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by troupe 6y ago
I recently had a surgery done and we weren't sure it was going to be covered by insurance. I wanted to make sure I knew how much of a liability I was taking on by moving ahead before knowing about insurance. I was told the insurance wa
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by troupe 6y ago
Last time I looked closely at infant mortality in the US, it looked like the US was doing horribly. However, after talking with some doctors at a neonatal ICU I found out that in the US, we will often identify an unborn child that is in tro
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by troupe 6y ago
It appears you dislike the writing of Lewis because you disagree with his world view. Brobdingnagians appears to disagree with the world view of Orwell while still finding the exploration of that world view to be insightful.
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by troupe 6y ago
> There's nothing stopping anyone from firing an employee just because they previously made a massive contribution to the company's financial success. Why keep the cow if you can get the milk for free? If someone who can consis
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by troupe 6y ago
Was this a job at a place that was a such a small startup that you were being paid partially in stock? Or was this a larger company where you didn't have to take that risk? My point is that there are places where your contribution to t
516.
by troupe 6y ago
So can they just make anything bought through iOS cost 30% more, but people can buy it from the website (not through iOS) without the Apple markup? I'd think people would quickly learn to buy from the lower cost option.
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by troupe 6y ago
> "please raise a regulatory moat around us because we are now safely inside the citadel". Exactly. Competition is probably the best way to make sure that drivers get the most total compensation (regardless of whether it is com
518.
by troupe 6y ago
Some of what Uber is describing sounds like a way to keep competitors from entering the market. The best way I know to keep driver's total compensation high is for them to be able to drive for places other than Uber.
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by troupe 6y ago
While I agree that individuals in a society should try to provide for those who can't provide for themselves, saying that everyone deserves X, is basically a way of saying that we want to force others to pay for X and I share your disa
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by troupe 6y ago
I know that in NYC a number of restaurants I liked have gone out of business because they couldn't handle the increasing cost of rent as building owners look at how much place like Apple are willing to pay for prime shopping locations.
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by troupe 6y ago
Keep in mind that they aren't saying that their data doesn't say that people not given vitamin D supplements were 10x more likely to die. Instead that people coming in with a deficiency already were 10x more likely to die. Imagine
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by troupe 6y ago
> You could be stranded anywhere in the world with nothing but an underwear I am curious about the life choices of people who see planning for this type of situation a worthwhile investment of their time. :)
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by troupe 6y ago
The way that tracing was presented bred a lot of mistrust at least in the midwest.
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by troupe 6y ago
But if everyone had of x for y weeks and that prevented z deaths, how is that not worth it? x=stopped driving y=52 z=34,000 or x=not gone skiing y=4 months z=41 I'm not sure where the line is, but there are a number of things we could
525.
by troupe 6y ago
Books were bigger back then, so imagine trying to create a lazy susan to hold 8 books that were ~2 feet wide when open. You'd need a circle more than 10 feet in diameter.
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by troupe 6y ago
One possible reason it might have seemed slightly more useful in its time is that many books much bigger than what we expect today. I've seen some books from the 13th century that are over 20 inches across when open and quite heavy and
527.
by troupe 6y ago
If the expected use case is to spend a long time reading a document with no images, is that much of an issue?
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by troupe 6y ago
> they are an accessibility nightmare (as we have seen on the web). Audio is an accessibility nightmare for people who can't see, text is an accessibility nightmare for people who can't see or people who can't read, German
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by troupe 6y ago
So I've setup processes like you described where every PR would spin up 20 ec2 instances, run a huge number of parallel testing, and then shut itself down. The savings associated with developers getting feedback on a full regression te
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by troupe 6y ago
I believe you are saying that some countries don't have data centers where you can co-locate. Most of the places where AWS has a datacenter have other datacenter companies that offer co-location.
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by troupe 7y ago
It doesn't make it worthless, but right now you only pay income tax on assets with volatile valuations when you actually realize the gain because any gain on paper may not actually be realized. Let's say you invest $1000 in a high
532.
by troupe 7y ago
So year 4 your stock goes back down to $10k or even goes to $0 and you'd be fine with having paid taxes the wealth you had even though it wasn't actually realized as money?
533.
by troupe 7y ago
> We aren't taxed when we trade two pineapples for four pears, so why is trading our time/effort for money any different? Actually you are taxed on trades. https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/four-things-you-shoul
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by troupe 7y ago
> Capital gains tax should probably be mentioned. Why is it a much lower rate than income tax? Why not talk about that? The lower capital gains tax is to encourage the things that the economy needs...namely investing in creating and grow
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by troupe 7y ago
Even in terms of tax rate, there are a surprisingly large number of people who pay no income or payroll taxes.
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by troupe 7y ago
Lets say you save $10,000 and invest it in a stock. It then goes up to $20,000. You are happy to pay taxes on that amount even though next year it might go back down again?
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by troupe 8y ago
Yes but if one school starts upgrading their dorms, student center, etc. kids starting spending their loan money there which makes the other schools try to do something a bit better. When there is almost unlimited money there is a race to b
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by troupe 8y ago
If you look at the debt people are willing to acquire in pursuit of something like a degree in theater, it is hard to say it is rational behavior. They are taking a chance on something unknown rather than facing likely success with a career
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by troupe 8y ago
There are still schools out there that are very reasonably priced. However, lots of students go to more expensive schools that cost more BECAUSE they can get loans to do so. The best way to bring the cost down would be to stop using taxes t
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by troupe 8y ago
It is still possible today. There are schools that are an extremely good value. I've even seen some state schools where you can graduate pretty much debt free working a part time minimum wage job during the school year and full time du

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