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by pravda 8y ago
Why would the price be any lower? If it costs $12.53 to manufacture an EpiPen equivalent, and the market price of the EpiPen is $300, it would make no sense to sell it for any price other then $300.
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by pravda 8y ago
>What those high fees really come from is the need to cover the cost of all those rewards programs You've swapped cause and effect here. It's the other way around. High fees lead to rewards programs.
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by pravda 8y ago
Duopoly? To paraphrase the late Gore Vidal, "We have one political party, the property party, with two wings." Here's the full quote: “There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party … and it has two right wi
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by pravda 8y ago
Gosh, I like Google+ Am I the only one?
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by pravda 8y ago
Chomsky gives some clues: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2-nLuUrdJQ
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by pravda 8y ago
I love my Roombas. A better job then manual sweeping and they get under the bed. Can't say how they work on carpet, but for wood flooring, they are most excellent!
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by pravda 8y ago
The Chinese have gotten much better with the Oral B toothbrush head counterfeits. I bought some on eBay, advertised as genuine but not. The packaging was near perfect. The only thing that gave them away was the different mouth-feel and tw
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by pravda 8y ago
Gosh, I love the self-checkouts. Always use them. I avoid supermarkets that don't have them!
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by pravda 8y ago
>Just look at the situation in NYC with ride-sharing and all the taxi driver suicides. To clarify this, it is not 'taxi driver' suicides, it is suicides by medallion investors. Most drivers do not own medallions. http:/&#
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by pravda 8y ago
I just got my first batch from https://www.daysoft.com/ $18 shipped for 64 lenses. Got to USA very fast. No prescription required.
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by pravda 8y ago
Ophthalmologists need money! Believe it or not, it used to be illegal (in certain US states) to purchase reading glasses 'over the counter'. That's right, reading glasses were by prescription only.
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by pravda 8y ago
The United States does plenty of subsidizing, through the "Pentagon System". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSJjlaggbK0 http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Chomsky/PentagonSystem_Cho...
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by pravda 8y ago
I don't get it. Isn't rubberized case a far better solution? Smaller, lighter, and fewer moving parts.
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by pravda 8y ago
I have some troubles with colloquialisms. I was abroad in the UK, and I need a bag to go around my waist. So I asked for a fanny pack at the local Tesco. The saleslady started giggling. This is joke?
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by pravda 8y ago
Well, you've found some propaganda! Here's a great quote: “It just adds insult to injury to watch our postal rates continue to climb while China is being given a free ride to siphon all this money out of our economy,” Lemme get th
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by pravda 8y ago
>about 1 in 4 of my purchases from China will never arrive. What country you in? For me (in USA), the non-arrival rate is well under 1%. >Canada and USA postal systems bear the brunt of the costs of "free" delivery. That ma
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by pravda 8y ago
HF gives these away for free sometimes: https://www.harborfreight.com/multipurpose-scissors-47877.ht... I have many pairs -- they work fine for most ordinary tasks.
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by pravda 8y ago
>Companies and government agencies generally don't prefund retirement healthcare benefits to 100%. So? Shouldn't all retirement healthcare benefits be prefunded? It makes no sense not to do so.
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by pravda 8y ago
> onerous regulations (retirement prefunding requirements, etc.) that have drastically impaired the USPS. Onerous regulations? They are just being asked to act like every other company. If you want to offer pensions, fine, but you have
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by pravda 8y ago
No...but it is a little confusing. Ok, there is a woman Lindsey Middlecamp, who has a twitter account [1], where she 'calls out' men overly concerned about womenfolk not dressing chastely enough. Here's a fun tweet: https:&#
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by pravda 8y ago
Sounds like the PR firm for the hotel industry has been busy!
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by pravda 8y ago
>The rising labor force participation of women has been a major factor in total productivity growth. Source? Doubling the labor force has certainly been great for keeping wages down. Good for corporations, not so good for workers.
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by pravda 8y ago
This shows a great wisdom. The Chinese culture is an ancient culture and we have a lot to learn from them, if we can see beyond our arrogance.
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by pravda 9y ago
>A single dental implant from end to end in the US is usually in the $4,000 to $5,000 range. Huh? It is much cheaper then that. About half that.
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by pravda 9y ago
>the content creators, and it's now killing journalism. Nah. What has happened is that newspapers have lost their monopoly. In most markets, there was one newspaper and that newspaper could charge advertisers far in excess of their
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by pravda 9y ago
That's because the OP is clueless. :-( DON'T use lead-free solder, unless forced to. Lead-free solder is a nightmare. Use leaded 63/37 solder, although 60/40 is fine.
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by pravda 9y ago
>I recently had a plumber come in to look at my leaking toilet tank flush. If you go to 'youtube' and search for 'leaking toilet valve' you can find a video documenting how to repair a leaking toilet. https:/&#x
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by pravda 9y ago
Well, there is theory, and there is real world. In the real world, reductions in debit card fees (in the USA, via the Durbin Amendment) have not lead to lowered prices, just increased profits. [1] This explains why merchants care about proc
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by pravda 9y ago
>higher costs for merchants gets passed to consumers? This is a common misconception. These fees come out of merchant profits. Otherwise, merchants would not care.
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by pravda 9y ago
Well, it wasn't really "them". It was General Motors, and Firestone Tires, and the oil companies. [1] In other words, giant corporate interests working together to shape the country in the way that benefited them. "What&

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