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by unpopular42 5y ago
It's not going to help much though. People like that will also try bullying sellers into not selling stuff by someone who says or believes something they don't like. Sure, you can still enjoy what you've already got, but goo
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by unpopular42 6y ago
The defence spending isn't much compared to the social expenditures. Switzerland spends roughly 30% on social/welfare (and roughly 10% on transportation infra). US spends roughly 50% of its budget on social/welfare and it ain
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by unpopular42 6y ago
Swiss taxes vary by location but are generally not higher than the US taxes. So it's not about paying more, it's about wasting less.
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by unpopular42 7y ago
There's a difference between knowing the risk distribution and knowing the future. The perfect insurance would know how likely it is that you are going to have to pay a catastrophically large amount, and would charge you amount*probabi
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by unpopular42 7y ago
No, you miss the point. Not having insurance means losses follow your exact risk distribution, with a non-zero risk of a catastrophic loss. Having a perfect insurance means your losses follow a distribution with the same average as your ris
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by unpopular42 7y ago
That is indeed part of what people call insurance these days, but in fact it isn't one. It's just a social solidarity scheme, and no one has the balls to call it that way, so it gets mingled into insurance. Without getting into wh
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by unpopular42 7y ago
It's not useless. You pay premium for the privilege of never having to pay catastrophically large amounts. And that's exactly the difference and the point of insurance: limiting the maximum loss.
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by unpopular42 7y ago
Quite the opposite. The point of insurance is to replace a high variance distribution of potential losses with a low variance distribution, but with a similar expected loss. In other words, on average you pay a bit more, but you never pay a
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by unpopular42 8y ago
Actually, it's not that hard. It only becomes hard when you try to use taxes to induce the set of behaviours you want. And then, completely suddenly Goodhart's law kicks in.
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by unpopular42 8y ago
Me too! Reading about how dysfunctional and corrupt the UN has become is indeed very depressing. Great to hear I'm not alone.
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by unpopular42 8y ago
Obviously, they already do. The company is willing to pay this amount and there are enough people willing and able to work for this amount, hence the amount is correct.
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by unpopular42 8y ago
Except that the "h_user: 9019....." part looks like a unique user ID that you don't need for any personalization or functionality. Unique IDs are only useful for tracking.
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by unpopular42 8y ago
> The data we collect is not personally identifiable, and we try to keep it as minimal as possible. :) Hey Gaëlle! Huh? Unique ID + /24 + screen resolution is the opposite of "not personally identifiable". You may not use
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by unpopular42 8y ago
If you expect that it's possible for buflen to be 0, you should check before the strncpy call, not after.
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by unpopular42 8y ago
See the OP. They are not charged the amount used. They are charged some weird function of amount used, the rate it was used at, and their home size.
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by unpopular42 8y ago
If this was the case, it would make sense to charge for capacity, not for usage. Like, if you ever want to use more than X amps of electricity, you have to pay for upgraded wires and stuff. Doesn't explain charging less for first X uni
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by unpopular42 8y ago
Why do you like it? To me it sounds stupid, it's the same electricity, it costs the same to produce and all other side effects effects like network load or pollution are the same too. Why first X units would cost less? Even more idioti
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by unpopular42 8y ago
I don't see them saying that. If they were paying, they'd get support.
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by unpopular42 8y ago
Except they didn't use Gsuite and this would never happen if they did.
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by unpopular42 8y ago
First, you need to make your company rely on 200 consumer Gmail accounts for their business. I mean, if you can get them to that level of idiocy, nothing really helps, right?
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by unpopular42 8y ago
China is not a threat. Russia, North Korea, and certain Middle East countries are.
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by unpopular42 8y ago
What makes you think Scandinavian nations got it right? I think it's a myth, albeit quite popular.
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by unpopular42 9y ago
With their explicit consent.
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by unpopular42 9y ago
So what exactly is wrong with this amount? And what amount would be the correct amount?
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by unpopular42 9y ago
Bezos' duty is to keep costs low and profits high and indeed he does his job well, just look at their stock.