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by zjaffee 7y ago
I absolutely believe that removing it from gasoline is a big factor, but I think it's often over emphasized in the context of today. Cleveland has twice the prevalence of lead paint over any other big city in the united states, yet has
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The manufacturing cost of an iphone is closer to 400 dollars, the cost of manufacturing doubling would be a huge hit to apple.
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Compute being a commodity doesn't matter when storage has significant lock in, with cheaper prices for using the localized storage service of a particular cloud provider. Even if moving a containerized application across cloud services
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I promise you this isn't true, maybe over the long term the value add services will be higher margin, but for most of the big players right now the margins are in the core infrastructure aspects like standard storage and compute.
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This is an inaccurate assessment, even in states like WA where all voting is done by mail and you have few weeks to actually do it, young people don't vote as much.
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You're describing liberals who may often feel that way, liberals are absolutely not leftists (where by the standard international definition of left/right politics, both the democratic party and the republican party are liberal pa
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There is absolutely a difference between middle and working class people. To suggest there isn't is a complete lack of understanding with regards to what it means to be working class. By definition middle class people work, it's i
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SuperUser is enabled by default on openJDK, but it's incredibly simplistic vectorizations being done as can be seen in the article the person above posted.
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The Cadillac insurance plan tax has never gone into effect and has been pushed back a few times now, and truthfully is unlikely to ever be implemented. This said, the tax on these sorts of plans are absolutely necessary with regard to contr
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The real issue generally speaking is people with union negotiated healthcare tend to really like their health insurance because in at least certain cases, they're getting Cadillac plans that give them a one up on seeing the best doctor
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There's two proven paths to do this on different ends of the spectrum. The first is single payer which has proven implementation and is able to lower costs by directly controlling prices. The second is what Switzerland does which is wh
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But you also have to pay both sides of the payroll tax, I'd be surprised to learn that this ends up being true.
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This is an absolutely horrible argument, housing (namely multifamily housing) doesn't apply the same rules of economies of scale that other consumer durables do both due to natural capital costs and the inability to prefabricate huge p
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by zjaffee 7y ago
I saw him speak a few years back, and he called for radical ideas, like suggesting the entire concept of a publicly traded company as we know it allows companies to throw their hands in the air in regards to their ethics in regards to the e
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by zjaffee 7y ago
> It is, however, a great example of how non-market forces can create worse, environmentally inefficient, undesirable outcomes by submitting what should be private choices to mob rule. There is no evidence that this is the case though. T
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by zjaffee 7y ago
The value of this is the law currently dictates that parking spaces must be provided on a per unit basis to the person living in the unit. This would often relate to not being able to split out the cost of parking from the cost of the apart
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by zjaffee 7y ago
I have to completely disagree with you here in terms of parking. Cities absolutely need to do significant transportation planning or you get the mess that exists throughout huge portions of the developing world. Even Los Angeles with it&#x2
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by zjaffee 7y ago
It depends on what you mean by HFT, if you mean prop trading, that was made illegal by Dodd Frank for large cap businesses to engage in with investor funds. If you mean market making HFT (which some prop firms also do), that's what thi
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This isn't true, Canadian's have private insurance for pharmaceuticals that isn't a part of their broader single payer system for standard healthcare. As a matter of fact, the current proposed medicare for all bill, would go
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This is a very important point, the price of pharmaceuticals in the US is an incredibly complicated and convoluted thing. While every year it appears as if drug prices rise an unreasonable amount, that is only for the uninsured, and ignores
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by zjaffee 7y ago
Studies show that more housing means more traffic, unless there's a plan to demolish housing in the suburbs alongside building up the urban core nothing will improve.
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I grew up near that whole foods, and you have to remember that when the store opened there was not a single grocery store near by that was nearly as large and as good as that one. Hell, the mall that it's in might look less high end th
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by zjaffee 7y ago
The article seems to be describing this as if it's a new idea, but at least in my experience, when you walk through some of the more world class hospitals (The Cleveland Clinic comes to mind), there is clearly a tremendous amount of th
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I'm sorry but your response is not based at all in historical fact. A huge part of forcing a governments hand to do the right thing is having corporations and other businesses not work with them (one example is the fall of apartheid in
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Zuckerberg definitely does, there are pictures of him with tape over his webcam, microphones taped, ect.
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Ideally bringing the old bottle somewhere to get it refilled.
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Carbon taxes end up being a regressive tax on the poor (not entirely, but marginally), especially given that poorer folks are often forced to commute longer distances and live in less well insulated and modernized homes. An approach that fo
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Governments and Corporations will never do anything without strong demand from individuals. Individuals however are completely unable to solve climate change through daily personal decisions, it has to come from large institutions. All in a
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Tax payers wouldn't have to pay for anything, the only impact would be potentially on credit ratings of the government and possibly also certain interest rates in a minimal way. You can create market rate housing with government subsid
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I'd argue that democracy doesn't matter nearly as much as constitutional freedoms of assembly, speech (to a certain degree), independent press, ect. China still fears protest/revolution and will work in such a way that benefi

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