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by nijk 13y ago
Of you think the debate has only two major sides, you never understand it.
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by nijk 13y ago
When those young people get old, they will have paid their fair share. The transition is of relatively minor importance.
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by nijk 13y ago
When an insurance company goes banktrupt, the owners don't suffer. The customers suffer.
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by nijk 13y ago
So it is mandatory for residents of 49 states.
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by nijk 13y ago
Insurance is fundamentally a group activity --it is a shared risk pool. There is no such thing as individual insurance. The question is how groups are formed. Currently, US does it around business units. UK does nationwide. Somalia does ind
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by nijk 13y ago
One issue is that the govt can relativelt easily ban you from driving without insurance. banning you from existing without health insurance is harder. ACA oa trying, though (by forcing coverage, not by killing people)
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by nijk 13y ago
Interstate immigration guarantees is a factor against single-statd healthcare.
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by nijk 13y ago
Huh? There are no private-access-only ERs, so none to compare against medicare. Most ER waiting patients are there because they don't have primary or urgent care.
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by nijk 13y ago
That is a fancy way of saying "we don't like to share". There is no matchingincrease in charitable giving when tax burden changes suddenly.
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by nijk 13y ago
From then linked devblog: "a disparity between the actual value of the item on the market and the average price we use to calculate LP." Seems a rather newb mistake to come out off a company that has full time professional economists on sta
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by nijk 13y ago
Amazing that 74.1% is not considered controlling ownership in German law.
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by nijk 13y ago
Stealing is wealth transfer, not wealth destruction. And it wouldn't be anonymous, so it could be investigated and relatiated. The same argument applies to bank robberies.
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by nijk 13y ago
This already happened in he 0.8 fork
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by nijk 13y ago
WSJ is a mediocre paper. WSJ OpEd is editorially a separate paper, and famously insane.
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by nijk 13y ago
Wasted opportunity! Open source it, and send everyone a link. Including the professor.
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by nijk 13y ago
Highest compliment I ever got from a teacher: "You got then highest score of everyone who didn't cheat." I think that knowing that he knew that they cheated and I didn't, that meant something that lasted more than that the artificial confin
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by nijk 13y ago
If the host were not an American company, perhaps. Not all news is world news, though
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by nijk 13y ago
Haha: "Students, to pass this class, analyze submissions in MATLAB, and write a report implicating the copiers."
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by nijk 13y ago
The trivial solution to homewt cheating is to stop the worthless practice of assigning and grading duplicate homework. Assign unique projects, or don't grade mass homework, so incentives don't get misaligned.
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by nijk 13y ago
You seem to be saying you had graded (with grades that went somewhere on a transcript that matterd) problem sets in grad school. That is a rather antiquated concept, even for undergrad..
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by nijk 13y ago
You school didn't have study groups with Americans?
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by nijk 13y ago
There about two features that matter in consumer mail: storage quota, multi-location/mobile availability (not a fixed single client machine), and spam.
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by nijk 13y ago
http://www.google.com/ig/directory Ozumandius was never shut down, it was left up in ruins.
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by nijk 13y ago
Seems more like a Doodle (homage to OS X and its dock) then a product that lived for one day. Although the March 15 2005 date was a bit off any OS X anniversary I knowm
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by nijk 13y ago
Why should they go above and beyond for free?
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by nijk 13y ago
Or it is twice a year company wide review and financial planning, not major product decisions driven by temporary employees. I love how people say Google is awful because it is a corporate hell where engineers have no autonomy, and then cla
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by nijk 13y ago
No, the site fails on Android. Layout is broken and rendering is choppy.
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by nijk 13y ago
Wow, kids. In my day it was QBasic or GWBasic.
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by nijk 13y ago
They are anonymized after 18 months, unless you have Web History enabled. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/02/how-remove-your-google...
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by nijk 13y ago
> the drug dealers that the Cadillac was designed for Um. This article seems more about rich geeks' love of sports cars, and telling themselves that their ostentatious toys are a reflection of refined sense and not of being nouveaux ric

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