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by pedroma 5y ago
This narrative is overblown and parroted by the uninformed. We do have Medicaid for low income families, and Medicare for seniors. The problem is you have to apply for it. Maybe people should be automatically enrolled.
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by pedroma 5y ago
You're right that this is a matter of personal philosophy. I view it as an optimization problem. Given a set number of tax dollars collected, everyone wants a piece of it. I don't trust people to allocate these correctly. The alte
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by pedroma 5y ago
What's your suggestion for changes to our god awful prison system then? Or might you even be okay with it?
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by pedroma 5y ago
>As for forcing people to work so they are not a burden on society - that's just slavery with extra steps. But oh wait, I forgot that US still does that. Nevermind then. This is just a difference in our morality I guess. I don'
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by pedroma 5y ago
>How would this work for e.g. Montana with seemingly-endless lengths of highway and a very low population density? Why would they need nice roads then? Seems like a waste of money to build a bunch of expensive roads for the 5,000 people
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by pedroma 5y ago
The new evidence is hardly novel. The lab leak theory was always a possibility especially since there was no conclusive evidence otherwise. The other theory, that it came from an animal, was never proven either. What we did know from the be
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by pedroma 5y ago
It was always a plausible theory. Why would time change that, especially once it's brought up again with new evidence.
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by pedroma 5y ago
Trump Derangement Sydrome, where one's judgment is clouded by hatred of Donald Trump.
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by pedroma 5y ago
Why should I pay for other people's kids if I'm never going to have kids? The only people that should have to pay for those services are the people who actually use those services. For things that are unplanned like injuries (or e
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by pedroma 5y ago
I use my MBP charger for my iPad and Android phone and it works well. Am I in the minority for doing this? Maybe, but my guess is not.
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by pedroma 5y ago
Maybe this is the joke, but it seems he says that every video.
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by pedroma 5y ago
Finally, those downloaded videos on my phone are coming in handy.
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by pedroma 5y ago
1. Tell someone you own a security 2. They get excited and buy it 3. You sell it when it goes up You can't just classify this set of actions as a pump and dump. You have to do something that is considered a scam, such as grossly misrep
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by pedroma 5y ago
It's not illegal to sell a security after disclosing that you own that security. I don't even have to point to any specific laws, just look at all the websites that talk about stocks operating without any SEC intervention.
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by pedroma 6y ago
Yeah, but trying to do something in our case would have to be a damned convincing to a whole lot of people. Take a wrong step and we might have a much worse capitol insurrection. Personally I don't feel this is worth doing in America a
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by pedroma 6y ago
From a quick Google search (not to be snarky) it seems like they only confiscated about 650,000 guns. There's about 400,000,000 guns in America so I'm not sure how good of an argument that is. In addition, Australia is essentially
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by pedroma 6y ago
There's not much point listing homicide rates when it's so much easier to kill someone in America. What's more interesting are cases of violent crimes. Though considering how much more diverse the United States is, it's
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by pedroma 6y ago
Yeah... about that. If you've found something already, mind posting a link, because I really can't find a good source. By the way, I did mean "violent crime" and not homicides/murders.
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by pedroma 6y ago
Sorry about not being clear, but I really did mean violent crime and not homicides.
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by pedroma 6y ago
America is probably comparable in violent crimes to more racially/religiously/culturally diverse countries in Europe. Like France, or UK. I'm just guessing though.
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by pedroma 6y ago
Dunno how much this affects how much policing is being done: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/mar/07/us-cities-de... But it seems like there are a number of police departments that have less mone
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by pedroma 6y ago
They address this in the blogpost. They claim male investors give more candid feedback to female founders they are familiar with, because they are not worried about the female founder calling them sexist on Twitter.
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by pedroma 6y ago
To be fair to most people, they don't know what any of these terms mean: double-spending, peer-to-peer, distributed server, timestamp, computational proof.
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by pedroma 6y ago
Ah yes, the VSVN logo, truly an icon.
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by pedroma 6y ago
Have you looked into PWAs? Sounds like they'd fit your use case.
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by pedroma 6y ago
There's many reasons why I find it refreshing. Other than anonymity, talking to people who have no incentive to karma-farm is very refreshing. In websites like Reddit/HackerNews, the karma system gamifies posting. You "lose&q
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by pedroma 6y ago
This is why *chan websites have gotten so popular. Being anonymous in everything you post is refreshing. Short of posting illegal content, almost anything goes.
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by pedroma 6y ago
Not the person you're asking, but I've been a Simple user since 2016. When I started, I was diligenty using the savings goals. I had a goal for a car, a house down payment, cell phone upgrade, etc. Eventually as my account and goa
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by pedroma 6y ago
I'm also going to do everything through my brokerage from now on. I realized I didn't use any of the budgeting or goal features anyways. I was using the goals in the beginning, but the rates just kept going down.
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by pedroma 6y ago
There's Gemini, which I prefer to use over Coinbase. There's also Kraken.

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