Andre_Wanglin

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by Andre_Wanglin 8y ago
[citation needed] The "genocide" of native Americans was a result of European diseases, not barbarism.[1] As the people had no idea of germ theory, it is impossible to claim this was intentional. [1] https://en.wikipedia
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by Andre_Wanglin 8y ago
You are defending the expert status of indisputable laymen by demanding a line by line refutation of everything they have ever written? And this seems not merely reasonable to you but you perceive it as upholding good reasoning and logic it
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by Andre_Wanglin 8y ago
I didn't need to consider inflation to make my point.
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by Andre_Wanglin 8y ago
It's an example. I bet she was saving way more than $5000 for most of that time.
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by Andre_Wanglin 8y ago
Saving $5000 per year for 75 years compounded annually at 6.2% would net you a little over $8M. An unremarkable return on an unremarkable savings rate.
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by Andre_Wanglin 8y ago
>Our spending on healthcare is grossly and immorally inefficient. Yes, because it goes to treat chronic preventable (voluntary) conditions and to keep rich old people alive for a few hours or days longer. The way to handle those freeload
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by Andre_Wanglin 8y ago
I did not perpetrate a false dichotomy, I mocked the hypocrisy of any user of this site seeking to limit the compensation of anyone.
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by Andre_Wanglin 8y ago
I invite you to do likewise. We will be quite well enough without ignorant busybodies posturing as moral crusaders hectoring us into enabling further deprivation of our property and liberty.
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by Andre_Wanglin 8y ago
How can it both be unprofitable to treat people near the end of their lives yet also wipe out a lifetime of savings? If end of life care transfers the life savings of the elderly to the providers, that sounds quite profitable. Why shouldn&#
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by Andre_Wanglin 8y ago
I did not support the ACA but I use the healthcare exchange because it is in my best interest to do so. I get free money from others to pay for my family's health insurance. In fact, I get a 100% subsidy. But the reason I get a 100% su
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by Andre_Wanglin 8y ago
Apparently doctors should only work for the public good and accept (relatively) piddling wages but startup tech bros and VCs are absolutely entitled to their billions.
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by Andre_Wanglin 8y ago
Why would anyone refuse free money? Are you sure you understand the parent's point? They are taking the money but using private networks, which indicates they prefer private providers.
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by Andre_Wanglin 8y ago
>When a person gets a life threatening disease they ought not worry about whether or not their treatment will leave their family in penury. This is especially so in a nation as wealthy as the U.S. The American healthcare system is immora
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by Andre_Wanglin 8y ago
No one paid Marcus Hutchins. He just acted. (And look what what that got him.)
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by Andre_Wanglin 8y ago
Why do you assume your imagined incompetent whitehats are incapable of differentiating zombie hosts from C&C and other meaningful infrastructure?
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by Andre_Wanglin 8y ago
It is amusing that while you can easily recognize the attribution problem, you venture that others cannot.
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by Andre_Wanglin 8y ago
>Feels like it's encouraging vigilantism and 'taking the law into your own hands', which is not something a well run society should be incentivising. No, citizens acting on their own and society's behalf should always
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by Andre_Wanglin 8y ago
Is skateboarding going to be another one of those scenes created and, curiously, popularized by low status males that will have its history rewritten to have always been the province of powerful elitist misogynists keen on wielding power to
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by Andre_Wanglin 9y ago
This is a nonsensical comment. He used bombs to gain the notoriety to get published in the New York Times.
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by Andre_Wanglin 9y ago
>Please list the, "pro-pedophilia and ISIS web sites." hosted by Cloudflare? It's in the linked archived DS article and I confirmed the information is still true.
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by Andre_Wanglin 9y ago
I find it difficult to believe that people being assholes is a result of any particular economic system.
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by Andre_Wanglin 9y ago
>However, the "calories out" portion of that equation is actually quite complicated. In recent years many studies have indicated that the body does not process all calories in the same way. I think of this as the "calories
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by Andre_Wanglin 9y ago
It's still CICO. It's just that the way we currently measure the caloric content of a food does not represent what is actually bioavailable.
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by Andre_Wanglin 9y ago
Well, you have the CloudFlare blog where Prince states "The tipping point for us making this decision was that the team behind Daily Stormer made the claim that we were secretly supporters of their ideology."[0] So, all that is ne
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by Andre_Wanglin 9y ago
>because they were claiming Cloudflare agreed with their ideology. That was a lie. It was a commenter on an article.