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by vba616 4y ago
>One wonders what profession these people are in. Both people I'm thinking of were victims of interactions as consumers (of medical services/products), not employees, as it happens. In one case, the lack of a lucrative career f
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My point was that what you are referring to does not represent personal injury in the US. You can be angry at specific instances like you describe, but it's totally unrepresentative. In my opinion, which is not based on expertise as su
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Do you have a good, unbiased sample of instances of people injured by businesses? Any random major corporation is dealing with hundreds if not thousands of lawsuits at any given moment. They can, and do, wreck the lives of thousands of peop
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>Going through court will lead to even more dragged out speculation and hurt Twitter more than any other party >The winners at the end of the day would be the lawyers and millions of dollars dumped into fighting a case instead of sett
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>Right as boomers finally start to give up the reigns English major? 1946 + 65 = 2011. The boomer vanguard is going to be in their 80s soon. And the millennials are starting to turn 40. "...then one day you find ten years have got b
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>The United States allows for yelling fire in a crowded theater I don't understand. According to the article you yourself link to, the phrase, in the US, has been a metaphor for conduct not protected by the first amendment for ove
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Most smaller businesses do not develop their own website and everything like it's 1996. There are service providers that cater to the 99% that spare them from totally reinventing the wheel. There's a company headquartered near me,
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Do you think it's a problem if tradespeople drive full-size pickup trucks or vans? I could be wrong, but in my city, I think the majority of people driving pickups are driving work trucks, or they are from outside the city. What about
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Nissan/Nisan has apparently been the first month of spring in the Hebrew calendar for millennia. And it was borrowed from the Babylonians/Akkadians/Sumerians so I assume it's considerably older in origin. Does one guy wh
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What is an SUV? Here's an example of two vehicles that I imagine might be cross-shopped by a hypothetical consumer who is able to ignore styling and image and objectively compare SUVs and non-SUVs. (Yes, these are probably more US-ma
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>I guess the most boring bank possible would probably be something like Chase A bank like Chase has all sorts of fees and minimums for a simple checking account - which a normal regional bank doesn't. What's the benefit to an a
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In 1993, this was a "box office success": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Remains_of_the_Day_(film)
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I don't know exactly what is wrong with Spotify, but years ago, I subscribed to Pandora, and it made all sorts of suggestions based on what I liked that revealed great music to me. But when I wanted something specific, it often didn&#x
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I hadn't really thought about it before, but I believe North Korea has an 840 mile border with China, which is not hostile to them. So I don't understand how sanctions by other more distant countries could meaningfully affect them
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I asked one question, and seemingly you heard a different, dumber one.
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Wow, that got a lot of downvotes. Yes, 0.10% is dramatically lower than 20% or whatever. That's my point. And yes, FDIC insurance is a thing. That's also my point. And yes, younger people almost certainly haven't ever owned a
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I'm surprised you compare it to a junk bond. It sounds pretty much like a CD aka "Certificate of Deposit" which is a product sold by banks. Is there an entire generation that doesn't know anyone who ever bought a CD from
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Enterprisey stuff has had "blockchain" options for a while now. The selling point is you can say "blockchain". Blockchain blockchain blockchain. Oracle has a blockchain for you, and a cloud, and most likely a cloudy bloc
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How is it decentralized? Perhaps people use the word differently. I don't understand the word "decentralized" to mean "not occupying a specific physical location". To me it means more like "having many independ
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Yes, of course. Just like you can create anything, and license it as you wish, and keep a list of authorized licensees on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punched_tape . The NFTs are better because...
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I don't see these sorts of claims as falsifiable.
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>Trans. Secretary Pete Buttigieg recently recommended that people struggling with gas buy an electric car I got a hybrid , which were discounted when nobody wanted them when gas prices were in the toilet in late 2020. A non-plug-in hybr
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For the sake of argument, let's say that we're not allowed to question the claim that "sleep loss causes Alzheimer's". How is that an explanation? Something has to drive the sleep disorder. It's too vague to
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Do you have an example of a different economic system where people don't have any of those issues?
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>The next time you think to say "correllation does not imply causation" I didn't write that phrase precisely because people turn off their brains and learn nothing from it! It's become worthless. The alternative to A
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You are impressed that someone predicted a war in 2014, and it happened...? I predict there will be a recession in the next 8 years! And another war! I also predict there will be food insecurity in the developing world! And bad things wil
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Remember, anyone can comment here. It doesn't cost a thing and doesn't even require a valid email. Think about that before you go off on your hobby horse about whatever stereotype you despise the most. Anybody you could find on re
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>recent research indicates that a chronic lack of sleep can cause Alzheimer’s Why on earth do people (you're not alone, I know) prefer to assume that direction of causation, rather than that the underlying condition that leads to
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I read about a different midair collision, and what was interesting is that while it seems like one in a zillion chance, with the sky being so big, the way it happened seems much more plausible in hindsight. An airliner saw a small plane, t
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I was told a very long time ago to never sell something short because you have the risk of unlimited loss. But another drawback, from what I read, is that selling something short is taking out a loan, and if something is obviously a very lu

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