mech9879876

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by mech9879876 1y ago
The threshold can be a problem- you don't want the threshold to be too low, or else the brake lights come on when even slight deceleration is occurring. This would give an annoyingly too-common signal that would possibly be disregarded
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by mech9879876 1y ago
I disagree with regard to Hale County. Freeloading behavior became tolerated. The tacit endorsement of it became a cultural norm and it further discouraged productive economic behavior. They have the good fortune of living within a country
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by mech9879876 1y ago
My main intention in my argument was to convince you that moral hazard exists in current social welfare programs. Judging by your statements, you were already aware of this, but rely on discussion points that deny it exists. Starting off an
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by mech9879876 1y ago
Your method of argument relies on lumping all persons into one category. The annoying detail about designing public policy is that policy changes happen on the margin, and it is the marginal cases where moral hazard presents itself first. I
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by mech9879876 1y ago
Aggregating statistics regarding age has very little explanatory value in regards to fraud and is a non sequitir. I would not be surprised if the average age of a convicted insurance fraudster has remained relatively constant over time eith
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by mech9879876 1y ago
You swept the issue of fraudulent social security disability claims under the rug. It seems apparent to me that your attitude toward individual level accountability is one that denies agency of the individual and ascribes their moral failur
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by mech9879876 2y ago
The median voter theorem does some work to dampen the rocking.
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by mech9879876 2y ago
If you were comparing gasoline in a car to an EV I would maybe see what you are talking about- engines are like 30% efficient so the conversion to useful energy requires a large multiple of potential energy. But in the case of an oil- or ga
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by mech9879876 2y ago
in the 5 fatalities, we have: -The crazy man who loaded his cybertruck up with fireworks and killed himself in front of the Trump hotel in las vegas -A cybertruck that ran into a tree, killing 3 people and catching on fire -A cybertruck tha
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by mech9879876 2y ago
It's a lot cheaper to cut the blades out of flat sheet metal and affix the injection molded plastic handles to give a nice 3d sculpted ergonomic handle than it is to cast/forge/machine the ergonomic handle out of steel. For 9
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by mech9879876 2y ago
what a silly idea. Never gonna be economical. Pump water uphill for gravity energy storage. Dont use traincars or elevators or human-built elevated structures.
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by mech9879876 2y ago
I don't know entirely why the Isle of Man TT course is so deadly, but it took another life in 2024. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Isle_of_Man_TT_Mountai...
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by mech9879876 2y ago
Aluminum foil HVAC tape- super awesome tape for sealing air leaks. It is somewhat rigid and formable at the same time. With the way it is formable, it tends to stay in place better than a lot of other tapes when put into strange shapes.