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by mikem170 3y ago
How much rent seeking and regulatory capture that goes on is enabled by modern finance? What about bailouts for financial institutions that are too big to fail - the idea of privatizing the profits and socializing the losses? Real wages are
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How big a deal is harmonizing things across state lines? If no federal constitutional dictates are being violated does harmonization just amount to a convenience for big companies, at the expense of local self rule as per the constitution?
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> Look how much hatred there is for Neuralink. A company actually trying to productize and bring to market a device that will allow quadriplegic people to move and walk again People are wary of Neuralink because of how big tech manipulat
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I brought up covid in animals because the original poster mentioned the elimination of covid in the context of lockdowns. The fact that covid can move between animal and human populations would seem to mean that lockdowns for the purpose of
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Agreed. There's a lot of animals that can catch and spread covid [0]: > many if not most mammalian ACE-2 receptors are susceptible > the virus has gone from humans to the animals and back again to human > found signs of antibo
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How do you know that you're not missing out on an even better deal? If amazon had real competition maybe they would not have raised seller fees so much, and would not have prevented sellers from allowing lower prices in other places. S
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California seems to be forcing zoning changes onto cities that have not allowed enough new housing to be built (things like expediting approvals for allowed development, also allowing R3 to replace R1). I assume that their politicians were
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Owners are supposed to make up the difference if tipped employee federal minimum wage plus tips ($2.13/hour + tips) is less than the regular federal minimum wage ($7.25/hour). So that means the first $5.12 of tips each hour goes i
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Right. I just didn't see the significance of his fitting a specific definition of whistleblower. Most of the article was discussing the illegal secret data collection he exposed and the worldwide response to those revelations in the te
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fyi, there might be an Onstar fuse you can pull. My owners manual had a diagram and list of all the fuses.
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> When you make the choice to become a whistleblower, you are making the decision that the information you have is more important than your personal freedoms. So it's wrong to expose a corrupt government without becoming a martyr? I
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A lot of people refer to him as a whistleblower because he exposed what the NSA was doing. A lot of people consider this a public good. Your definition of whisleblower seems to be closer to a government bureaucrat's definition. I'
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Tell that to the Republicans who want a federal ban. p.s. It's a shame when so many people loose the right to their own bodies, despite the 13th amendment.
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> When assessed individually, there was positive – if limited – evidence of transmission reduction from many of the NPIs used in the pandemic, the review found. However, evidence of a positive effect was clear when countries used combina
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I forgot dual income families. That's huge. There's a lot of people in that situation. If they have the money for kids, they don't have the time.
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I agree with what you said about the birth rate. That's a legitimate concern. A society that can't sustain itself over time is not a successful society. But maybe weed/booze/porn/etc are symptoms of a problem, and n
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I guess we could make a distinction between tracking covid deaths, covid hospitalizations and covid infections. It seems to have become a lot less practical to track infections, at any level. People substituted take-home tests for the more
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> The virus is mutating but it is also losing its lethal nature. In one of the first articles I read on covid, in Feb 2020, the experts stated that they expected this to become endemic, either like the other common cold coronaviruses, or
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Do you think we need a national number? In the past the virus seemed to come and go depending on localities smaller than the entire country, i.e. Florida in the summer, NY in the winter, etc. Also much of the mitigations were applied at the
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by mikem170 3y ago
I think there may be a disconnect in this conversation around a couple of points: 1) different views around misinformation about things like natural food are not a big deal, and 2) political misinformation has become a big deal You rightful
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You just listed some bad andecdotes. A half empty glass. What about contrary data? What about all the people living paycheck to paycheck who just lost their job? What about people fleeing a bad domestic situation? What about the single mom
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Before 9/11 we were told to fear the U.S.S.R., right up until the day they fell apart. Then there was global warming, crime, terrorists, immigrants, trans people, and who knows what next. They always want to keep us afraid, it seems. I
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> I'd be much more trusting of democracy or even representative democracy if the demos had a real say The Swiss do a much better job of this! There the people can petition for a referendum to add or delete any law or amend the const
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Routing algorithms are tunable. Especially BGP, which is what is used to route between internet carrier companies, technically known as "autonomous systems". BGP by default prefers the path going through the least number of auton
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> It's a lot easier to have your diverse group 'transmit' in the way they each prefer Your post was thought provoking, something I appreciate. I wondered about the above statement. Are you saying that "receivers"
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Conventional wisdom is that declining birth rates are correlated with industrialization, urbanization and contraception. This has been a pattern for a while, across many populations [0]. Children in a rural agricultural society are free lab
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The post I replied to said that if the world had adopted city wide lockdowns covid "would have been eliminated from the planet entirely". I objected that this doesn't account for covid in animal populations. Your reply mentio
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> city wide lockdowns ... If the whole world had adopted this strategy, covid would have been eliminated from the planet entirely. Did you know that covid can infect many other mammals? Here's a summary of the science on this: [0] &
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That's a neat idea. Too often miscreants face no consequences worse than being suspended for a while, with pay. Something needs to change with Internal Affairs, also. Local police departments are often investigating themselves, with pr
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Haven't you seen the large housing developments in the U.S., all single family homes, hundreds of them, under an HOA, with no other types of housing nor any kind of businesses allowed in the HOA controlled development? [0] [1] I'v

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