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by supertrope 8mo ago
That plan works until it suddenly doesn't. When it doesn't it's catastrophic for your finances and your health. If you have an extra couple million dollars above and beyond your regular retirement fund you could self-insure y
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by supertrope 8mo ago
Even licensed wireless stops functioning. All circuits are busy.
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by supertrope 8mo ago
The Hollywood movie Minority Report has a scene where an advertising display personalizes the ad by your name. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bXJ_obaiYQ
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by supertrope 8mo ago
FYI this is like telling poor people that they just should move to a better neighborhood. This advice is about as practical as telling people to move to Manhattan to reduce car accident injury risk for your teen driver.
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by supertrope 8mo ago
You jest but to play devil's advocate every system has its supporters. One of the reasons we didn't get a public health plan option is because the Senator for Connecticut was representing his constituents such as Cigna and Aetna.
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by supertrope 8mo ago
In theory merchants can notice some fraud signs so shifting fraud losses onto them gives an incentive to take action on those signs. In practice banks have a better overall view of fraud and this is just externalizing bank fraud losses onto
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by supertrope 8mo ago
Governments frown upon KYC-less digital purse cards. Gotta force everyone to share their national ID number to just open a bank account to keep out drug dealers, terrorists, or NSFW game peddlers. Banks generally don't like disposable
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by supertrope 8mo ago
Lack of negotiation power. Less control over Android than Apple has over iOS. Google keeps self-sabotaging Android Pay. They lacked market power so cellular carriers blocked it hoping to advance their own payment ecosystem (ISIS). Google ch
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by supertrope 8mo ago
When picking a city, pick two: -Good job market -Not high cost of living -Good quality of life (commute, amenities, etc.) Many industries are concentrated in high cost of living cities or very high cost of living cities. Not everyone is a n
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by supertrope 8mo ago
One of the ways the Netherlands made streets safer for dismounted people was by framing it as stopping killing kids with your cars. Yes this is "think of the children" logic but since kids are generally healthy the top causes of k
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by supertrope 8mo ago
This. The prospect of a brighter future at least means capital and labor are fighting for slices of a bigger pie. If the pie per capita stays constant or shrinks there will be a lot more anti-social behavior to response to the zero-sum envi
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by supertrope 8mo ago
If you want to punch up try aiming higher than the upper-middle class. Other countries have MRIs and drugs as part of universal healthcare.
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by supertrope 8mo ago
The book Bowling Alone by Robert Putnam is about the decline of civil society. Church membership is down. Labor union membership is down. Parents got crushed in the pandemic with school shutdowns, daycare shutdowns, and formula shortages. I
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by supertrope 8mo ago
Local governments have a huge incentive to favor commercial construction over residential construction: schools. Adding an office building adds tax revenue without adding students. Adding housing means they have to enroll students.
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by supertrope 8mo ago
School financing needs drives a lot of local government decisions. It's an invisible force like gravity. Approving office buildings and retail stores adds tax revenue without adding to school district costs (enrolling students). Approv
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by supertrope 8mo ago
Civ III battles are best thought of as dice rolls like the board game Risk. If you have more modern units you get to roll more dice but there's still a small chance archers defeat musketmen.
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by supertrope 8mo ago
dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46884023
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by supertrope 9mo ago
Amazon.com now only shows you a few reviews. To see the rest you must login. Social media websites have long gated the carrots behind a login. Anandtech just took their ball and went home by going offline.
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by supertrope 9mo ago
Car traffic magnets like highways inside urban cores? Or people traffic magnets like office buildings, colleges, sports stadiums, performing arts venues, shopping malls?
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by supertrope 9mo ago
Mass transit is a capacity multiplier. If 35 people are headed in the same direction compare that with the infrastructure needed to handle 35 cars. Road capacity, parking capacity, car dealerships, gas stations, repair shops, insurance, car
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by supertrope 9mo ago
It also shows a lack of imagination. If you have to provide a union with a job bank, why not re-deploy employees to other roles? With one person per train, re-deploy people to run more trains therefore decreasing the interval between trains
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by supertrope 9mo ago
Copy files onto Micro SD cards. Smuggle them out of the country or to a contact who has Internet access.
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by supertrope 9mo ago
July 2020.
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by supertrope 9mo ago
Many state minimum insurance limits are laughably low. Like $30,000.
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by supertrope 9mo ago
Leaders see the cost of a raised right of way or even just a dedicated lane and balk. Which is really dumb because after spending all the money on rail you screw up the last 1/10 by having a tram get stuck behind single occupancy cars.
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by supertrope 9mo ago
VC Fund My Life!
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by supertrope 9mo ago
Are you selling renewable memory offset credits? My company is seeking to burnish our ESG reputation.
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by supertrope 9mo ago
As new moms tend to change their consumer purchasing habits they are coveted by advertisers. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/magazine/shopping-habits.h... Certain cohorts and keywords are very valuabl
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by supertrope 9mo ago
While businesses hate being a dumb pipe and love vendor lock in, lots of customers choose dependence on big tech. Each retail business that only has a Facebook page to save the cost of hiring a web developer reinforces this dependence.
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by supertrope 9mo ago
The business model of Facebook, YouTube, traditional TV, app stores, and yes video games depend on people not touching grass.

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