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by rbg246 7y ago
It does work. https://www.who.int/fctc/text_download/en/ Try to gather evidence to pursue your claims
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by rbg246 7y ago
Absolutely, there are many reasons for decreasing smoking rates, it's a combination of strategies that have seen the decrease but one of those is increasing the price.
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by rbg246 7y ago
The point of the gory death warnings is to stop new smokers from starting, to making smoking as unattractive as possible. Smokers become desensitised to the warnings really quickly from looking at them every time they smoke.
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by rbg246 7y ago
Increasing prices has (surprisingly, give it's price inelasticity) worked in decreasing smoking rates. Here is the evidence of the public health meaures: https://www.health.gov.au/internet/publications/publish
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by rbg246 7y ago
I thought the opposite from outside the US - I thought the US lambasted (rightfully) BP which caused BP to almost go out of business - they had asset sales at the time to pay for the costs. There were pension liquidity fears at the time due
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by rbg246 7y ago
That would seem to indicate that Americans who want to do STEM courses cannot currently do them? That doesn't sound right to me.
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by rbg246 8y ago
In my reading of the reports, they have stated what is known of the investigation, not promised anything.
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by rbg246 8y ago
I don't see any problem with a government who is freely elected enacting laws that disallow hate speech. To assist with balancing these rights and restrictions there is an independent judiciary and court system that moderates these law
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by rbg246 8y ago
I think it's one of the big myths of working in a private company that somehow it's super-efficient, that there are major opportunities for success by default. I've worked at plenty of companies which had huge inefficiencies
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by rbg246 8y ago
Sleep science says this is a terrible idea
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by rbg246 8y ago
If it aligned with their national interests, yes and generally US and Australian interests do align
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by rbg246 8y ago
Australia is part of ANZUS, which means if China attacked Australia, the US would be obligated to intervene https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANZUS
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by rbg246 8y ago
Schedule them at lunch, do them before work, have a doctor's appointment to go to, there are a multitude of excuses you can give. It's business, they aren't your friends, you don't need to tell them the whole truth.
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by rbg246 8y ago
This argument relies on that it is impossible to stop rich people from successfully evading tax. I find it hard to believe in the age of tracking that we live in now that banks and consumer transactions that it wouldn't be hard to impl
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by rbg246 8y ago
The major problem is that it will take twenty years to build a power station - look at Hinkley Point Power station https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinkley_Point_C_nuclear_power_...
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by rbg246 8y ago
I don't think he is being rude, he is just ridiculing the stupidity of it all - whereas in your short comment you made 2 ad hominem comments
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by rbg246 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Bologna Maybe ask the question how many of the current departments were in existence in 1088. I would say none of the below were there in 1088 - i would say only theology exi
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by rbg246 8y ago
I don't know where you live but schools barely existed in the 1500s. I've been thoroughly impressed with both the public school systems in UK and Australia where my son has gone. They are greatly evolved places of learning even th
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by rbg246 8y ago
From my reading of Brexit it appears that there are a lot of elites on both sides of the fight... Just seems to me that one side of elites has co-opted the non-elites more effectively on this occasion.
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by rbg246 8y ago
Thank you I really enjoyed reading your comment! Sounds like quite the programming adventure.
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by rbg246 8y ago
It's ok, I am the one who is quite happy to pick up the odds and ends and make a loose bunch
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by rbg246 8y ago
Because the difference is, US doesn't say that China and Cuba are it's allies, it gives active assistance to the Saudis to continue their regime
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by rbg246 8y ago
OK I see, thank you. Your original comment made the blanket statement that the law applies equally to all citizens in western democracies. Make all the statements you want saying that western democracies have a better rule of law than C
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by rbg246 8y ago
I cannot tell whether this is being said with a straight face.
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by rbg246 8y ago
Not sure how you are a self-entitled jerk to note that your parents give you their good and their bad qualities.
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by rbg246 8y ago
Couldn't see from her wikipedia page where she gained her doctorate?
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by rbg246 8y ago
This is not an example of virtue signalling. YC invest their own money and so it is their cost. The applicants applied to a program where they knew the rules. Because it's their money they make the rules. And I reckon, they believe the
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by rbg246 8y ago
It has been pretty plain to see that relying on individual companies to raise minimum wages has failed and that companies see no need to increase wages from their myopic perspective. A country knows what their bottom line can make good deci
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by rbg246 8y ago
Agreed
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by rbg246 8y ago
I have a feeling it was not explained deliberately so that the general public wouldn't know what it was and that what the legal definition of what meta data was could be expanded when required.

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