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by rory 5y ago
> You can work on your physical health, but as with many low income people you may have to work hard for money and have no physical energy left over for such feats If you are physically exhausted from your work, you almost certainly ex
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by rory 5y ago
Although I agree the data are pretty clear at this point that these vaccines are all quite safe, there are absolutely quantifiable (low) risks [0]. Beyond the data, people aren't idiots for being skeptical of new treatments. Unknown un
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by rory 5y ago
I think the "rewriting history" part is: > It was never designed to stop transmission. I can't find any source confirming or denying that claim, but I can say it's absolutely not the impression I got from government
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by rory 5y ago
I always envisioned each planet / great house / ethnic group to be ethnically homogeneous, although different from each other. I don't think it's very likely there would be some black Fremen and some mediterranean lookin
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by rory 5y ago
I've tried to remain open minded for a long time on this issue, but honestly that list still looks really bad. At a glance, all the top companies seem to only be useful for coin trading/borrowing/lending/financialization
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by rory 5y ago
> Which is why only males appear from this parthenogenesis Could you explain the mechanism? If the female has both chromosomes, why couldn't it produce offspring with both?
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by rory 5y ago
I think you might be getting to the core of the reason these replies have gotten so crazy. Measures like CPI are meant to estimate the expenses of a typical middle-class family. HN is full of people who fancy themselves typical middle-class
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by rory 5y ago
> why do you care SO MUCH about the tax revenue that goes to poor people I really think you might have made your way into the wrong thread. Both I and the thread OP are arguing against the idea that UBI can replace existing social spen
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by rory 5y ago
The Amazon comparison is apt, but I think Apple shifting revenue from hardware to services is a better one. Apple was able to catch the paradigm shift of us starting to use our phones for everything, and make loads of money by offering serv
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by rory 5y ago
Being paid to do a job isn't public assistance. You can argue CEOs are overpaid, and you can argue government contracting companies engage in regulatory capture, but this scenario is so tangential that it has zero bearing on the questi
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by rory 5y ago
I'm not sure if you are mistakenly replying in the wrong place, but that doesn't seem related to the basic-needs argument I (and, in a slightly different way, the thread OP) are making.
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by rory 5y ago
The point is not protecting anyone from vices, the point is making sure basic needs are met. When CEOs spend their money in frivolous ways, they generally have enough to not need to fall back on additional public assistance. If UBI were ins
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by rory 5y ago
Of course it is. A rational person can understand that both the poor and the rich sometimes misuse earmarked government funds (although they generally do so in different contexts), and recognize that both are wrong.
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by rory 5y ago
The notional value of all derivatives ($600T+, maybe, we think) is MUCH MUCH higher than the dollar amount actually transacted in the derivatives market. So kind of comparing apples to oranges there.
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by rory 5y ago
This one's pretty nice: driftly (of water) flowing in a slow, sweeping way "a driftly waterfall"
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by rory 5y ago
Yes, that should be implicit to the earnings numbers they are using for the ROI calculation.
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by rory 5y ago
I like to imagine someone is frantically deleting a QAnon bot right now.
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by rory 5y ago
Would the Trump-supporting programmers you know be fine having "Trump Social Media Platform" as the latest job on their resume? I'd guess fear of ostracism in mainstream tech would filter out more people than actual politics.
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by rory 5y ago
Stairwell? Just hang a climbing rope! Better home and personal aesthetic.
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by rory 5y ago
I had a similar realization at a similar time. Unfortunately, by that age, my novel "Little Winky" had already afforded me some acclaim.
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by rory 5y ago
Even with the added context, it's pretty clear he has a very limited grasp on how finstas work. It's reasonable to be concerned about that when he is demanding they be banned.
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by rory 5y ago
As honored as I am that you made a throwaway specific to a perceived logically fallacy of mine, pointing out an objectively factual similarity-to-peers isn't an example of whataboutism.
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by rory 5y ago
Don't be coy, Nostradamus, tell us the future.
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by rory 5y ago
You blame nationalism, but we very much don't know where the US is heading. Japan has maintained massive debt for decades, but the US is very different from Japan, so what exactly happens to us remains to be seen. Also, most of the lar
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by rory 5y ago
Luckily enough, I think we're near the beginning of a wave of alcohol-free beer coming to market in the US. Sam Adams "Just the Haze" and Brooklyn "Special Effects IPA" both came out in the past year and are pretty
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by rory 5y ago
Is 40% adverse reaction to a placebo typical? Really makes me wonder how many "side effects" are in our heads..
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by rory 5y ago
Hm yes, my perspective is probably quite non-representative. Thank you for the insight!
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I'm not sure how it is in Austria, but here in the US, people on the more "precarious" end of the spectrum (non-management retail and hospitality workers) have a quit rate of (very roughly) ~50% per year. So generally they do
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I suppose it depends on the job and the market, but many people do have a lot of choice where they work (and where they live).
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Even on public transport, longer commutes are relatively environmentally unfriendly when compared to shorter commutes (in the medium-to-long run). So regardless of individualism, it would generally be a public benefit to encourage shorter c

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