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by 4ntonius8lock 7y ago
From the article: > Unfortunately, it is not clear what else the journalists could be expected to do in this case. After all, they just quoted directly from some values in a published, peer reviewed study. I feel this is a bit naive or c
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by 4ntonius8lock 7y ago
It's part of the authoritarian bend. "She needs to be protected. She's not a real adult like I am. I, as a real adult, will decide for those who I consider aren't real adults." It's dripping with patronizing au
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by 4ntonius8lock 7y ago
You have a fact: > vendors exploit the extreme information and understanding asymmetry on the market to sell insecure, low quality and abusive offerings This is true. Now, please tell me how this applies to the FA we are talking about? T
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by 4ntonius8lock 7y ago
Can you please specifically say what you want? I mean, how did they fail, what should be done, and how that requirement isn't authoritarian? To be clear, if they broke criminal laws they should go to jail. If they broke civil laws they
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by 4ntonius8lock 7y ago
I think the risk adverse managers messing everything up and the angry responses in this thread are coming from the same place. It's a result of the authoritarian lean of our current times. The concept of freedom IMPLYING responsibility
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by 4ntonius8lock 7y ago
Exactly my thought. All this anger is so weird to me. I think the super angry response we are seeing is a result of the authoritarian lean of our current times. It's like the concept of freedom IMPLYING responsibility has been complete
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by 4ntonius8lock 7y ago
Have you thought of the irony between the quote, your explanation and the comments you post? I looked at the last 5-10 comments in your history. Two comments were for articles you clearly didn't read. Others are quick sound bytes throw
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by 4ntonius8lock 7y ago
> If somebody tells me a story about their day, and I respond “well, it’s possible that you made all that up, and this is all a ruse to trick me”, I’ve not accused them of making it up, I’ve just pointed out it’s possible. But I’ve impli
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by 4ntonius8lock 7y ago
> The politicians, the newspaper editors, the online trolls, etc. are all people too and probably want to see everyone get good healthcare at good prices So then it's a good idea to remind people of the absurd, as in the post you an
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by 4ntonius8lock 7y ago
I don't have much experience with Think Tanks, but I've found the ones I've looked at to be highly partial to those funding them. This country is very capable of smart, logical thinking. We've basically eradicated the is
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by 4ntonius8lock 7y ago
Raw data there is. I'm talking about a report that says: After analyzing the health care systems of X, Y and Z countries, a commission suggest A, B and C changes to the US healthcare system. A major commission organized and created by
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by 4ntonius8lock 7y ago
Except it isn't only about winning. Otherwise, we'd have no objective advancements in medicine. Saying it's ONLY about winning is just as absurd as thinking it's only about solving the problem. It's about solving pr
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by 4ntonius8lock 7y ago
I'm really not sure why this isn't mentioned: USA should commission a study of health care systems in other countries. Include costs, challenges, issues of bringing it to scale in US, etc. Then we can implement something based on
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by 4ntonius8lock 7y ago
Ok. But does that really carry weight? I mean, the way we treat our territories makes me think it doesn't. But I could be wrong.
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by 4ntonius8lock 7y ago
Am I the only one that finds the article strange? I mean: "Most times, they can’t vote on the House floor..." - In the quoted text 'they' refers to the delegate that the Cherokee nation would get. So they are fighting fo
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by 4ntonius8lock 7y ago
I just gained a lot of respect for Git. We really need more companies to take a stance against all this moral posturing. It's like at some point people forgot that publishers should not take sides, and only remove things that are illeg
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by 4ntonius8lock 7y ago
I've found that I need the humor more when I'm doing less/less well. When I'm doing/doing well, I don't need the humor as the crushing weight of of existential dread and absurdity is drowned out by my involveme
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by 4ntonius8lock 7y ago
That and to fight hippies and the anti-materialistic movements. If individuals mostly make decisions based on a number of internal currents, conscious and unconscious, the same must apply to collectives.
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by 4ntonius8lock 7y ago
As stated, no evidence. I would like to make a point that the effect doesn't have to benefit everyone equally. Historically powerful factions of society have pushed things to the detriment of the majority and the furtherance of a tiny
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by 4ntonius8lock 7y ago
I've always had a bit of a paranoid suspicion, and trust me, I know there is no evidence for it, and I wouldn't make it out to be more than just a feeling: That the elites of the world are happy to have drugs being illegal, as it
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by 4ntonius8lock 7y ago
I think it's a tool. Sometimes, you need to touch on something so intrinsically tied to someone's identity, that any other form of communication doesn't tend to work. This is, from my experience, rare. Especially among emotio
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by 4ntonius8lock 7y ago
After this, if I lived in any non-US country I'd be wanting for them to register or face as much wrath as that country can impose on twitter. The EU should be able to make them feel some pain hopefully. Twitter's rules are open en
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by 4ntonius8lock 7y ago
floatrock is pointing out the fact that there is a motive for this to be a PR stunt. I'm not sure that's reflexive cynicism. I've seen that type of cynicism and it is ugly. It's also ugly to assume there are never ulteri
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by 4ntonius8lock 7y ago
My assertion: Doctors are motivated by non-monetary reasons more so than economists. Doctors have the primary motivation to save lives/help people. If economists have the motivation to save lives/help people, that motivation isn&#
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by 4ntonius8lock 7y ago
The people in the central bank, are bankers. Bankers have a personal motivation for choosing banking as a career. I should have used more accurate language and said 'primary' instead of 'only'.
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by 4ntonius8lock 7y ago
I should have used more accurate language 'primarily driven'. I've known a bunch of doctors (my sister's partner is a doctor). They tend to list helping others as their primary motivation, with fulfilling a childhood dre
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by 4ntonius8lock 7y ago
A rose by any other name... The massive conflict of interest in that set up is something I didn't know. It does greatly affect how I view it. In terms of Medicine, that's different. Doctors aren't only financially driven. Ban
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by 4ntonius8lock 7y ago
Nah, once that happens we get news pieces on 'labor shortages'. I'm a capitalist. But I recognize that the difference between theory and reality is that in theory there is no difference. The reality is the strippers have as m
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by 4ntonius8lock 7y ago
Well, our corporatist system isn't exactly free trade. Most people who talk about Adam Smith haven't actually read him: "The trade of a joint stock company is always managed by a court of directors. This court, indeed, is fre
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by 4ntonius8lock 7y ago
I read the original article and the abstract of your linked study. First, I'd like to see a breakdown of 8 hour vs 9+ hours instead of grouping them. Someone sleeping a healthy 8 hours and someone sleeping 12 hours are very different.

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