Aunche

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by Aunche 13d ago
I agree overall. That said, there isn't really a difference between 14th Street and the other nearby numbered streets in Manhattan. Market Street connects 2 different grids and doesn't have a clean alternative.
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by Aunche 20d ago
> Chinese acquaintances are rather horrified by how, in the US, cops can use state surveillance systems to stalk women and get away with it and people regularly end up homeless due to medical bills. This sounds more a product of censorsh
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by Aunche 22d ago
This is a settlement between Meta and 48 states. Individuals can still sue them for harm, and one notable case had them pay 4.2 million. There are hundreds of thousands of claims pending. The federal government still has the ability to sue
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by Aunche 29d ago
> rhetoric about needing to copy-paste big parts from other countries distracts from how achievable it is When have you ever heard "rhetoric" that actually brings up the details of how universal healthcare would actually implem
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by Aunche 1mo ago
Medicare also isn't something that you can copy paste from covering only old people to everyone. For one, margins from Medicare patients are much lower and often negative for hospitals, and that money has to come from somewhere. Medica
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by Aunche 1mo ago
That's their point. Congress isn't going to get $10 million from providing universal healthcare (at least for any system that is any good), so they have no incentive to pass it. The year the ACA passed, Democrats suffered one of t
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by Aunche 1mo ago
People talk about policies like they're something like can be picked up off the shelf at supermarket. If you could take the policies and Sweden copy-paste them to the US, then sure, we could save $1T and a hundred thousand lives. This
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by Aunche 1mo ago
> I can't help but shake the feeling that the federal reserve is here for the wealthy, the bankers, and not for the rest of us Kashkari was part of the minority opinion. The Fed voted to keep rates steady, so I guess that means that
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by Aunche 2mo ago
Our building installed destination dispatch system to their elevators and it seems to help overall. However, it breaks when say a team wants to get lunch together, but only one person presses the elevator button. The elevator thinks that it
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by Aunche 2mo ago
The ocean breathes in and out too. Very little carbon sinks down to the sea floor. The ocean does happen to absorb a lot of CO2, but that's from acidification rather than photosynthesis.
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by Aunche 2mo ago
At your job, would you like your 1 on 1s to be publicly available to the world? Are you even able to have a productive discussion when you're second guessing how other may react to what you're saying? Now imagine you're a pol
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by Aunche 2mo ago
It's not as if being elected is the end all and be all to being a politician. Politicians have a vague idea of how they want to shape society, but they can't be experts in completely unrelated subjects of healthcare, military, AI
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by Aunche 2mo ago
Lobbying expenditures are given to lobbyists not politicians. You're primarily paying for the salary of some humanities or social science majors and their travel expenses, which isn't that much money. This should be a basic fact.
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by Aunche 2mo ago
What exactly are they trying to accomplish? I doubt they would just abandon the project. They would just redo the concrete which would emit even more emissions.
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by Aunche 2mo ago
The problem is that affirmative action creates more opportunities to think about race, which leads to more resentment and discrimination. For example, in America, Italians used to be discriminated against, but today they are basically treat
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by Aunche 2mo ago
Legacy and donor admissions aren't the gotcha against race neutral admissions that you think they are. In fact, they go hand in hand. It's not a coincidence that the universities with strong legacy preferences all practiced affirm
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by Aunche 2mo ago
Just because it's considered acceptable doesn't mean that you can't get in trouble for it down the line if you get the wrong people upset. "Acceptable" bribery goes far beyond giving a gift to your underpaid doctor.
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by Aunche 2mo ago
> If you get caught in China, Vietnam, or Singapore the penalties for white collar criminals is zero tolerance. LOL. Bribery is basically required in China for anyone with a medium sized business. Otherwise, you'll be indefinitely b
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by Aunche 2mo ago
It's easy to appear anti-corruption if you have complete control your country's internet and almost as much control of your country's internet.
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by Aunche 3mo ago
I don't think it's the promo process itself. If the bug was something that actually affects Google's bottom line, I guarantee that Google would find a way such that the engineer would be incentivized to fix it.
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by Aunche 3mo ago
> What is the goal when you start arguing with someone online? Is that goal achievable? I'm sure this is some sort of confirmation bias, I've noticed fewer stupid talking points for topics where I argue about online. I doubt it
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by Aunche 3mo ago
How much of this is actually drawn in Japan though? A lot of the drawing ends up being outsourced to places with cheaper labor like the Philippines.
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by Aunche 3mo ago
The new laws in the US don't require any real verification. Parents who care will just select a flag on device/OS setup that gets passed to websites. They can also just lie if they really want to. In the EU, they are trying to ver
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by Aunche 3mo ago
The reason all the communist powers switched to capitalism is because they too realized that people with purely selfish intentions can unintentionally help society by satisfying market demands. Just because capital is happy to take advantag
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by Aunche 3mo ago
There is a tax loophole where you buy a lot of land and donate 90% of it to the government to be "public parkland". However, in actuality, you're the only person who has convenient access to this land and nobody else can buil
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by Aunche 4mo ago
I'm sure that they have a fatter margin on the the iPhone, but the iPhone does cost quite a bit more to manufacture. Cellular itself is probably $50 or so. The iPad has more material, so you may perceive you're getting more "
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by Aunche 4mo ago
The oil is on Alaska/Norway's land, so they can choose what they want to do with money from selling that oil including distributing it or purchasing assets. Sanders seem to be proposing to arbitrarily seize half of the companies.
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by Aunche 4mo ago
Yet progressives say that he would be "moderate" in Europe.
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by Aunche 4mo ago
> like just setting up proper parental controls on a device This is literally what is being written into California law. The OS will have an "age flag" that is configured at device setup that passed to other apps. The law expli
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by Aunche 4mo ago
People had no problem starting clinics in the past and they probably could today if they really wanted to, but there is little incentive to for the past few decades while the stock market has been booming. Why spend 80 hours a week struggli

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