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by pfisch 8y ago
If no one is priced out and you are operating in the free market then you need to raise your prices. Repeat until you maximize profits.
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by pfisch 8y ago
Sounds good. Lets shut down all private medical research and call it a day then right?
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by pfisch 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Celtic_women
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by pfisch 8y ago
I mean how could it be that old? These scooters are a new thing that are trashed and replaced every 3 months.
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by pfisch 8y ago
Per capita? I’m not so sure about that. Especially in San Francisco.
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by pfisch 8y ago
I’m sort of surprised none of these pissed off city councils have gone after them for illegally dumping hazardous materials. I guess most people here infer that I hate these scooters, but I actually think they are mostly a public good. Just
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by pfisch 8y ago
If someone leaves a couch on the curb and you take it is that stealing? A lot of these bird drops don’t seem regulated at all. I’m not even sure they are really bird’s property anymore. Incidentally when someone just dumps a couch on the cu
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by pfisch 8y ago
"don't directly use fossil fuels" Looks like Maryland uses a significant amount of coal to power their grid, so is this even a good thing?
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by pfisch 8y ago
Literally every other nation isn't captured by the medical/pharmaceutical industry. Our pharma industry is equivalent in size to the sum of every other pharma industry in the top 10 put together. Do any of those other countries ha
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by pfisch 8y ago
The only way the profits could be 0 is if people's salaries are too high. Vet school costs a lot, almost as much as medical school. Yet the procedures are much, much cheaper. Probably because vets are paid half as much or less than doc
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by pfisch 8y ago
>A centralized system has a better way of tracking this. If everybody involved with the health care system is working for a government salary, and everybody who sells equipment is selling it to the government, then we know who is getting
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by pfisch 8y ago
Government's have power to reign in industries until those industries get too large and entrench themselves within the government. Look at the biggest industries in any free country and you can see it replay over and over again around
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by pfisch 8y ago
Here is the main problem with this line of reasoning. Canada is not captured by a huge pharma/medical industry like the US is. If we do this we will have even less recourse and there will be even less accountability when regulatory cap
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by pfisch 8y ago
Why should we have to figure this shit out for them at all!? This procedure costs $x because it is the oecd average cost and that is the end of the discussion. It is on them to fight over their slices of the pie with each other. They don&#x
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by pfisch 8y ago
So you think if we take all these smaller insurance companies and combine them into one large entity that will fix our overpricing problems? It seems like we will have even less recourse and there will be even less accountability when regul
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by pfisch 8y ago
Procedures can't cost more than the average cost of the same procedure across similar oecd countries. We pop the corruption bubble and all fights about insurance costs would just disappear because in reality the reason they are so high
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by pfisch 8y ago
Yes, as long as it is one step in the breakup of lots of other monopolies/conglomerates and not just politically motivated targeting.
528.
by pfisch 8y ago
The internet and amazon displaced the old business models with e-commerce. Bitcoin could do that with money/gold. This is similar to train->car.
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by pfisch 8y ago
They eat coal/gasoline which is probably more expensive. Also they worked on almost no terrain at all compared to horses and constantly broke down. The only reason they would even make sense to pursue would be because of how successful
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by pfisch 8y ago
Addictive in the way any form of entertainment can be I guess. It isn’t physically addictive.
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by pfisch 8y ago
The problem is that it was wreckless and unpredictable. How can you trust someone with your money when they are behaving in a way that is unpredictable and careless.
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by pfisch 8y ago
I don't really see why this is a conspiratorial hypotheses. The goal of youtube is to keep you on youtube watching videos with ads. That is what they are trying to do, and it happens to coincide with pushing extreme content as an uni
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by pfisch 8y ago
Honestly, this sort of seems fine as long as they covered winners. It doesn't actually matter from a black box standpoint who took their bets as long as they were given the proper outcomes. It isn't any different from running a ca
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by pfisch 8y ago
Where is the startup that creates mods for these scooters so they operate for free? Or the startup that opens a chop shop for disassembling all these abandoned scooters and sells the parts? Seriously though these scooter permits sound corru
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by pfisch 8y ago
This whole idea of taxing future earnings is like one step away from indentured servitude.
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by pfisch 8y ago
That would cause a crazy economic implosion in the education sector. Anything like that would need to be done very gradually or else there would be massive layoffs at every university all at once.
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by pfisch 8y ago
I don’t see why that bubble was different than the previous crypto bubbles.
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by pfisch 8y ago
You dispute the transaction and always win.
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by pfisch 8y ago
I mean he already made like 1000 mistakes, but he really should've driven to mexico and flown out of there.
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by pfisch 8y ago
It is naive/lacking common sense to think always being honest is smart.

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