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by mint2 3y ago
“In a place where claims will absolutely be filed” Insurance isn’t supposed to work like that - there isn’t a way these houses can be covered at a reasonable rate without forcing other customers to subsidize them.
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by mint2 3y ago
A major factor is missing - lack of competition due to decades of unrestrained mergers allowed large price increase sending corporate profits to record levels
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by mint2 3y ago
I cancelled Amazon prime a couple years ago and ran into the same issue. It was absurd frankly. I went through the cancellation process got a cancellation confirmation email and then still got billed at the end of the month. I called and th
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by mint2 3y ago
Poor people are harmed by the loopholes not the inherent principles, so instead of fixing the loopholes the proposal is to move a plan that inherently hurts poor people, no loop holes needed. Wow what a great plan.
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by mint2 3y ago
So enact a hugely regressive tax that hits poor people the hardest as a percent of income, while lets rich people accumulate obscene wealth tax free? That’s what funding everything with sales tax does.
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by mint2 3y ago
Except they have a documented paper trail showing illegal book repos were used in training
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by mint2 3y ago
Great now the janitor has to become an expert in finance.
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by mint2 3y ago
Hallelujah cry the internet trolls! Who now are allowed to post rude and vile comments provided they might be true! Downvoting their perceived rudeness would be wrong. No wait. Nope, that’s not how it works. Downvoting for rudeness, incivil
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by mint2 3y ago
Except a big part of downvoting has nothing to do with the truth of a statement - yes factual inaccuracies and misinformation will be downvoted but that’s just scratching the surface. If people are rude or posting something completely unhel
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by mint2 3y ago
Relevant history? “ However, the neighborhood faced decline during the Depression and post-WWII period. In the 1960s, the district became a haven for hippies due to the availability of cheap rooms and vacant properties, turning it into a ce
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by mint2 3y ago
Interesting, that’s not typical product though
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by mint2 3y ago
I’m sure non-us programmers will welcome the relaxed visa requirements and companies will gladly pay them 1/2 the current market rates. Or are only construction jobs being opened up like that?
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by mint2 3y ago
This sounds like a feel good historical take, not a recent change. And as the largest retail banks offer zero interest, it doesn’t quite mesh with that narrative.
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by mint2 3y ago
I think your experience is due to the effects of what’s cited in the comment - college has lost it’s way and been taken over by economics and metrics rather than learning.
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by mint2 3y ago
I’ve been curious what happens if a very red ball is suspended in front of rectangular cardboard about 7 ft up. No person would mistake it for a signal, but what about these “self driving” cars?
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by mint2 3y ago
Okay you disagree, I get it. But refrain from unctuous condescension. I have never claimed to be infallible or omniscient so please stop painting it as if I have.
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by mint2 3y ago
An ancestral mount Shasta in California collapsed sending a debris flow 28 miles covering something like 675sq km
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by mint2 3y ago
Parking requirements are a big reason
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by mint2 3y ago
Obviously having immediate needs to deal with leaves less time for news and similar. Immediate needs generally come before abstract long term plans.
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by mint2 3y ago
People have to spend their time somehow - reading news seems likely more valuable than watching sports, arguing on the internet, gambling, watching cat videos, or playing cell phone games. All those are common time sinks for people. Seems o
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by mint2 3y ago
>” That doesn't mean that the people paying them to do the job see it the same way.” Blood letting as a medieval standard practice to cure diseases was a valuable job per these definitions. If value is redefined as anything that any
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by mint2 3y ago
“ >> Ok technically it helps one incompetent person in the cto’s office who rose beyond their competency level feel important. > Sounds like it is providing value to someone then?” That conclusion nicely shows the quality of these
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by mint2 3y ago
All those places seem far off and distant to a lot of people… just “noise”. In all of those cases those things dismissed as noise were the sounds of millions of peoples lives being torn apart. But yes far away and distant - oh unless one’s
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by mint2 3y ago
Reading news doesn’t have to make one anxious. There’s also countless times when lack of knowledge makes on life far harder than it needs to be. I doubt a mind will be changed by reading that warning. But one can try. And collective action
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by mint2 3y ago
Surveys show that vast number of people are working what they believe to be pointless jobs - and yes it makes them unhappy. So no, people do not need to be creating value to be paid. And of those who think their jobs aren’t pointless, still
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by mint2 3y ago
Well the bay bridge toll is $7 heading to sf, and the trip probably costs over $3 of wear + fuel for the vehicle
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by mint2 3y ago
That is the crux of it. He was driving, the point is despite the name the car is not self driving nor an auto pilot as in automating the driver It’s actually a glorified cruise control. Would One say a driver isn’t driving because they had
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by mint2 3y ago
coincidentally we have a lot of diseases that have skyrocketed in the last 50 years. Yes Perhaps it’s not plastic itself but what plastic enables.
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by mint2 3y ago
Many dental flosses are literally strands of ptfe and some studies correlate using them with higher blood concentrations of pfas. Many “compostable” paper food and drink containers are lined with a ptfe film, which does get into the food. O
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by mint2 3y ago
Now consider that If the next election goes one way and there’s some judge turn over, they’ll revisit it and it will be 5-4 overturning this ruling.

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