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by bhupy 4y ago
It's not so much Western notions of what liberal democracy should look like, but rather the Western notion that liberal democracy is superior/sacrosanct. "Liberal democracy" has a very specific meaning — or at least, it
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Society tends to develop and outgrow its mythology — lots of religious texts contain practices that no modern society would engage in (see: the Old Testament). Nobody that's actually raised in modern mainstream Hindu society is conditi
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What? I was raised a Hindu, and Hinduism absolutely does not embrace drugs and polyamory...for any charitable definition of those terms.
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by bhupy 4y ago
From the thread: > I think it is broadly good to be on the lookout for hard-hitting exposes and write them where you see them, and broadly bad for your ability to do journalism if you have decided the tenor of your story before reporting
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by bhupy 4y ago
Spam can work the same way — that's how our email spam filters work. To use the OP's "censorship vs moderation" dichotomy, the current "censorship" regime would be like if your email filter marked an email as s
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by bhupy 4y ago
I think you answered your own question. Who would agree to be an unpaid volunteer to moderate tweets? Ideologues who wish to further their agenda.
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by bhupy 4y ago
The EU isn't a country (yet), but it's a political union that increasingly walks and quacks like a country. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lj127TKu4Q
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by bhupy 4y ago
Freight priorities on rail don't apply in the Northeast Corridor, almost the entire stretch is owned by Amtrak (unlike the rest of the US). Acela and NE Regional have the right of way up here (with preference given to Acela). The reaso
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by bhupy 4y ago
> Hard to pick one as nothing has shined recently. I’d give “Zindagi Na milega dubara” / “Chak dhe” a look. +1 for Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara - one of my all time favorites. For a more recent Bollywood film, Kapoor and Sons is pre
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by bhupy 4y ago
This is where you might be out of your element, it seems. Life-threatening / chronic / bankruptcy-inducing conditions do not represent a "relatively small" — at least in the US, 90% of health expenditure is on chronic he
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by bhupy 4y ago
That's not what I'm suggesting at all. The point I'm making is that employers are not capable of being optimizers because they will generally be willing to spend more on medical care than individuals, and it's because th
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by bhupy 4y ago
My wife keeps an ongoing email draft to herself with her to-do lists; she’s been doing it for the last 10+ years. She’s aware that there are now better solutions for this, but it’s a force of habit and it works pretty well for her.
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by bhupy 4y ago
I'm not sure that your argument makes the case you think it does. The majority of Swiss health expenditure is in the private sector (which differentiates it from many other healthcare systems). Subsidies and municipal market participan
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by bhupy 4y ago
> And the US's problem is that the list prices it pays for GPs, nurses, and services are subject to market forces and thus are too high. The government is currently failing to address the service provision loss with little political
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by bhupy 4y ago
The NHS's difficulty lies in the simple fact that it is understaffed ( https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/health/1633058/general-... ) and the staff are underpaid ( https://www.bbc.com/new
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by bhupy 4y ago
I'm referring to the majority of working age adults. Even the US uses Medicare for certain congenital diseases as well (as well as end-stage renal disease). The Swiss private KV system accounts for the vast majority of health expendi
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by bhupy 4y ago
You're conflating Switzerland's social pension with the Swiss health insurance system. Swiss pensions do not subsidize the cost of healthcare delivery, and are not used to cover health costs at the point of service (for real o
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by bhupy 4y ago
> Switzerland has very strictly and non-deniable obligatory minimum (very broad in coverage) insurance So does the US: https://www.healthcare.gov/glossary/minimum-essential-covera... > there are treatments and op
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by bhupy 4y ago
Not sure why you're getting downvoted, but this is exactly correct. Universal healthcare != public healthcare.
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by bhupy 4y ago
It is not so obvious at all. Medicare Advantage does not have price controls, and it still costs less per capita than Original Medicare. > A dead simple “this is how much you’re allowed to charge”. This has its own set of unintended cons
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by bhupy 4y ago
I actually work in this industry and adjust claims myself from time to time, so I love talking about this stuff! > that must follow rules set by Medicare. (emphasis added) Yeah, I'm not sure that anyone seriously believes that insur
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by bhupy 4y ago
It's not just Switzerland and France; the Netherlands also has a private-only health insurance system. It's also very difficult to draw decisive conclusions since, across countries, there are hundreds of confounding variables — it
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by bhupy 4y ago
I mean, by that logic, waiting for people to choose to vote in such a manner that changes the system (from the goodness of their hearts, no less) is a losing battle also. Remember, changing the system (whatever that means) involves the
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by bhupy 4y ago
This gets thrown around frequently as though it's some ironclad rule of nature, but hasn't actually been corroborated by any empirical evidence. In fact, the way that it's phrased, it's essentially unfalsifiable. What is
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by bhupy 4y ago
The transition to a market economy went very well for most of the former Soviet Republics except Russia. https://economistwritingeveryday.com/2022/03/16/the-transiti... A lot of Russia's issues stem fr
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by bhupy 4y ago
These used to be so popular, that my circa 2003-2005 public school district's official website where we could find our homework assignments, social calendars, teacher phone numbers, etc had a cursor effect for cougar paws (honoring the
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by bhupy 4y ago
> Similarly, private equity is the same people with the same incentives as Enron, Toys R Us, Sears, and other major collapses Right, and the key difference is that there are several other options for all of those things. When private ent
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by bhupy 4y ago
Except food also has inelastic demand (without it you starve and die), and has a pretty close to perfect market, and prices are not driven to infinity. Healthcare in America is about as far away from "capitolism"(sic) as one could
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by bhupy 4y ago
Generally agree with most of what you're saying, it's the Tiebout model ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiebout_model ). > The model holds that if municipalities offered varying baskets of goods (government

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