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by rland 8y ago
>people who can't afford to buy health insurance need charity, whether that charity is public or private. The market is not going to help them. Attempting to fit that round peg into a square hole is going to cause a lot of issues th
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E-cigs didn't destroy the kid's market for traditional cigarettes, though. When I was in high school (right before vaping took off), smoking was only "cool" for a small subsection of the school. For everyone else, it wa
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by rland 8y ago
Cash also has very diffuse benefits. It is anonymous, private, untraceable, and not able to be stolen or compromised without physical access.
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by rland 8y ago
By the time we hit "peak earth land," any unexploited landfill will be worth a fortune, as they will be tremendously resource rich in comparison to 'regular' land. It's far more likely that in a hundred years (or le
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by rland 8y ago
I think there needs to be some new word for this ill. Advertising is only necessary because of the breakdown of social trust that comes with fungible living in this individualized, modern world of ours. I think this nebulous ill of "ad
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by rland 8y ago
Pardon my GenZ analogy: Like YouTube, you would end up with superstar representatives that would capture an even larger share than the most powerful do now. And the fact that they wouldn't even have a home district would mean that they
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by rland 8y ago
In all honesty, I'm surprised to find that exercise is not beneficial to something. In seemingly every case, living+exercise > living. I'm sure these researchers were thinking the same when they designed the study. "Is h
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by rland 8y ago
I do not understand what extra functionality is gained by making the site so much slower. I go on Reddit primarily for text content. Threaded comments and HTML <a> tags. WHY does it NEED to be so SLOW? For this degree of sluggishness,
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by rland 8y ago
This sounds great and all, but we need a solution right now, not 30 years from now. If we built a massive, efficient, and effective mass transportation system right now, the big moving parts would probably be starting to break at right abou
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by rland 8y ago
They call it Reduce, Re-use, Recycle. There's a reason Reduce is first in line. I think many people stop at Recycle and call it a day.
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Here in the states, it starts very young. A parent must schedule a playdate beforehand, update it in the google calendar, drive the child 10-15 blocks to their friends house. Parents can then venmo the other family for the time-cost of the
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by rland 8y ago
Just a minor thing: 7-11 is a Japanese company. There are about 20,000 7-11s in Japan (vs 9,000 in the USA). It surprised me when I went there—they are EVERYWHERE.
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by rland 8y ago
I think that consciousness is a collection of experiences and observations ('data'), nothing more. I am curious what lead you here: > Caring about one's existence (or even having the notion of a self) isn't something
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by rland 9y ago
Housing is both mandatory and the largest expense for nearly everyone. It's a tremendous damper on "spending less." If the secret to wealth was easy when those books were written decades ago, it is much less easy now.
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by rland 9y ago
Is this worth it? Is this worth having the ability to pick between 10,000 different toasters via internet and have them delivered to your doorstep in 2 days? Sometimes I look at society as a complete organ, with a hypothetical ability to ma
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by rland 9y ago
This is something I have given a lot of thought to. I saw footage of a gazelle being hunted by a cheetah. My reflexive thought is -- how unimaginably horrible. Here is an animal which is evolved specifically to hunt you down and kill you. A
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For a deer, swerving is the wrong thing to do, because a deer's life does not matter, so it's worth it to hit the deer. With a person, though, you are seeking to protect everyone, so the tradeoff swaps in favor of swerving, becaus
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by rland 9y ago
Beyond that, it's a power asymmetry as well. If you have to collect info on someone "the old fashioned way" (like being siblings with them or marrying them) the power differential in the relationship is bounded by definition.
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by rland 9y ago
Your point reminds me of this article: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/08/opinion/sunday/what-the-r... I agree. Someone making $240,000 per year makes consumer choices every hour that half or more o
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by rland 9y ago
Doesn't Canada only allow skilled immigrants to enter the country? I suspect that is a significant factor.
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I can't help but think of how much more productive a factory worker or repairman would be with these glasses, if it were possible to display instructions, dimensions, parts of a reference manual, etc... The first successful business in
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by rland 9y ago
If they design a thin phone that requires a case, anyone can choose any case they wish to make the phone look any way they wish, and to make it as resistant to falls as they wish. If they make the phone thicker (a "built in" case,
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by rland 10y ago
How would this help physical auto safety?
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by rland 10y ago
Ah, but the problem with discussions of status is that "not chasing status" is a status in and of itself. It's status all the way down!! You will never get rid of it.