The details of how this is done seems to matter quite a bit, and if I'm reading this[0] right, if the officers have the discretion about when to turn them on or off use of force might be higher compared to no body cams.
One thing I haven't seen in the discussion is the effect of the tax on the distribution of outcomes.
I'm not sure what the latest numbers are, but if 90% of startups are near 0 return for founders, and 1% are the home run swings which made it worth starting the company to begin with - then when do proposals affect the expected value for starting a company. This notebook doesn't show anything other than 'if you were going to make a bunch, you'll still have more than zero' which isn't useful.
Startups are in the land of "fat tails" - so talking about a policy saying it's fine for for most people since the people at the extreme in the fat tail are doing fine seems to be thinking under-critically.
If I can continue your analogy (though I admit it's a little confusing) - if a gang member is caught breaking the law and we have another law preventing prosecution, let's fix that bug.
Structural issues which create gangs need to be addressed, and it's true that convicting the gang members might detract from the need for those structural reform, but enforcing laws is still a part of the incentive system we have to encourage people to not break the law.
We should fix structural issues, but that doesn't mean we need to leave clear bugs in tact to increase pressure on fixing those issues.
When you say 'as long as the end user is not financially benefitting' - is the end user the lab conducting the test?
You said in an earlier comment that the reimbursement for testing is too low to justify buying expensive equipment. You are also proposing to charge half the reimbursed rate for it to run on someone else's equipment.
Are the current equipment owners expected to donate this crucial equipment, because if they are the bottleneck, shouldn't they be the ones compensated to encourage more equipment to be made available?
$15 is half the price of even the bare minimum qPCR kits (e.g., TaqPath). We need to buy the reagents from NEB, IDT, and others and work with a contract manufacturer to mix it into a reaction. Reagent, manufacturing, quality control, and fulfillment cost already add up to ~$11/reaction. That does not take into account any costs associated with developing the assay, supporting the assay, getting it through EUA, customer service, bioinformatics help. And we have to pre-pay for all of the reagent costs in the anticipation of the volume. I anticipate that we will likely end up net negative with this work, and even if it ends up being slightly net positive, it will not impact our valuation in a positive way.
The current equipment owners are already the clinical laboratories. It is unused capacity for them. Other owners are sequencing service providers. The full cost of running an end-to-end Sanger reaction as a provided service is $2-$6, so at the $50 reimbursement price, the laboratories will still be incentivized.
This equipment isn't something a hospital has unless they have a serious desire to do top notch genetic disorder testing, and that kind of hospital is going to use the equipment for this cause. The Abbot machine is something practices with much harder financial constraints have to seriously worry about paying for.
The innovation is personalized hydrogels built to avoid rejection, not the induced pluripotent stem cells which were re-differentiated into things. The key was the structural materials which hold those cells.
That makes sense but is hydrogel rejection really a thing? I thought hydrogels were already safe from rejection because they don’t contain anything the immune system sees as a threat. Same goes for collagen, no?
Did you have (even a vague) source for this - I'm willing to search for it given even a vague gesture? I think this indeed sounds like it could be strong evidence, so I'd love to see it. Indeed, I would also think that a high skill population living mixed with a low skill population would have a higher birth rate than a high skill population NOT near a low skill population.
You can start from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territ... and its list of sources, and drill down from there. Remember to subtract births to recent immigrants from the numerator, and number of recent immigrants from the denominator. It won't take long to verify my claim.
Yours is not a unique sentiment, but I find it so disheartening. Vague laws enforced selectively are bad for the rule of law. Is the schadenfreude from sticking it to whatever American company is selected worth that?
No, it's just that American companies as a rule tend to have a dim view of privacy and some pushback against that is welcome.
As for enforcement, if you're a European company you have much more to be worried about since it is going to be much easier to go after you.
Selective enforcement is hopefully going to be limited to going after a couple of very prominent offenders after which the remainder will fall in line.
>Is the schadenfreude from sticking it to whatever American company is selected worth that?
No, but a correction is long overdue to signal to international companies that the primacy of politics still exists. How companies conduct themselves is determined by European law and European citizens, not businesses.
Companies have only themselves to blame for having brought it on. Whether it's skirting taxes, mistreating user-data or assisting in election-meddling, if companies are not willing to self-regulate they will be regulated. That's an overdue message to send.
That is a pretty naïve view of affairs. Practically all the banks even the European ones like HSBC, RBS etc have been complicit in committing all sorts of crime and continue to do so with impunity.
That's too close to what-about-ism for my tastes. I want those banks to be held responsible too, but I'll take just one or the other if I can't get both right now.
It is not the business of companies to self-regulate. Unless there is some kind of certification involved. Eg the gaming industry self regulates by having different ratings for games depending on their content. Such a thing is likely not possible everywhere, and especially for something as general as data, and thus legislative rememedies are required
This sounded interesting, do you have a link to this study? I was going to try to do this analysis for where I live, and after looking up median income for the area, I realized I wasn't sure what you meant by 'down payment and interest consume 100% of income.' Did you mean a 20% downpayment and interest on a loan would consume one year's worth of income... because that actually seems pretty cheap if a median income in my area was enough more than the 20% down payment for a median home in my area that it could also cover the interest for year...
Had you meant 3% + 1% PMI + 4% interest for an FHA consume 100% on median, because that definitely implies either high prices on houses or low median incomes.
It's not really a study, just the slightly more than back of the envelope calculation that you're sketching out. The census records median household income, check for a typical rate, and in the Bay Area at least, you get a huge fraction.
1) A major difference is the fact that currently they are generally 'unfunded' in that the money isn't actually invested on your behalf.
2) The next is where the risk resides - even in cases where they are fully funded (ie: some model suggests that the returns on investment will be able to pay out obligations), there's still the issue of the risk models are wrong or investments underperform -that risk will still reside on the state to pony up the difference.
3) Lastly is the highly speculative nature of the obligation - most all pension plans use a subset of the worker's last years to determine the defined payment, so a common practice became to inform your (district, organization) that you intend to retire in 5 years, where they will then boost your pay for your last few years, thus providing a much larger pension. This esoteric issue is possibly dominating Illinois' financial problems as (from a few articles I read) retirees are receiving many times returns-compounded contributions, since their last 5 years are boosted so much over their average pay over the whole career. Gaming the system was not accounted for in the models.
[0] https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11292-016-9261-3