KekDemaga

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by KekDemaga 9y ago
The reason the government doesn't do that is talented people don't want to work for them. Virtually all the government jobs are union and pay is primarily based on time served. You'd be getting third rate talent at best.
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by KekDemaga 9y ago
>The government is also not operated on a for-profit basis incentivizing doing the bare minimum level of security to shield yourself from liability. No instead they hire contractors for that purpose.
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by KekDemaga 9y ago
>And you long for the day when it's your particular brand of racism and sexism that wins? Beautifully put, the solution to sexism isn't more sexism.
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by KekDemaga 9y ago
The government is at least equally incompetent if not more so, at least if a private entity screws up you can sue.
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by KekDemaga 9y ago
"Ignoring your completely made up percentiles" You are right, I didn't know the median income moved so much last year. US Median income = 59,039[0] = the top .2% globally[3] Average US Worker Pay = 44,148[2] = the top .43% gl
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by KekDemaga 9y ago
You know in movies where the villain rich kid goes to a nice upper middle class home and calls the place a dump? That's what the global poor (as in virtually everyone on the planet) see when western "poor people" complain. It
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by KekDemaga 9y ago
That perception becomes even more laughable when you realize that the 51 year old female in question is in the top .3% of income globally, while the "permanent underclass" are in the .4% - .8%.
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by KekDemaga 9y ago
"No check, no tech." is something I use often.
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by KekDemaga 9y ago
Wouldn't that mean it's less of a capitalism problem and more of a problem generally since it hasn't been solved in any other economic system in practice?
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by KekDemaga 9y ago
>It really is remarkable how efficient capitalism is at ensuring that proles are born with nothing and die with nothing. Compared to what?
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by KekDemaga 9y ago
An objective test removes the power of picking winners and losers from the academics, they will never allow that to happen.
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by KekDemaga 9y ago
Free proxy and CGI proxy alone used to generate lots of fake results. As "start using cgiproxy" is the title of a cgiproxy page you'd typically get less false positives.
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by KekDemaga 9y ago
"start using cgiproxy" used to be all you needed back in my day.
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by KekDemaga 9y ago
I never thought about it before but wouldn't bringing more people into the first world increase global carbon output?
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by KekDemaga 9y ago
I had no idea facebook was operating in that space.
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by KekDemaga 9y ago
Hospitals are forced to provide services in emergencies like the situation you described, so it's more like "fuck you, don't pay any of the bills we send you and it will be off of your credit score within seven years" Mu
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by KekDemaga 9y ago
>It would be nice if we went back to business models where companies sell products to their end users and not sell their end users to others. If you include services in that you are talking about what, 98% of economic activity currently?
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by KekDemaga 9y ago
Don't want to remind the states that they have the option, they might vote in term limits or remove money from politics.
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by KekDemaga 9y ago
How did your wife and kids take it when you lost your house and you all had in move in with your mother?
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by KekDemaga 9y ago
"What myopic lives they had 1000 years ago" - Future historians reading this blog post
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by KekDemaga 9y ago
Flood insurance can be revoked in the way you describe but it is a federal matter not a Texas one.
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by KekDemaga 9y ago
But I'm talking about deaths, I have yet to see even one case yet this is supposedly an epidemic. Sorry if I'm not convinced by statistical handwaving.
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by KekDemaga 9y ago
So according to your response they don't die from a doctor refusing to provide care as much as they die from fear of bankruptcy? Aren't they poor? So isn't it safe to assume they don't have tons of assets to lose when ba
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by KekDemaga 9y ago
Because I'm responding to "Then why are people having to go without prescription medication they can't afford?"
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by KekDemaga 9y ago
Certainly 10 specific cases would be an easy find right? Seriously go look. You can't find them. Studies like this claim cases like "well if we found this cancer earlier" but I'm looking for "he couldn't afford
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by KekDemaga 9y ago
45,000!?! you should easily be able to point out say 10 specific cases where lack of access to a drug killed someone in the last year right?
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by KekDemaga 9y ago
Have any examples of deaths? Should be thousands available.
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by KekDemaga 9y ago
Why not give to charity? That's what I do.
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by KekDemaga 9y ago
I had a software company put me into their newsletter list once.
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by KekDemaga 9y ago
Also no one: "let's fix it so it won't crash constantly"

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