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by throwaway66920 7y ago
I’m no expert in Germany but found it very difficult to get tap water at any restaurants there.
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by throwaway66920 7y ago
While there’s lots to complain about this practice, those aren’t really the same thing. Tech firms are losing cash but generally gaining value towards an IPO. Whereas the investments were simply losing value.
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by throwaway66920 7y ago
Would this thing look different in person? Can the blackness of it be conveyed by my phone’s digital screen? If so, can we make an even blacker digital black?
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by throwaway66920 7y ago
Isn’t that the intended use case? You’re not supposed to let it drive out of your sight.
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by throwaway66920 7y ago
Is Berlin (as opposed to other areas of Germany) culturally ok with drinking tap water?
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by throwaway66920 7y ago
except the incompetencies of democracy don’t really have anything to do with the blatant faults of the Chinese government. The censorship, aggressive propaganda campaigns, re-education camps for ethnic and religious minorities, probable org
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by throwaway66920 7y ago
My favorite quote from Archer: Noah: "Do you even know what an idiom is?" Archer: "colloquial metaphor" The phrase “colloquial metaphor” itself feels idiomatic from a context you’ve never considered, but appears to be
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by throwaway66920 7y ago
The CCP’s goal, much like the vast majority of political factions out there, is to maintain / grow political power. You’re setting up a very unreasonable straw man in suggesting that the CCP is either cartoonishly evil, or virtuous
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by throwaway66920 7y ago
> It is entirely possible that the CCP is not keen on democracy exactly because of democracy's weaknesses. Weaknesses that traditionally kept China weak. It is amusing that you attribute such selflessness to a political faction; the
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by throwaway66920 7y ago
I mean... it’s a magazine, not a global authority.
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by throwaway66920 7y ago
What about... unskilled poor people in developed countries?
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by throwaway66920 7y ago
This is a good analogy because it highlights the important problem. Insurance companies are incentivized to have healthcare prices increase so long as they get a discount. Why? Because it increase their value to the consumer to the point of
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by throwaway66920 7y ago
Huh I didn’t know about the tax credit. That sounds like another layer of backwards thinking and another reason to get rid of the whole practice. I’m sorry for your situation.
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by throwaway66920 7y ago
It’s kind of created by the immoral environment of private insurance, but I would argue someone who doesn’t have health insurance to save a few backs, who can otherwise afford it, and waits until they suddenly have $100k expenses incoming t
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by throwaway66920 7y ago
> Medicare is mandatory in the US for retired old people. It's universal, it's mandatory, and it covers everything. They're literally not in the insurance pools, so I don't know what you're talking about How abou
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by throwaway66920 7y ago
I think the Drake equation is fine if you accept that even von Neumann probes are basically impossible to achieve. Space is simply too hard for everything.
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by throwaway66920 7y ago
You see it constantly because it is true. A group plan is a thing. Yes you’re still in a “group” when you register as an individual, but it is an “individual plan” and semantics doesn’t really help you out. The difference is that if I know
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by throwaway66920 7y ago
Sort of. This is true if everyone is required to participate in the system. And there’s only one provider. If you imagine there being a cheap plan and an expensive plan, you would probably expect that the expensive plan is a way better retu
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by throwaway66920 7y ago
I think the commonly claimed rules about adding increment your unit of time or multiplying by x are kind of childish and a wasteful. Estimating time to complete is difficult because individual items have high variance. If you have 3 items t
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by throwaway66920 7y ago
Getting insurance as an individual is expensive because you’re not part of a group plan. With a group plan the insurance company has some reason to believe you’re not collectively a bunch of dying people committing moral hazard, you’re just
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by throwaway66920 7y ago
Amused that it is listed as pre owned on eBay
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by throwaway66920 7y ago
> That’s a big “if.” When under pressure, managers and consultants will always claim they are cutting unproductive people, but time after time it turns out that they also cut things that were vital to the company’s long-term future. Sour
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by throwaway66920 7y ago
I don’t know what ulterior motives I could have in pointing out that something is not a man problem but a people problem.
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by throwaway66920 7y ago
That... isn’t true. Men are not x% more productive across the board, nor do they put in y% more effort across the board. If you disagree with the premise that women put more effort into social relationships be my guest. But there’s another
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by throwaway66920 7y ago
This is a strange opinion to me because there’s many, many people see it coming so it wouldn’t be especially incorrect for people to say this
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by throwaway66920 7y ago
A paper that actually talks about the algorithm and a quote that sums it up https://arxiv.org/pdf/1811.02035.pdf > The basic maze generating routine had been partially written by a stoner who had left. I contacted h
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by throwaway66920 7y ago
I don’t see it being a large barrier. Some men like the image of self sufficiency and don’t seek new friends. But plenty don’t. So if you’re a man desiring to make new friends I find it hard to believe that you are unable to find the opport
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by throwaway66920 7y ago
Uh, no, not British. Nor do I really know what your background is? Are you British? I’ll confess I was kind of trolling in asking you what pundit you get your stuff from, but I’ll be really frank here. Your post reads as sort of obsessive a
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by throwaway66920 7y ago
It is impressive how strongly held, yet also specific your beliefs are. Who told you this.
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by throwaway66920 7y ago
This is silly and naive. Tax benefits for families exist to help and encourage families. Society is better off when people can afford to raise a family. To twist it into an anti single man view is way off base.

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