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by r_smart 10y ago
This is the big elephant in the room that I don't see many people talking about. All of those social programs are set up with a huge assumption of exponential population growth. When that doesn't happen, they risk collapse. You c
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Agreed! There are bad businesses making bad decisions all the time. Just waiting for someone to come eat their lunch. But we sort of shelter them from those consequences. My only disagreement with you is that I'm happy for a bad busine
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I have no idea. At the time this idea didn't really occur to me. It sort of crystallized as I gained more experience. Hopefully some of them are on here, listening :)
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On topic: $40k seems pretty decent for an operator, though with training. Off topic: I'm still new to WH40k (started running a Rogue Trader game), but my impression is that the tech ignorance was a mixture of a psuedo-religious cult se
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by r_smart 10y ago
Well, I'm not going to force you, so feel free to abstain. Personally I like listening to all kinds of people and in different contexts. I found it interesting, and was recommending it to someone else who seemed to be in the same boat.
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This is an interesting point. I used to have one of these blue collar jobs (several actually), and you're pretty spot on. In addition to the disdain for this kind of work, there seems to have also been a shift to an idea of wanting to
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In which case the minimum wage is unnecessary. I had one of these button pushing jobs (well it was more complicated than that, but still not demanding), and was paid well above minimum wage.
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It's amazing how blind businesses seem to be to this. I remember a recruiter talking to my class of engineers, making this same complaints about millenials, and how selfish they are in regards to their relationship to their employers.
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To me, OP's comment is always a 'Put your money where your mouth is' kind of thing. Think there are too many people and some need to die off horribly? Step right up. I won't even be upset if you choose a more pleasant me
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>I have found that most people make horrid moral decisions when it comes to money/career. They go into this weird denial, or fall back on, "Hay--it's legal!" I was just having a discussion with someone last night who
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He did a podcast episode on the Milo Yianoupoullis (I tried okay) podcast. It was...interesting. Like you said, some of it makes sense, some of it is out there. Was really engaging to listen to though.
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>We can do the math if we want. Perhaps it will take 50% of the Military budget. Perhaps people earning more than 50k will need to pay a new tax that is more or less equal to what they currently pay in health insurance premiums. The math
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Please stop saying free. It's not free. Also, iteration and government intervention don't really mix, as has been pointed out.
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This is a hugely important point that people seem to miss. The US government is huge and frequently gets things wrong, and when they do, it's a political failure to admit it later. Furthermore, there's no real punishment for anyon
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Firstly, the US is different, and the way it would get structured would be different. Second, what evidence do you have that it would be cheaper in those countries than if they were using a private medical system? Are there numbers from bef
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That's the nationalization I was referring to earlier. Also, government workers are rarely held to a high standard and rarely fired, so why you think that's going to happen with healthcare when it doesn't happen anywhere else
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This is pretty spot on. I honestly don't remember the legal immigration numbers off the top of my head, I think it's something like a million, certainly hundreds of thousands a year, and as you point out, illegal immigration numbe
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If we're already spending that money on healthcare as it is, how are you going to take it and spend it on healthcare and have it be less money? And why do you think that expanding that program to cover everyone in the country is going
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Milton Friedman has some interesting points about welfare programs and how they interact with immigration. Particulary, that you can have massive unchecked immigration, or extensive welfare programs, but the two don't interact well. Th
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Oh, I agree with you and the classification of marijuana is a great example. The government line on that seems totally divorced from reality, even if it is to remain illegal.
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I agree with you. The NHS is fantastic (so far as I know). But I'm talking about the US and how things work here. I just don't think it would work out.
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There's no free lunch. If the government is paying for it, it's not free of charge. And in this country, there's a long record of exponential price costs when the government is the customer. Our premiums would go up, they&#x2
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The sheer amount of bullshit that gets peddled by charlatans and hucksters is the very reason people don't trust anecdotal evidence around here. Or individual testimony. Look at any scam product, how its claims are supported and compar
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The US constitution recognizes rights that are inherent to people and enumerates them in the Bill of Rights. The Bill of Rights does not grant the rights within it, it merely recognizes them. Theoretically, the government has no authority t
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Thanks for the link. Cool to see that they're making progress getting it going on ARM.
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That sounds like it might have been the case. I probably got annoyed and just did it a different way. I'm not really sure though. It's one of those things where it happened awhile ago and made an impression on me, but the details
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Huh, that's an interesting take on things. I liked the newer versions because most gamers I've played with (and on the internet) seem to struggle with how to use THAC0. So being able to tell them roll as high as possible was nice,
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Hmmmm...I don't remember what I was thinking then. I remember wanting to use something more typically low level, like bit shifting, and it either being way too much hassle or not supported. Either way, thanks for the correction.
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That's what I was thinking. Nevermind not having things like bit shifting, python can't even run on most micros, because there's no interpreter for them. Micro-python is a thing that exists, but hasn't expanded yet and i
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Shouting Fire in a theater is a nonsense example used in a horrible ruling on the first amendment. [0] [0]: https://popehat.com/2012/09/19/three-generations-of-a-hackne...

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