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by timeeater 6y ago
Wouldn't it make more sense to pay the insurance up front, though? Or at least reserve money for it up front?
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by timeeater 6y ago
If you want to play number games like that, then you should also acknowledge that many who died were on the brink of dead already without Covid. You should only count excess deaths, not who was tested or not. Show me the 3 million excess de
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by timeeater 6y ago
Children don't generally die from Covid19. Your numbers are exaggerated, Covid is not the only cause of death around the world. The load of sick people is also not exceptionally high, at least not in the intensive wards (don't hav
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by timeeater 6y ago
"I gave you five articles listing the causes of homelessness. Now you're claiming the articles aren't enough." Um yeah, because they are not? They don't say anything about rising rents causing homelessness, they onl
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by timeeater 6y ago
You misinterpret my statement, that is all. I mentioned "women in tech" as an example, because those articles are usually political. They tend to be about alleged discrimination and demands for special treatment of women in tech.
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by timeeater 6y ago
How would "they" make it difficult to offer the same services cheaper? The only institution that can do that is government via regulations (like who can practice law or become a dentist). I agree that there are some (many?) fishy
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by timeeater 6y ago
Huh what makes you think that I think you are political because you are a "woman in tech"? Women in tech is political when it comes along with the unfounded claim that there are so few women in tech because of sexism. I didn'
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by timeeater 6y ago
I fail to see the relevance of your analogy? CEOs may or may not be psychopaths, but afaik it is not illegal to be a psychopath? Nor does it imply such a person will do evil things? I personally think that the "successful pyschopaths&q
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by timeeater 6y ago
Is QAnon prevalent? I keep reading it is, but I have never encountered it. (Edit: I just googled it, and Wikipedia claims there have been studies finding hidden Facebook groups about QAnon with millions of users. Seriously, I don't thi
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by timeeater 6y ago
Rising rents are not evidence that rising rents are a major cause of homelessness. "what happens when you lose your job, and then lose your apartment as a result?" Then losing your job is the cause, not the rising rents. "So
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by timeeater 6y ago
The idea that conspiracy theories transported via the web cause so much damage ("wreak havoc all over the world", according to the article) is in itself a conspiracy theory. And one that makes for good newspaper articles. 9/1
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by timeeater 6y ago
Is there any evidence for people becoming homeless because of skyrocketing rents? Are there no renter protections in the USA, anyway? The theory is simple that where the area is rich, there are more jobs - catering to the rich people, but a
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by timeeater 6y ago
So what percentage of rich people do you figure are such "crooks with suits and big smiles"? Of course crooks exist. Most people are not crooks, though. And especially the professionals you mention may have problems to persist. Li
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by timeeater 6y ago
I wrote the reason MIGHT be spare money and mild climate, and in that context my question is an actual question, not rhetoric. "It implies that you've thought through all the possible reasons and you've come up with the obvio
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by timeeater 6y ago
I didn't claim that incivility does not also exist. And the banned accounts don't show up in showdead anymore, either. What you consider "well-thought out but unpopular opinion" could also be subject to your personal bia
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by timeeater 6y ago
I said nothing about "choosing to cheat society". Perhaps check your own biases? I also didn't say anything about "offering services". From the charts in your article it still doesn't seem unlikely that many ho
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by timeeater 6y ago
I literally asked a question. And I meant choose San Francisco as the place to be homeless in, not choosing homelessness. If you would apply the principle of charity, you would have been able to read my comment correctly.
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by timeeater 6y ago
You have a weird concept of "thievery". If someone's prices are too high, don't hire them. If somebody doesn't pay enough, don't work for them. If you think they are skimming money, then there has to be a way t
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by timeeater 6y ago
I think in places in San Francisco, it might not just be "inequality", but also homeless people flocking to places with spare money and mild climate. Why else would you choose to be homeless in one of the most expensive places on
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by timeeater 6y ago
I think it could be an aspect that homeless people flock to places where there is spare money and climate that is easier to survive.
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by timeeater 6y ago
Here in Germany we have homeless people, and Romania wouldn't come to mind as a place where they don't. More likely I would expect people from Romania to be homeless in Germany. I think some homeless here are (possibly illegal) im
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by timeeater 6y ago
Unfortunately it is not true in general that the reason accounts are being banned is incivility. Censorship of unwanted opinions is very much real on this site.
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by timeeater 6y ago
Has anybody used the flash card feature of the Kindle readers to good effect? I keep wanting to use them, but I only occasionally remember to highlight things in the books I read.
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by timeeater 6y ago
In April, more than half of infections in Germany happened in nursing homes and hospitals. Also, iirc it was very unevenly spread across regions (also consider that often it was superspreader events that drove up the numbers, it was not a e
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by timeeater 6y ago
"And getting some experience with machine learning has never been easier." Yes, if you have spare time.