nelsnelson

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by nelsnelson 3mo ago
Devaluing the stock market would be a good idea since it would detach people's retirement funding from the decisions made by mobs of speculative gamblers. But would require a return to pension funds or some other collective funding.
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by nelsnelson 3mo ago
Shares do not require sales to achieve more equitable distribution. They merely require dilution.
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by nelsnelson 11mo ago
Obvious false equivalency fallacy. Everyone you don't like is Hitler. Democracy is not just when more than one "party". Just because a fascist or fascist adjacent party is disallowed, does not mean democracy is absent.
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by nelsnelson 1y ago
Completely ignores externalized costs, and focuses entirely on purely end-user retail costs to operate, not even vendor internal operational costs. Can't even find the words "energy" or "electricity" or "scale&
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by nelsnelson 1y ago
This is suddenly a too-online conversation. Please do go be always kind to murderers. Society is definitely better off without anybody agreeing to value respect for human life and dignity -- just so generic and subjective! Too hard to get a
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by nelsnelson 1y ago
In practice there are always exceptions to everything. You don't be kind to murderers, for instance. Kindness isn't really a value, though. Shared values are simply things that people decide are important for a society to functio
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by nelsnelson 1y ago
Seems like a not difficult and quite worthwhile exercise to come up with at least one or two values that are so basic and fundamental that everyone could share them. Maybe that's what OP is talking about. Why be obtuse about shared v
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by nelsnelson 3y ago
What reason might that be? Oh, because you think they are dumber than you? Well they are going to have to suffer the consequences of your smarty-pants bad decisions for way longer than you, so I say, we give them a vote proportional to the
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by nelsnelson 4y ago
You people are seriously some of the very worst kind of people. Being a relentless and unstoppable proxy for an infinite set of mailing lists from which you can never be removed is pure insidiousness. Shame on anyone who goes to work for yo
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by nelsnelson 5y ago
https://i.imgur.com/vpBRAjJ.png
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by nelsnelson 7y ago
Medicare for All covers pretty much everything. "All Americans would have coverage for comprehensive health care services, including hospital stays; emergency room visits; doctor visits; substance use disorder treatment; dental, vision
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by nelsnelson 7y ago
Yes. "All Americans would have coverage for comprehensive health care services, including hospital stays; emergency room visits; doctor visits; substance use disorder treatment; dental, vision, and mental health services; long-term car
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by nelsnelson 7y ago
It is worth mentioning that if the Senate bill version of Medicare for All becomes the law of the land, then previously employer-funded healthcare becomes one less thing for union leaders to have to negotiate with employers.
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by nelsnelson 7y ago
If they are the most demanded skills in tech, then do practitioners command the highest compensation for those skills?
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Internet Atlas maps the physical internet to enhance security(news.wisc.edu)
104 points by nelsnelson 9y ago|41 comments