I built an alternative to popular social networks because I was sick of the unending enshittification of instagram. Every UX change in recent years intended to make their app more addictive to teenagers has made me want to use it less, but I don't want to lose contact with the actual people that are close to me. First it was stories to make it your job to open the app every day, and then...
Economic freedom is a necessary but not sufficient condition for political freedom.
That said, I had an experience recently where the chatbot replaced the phone tree that led to a human and it was very helpful.
Luxury housing is exempt from rent-control laws in places where those exist.
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Are pre-emptive pardons a common thing for American presidents to do?
Then why do people give them money?
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Definable numbers like 2, pi, or Chaitin's constant [0] are countable. The reals are only uncountable because of numbers we can't even talk about.
This official version differs quite a bit from the original gun game though and it is not as fun.
It's not a theory. Firms trade internationally because it's cheaper, not because they "believe" in free markets.
> But government (society) can take a longer term view than a company that is influenced by pricing signals
Private markets routinely make multi-decade bets; entire industries (mining, energy, infrastructure, biotech) work on 20–100 year horizons. Risk and time are already priced in.
> Free market works in theory because you assume complete information
Free markets don’t "assume" anything; they function through decentralized price signals. And even with imperfect information, dispersed actors still aggregate and react to knowledge far better than any central planner can.
I don't understand how that factors in. It said my score was 34/40 but really it was 34/35. The rest I didn't know and I selected that I didn't know them.
What are they?
The long term effects of obesity are very well known though and unlikely to be better than any still unknown negative effect semaglutide might have.
No you don't. For one, if you are insured that is not a possibility. And 100% of the people I know who are not insured save more money than insurance would cost them given their incomes are higher and taxes lower than Germany. They choose to accept the risk because they are relatively young and healthy. All of them could cut down on luxuries and pay for insurance if they wanted to.
I once took an ambulance to the wrong ER, not understanding that I had to go to one that took my insurance. When the hospital found out my insurance wasn't going to pay, they lowered the bill by 90% and it was completely manageable.
Meanwhile in Canada I have family members that have to wait nerve-racking months for life-saving procedures or even imaging. In the US, I've had a few MRIs the same week the nurse practitioner ordered them for things that were absolutely not urgent.
That has not been the case at all in the countries that did go that route. The US system has serious issues but I would take it over Canada's any day.