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by rhino369 6y ago
Lockdowns were a mass infringement of our civil liberties that was arguably much more significant than anything post 9-11. Governors and mayors shut down churches and assemblies by fiat. People weren’t allowed to see their family. Couldn’t
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by rhino369 6y ago
Should be the opposite. Companies would be incentivized to reduce risk if they alone face it. Consumers don’t have any real information on the risk between a Waymo or a Tesla. So they aren’t in a position to mitigate. Further, you’d incenti
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by rhino369 6y ago
I should have said "mens rea," but it's a legal term that roughly translates to intent. >I don't think that that's a hard fit for the publicly-reported facts of this case. Agreed, unless (again 100% hypotheticall
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by rhino369 6y ago
Intent matters. The state has to provide criminal negligence, which in most states requires very risky behavior. Driving while watching a video certainly qualifies normally, but purely hypothetically, if Uber had internally said it was tota
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by rhino369 6y ago
Nursing homes are only covered longterm if you are destitute. Good places will take your assets and use them all up until it’s gone then apply for Medicaid. Won’t pay for personal in-home nurses either. But 2 million should buy him plenty o
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by rhino369 6y ago
It's not going to all happen overnight. You won't see an internal refugee crisis inside rich nations. The cost will be slowly added to insurance premiums and devaluation in price of real-estate that will be underwater in 30 years.
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by rhino369 6y ago
People will be able to smell the bullshit. The idea that climate change will be apocalyptic (for first world nations) in your grandchildren's time frame is just as loony-toons as denying it exists at all. The scientific consensus is no
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by rhino369 6y ago
That’s how it is in many places in the USA, but they often make you pay their own service techs to do it. In my city it’s pretty deregulated. But there are downsides. Sloppy techs will cut competitor cables due to pure laziness.
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by rhino369 6y ago
If cost wasn't an issue, I don't think that's really true. My friend uses sonarr + usenet and its not as easy as amazon/google/itunes/redbox/fandago rentals or purchases on a roku.
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by rhino369 6y ago
True, but that's mostly about the class of the people in those areas. Working class neighborhoods in dense urban areas aren't filled with a variety of great restaurants. If you took everyone in the suburbs and built them dense ci
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by rhino369 6y ago
It's the result of a lot of growth and development by a common culture with high degrees of communication and trade in a very short amount of time.
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by rhino369 6y ago
Phone menus I’ve seen so far are inferior to a good paper menu. I’d rather have a scanned pdf than the menus I’ve seen. I’m sure someone could create one that is usable, but I haven’t run into one yet.
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by rhino369 6y ago
Could be something like this: Had first.last@comcast.net, but migrated to gmail and had to use something else. Then they misremember and hand out first.last@gmail.com.
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by rhino369 6y ago
I think you should be cautious about extending today’s pattern about piracy (ie they are already high consumers) to a scenario where piracy was easy and safe for distributors. The piracy wac-a-mole game makes piracy somewhat difficult for a
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by rhino369 6y ago
And the scientific consensus says they aren't in the same galaxy as ranking 99.9997% to 99.9998%. SAT, for example, is better than grades are predicting first year GPA, but it's still not that great.
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by rhino369 6y ago
There is also a question of how to define "merit." Standardized tests aren't that meaningful or accurate. It's a good way to roughly separate people out, but it shouldn't be considered merit. Especially since peop
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by rhino369 6y ago
You can pick a different random set of inputs and come to the opposite conclusion. It could be true that there is no correlation between true "merit" and test scores when you get to, say, the 99%th percentile. Especially since th
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by rhino369 6y ago
I bet it wouldn't really have hurt GWB to have gone to UT-Austin instead. Especially if all the other rich kids stopped getting accepted (so he wouldn't stand out). He got jobs and power because his daddy was President. Not becau
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by rhino369 6y ago
Why should we, as a country, want low paying jobs that only support people with subsidies from others? I support universal healthcare from a humanitarian perspective. But it doesn't make sense to tax everyone else so that Uber can cut
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by rhino369 6y ago
You could looks at return on capital, but AT&T isn’t that great in that measurement either. It makes a pretty fair return in a very large investment. They certainly work for their money.
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by rhino369 6y ago
If it is true that you cannot experimentally determine the impact, that's a pretty good reason to never try UBI.
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by rhino369 6y ago
That 70% is an early estimate of heard immunity while doing nothing differently than pre-covid. The hope is that its more like 20% gets you herd immunity while practicing moderate social distancing. It's not too unreasonable. Japan ha
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by rhino369 6y ago
It makes it impossible to do mass marketing with prices. Best Buy can send a flyer saying "Xbox One Only 199.99!" to everyone in Illinois. But if they had to include tax, it would be 219.99 or 214.99 depending on which side of my
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by rhino369 6y ago
But autopilot in a plane doesn't require the pilot to take over in a split second. Keeping you level, at the right speed, in the right direction, etc. is enough to keep the plane safe. Pilots have tens of seconds to reorient themselv
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by rhino369 6y ago
There isn't much of a difference between digital media and "services." We'd all agree it would a dick move if I walked out of barbershop without paying, even if the barber didn't have any other available customers a
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by rhino369 6y ago
>At some point I find it hard to draw a distinction between a library and a torrent. So why use torrents instead of the library? You know full well the difference.
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Waiting until green energy is cost efficient is certainly a position on climate change, but it's not one that climate activists typically take. A carbon tax that doesn't raise cost much is not going to have much effect. Though tha
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>You don't think taxing meat by its environmental cost will work? Economically, it would work. Politically? At least in the US, people would vote out any party that installed taxes that reduced meat consumption by an significant am
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>Individual choice has a very small role in climate change. Only if you offload moral culpability onto third parties that are acting on your behalf. You'd probably say you aren't responsible for the climate change due to power
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by rhino369 6y ago
Is it happening more often (probably is) or are you just hearing about it more (probably also true).

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