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Now everyone wants to have a video call for things that used to be emails or slack conservations.

A country can have a fine legal system for locals that's difficult or prohibitively expensive to access for non-citizens living outside the country.

So the only way your scenario works out is if the Senate has 70 or so members from the party opposing the President. A split like that is very unlikely.

Then the President told the crowd at the rally to march with him to the capitol to pressure Congress into overturning the election results.

People then marched down to the capitol, broke into it, killed a police officer, and forced congress to evacuate. When asked why, rioters stated they were trying to prevent Congress from certifying the results.

It was a failed attempt at a coup, and a very bad attempt at a coup. It was still an attempt though.

The problem with the situation is that doctors don't need to do that every time they change jobs.

The narcolepsy issue was never going to be uncovered before it was rolled out large scale.

At the very least you’d need to massively increase the term length of Congress. Radical swings back and forth every 2 years would be a nightmare for planning anything.

It would also basically ensure that any policy that took more than a few years to make a positive impact was doa.

2. Dental x-rays are more often than not elective procedures. It's much easier to comparison shop elective procedures than emergency procedures. Therefore market forces frequently compel the dentist to come up with an up front cost for an x-ray.

The same market forces don't apply to hospitals because you can't wait a week or more while you shop around for treatment for a shattered hip.

A broken tooth is a much less complex injury than a broken arm. In many cases you don't even need to be a dentist to diagnose it. Try walking into a dentist office with a more complex injury that could involve multiple different dental specialties and severe underlying complications. You aren't going to get an immediate upfront price.

>without establishing that Sweden had bad compliance with mask wearing.

I think what you're seeing is that it's taken as a given because no one is claiming the opposite. Many of the people stating this live in Sweden, and it's obviously not hard to walk around in public and take notice of the fact that very few people are wearing masks

Here's a few articles with reports from people living in Sweden estimating that less than 10% of people wear masks in public [3,4].

[1] http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2020-08/22/c_139308631.htm [2] https://twitter.com/YouGov/status/1279755135892234241/photo/... [3] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/comment/sweden-really-lik... [4] https://www.aier.org/article/masks-in-sweden/

>Death rates, for example, at a naive guidance look worse for Spain.

Spain is about 4 times as densely populated as Sweden, you'd expect spread and death rates for a communicable disease to be higher.

"while many of the available interventions work, mask mandates stand out for their effectiveness and relative lack of economic tradeoffs. “Mandatory mask policies seem to be as effective as policies that have higher costs,” says Tookes."

The article is saying that mandating masks has a positive impact, but recommending them does nothing.

As of October--How often have you worn a face mask outside your home to protect yourself or others from coronavirus?

Sweden:

Always------- 4.3%

Not at all-- 76.7%

Spain:

Always------ 95.8%

Not at all-- 0.3%

For an example, I was driving through rural Alabama, which has a state wide mask mandate, and at every convivence store I stopped in, everyone was masked. Right next door in Georgia, which has the opposite of statewide mask mandate (the governor made local mandates illegal), almost no one was masking.

The same is true for my home county. There's a mask mandate--everyone wears a mask. Move one county over--no mandate and almost no masks.

This was in the context of the optics of 'suing their students'. So you serve the student, pay a lawyer to appear in court to ask for a default judgement, then student offers a defense, and a judge potentially grants the judgement. There's functionally no difference with respect to optics.

Also ISAs have not been heavily litigated, so no one really knows what would happen if a company tries to enforce them.

The max you will have to pay is 10% of your discretionary income (10% of income above 1.5x the poverty level).

For some reason this isn't widely known on HN.

A arbitration agreement isn't enough to get a bank or an employer to hand over any money from the student.

The higher rates only apply to money over the threshold.

Lambda school works the way many people think the US tax system works (but doesn’t). When you make over X, all of your money is taxed at Y. So it’s better to make X - 1 than X + 1.

And much of the safety testing hasn’t been skipped. The vaccine went through full phase 2/3 trials. The post trial surveillance phase was shortened, but it’s still ongoing.

Sarah and Bob make clocks, but sometimes they make hats, and sometimes they make screws, or hammers, or lamps. And sometimes the things they make get sold to customers, but sometimes other employees take them home, sometimes they make parts for each other to use when making bigger projects, and often they help each other and other employees out on unrelated projects. And sometimes they do repairs too. Oh yeah they also paint portraits that hang up around the office.

Try coming up with a measurement for their individual productivity that is easy enough to be useful, hard to game, and cheap enough to make it worth the price.

The first step is to figure out how to measure the value of all the stuff they make...