throwaway190102

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by throwaway190102 7y ago
>Nobody is banning you (or your employer) from buying additional private health insurance. Oh?? https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/23/health/private-health-ins... (EDIT Formatting)
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by throwaway190102 7y ago
Uhhh, the BBC is funded by the UK Government...
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by throwaway190102 7y ago
Government != Society
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by throwaway190102 7y ago
Eh, it's still better than most places, even if we do get a little echo-chambery at times.
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by throwaway190102 7y ago
Tuition is only part of the costs of going to college. There's room & board, books, various course fees and charges that aren't actual tuition.
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by throwaway190102 7y ago
The best solution to this I've found is the moto Z series of phones. Integrated battery and an external battery that attaches to the back with magnets. I don't really use the other mods but there's a battery attached to the b
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by throwaway190102 7y ago
>then naturally it will be relatively hard to get rich because there is so much competition. This doesn't follow. The economy is not a zero-sum game. edit: presuming a sufficiently elastic money supply.
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by throwaway190102 7y ago
What are you basing this assumption on?
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by throwaway190102 7y ago
Check out Falkon, or Epiphany.
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by throwaway190102 7y ago
already appears broken.
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by throwaway190102 7y ago
That's a lot better than existing sat based solutions. if the throughput could get close to 4g speeds I'd see it as a legitimate contender, but there are still some applications it will never really be viable for unless you can bu
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by throwaway190102 7y ago
>If it isn't being selected, then clearly there's insufficient competition to drive better prices and better packages. No, not everyone is going to have your use patterns or knowledge. Most ordinary folks are just price sensiti
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by throwaway190102 7y ago
Actually they have it rigged so that they get a raise every year, unless they vote not to. Though I'm not sure how you imagine congress could give anyone else a raise, or a pension aside from government employees.
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by throwaway190102 7y ago
This reminds me of processing. https://processing.org/
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by throwaway190102 8y ago
You're right about dividends, but payroll comes out before profit calculations.
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by throwaway190102 8y ago
>elected officials need to form an elite of superior intelligence and ability to comprehend the world This is much less of a problem if you can hold down scope-creep on the role and responsibilities of government.
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by throwaway190102 8y ago
I don't think that's quite how that works. But your point on double-taxation is certainly valid in some contexts.
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by throwaway190102 8y ago
You are correct. Payroll is part of expenses. Oversimplified: Profit = $Revenue - $Expenses Tax = $profit % $Tax_rate
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by throwaway190102 8y ago
No, The only portion of revenue that goes to shareholders would be that of profits, and Netflix doesn't pay dividends so none of that money goes to shareholders. It goes to capital re-ivestment, or the workers in the form of bonuses an
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by throwaway190102 8y ago
Individual workers are allowed to do this. In the form of deductions for various types of expenses such as medical and various other deductions. But it means something different to make a wage and to make a profit. There are definitely loop
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by throwaway190102 8y ago
This is part of the basis for a recent book by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt. Here's the article that later became the book by the same title: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/09&#x2F
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by throwaway190102 8y ago
>people can't afford to have kids anymore. I don't think this is the issue. It's much more a cultural thing, statistically richer countries have lower birthrates. But getting married and having kids is no longer accepted a