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by acomar 8y ago
That's nonsensical and ahistorical. Anarchism is the opposition to unjust hierarchy, those relationships that put some people over others and prioritizes their needs or whims. The liberal democratic state is one such hierarchical insti
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by acomar 8y ago
Three men own the majority of wealth in the US by themselves. It's exactly the same kind of thing. Except instead of "ennoblement", we tell ourselves that we can strike it big and join those at the top.
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by acomar 8y ago
That's a roughly 10% increase over last year in the relative rate of participation: (38195-27478)/(103811)*100 = 10.32% Comparing two percentages directly like that, while intuitive, misses trends in relatively small subse
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by acomar 8y ago
To live in a world where markets can be perfectly efficient and everyone happy because we stop staking the lives of people to their worth as determined by the market.
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by acomar 8y ago
> If it wasn't 'net positive' not only would we not be having this conversation over the 'internet' - we'd still be in the dark ages. The internet was developed by Darpa so I'm not sure what you'r
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by acomar 8y ago
> complete freedom of capital to nudge the will of the people. "Nudge" is far too weak of a verb, here. There are many structural issues between the population and exercising their will, and many structural advantages that allo
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by acomar 8y ago
> and turned it into a political argument about the primarily financial concern of school choice? A conversation about social media and its effect on people and our culture is political from the get-go. Having conversations that don&#x27
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by acomar 8y ago
> If they pay bonuses to themselves, then their premiums will be higher than other insurance companies so they would lose customers, the same that stops any other business from doing the same. This might stand up in a highly competitive
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by acomar 8y ago
Right, they have less incentive to negotiate for lower rates, because higher rates mean higher premiums, and higher premiums mean higher executive compensation.
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by acomar 8y ago
There's a lot to unpack here. First, neither party has the trust of the working class, whatever the rhetoric. Second, the candidate that talked about fixing the system, including healthcare, won -- that he was actually talking about br
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by acomar 8y ago
That's exactly the circumstance I outlined previously. This plan has you taking the debts of somebody who cannot afford to pay, reducing them to something above the actual cost, then asking them to pay the higher amount. You are making
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by acomar 8y ago
I've suddenly started seeing this take all over the place and I have no idea where it comes from because it doesn't make sense. That the insurance companies profit margins are restricted means rather little because executive pay
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by acomar 8y ago
For what? Lay out a business plan in this area for me that doesn't take money from the worst off.
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by acomar 8y ago
You joke, and the OP is possibly joking as well, but this is a reality for a lot of people... Their poverty freezes them out of the credit system, they lack health insurance, etc. Poverty in the US has gotten so bad in some places that it r
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by acomar 8y ago
> Why the fuck isn't there a law against this kind of shit? There's a pretty clear answer to this question almost every single time it's asked... the people who benefit are wealthy and the people hurt are poor. The latter
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by acomar 8y ago
Crucially, that's only true if you have the money and time to fight. For the people hurt worst by the system, they lack some or all of: knowledge that they can fight it, money with which to fight it (or again, knowledge that a lawyer w
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by acomar 8y ago
Yea, but to hire a medical billing advocate, you need: 1) knowledge/information that they exist and that hospital bills are BS, and 2) money to pay the advocate AND the reduced bill. If the final bill is $800 and the advocate gets a cu
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by acomar 8y ago
There are a few sites that won't accept this and won't even accept a Google Voice/VOIP number because they do some kind of check. Very frustrating.
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by acomar 8y ago
I'm a prison abolitionist. Your reply could not possibly fall on ears that care less about your point.
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by acomar 8y ago
Your analysis completely ignores power structures inside the US. Try to oppose the prison industry, in reality not theory, and get back to me. This is a fight I'm actively involved in. I'm literally an activist and trying to end t
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by acomar 8y ago
Maybe we should rehabilitate criminals in some fashion that doesn't involve indentured servitude or putting them in cages and reserve the latter only for those who cannot be rehabilitated. Trying to argue that forced labor is more hu
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by acomar 8y ago
That exception literally exists to provide a means to cheap labor... It's not accidental. Notice how many laws disproportionately target black people (always in their enforcement and effect, it would be illegal if it were in the text o
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by acomar 8y ago
People react when they face an issue that affects them. Tone policing like this says nothing but that you value the appearance of civility more than you do the harm people are complaining about. This is a fairly trivial example. But this is
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by acomar 8y ago
Doctor's pay is not the driving factor behind increasing medical bills... administrative expenses at providers in insurance, opaque and arcane cost structures negotiated as deals between providers and insurance companies, and record pr
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by acomar 8y ago
Honestly, what's worked best for me is buying a book on the topic I'm interested in, and just working through it methodologically. The most difficult thing has been checking my work since answer manuals are difficult to come by. I
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by acomar 8y ago
> Interestingly enough, this starts to bring up questions that have previously only been super active in science fiction circles, particularly, Star Trek: If you can perfectly recreate something down to the molecular level, what actuall
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by acomar 8y ago
You're looking for Feynman's Lectures on Physics. It's a 3 volume set (and accompanying audiovisuals are available on youtube) that gets at exactly this kind of thinking. For example, the double slit experiment came out of a
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by acomar 8y ago
A constant function doesn't act on its input. `f(x) = 6` doesn't perform a different action on each input. But given your comparison to `f(x) = 0*x + 6`, let's move away from numbers and consider a different function. `f&#x27
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by acomar 8y ago
It's really not. It seems limited because of what people have decided are strategies that win and so the strategies that people try. However, this is not, entirely, what macro refers to. Try playing a game of starcraft. Try to keep up
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by acomar 8y ago
Not really. Stopping MarineKing from sending tons of APM is only part of the challenge. His choices for what to do in any given frame (yes, frame) are also just better than basically every player on the ladder. If you remove his keyboard, y

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