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Right, but getting fined in this situation means the government is incompetent. They should just tell retailers the "right" thing to do and not fine any retailers that follow the g…

Agreed: If I was working with a human interior designer I would still want them to provide me a curated list of options on what decor to buy. Blindly trusting a person seems risky,…

A pregnant Irish woman was caught with explosives in her luggage, apparently given to her by her fiancé: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindawi_affair

Yes, but a large component of worse health outcomes is due to bias on the part of healthcare workers. Overweight people frequently have their problems ignored or downplayed, or giv…

The "registry" is signing your name on a sheet of paper on a clipboard - less than 1% more work for the pharmacy employee's overall job, approximately 0 new jobs created.

I don't understand the distinction you are making: two couples (4 people) meeting at a restaurant is, to me, equally social as one couple going to another couple's house to eat din…

You aren't arguing against what I wrote: an investor currently pays no tax on their own stock going up. I'm suggesting if an investor in NVIDIA uses their $100 Million in stock tha…

Death already is a taxable event though?

Not really, nobody goes "ooh, the stock price is up 5% this year, we can hire 5% more employees!" Most stock wealth isn't doing anything for the company. If the stock price of Appl…

Why would you earn a credit? You created a tax event and paid taxes on it and you got a loan for x% of $100. If you sell the stock at $80 you'd pay no taxes on the appreciation (-$…

Getting a loan against assets is another way of "using" it, so why not make that a taxable event? Just like now your stock value would not be taxed while it is invested. But now it…

Calling any of this "radical" is rather dramatic and framing it as "obedience" misses the point. If someone says "My name is spelled e. e. cummings" then writing it "E. E. Cummings…

Right: most systems with paper ballots are simple enough that the vast majority of the electorate, including those with lower-than-average IQ's (50% of the population), can underst…

Right, if you are swimming in multiple events then it doesn't necessarily make sense to swim as hard as you can in the early events if that is going to tire you out for the latter …

If you have a decimal then you should store it as a Decimal type, not a float nor an int. This is why Decimal types exist - the fact that most programming languages don't have a na…

"x is worth more than gold" means the price per unit of weight of x is greater than that of gold. What are you trying to achieve by arguing that a common turn of phrase doesn't mea…

Why? That would be expensive and the cars are designed to understand the lights as they are.

The possibility of "character" is always my biggest dread when getting into a taxi or an Uber. I just want to get from point A to point B without having to make small talk or delic…

The biggest reason people loose muscle mass as they age is due to lack of use, so a built environment that encourages walking is going to help keep people in shape to walk as they …

If we truly listen to the pronunciation of small children they often substitute easier sounds for difficult ones for many years. We just expect that from children so it seems norma…

Very true when it comes to antisemitic views: only 1 in 10 Russians would be ok having a Jewish friend. "In a Levada Center poll, for instance, 45 percent of Russians said they had…

Statistically safe maybe, but speaking for Manhattan the streets have plenty of unsavory and seemingly-unsafe people around. I have a close friend who worked at an office a block a…

I'm glad they do: the more people drive electric the cleaner the air is that I breathe.

Or what if we trained more nurse practitioners and PAs so we needed fewer doctors (proportional to the population)?

Where do all the trained doctors go though? If 1 person trains 6, then in a few years you now have 7 trained doctors who could either train 42 more or, if given half the workload, …