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by anothercomment 9y ago
That would be another issue than the "medical care is especially expensive in the US", though. Are the numbers even known, I mean, how much would proper health insurance cost per person?
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by anothercomment 9y ago
But why - I still don't understand what is causing the problem in the US? Even in the non-US systems, somebody has to pay, so how can they afford it, given that all other countries are poorer than the US? In my view, insurance is compl
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by anothercomment 9y ago
This seems to be more of a problem with insurance - there often is little transparency and doctors simply charge all sorts of things to the insurer that the patient has no idea about. I think that is one of the main challenges of health ins
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by anothercomment 9y ago
But why does it cost more, and how are employers able to provide health insurance anyway?
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by anothercomment 9y ago
A bit OT, but this post made me think: how do countries provide good health care? does it always have to be government sponsored, otherwise it would be not affordable? And how does the government pay for it, given that the money has to come
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by anothercomment 9y ago
"Why is the world moving towards a more authoritarian kind of rule all of a sudden, and why is this happening now." Is it really all of a sudden? Counting communism as authoritarian (as it always ends in dictatorship), strong move
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by anothercomment 9y ago
The number of Bitcoins that will ever be in existence is fixed, so I guess there can be no inflation in the classical sense. Value is another question altogether.
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by anothercomment 9y ago
Also, they make me sign in with Facebook to claim Stellar (in their latest PR campaign). No.
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by anothercomment 9y ago
I just meant to illustrate that money is actually quite complicated, even though we use it daily without giving it much thought.
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by anothercomment 9y ago
True, I worry about that, too. And in case of the DAO, that issue hit home big time. There are efforts under way to create contracts with formal verification, but I remain a bit skeptic. It is difficult to write complex software that way af
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by anothercomment 9y ago
OK then, explain to me: what is money?
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by anothercomment 9y ago
What about those things that produced the last financial crisis? Reselling bad credits b mixing it with good credit and so on. Maybe it was only accessible to the pros, but then if they got it wrong, and they probably bundled it up with oth
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by anothercomment 9y ago
Maybe true, but in a way, classical investments are even more complicated. Some of them are even deliberately complicated to obfuscate their risky nature to naive investors.
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by anothercomment 9y ago
Agreed, and it is a reason why I am holding back on Etherium so far. I don't know if they have a proposed solution to that, tbh, but it seems pretty impossible to solve. Although, to be fair, "classic" contracts also need tha
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by anothercomment 9y ago
You can begin to see the beauty of Bitcoin when you want to accept payments. All you need to do is download a wallet, generate an address and put it online. You don't need anybody's permission, as would be the case with PayPal or
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by anothercomment 9y ago
Happened to me two or three times in my life so far.
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by anothercomment 9y ago
You can pay for sex changes with bitcoin now? Woot!
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by anothercomment 9y ago
But even with a Bitcoin split, what would be the problem? You would simply double your coins (kind of).
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by anothercomment 9y ago
Also, it would mean that informality would be a privilege of white people.
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by anothercomment 9y ago
The assumption seems to be that companies culture is driving women away. Is that even true, as in, are there really hundreds of thousands of female software developers in waiting who would jump at a job at a company with the appropriate cul
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by anothercomment 9y ago
Morals are just mental shortcuts for cases when the rational explanation is over the head of most people.
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by anothercomment 9y ago
From the abstract: women in male-dominated fields are not more likely to switch fields compared to their female peers in other fields. In other words, male dominated subjects don't drive women away (as in, it is not sexism they encount
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The Switching Decisions of Individuals Who Enter Gender Atypical College Majors(link.springer.com)
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by anothercomment 9y ago
This just in: "women in male-dominated fields are not more likely to switch fields compared to their female peers in other fields" From "Do They Stay or Do They Go? The Switching Decisions of Individuals Who Enter Gender Atyp
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by anothercomment 9y ago
I don't know what the data says, but I think this should be answered with data. If results are better with segregated education, go for it. However, I think it has mostly been abandoned because results weren't actually better. I t
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by anothercomment 9y ago
The claim that STEM is biased against women might be one of the biggest detractors for women to go into STEM. So it is very irresponsible to claim there is such a bias, without verification.
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by anothercomment 9y ago
My question was, is that what you mean by "STEM is gender biased" - it seems as if on purpose only subjects with male majority are counted as STEM, which would make the whole discussion absurd.
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by anothercomment 9y ago
As I said, medicine doesn't count as STEM afaik.
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by anothercomment 9y ago
Isn't that just annoying politician speech? If she has an idea how to make education better, she should say so. If not, she has nothing to say. It is a trivial thought that "education could/should be made better".
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by anothercomment 9y ago
What do her daughters do now? Would Michelle even have preferred them to do something in STEM? If so, why didn't she push them to do STEM things? Edit: according to Wikipedia her daughters are 19 and 16 years old - not too late to stud

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