thirtyfold8625

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[–] thirtyfold8625@thebrainbin.org 4 points 11 months ago

I suspect that there will be issues occasionally, but I don't think I see any very often. As an example, I got https://archive.is/oc41v as an archive of https://www.reddit.com/r/zelda/comments/1cf6rzl/all_order_to_play_using_a_guide/ just now. Using http://old.reddit.com/ might produce results when using https://www.reddit.com/ didn't.

[–] thirtyfold8625@thebrainbin.org 6 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Is it more important to you to access a game guide or to bypass blocking? There is probably a game guide that you can access without using Reddit.

[–] thirtyfold8625@thebrainbin.org 5 points 11 months ago

I don't recall a time when I had a problem with using https://www.privacyguides.org/en/tor/#tor-browser to see a Reddit page

[–] thirtyfold8625@thebrainbin.org 1 points 11 months ago

This might also express that someone doesn't consider themselves to be "pillarized". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pillarisation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPk-efest5M&t=2276s

[–] thirtyfold8625@thebrainbin.org 1 points 11 months ago

My recollection is that the comment I replied to was "You'd be lucky to keep a job for 30 years to manage to save enough and not die in poverty!" or something similar.

[–] thirtyfold8625@thebrainbin.org 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It seems that there is at least one system that is intended to keep people alive even if they didn't work much.

Because of low wages and interrupted work history, some workers earn modest incomes during their careers. Many of these workers will reach retirement with small private retirement accounts and notional accounts. To ensure that pension reform does not adversely affect these people, the new pension system guarantees an adequate old-age income for all Swedes.

For a single retiree, the guaranteed pension is about $9,000 per year. A married couple, meanwhile, receives about $16,000. This means-tested benefit is phased out according to the income available from the notional account and the private account. The means-testing rules that govern the guaranteed pension are relatively generous, to the extent that about 40 percent of workers are projected to receive at least some income from the safety net program.

I think they aren't quite the same: "buy 1 get 1 free" means that you only get a discount if you remove at least 2 units of inventory from the store. If I wanted to encourage people to clear out shelves in order to make space for new inventory (like an entirely new product or the same product but with more distant expiration dates), I might be inclined to use "buy 1 get 1 free" (or something like "buy 3 get 1 free") rather than just reducing the base price: if someone only gets the discount if they help me clear the shelves it might make our incentives more aligned. A "buy 1 get 1 free" deal might also make it easier to reinterpret statistics: being able to say "we sold 100 units at a price of $2 for each unit (but there was a buy 1 get 1 free deal)" might be more useful than being able to say "we sold 100 units at a price of $1 for each unit". Also, information about who took advantage of the deal and who didn't might be interesting (based on what was bought at the same time or tracked with a "loyalty program"), but a constant discount doesn't make that information available since it applies to everyone equally.

[–] thirtyfold8625@thebrainbin.org 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

In a way, this has already happened with 401(k) plans. In general, making each person's retirement income more easily measured is likely a good thing, since it will probably encourage people to behave in a more prosocial way. https://www.heritage.org/social-security/report/pension-reform-sweden-lessons-american-policymakers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKjHvpiHk3s

 

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