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This is for life insurance, which is a very different product than health insurance.

Health insurance is something that pays for things continuously while you are alive to keep you alive and healthy.

Live insurance pays your beneficiaries (usually people that depend on your salary) when you die.

As a fellow Seattle resident the arguments seem to break down this way: (From the left) 1) Amazon contributed to homelessness by increasing property values by paying too many engineers too much money 2) We don't have an income tax, so that increase in wealth does not come back to pay for services (From the right) 1) Enforcement of laws about sleeping in public spaces is very low so people feel comfortable being homeless here. 2) Increases of property taxes have increased rents leading people to not be able to afford rents (From both left and right) Housing developers are buying up as many cheap places as possible and turning them into high end houses that only the rich can afford muscling out people that could have both those cheaper places.

My take: If you isolate and fixated on one variable being the only cause of a problem, it's pretty easy to create a narrative, but the answer is probably more complicated and the solution is probably even more complicated.

Like these?

https://kingcounty.gov/~/media/depts/transportation/metro/tr...

https://kingcounty.gov/depts/transportation/metro/travel-opt...

As in you don't know you are thirsty or you don't have access to water?

To put into perspective of how tight the Concorde is on space. The Dreamliner that sits in the same room as the Concorde has engines with a fan diameter that is virtually the same size as the diameter of the Concorde's fuselage (112 inches vs 113 inches)

If you just drink when you are thirsty, you should be fine, it has sustained us as a species for a very long time.

I also have a couple of kids and have thought this would be a great side effect of getting a Roomba, but then I always think, after I clean up all the toys running an upright would only add 5% more effort to my total clean up time. Then again maybe that's a nice forcing function.

My guess would be no way for outsiders to access the camera.

I'm not sure how accurate this data is, but it seems to draw a similar conclusion:

https://overflow.solutions/special-projects/each-congression...

There is also the 1994 mid term elections where Kansas republicans picked up 2 congressional seats and the governor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Revolution#House_of...

Though to be fair the state of new york has lower per capita carbon emission than California, though I think that mostly has to do with the density of new york city.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_carbon_...

Typically insurance companies buy insurance against this, it's called reinsurance.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinsurance

I think one of the problems with this idea (which I do find really interesting) is that this type of legislation encourages people the smoke more responsibly rather than encourage people not to smoke, which is what most legislation aims to do in regards to cigarettes. Most likely the thing that would be passed would be a $0.20 tax per butt to pay for clean up and incentivize people to stop smoking.

only slightly related: https://www.cartalk.com/content/cowboy-and-consultant

Looks like king county is getting them for $9/dose:

https://www.jems.com/articles/print/volume-42/issue-6/featur...

The $450 Million was the amount of money they already raised through donations, it's nothing they have to pay back.

It's also easier, NYU med school has ~530 students, NYU undergrad has ~26,000 students

There is time for life outside of residency. My wife started residency with a 5 month old and had another child half way through, this delayed her graduation a total of 4 weeks.

Changing how compensation is structured, would probably be the most effective way to discourage things that might not be needed.

Not just 19th century:

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/seattles-5-million...

less privacy as a design choice seems to be very deliberate

I've been in your camp before, but generally mopeds are legally defined by maximum engine displacement (usually 50cc, though not sure how that works with electric motors) and speed (50km).

I imagine they mean not in a retirement account that has restrictions (penalties for drawing money out early) but also has tax benefits

CNN really loves to write about Millennials and retirement: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=millennials+retirement+site%3Acnn....

My favorites are: https://money.cnn.com/2014/05/02/retirement/retirement-mille... https://money.cnn.com/2015/05/06/retirement/retirement-savin...

written almost exactly a year apart and contradicting the other articles

I know i've said this before, but I'm 90% sure Ford used to have two separate keys. One for the door and ignition and one that only opened the trunk.

It was also covered in the nytimes years ago:

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/16/style/keeping-your-car-sa...

They have done this in Seattle for the first hill streetcar [1], with let's say limited success [2][3]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Hill_Streetcar#Vehicles [2] https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/sdot-pulls-first-hi... [3]https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/transportation/sea...

One way to decrease fear of the others is proximity and familiarity, eventually you stop being others.

Huge disclaimer: This is probably easy for me to say, as I am about as "all american" looking as they come

I've heard this one a bunch, but it seems to be really hard to find the source. The closest I have found was that it was a study done bye Frédéric Brochet for his Phd in oenology (did not know that was a word until today)

http://web.archive.org/web/20070928231853/http://www.academi... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_wine_tasting https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2011/10/you-are-n...

It gets pretty easy to lose your political compass when groups that you don't like start gaining momentum on a cause. In this case reason.com (free market will solve everything) is very opposed environmentalists (we need government to regulate what big business does to protect the environment). Now environmentalists were able to kick start a movement, hey look straw is in this turtle's nose, and the desired result is to get some big legislation passed to further their cause that would even go beyond the scope of banning straws. Now if this happens reason.com could clearly argue against the causes without compromising their thesis; however, in the meantime a free market solution happened quickly that is in line with the group that they don't like, so instead of arguing their thesis (see we don't need legislation, the free market decides)they are arguing against the groups they oppose.

You can see this happen often from both the left and the right.

I'm pretty sure the opposite is true for credit card companies. The wealthy tend to pay down the balance before interest is even charged, while the poor tend to carry balances forever paying mostly interest while getting hit with other fees.

It is true, however, that wealthy people carry much less risk for them so they may have similar expected values (this is just a guess)