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>Nobody is banning you (or your employer) from buying additional private health insurance. Oh?? https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/23/health/private-health-ins... (EDIT Formatting)

Uhhh, the BBC is funded by the UK Government...

Government != Society

Eh, it's still better than most places, even if we do get a little echo-chambery at times.

Tuition is only part of the costs of going to college. There's room & board, books, various course fees and charges that aren't actual tuition.

The best solution to this I've found is the moto Z series of phones. Integrated battery and an external battery that attaches to the back with magnets. I don't really use the other…

>then naturally it will be relatively hard to get rich because there is so much competition. This doesn't follow. The economy is not a zero-sum game. edit: presuming a sufficiently…

What are you basing this assumption on?

Check out Falkon, or Epiphany.

already appears broken.

That's a lot better than existing sat based solutions. if the throughput could get close to 4g speeds I'd see it as a legitimate contender, but there are still some applications it…

>If it isn't being selected, then clearly there's insufficient competition to drive better prices and better packages. No, not everyone is going to have your use patterns or knowle…

Actually they have it rigged so that they get a raise every year, unless they vote not to. Though I'm not sure how you imagine congress could give anyone else a raise, or a pension…

This reminds me of processing. https://processing.org/

You're right about dividends, but payroll comes out before profit calculations.

>elected officials need to form an elite of superior intelligence and ability to comprehend the world This is much less of a problem if you can hold down scope-creep on the role an…

I don't think that's quite how that works. But your point on double-taxation is certainly valid in some contexts.

You are correct. Payroll is part of expenses. Oversimplified: Profit = $Revenue - $Expenses Tax = $profit % $Tax_rate

No, The only portion of revenue that goes to shareholders would be that of profits, and Netflix doesn't pay dividends so none of that money goes to shareholders. It goes to capital…

Individual workers are allowed to do this. In the form of deductions for various types of expenses such as medical and various other deductions. But it means something different to…

This is part of the basis for a recent book by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt. Here's the article that later became the book by the same title: https://www.theatlantic.com/magaz…

>people can't afford to have kids anymore. I don't think this is the issue. It's much more a cultural thing, statistically richer countries have lower birthrates. But getting marri…