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I'd be willing to pay for UBI if the people receiving perform work for it at market rates (not artificial minimum wages). Otherwise it's armed robbery​.

If only the US had decent coverage!

Prices are driven on the margins - that is the last transaction

Comes in cycles, always has - certainly more severe due to nature and more people on this last go-around.

I remember in elementary school being taught how to properly brush our teeth and conserve because the drought at the time - decades ago.

I wasn't questioning right or wrong of socialized medicine, just calling out what ultimately happens and the viewpoint of those who truly control/manage the system

People with poor genetic dispositions are significant cost to our socialized healthcare systems - this is the end game and always will be when costs are shared or mostly paid by someone that is not you.

In the benefactor's view there are a few actors crashing their cars everyday and others who have never had a ticket - currently they're all paying the same.

We're at a point where there is so much technological, cultural, malicious disruption that people don't know how to live anymore and are trying to find their way on the fly or based on some diet/lifestyle du jour.

Yes personal responsibility and all, but we've made it awful easy to fall into this trap.

It's hard to say how much of what Gates says/does is truly what he believes or is a branding exercise for legacy purposes. The robot taxation seems like populist appealing nonsense...

Would take much longer for condensation to evaporate at room temperature

Raised chickens for some time. Noticed my eggs would "sweat" when I'd take them out of the refrigerator vs store bought which do nothing at all; after a time at room temperature they'd reabsorb. I'd imagine that's pretty dangerous if you're running a cesspool operation - pulling in liquid contaminated by whatever is on the shell.

If you have a Nexus Android phone, just change to guest mode or add another user. It's a seldom used feature and limits what people can see or do with your primary account - inspectors are unlikely to know as it's fairly low-key when users are swapped

Agreed on the deal with the devil notion.

Jumping on the anti-Trump wagon is the virtue signal du jour, but care should be taken as Trump is not a one-off event - it is a worldwide trend

Says Tesla who bet the farm on lithium-based batteries.

There are better processes and chemistries hitting the market in the next year - they just need to reach volume.

Agreed m9 was due and the p320 is a great weapon. But $17mm and two year trials is silly for pistols that were largely already on the market.

One angle to make housing affordable is to outlaw mortgage products beyond 15 years (along with ARMs), require 20% down, and eliminate the tax deduction on interest - of course you can't do this overnight.

Housing is a basic necessity and we need to get the rampant speculation and financialization out - we're all stuck in this game of musical houses waiting for the music to stop.