Most immigrants I know, including myself, get sent "shopping lists" by our families abroad because the US is a notoriously cheap place to be a consumer. Especially compared to poor countries.
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https://www.classdefenseblog.com/2015/12/supreme-court-holds...
Wouldn't it have the opposite effect? Quebec subsidized a local industry and lost.
Why?
This episode of radiolab goes into some theories about the process of fox domestication and hypothesizes that something similar might have occurred in humans.
I don't remember it in enough detail to summarize, but it's a fascinating listen.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/russian-hackers-stole-nsa-data-...
>The hackers appear to have targeted the contractor after identifying the files through the contractor’s use of a popular antivirus software made by Russia-based Kaspersky Lab, these people said.
It's speculative in the sense that we weren't there, but the information comes from the same source as all of those facts.
Edit: citation http://athena.cornell.edu/mars_facts/sb_launch_window.html
Except for the racial discrimination that all sounds reasonable, and racial discrimination is avoidable[0]. Car insurance costs more depending on where you live, what kind of car you have, your age, your education, your driving history, etc. I recently looked into getting a car and decided against it because cost of parking + insurance + depreciation was greater than renting every other weekend. I don't believe driving is less essential a right than gun ownership.
> Shooting something/someone you shouldn't be shooting is incredibly rare
A large portion of violent crime is committed with stolen weapons.[1] I believe the original owner should be liable if the weapon wasn't properly secured.
From the OP: "Two-thirds of gun deaths in the United States every year are suicides. Almost no proposed restriction would make it meaningfully harder for people with guns on hand to use them." Key phrase - guns on hand. Guns are a highly effective and impulse-friendly suicide method.
"Various studies of survivors of suicide have calculated that as many as two-thirds of those who reported suicidal behavior did not plan their attempt...About half of those did so within 20 minutes, and three-quarters of suicide attempts occurred within an hour."[2]
Also from OP: "And the last notable group of similar deaths was the 1,700 women murdered per year, usually as the result of domestic violence." A world where a woman is beaten instead of shot because there isn't a gun in the house, or the gun isn't easily accessible is a world where that woman survives and can seek help. It's not a good world, but it's better.
Imagine a gun safe that opens one hour after you put in the code. Still accessible for deliberate action, while drastically reducing the cost of impulsive violence.
P.S. The racial discrimination link is a good read, check it out.
[0] https://research.google.com/bigpicture/attacking-discriminat...
[1] http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-parsons-stolen-gu...
[2] https://www.bradycampaign.org/the-link-between-suicide-and-g...
Personally I'm a proponent of mandatory gun insurance and owner liability. This would align incentives to reduce gun violence: safe storage, less lethal rounds & weapons, mental health checks, trainings, age-tied pricing, etc.
It won't stop all gun violence, but nothing short of a constitutional amendment can even get us close to stopping all gun violence.
No, the goal is to make more money. Relevant is a sometimes side effect. The "right users" might also be the ones that are drunk, or emotionally vulnerable, or just got paid, or won at blackjack, or etc.
If lightning had struck a few houses over, would I have cashed out or held? I suspect I would have cashed out most of them around $1k. Why did you hold?
[0] https://wallethub.com/edu/states-with-the-best-schools/5335/
Edit: or rather, it would limit false positives that show up as a result of accidental p-value hacking, if not the process itself.
Insurance. Uber/airbnb/rover/etc. provide insurance for both parties. To me that's a critical value add - I want to know that if my dog sitter leaves some chocolate around I won't be out a few grand. The more important the task, the more likely I am to stick with an insured party.