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Medical workers are shielded from outsourcing because the vast majority of people who need medical care aren't going to travel overseas to get it. The threat of jobs being exported just means that members of the union or association ha
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It depends on how this percentage was raised. If they actually increased the black and brown talent pool by 50%, that would be an unequivocal success. What I suspect actually happens is that recruiters are incentivized to improve DEI metric
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They will target certain demographics in ways that their lawyers can argue are legal such as giving more interviews to Grace Hopper attendees or schools with favorable demographics [1]. This is a great way to poach minorities from different
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Geopolitical commentary aside, the city of San Francisco has spent billions of dollars on homelessness and it has only gotten worse. I'm not opposed to paying higher taxes to house people less fortunate than me, but I expect the govern
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> "drug addicted or mentally ill people being a public menace" Finland also is rather aggressive with involuntary detention of those deemed to be a potential danger to themselves or others.
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The presumed goal of rent control is to prevent rents from rising. If they actually cause rents to rise even more quickly then they are indeed "bad" (at achieving this goal).
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There wasn't any standardized data on police violence in the US in the 60s through 80s, but I doubt that it was any less significant.
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To be clear, I'm not blaming the ACA for increased healthcare costs. Most people get insurance that is self-funded by their employer where the mandated loss ratio doesn't apply. The incentive for insurers to overpay for care has a
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Again, zeroing in on these denials is missing the forest for the trees. It's the entire claims process that is incentivized to dysfunctional. Insurers are paying for unnecessary chiropractic adjustments, name-brand prescriptions as a
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Ironically, I think that the increased attention to the denial of claims plays straight into insurer's hands. Healthcare isn't expensive because insurers don't pay enough to healthcare providers. In fact, it's the opposi
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Another problem is that people will blame the government entirely on inflation, but then give themselves the credit for wage increases. It doesn't help that wage increases disproportionately go towards those those to switch jobs.
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> the very health insurance companies that everyone hates First of all, the vast majority of Americans like their health insurance [1]. There were talks of a public option but it would be political suicide for anyone in a swing state to
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> Carter deregulated more than Raygun. Raygun introduced more gun regulations than Carter Both these ignore a lot of context. Carter had to do something about stagflation. Deregulation that promotes competition and appointing Volcker to
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The identity is in the takedown request. It's Tatsumi Masaaki from Nintendo USA. The problem is that it's fake.
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> people even created content purely for fun and the entertainment of others. Wow! Hardly believable now, especially reading this post I am replying to. Believe it or not, I shitpost on the internet for fun. Sometimes, I get flagged for
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Welcome to being a business owner. Nobody is going to protect your business more than yourself. A tenant refuses to pay rent and eviction takes a year? Too bad. Next time, do a better job of screening for risky tenants. The problem with the
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https://suchir.net/fair_use.html > none of the arguments here are fundamentally specific to ChatGPT either, and similar arguments could be made for many generative AI products in a wide variety of domains. Coming to this
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> It's unclear, to me, if youtubers could proxy this through an attorney. Yes. An authorized representative is allowed to submit a counter notification on your behalf, so they would put their name and address instead.
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Right. Part of the reason why it's hard to start a business is having to deal with unfair bullshit. Youtube streamlines enough of the process to get people started relatively easily, but they get a lot of shit from these same creators
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> I am sure my content does not infringe copyright and I'm willing to go to court for it This is exactly what the YouTube copyright counter notification is. The problem is that YouTubers aren't lawyers, so they don't want
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Chores are a great way to make you feel a sense of purpose. You can directly observe the fruits of your labor. Your kitchen is shinier after a deep clean. Your baby is no longer crying of hunger after a feeding. The same can't be said
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> It can be helpful to think of the Econ 101/homo economicus view of the world as something more akin to a secular religion. I find it much more common for people to dismiss Econ 101 principles religiously (e.g. less strict zoning w
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You may be surprised to learn that "white" encompasses everyone from Persians to North Africans.
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The only country that has ever granted Palestinians concessions without deaths is the US (e.g. the desettlement of Gaza), and that is only possible because we have leverage over military aid.
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Ironically, I don't think it's usually the frustrated minimum wage earners using this holier than thou language. It's generally journalists and academics, and indeed the author is a former journalism professor. When someone s
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"Lot's of people have tough lives, and things like minimum wage can help these people," is something I can potentially get behind. "You're a privileged sitter. Your kind control society yet refuse minimum wage incre
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Gold was the universal medium of exchange for the vast majority of recorded human history. That also gives it a good track record of being a good store of value. This track record can't be said about Bitcoin which has only existed whil
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What far-end conservatives learned and what sjws are starting to discover is that mainstream exposure is a trap. You can get Walmart to say "Merry Christmas" (instead of happy holidays) or "Black Lives Matter", but that
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I think #2 and #3 are definitely factors. As for #1, I think basic art education may be streamlined, but art education in general not necessarily as developed as it was in the past. Sfumato, for example, is a technique that would be difficu
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Whenever an absurdly priced work of art makes it to the news, laypeople immediately jump to the explanation of money laundering, but any artist, art purchaser, or even money launderer would know that this is ridiculous. You'd be an idi

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