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by bmelton 7y ago
I'm not pushing a spin at all. I care approximately zero about the current healthcare debate or its future direction. I think my initial statement was apolitical and factual. If it's being interpreted otherwise, that's by inf
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Firstly, it's implied when he proclaims that companies shouldn't be profiting off of health care. But to answer the question less obliquely, here's a quote of him saying it (from Politifact): "I could whack pharmaceutica
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Honestly, I think I prefer not having access to something like Pinterest[1] which lets you have some access for a bit and then as soon as you try to interact with the site in any meaningful way (usually to leave it) they insist you sign i
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Whether he's simplifying or restating seems orthogonal to my point, which is that people who are worried that things are going to change and if they'd like to "just go to a private hospital instead," well - if Bernie is
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From a Bernie Sanders interview with NPR. Q: "Does private insurance go away under Medicare for All?" A: "Yes, it does, because you're not going to a have a need for private insurance" A tweet[1] from Bernie Sanders
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I don't believe that my analogy is false, or that supplemental coverage would be allowed for the kinds of care being provided by M4A. I think perhaps a more on-the-nose analogy would be that "Netflix is not allowed to distribute a
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To be clear, I misspoke in my closing sentence, and intended to say "It seems likely to me that the political reality in America would prohibit banning private insurance" -- but got mixed up in my negatives and now it's too l
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Regarding the implementations I was talking about, the private market would exist exclusively for elective procedures "like cosmetic surgeries." [0] For any of the services covered by Medicare. Quoting the Kaiser Family Foundation
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I didn't say that any of the M4A plans would ban private insurance. That doesn't change the fact that Bernie has stated that his M4A plan would, even where the plan he's put forward doesn't show that. I think it's f
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There are cash-only doctors, or doctors who will accept cash as payment, and for what it's worth, the discounts for not using insurance can be substantial. More importantly to me though was this less-talked-about perk of having a doc
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> It's as if the rich assume that things will change for the worse for them if universal health care is enacted. Well, it depends on the implementation, but Bernie Sanders has been on record numerous times as stating that his Medica
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How many kids, and what ages are they? My daughter's 10th grade programming teacher (<3 you, Mister Serota) had a pretty brilliant mechanic for teaching functions to kids in his class that he relayed to me, and which I will attempt
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> And once you start thinking interms of functions, you just won't touch any of those terrible OO programming paradigms Also worth noting (because Elixir was strange and new for everyone at some point) that a lot of what used to b
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> any good tutorials? https://elixir-lang.org/learning.html - Start here. It starts off kind of abstract, and then works its way into the concrete (from my experience) -- but is very easy to pick up. > What major site
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Content can come from text files. Operational complexity ought to be neutral (or even negative) if that content compilation step replaces your CI pipeline.
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The 'backend' here is ... HTML. For read-only a blog, that's likely more than enough. Otherwise, for dynamic content like contact forms and such, I don't know if there's a meaningful benefit to building out a whole
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Genuinely curious how federal interest rates have any relation whatsoever to fees for service and why they're being correlated here. An uncharitable reading might assume a spurious correlation.
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This is really great. Every now and again I'm fortunate enough to stumble onto a new / unknown artist to me. Weirdly, Grooveshark was really good for this (as it gave me some of my very top favorites through a Grooveshark Premium
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Isn't that just the opposite of `future`[1] It's been more than a decade now. I'm almost tempted to think that anyone who hasn't started porting their code simply isn't going to. [1] - https://pypi.org&#x
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I mean, it was a pretty massive upgrade, and 2to3 exists for those who can't appreciate the value of a a function actually being composable instead of a wrongly-handled statement in the first place. I've worked in and around Pyt
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I mean, if you have a spare $300 million lying around, that sounds like a fantastic arbitrage opportunity, and (napkin math time) if you're holding the barrels for more than 10 months, that'd be the way to do it.
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Assuming you can transport a 100+ pound liquid filled drum to a disposal facility that meets federal guidelines for less than that cost, and don't care about the environment, absolutely... but the real trick here is in knowing that the
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I honestly don't even know if I can fathom how you could get permitted to build such a tank in a couple of weeks, but the answer to why that isn't happening _right now_ is probably because nobody wants to lay out a bunch of capita
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> Keep in mind though that prices are not in any way shape or form set at the state level Gasoline / Diesel taxes vary pretty widely from state to state. Taking from either end, gas in Alaska is taxed at 14.6 cents per gallon, while
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It is an "establishment of the executive branch of the Government of the United States" specifically authorized by the United States constitution, and (if you ignore its transition from the USPOD) predates America.
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Oh, I thought we were in search of a solution that obviates the need to socialize the losses. Socializing the losses is what we're doing now. I mean, sure, we could move them all to a government program, or we could just keep letting t
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I think that I agree with this ideologically, but the reason nobody lets that happen is because cumulatively, "retirement accounts" are the single largest "investor" on the stock markets. So in this case "screwing i
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IIRC you can add your own 4K images to it via thumb drive and it'll rotate through them without relying on a connection to their upstream art server. Take this with grains of salt as I don't own one, don't know the interval,
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From my limited exposure, my best guess is that whatever lighting / contrast adjustments it makes in art mode are only enabled for art mode. I'm not sure what 'looking natural' for a television screen might look like. Na
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It should probably not be lost on us that the E-ink display[1] he's using in the prototype costs $1500. That's a lot for what basically amounts to a one color display, and if we ignore all the other features of E-ink, you could re

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