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Comment Re:Ugh (Score 1) 146

Go look up the rates. The government charges fees of averaging from 0.036% to 0.051%
For what the government charges 0.036% you can go to fidelity and be charged 0.015%
For the government fees of 0.051% fidelity charges 0.025%.
As for your other claims. First social security is not an investment program it is a social welfare program. For the average person for the the investment portion is rather poor return if you are poorer it has a excellent rate of return. No one who looks at it would put additional money in it for the financial returns and the social welfare part is already payying out.

Comment Re:hmm (Score 1) 81

Need to think that out a little for TNG.
Someone wearing glasses and a character that is a robot written in for comic relief are not really good examples of disabilities.
Uhura as a black being on the bridge was not really that big of a thing at the time, being a woman and the kiss was. By that time you had blacks in star positions on various shows, even that same year the Sammy Davis Jr show came on. The studio had rules that blacks should be hired to gain more viewers in the black community but how they were different for the woke is that they were to be hired based on competence and qualifications. Then again democrat did have issues against them even with that.

Comment Re:Ugh (Score 1) 146

Social Security was not intended to be retired on because most people died before they were eligible. Based on current life expectancy compared to when it was created SS would need to be set to a minimum age of around 81.
Now people are retiring and living 20-30+ years in retirement.

So what is your solution to this "broken" system. Who is going to run the financial system without being paid? Don't say the government because with government retire funds for its workers they charge more in fees than what those non-government companies charge for similar services.

Comment Re:Homelessness? (Score 1) 47

No most people live their parents and they have smaller homes then in the USA and europe. This has lead to the the cafe, love hotels (hotel renting by the hours), and the pc bangs( those stores you see renting out gaming computers). So if you want time alone you can go to those it is not uncommon in residential areas to go to cafes and groups of women and men chatting away while the kids play on the floor with their toys.
Currently with the higher heat lots of people are spending their time in the cafes.
Price wise they are not bad you can get a drink in the US $3-$4 range, if you want something sweet those are usually in the US $5-$7 for these smaller cafes. Starbucks is a few dollars more.

Comment Re:I'd expect national security to be the top conc (Score 1) 18

Security in case of north korea attacking again.
The law prevents the exportation of high detail maps. Since it would be illegal to have the maps on non-korean systems the use the navigation as current is is also illegal.
How they determined that navigation is what makes a map high detail I don't known.

Comment Re:There should be an easy natural observation (Score 1) 70

Looking at age 65 and higher percent of people with alzheimers in south korea vs USA, since south korea eat kimchi with almost every mean.
What I could find places USA at 11%, south korea at 9.5%. Even saying that both countries use similar diagnostics, that is not that big a difference.

Comment Re:Protecting any business model should be illegal (Score 1) 74

Vehicles are the 2nd most expensive things people purchase, after houses.
The laws got put in place because people would sell cars and then when the person had an issue they would claim that they did not have local respresentation they had to be sued out of state.
The requirement of a dealer gives a local point that can be sued as well as provide maintenance and support.

Comment Re:Tab silos (Score 1) 20

It looks like this just started as some internal project between the two authors. Guessing that as they got it working they figured they could base a company on it. On iOS because they started development on it, and keeping it on mobile because that is the easiest way to sell with the various app stores.

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