. I'd rather that these specia
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by mikem170 6y ago
> we basically have NO DATA on single dose schedules for Moderna/Pfizer vaccines I wonder if anything can be deduced given knowledge of the mechanisms these vaccines use compared to other vaccines against other viruses. I know there
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by mikem170 6y ago
Some of the ride cost is VC subsidy. Some of the ride expense is Uber corporate (thousands of programmers, pay for officers, managers, building rent, etc). Do we know which is greater? Maybe there is room for an app with low overhead to com
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by mikem170 6y ago
The Chinese don't like Mao because of the Great leap Forward, they like him because he led a peasant revolution and kicked the foreigners out of China, after decades of national humiliation. We supported Chaing Kai-shek. He lost, retre
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by mikem170 6y ago
Ok, there could be multiple problems. One problem with health care in the U.S. is that prices are hidden from the customers. That interferes with a free market. Tax regulations incentivized tying health care to employment and Obamacare maki
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by mikem170 6y ago
I'm a little fuzzy, also. I assume anachists would not be in favor of a law like Obamacare because it was imposed on the 49% of the population who were strongly against it. I would assume acarcho-capitalists would have the same conclus
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by mikem170 6y ago
Agreed. I'd add that most regulations are designed by career politicians and corporate lobbyists. It's too bad the people aren't empowered to design these regulations amongst ourselves.
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I've always thought that their algorithms are the biggest problems - when someone else gets to choose what you see. (That's also why I think it's far to go after their common carrier status if they do this.) It would be bette
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by mikem170 6y ago
Aren't anarchists different than leftists? I don't think an anarchist would support Obamacare, given that it forces people to pay/join.
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Lack of trust.
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I read that is what the Japanese did from the start (backwards tracing), and it worked well at the time. Something like the 80/20 rule was mentioned, that a minority of infected people were responsible for the majority of the spread.
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by mikem170 6y ago
I wouldn't argue that rates wouldn't go up. We might not agree on how much. For example, would jubilee in 20 years have an affect on a 5 year car loan? As far as homes go, maybe we'd just do home loans like the Canadians do,
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by mikem170 6y ago
I wonder if it would work more like Canadian mortgages, that are renewed every five years. Or maybe like in other countries, the price of housing would decrease to a three year loan instead of thirty.
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by mikem170 6y ago
If the debt forgiveness event is scheduled well in advance (and I believe that's how these things worked) why do interest rates need to change drastically? Lenders would just need to be sure that loans are structured so that they are r
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by mikem170 6y ago
It can reset on a schedule. Everybody knows it's coming. It ensures that debt's don't grow so much that they warp other aspects of the economy. I believe it was done in the past to avoid the large scale virtual enslavement of
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by mikem170 6y ago
The idea of a debt jubilee does not wipe out corporations, it wipes out current outstanding debts only. The idea would be that nobody would loan corporations so much money that they wouldn't be able to pay it back before the debt is wi
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by mikem170 6y ago
I'm not sure what you're thinking of when you say a "societal reset". I've heard of this as debt forgiveness. No other property is interfered with. I believe it acts as a limit on how carried away, or long term entr
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by mikem170 6y ago
There are other and more recent precedents for this - all debt periodically being forgiven. Graeber mentions this in is book "Debt: The First 5000 Years". Everybody knows it is coming, so the market works around it. I imagine it
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by mikem170 6y ago
>Is there a browser that pretends to accepts all cookies but never saves them? I use the Temporary Containers extension in Firefox, and I think that comes pretty close. Every tab can hive its own cookies, separate from all other tabs, wh
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by mikem170 6y ago
> Facebook has direct competitors that can overtake them in just a few years >Instagram was made by a few python coders in months. This shows how easy it is to make a product that competes with Facebook Then why did Facebook buy Insta
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by mikem170 6y ago
I think it was a bit more than what you describe, based on what the former chair of the DNC, Donna Brazile, wrote in her book: “The agreement — signed by Amy Dacey, the former CEO of the DNC, and [Clinton campaign manager] Robby Mook with a
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by mikem170 6y ago
I don't understand, I thought that was the biggest surprise out of that trove of emails? It was a surprise to me, anyways. "The leaks resulted in allegations of bias against Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign, in apparent
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by mikem170 6y ago
Could this be a scaling problem? Governments continue to get bigger, with more power concentrated at the top. The president being the prime example, an office that was originally intended to be the top cop become an office invested with the
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I acknowledge that the Russians were, are, and will continue to interfere in elections. Our federal government is the most powerful country in the world, everyone domestically and internationally want a piece of that - corporations, countri
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by mikem170 6y ago
What happens when the social contract goes a bit off the rails, perhaps warped by those with power and influence? I guess these things don't last forever, because we don't live in a perfect world, right? Maybe sometimes people fig

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