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by xracy 4y ago
Feels like there could be an allowance for a very small amount of overlap. Everyone gets 1. You can have 2 for 6mo. Maybe 1 year? Seems like an easy fix for the case that's reasonable that doesn't require people to subsidize the
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by xracy 4y ago
woooo CityNerd win.
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by xracy 4y ago
What are the "latency" numbers you're talking about on the LV loop? Like, what is the actual metric you're measuring for that, and what's the value you've been quoted for that measure. If you count time waiting
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by xracy 4y ago
I am a Nigerian Prince, and I'm about to come into some wealth, but in order to access these millions of dollars, I need you to give me a small amount. ($10k) If you do, in exchange for your kindness and help unlocking my assets, I wil
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by xracy 4y ago
Everyone here is taking a single example from the article and assuming it applies to all people who use these services. I think the comparison, albeit a bit extreme, is fair given that everyone presupposes there's no good reason to use
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by xracy 4y ago
You're assuming things about the people using these companies for this. What if this is for some essential item (fridge? Smartphone? nice clothes for interview? etc.) Who is the moral arbiter of what kind of debt is/isn't val
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by xracy 4y ago
"victims are well informed about the consequences of borrowing" - Citation Needed. Have you read the terms and conditions of buy-now-pay-later companies? I think the clearest takeaway from this article is that people aren't
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by xracy 4y ago
I like how strong a causal link you have that people have taken anything away from the gov't paying off some of their debt. I think large banks are much more likely to take that message away than individual borrowers...
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by xracy 4y ago
I won't say a lot about the credit card industry... But the one thing they have going for them is that you can't get a credit card without someone with good credit bringing you along. There need to be more ways to build credit...
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by xracy 4y ago
you pay for everything in cold hard cash? Never used a credit card before? Why are credit cards regulated pretty strictly for this, but these loans aren't? That doesn't sound like personal responsibility to me... that sounds like
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by xracy 4y ago
This is exactly the statistic I was wondering about. One of the things that struck me about the original vote was that it was pretty close (~52%-48%). And the funny thing about close votes is how much power the 51st voter gets for their dec
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by xracy 4y ago
I used to think about this as being a problem, but more and more I'm wondering if this is the wrong way to think about renewable capacity? For comparison, for years ISPs have been saying "what would you do with 1 gbps internet spe
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by xracy 4y ago
Feels like the existence of cops writing speeding tickets as an income stream is probably proof of this...
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by xracy 4y ago
ah, I should've known I was having this discussion with someone who is clairvoyant
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by xracy 4y ago
lol, yeah, I definitely don't mean highways :) Highways probably shouldn't have speed limits. Honestly, close to nothing should have a speed limit. How fast you can go on a highway should be entirely decided by how good your visib
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by xracy 4y ago
lol, the deep cut on the logic. Unfortunately, no, I mean that the person is being irrational in their standard of proof.
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by xracy 4y ago
I think that was a reasonable assumption given our understanding of infectious diseases. In hindsight, that was incorrect, but you can't criticize a decision made with limited information with perfect information, and pretend like you
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by xracy 4y ago
I mean, there is no standard of proof that will convince you that the vaccine is better than the virus. But also, I'm not really trying to convince you of anything. I'm just stating why your sources don't say what you think t
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by xracy 4y ago
The parent comment is acknowledging this. They're also admitting this is true for everyone... not just the people you think are bad drivers (everyone is a bad driver). Speed traps don't actually enforce/fix this. They just ma
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by xracy 4y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bglWCuCMSWc&ab_channel=NotJu... This feels like doubling down on something that's not super effective. The way to make traffic slower, is to make road lanes narrower. You can also ad
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by xracy 4y ago
What are the conditions, please list all of them in a way that makes it easy for me to find? What age groups does this affect? I think I have condition Y so I should go get vaccinated, but I have conflicting information on that from multipl
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by xracy 4y ago
Did they also monitor the group of post covid patients who died from covid? i.e. I would think that number has significant survivorship bias.
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by xracy 4y ago
<s> I mean, it's definitely the kind of good constructive criticism that really helps improve the discussion. </s> In all honesty, I will say that pointing out rhetorical styles is probably the least constructive inter
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by xracy 4y ago
> It's recommending it across-the-board that I object to. Early on, the goal was to reach herd immunity while we still had vaccines that were fairly effective at reducing transmission against the variants we had had, before they mut
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by xracy 4y ago
Saving lives is not always about saving your life. You don't live in a vacuum, your decisions affect other people around you. Where your decisions don't affect people around you, you're absolutely correct. But infectious
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by xracy 4y ago
If I'm reading your response correctly you're basically saying "The silver lining that you're talking about wasn't even initiated by these companies, but instead a function of gov't interest/investment.&qu
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by xracy 4y ago
Also, brief note, that you might think you're an emotionless rational machine, but very few people actually respond well to that. So it's important to use everything in your rhetorical toolbox including appeals to emotion to try a
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by xracy 4y ago
If you want my "appeal to numbers" argument, you can see it all over this thread. It seems like I'm getting a continual -2 on votes for all of my arguments just cause I'm coming off as "pro-vaccine". So it doe
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by xracy 4y ago
"Children are not dying from covid." Is a strong claim. And it would be just as backed up as if I were to say "Children are not dying from covid vaccines."
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by xracy 4y ago
EDIT: I wasn't kidding when I said I can play numbers and statistics all day. When you say "VAERS notoriously undercounts", I think you're probably referring to the flu vaccine (where we would have historical data), but

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