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392karma·39submissions·January 12, 2025
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Some states have "alcohol-exclusion laws" which make it possible for insurers to deny coverage if you had a car accident while intoxicated. I guess that might be one explanation?
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yes agree, kinda clickbaity title: "we found insurance fraud in our crash data" end of post: "Does this prove fraud? Absolutely not." lmao
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On this topic, I can't recommend enough the movie "The life of Others" (2006). Depicts surveillance in Eastern Germany and the state of sheer fear and paranoia its citizens had to live …
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Again, gini coefficients or GDP growth measures are, at best, proxies to understand the conditions the bottom decile of your country lives in. Looking at housing costs, life expectancy, food insecurit…
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Switzerland and Afghanistan have an almost equal Gini coefficient. My point is: the Gini coefficient might indicate what your country's income distribution looks like, it however does not tell an…
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Only 30% of americans voted for him. Yes, that's quite a share of people ready to vote for a convicted criminal, but not to the point where I would say that the U.S. population showed actual agen…
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A seamless, drop-in replacement, for all python users is actually a pretty good feat tbh
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The mistake this post makes is thinking that sole engineering effort is what makes startup win. Most of the things you build will end up in the trash can anyway. But what matters is what you get while…