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by bumby 3y ago
Tbf, the authors cite (their own) previous work indicating hospitalizations do not cause bankruptcy in the elderly
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by bumby 3y ago
> Plus no one will agree on what the limit should be. We do this with drug reimbursement costs and construction already and I’m pretty sure those for-profit companies would also disagree on what the limit should be. I also don’t think i
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by bumby 3y ago
An alternative is to tie the federal student loan program to a regulation in school cost. If the school exceeds some threshold, their students are no longer qualify for federally-backed loans. Granted, it creates administrative burden but i
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by bumby 3y ago
Why would they exclude elderly from their study? It seems odd to exclude a population with higher rates of health problems. Is there assumption that bankruptcy only matters to those who would otherwise be working?
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by bumby 3y ago
> reddit and other platforms are much worse This can still be like being the skinniest kid at fat camp. If social media in general is bad for your mental health, I don't know if it's a ringing endorsement to be the "least
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by bumby 3y ago
The first is probably more debatable, but I agree with the second. And liability for self-driving is a contentious matter that I would not say is legally settled.
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by bumby 3y ago
That may be an ungenerous reading. It depends on how you define "majority". There are certainly some aspects that appear to be democratically in the majority and constitutional, yet they still don't get passed. I think what t
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by bumby 3y ago
It often comes down to what is considered "unreasonably dangerous"
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by bumby 3y ago
> they just can't cry foul about what other people do with these lawful products. I think it's a bit more nuanced. This statement is mainly related to manufacturing defects, but there are other avenues to liability more rela
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by bumby 3y ago
> widely-accepted-as-positive increase to liberty. This is applying a hindsight bias. Do you think it was widely-accepted-as-a-positive when first implemented? Similarly, I don’t know that we can pretend to know a-priori whether chang
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by bumby 3y ago
I don't believe they did constrain themselves in that manner. As the quote below seems to indicate, they allowed their research to go beyond the "Founding era" "First, we reviewed “[t]hree important founding-era legal s
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by bumby 3y ago
Why are we constraining it to Founding-era, when the document is meant to be a living document (hence amendments in the first place)? I.e., I don't hear people lamenting about the need for "Founding-era" precedent when it com
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by bumby 3y ago
I read their comment more along the lines of a statement that robut-dog flamethrowers wouldn't pass the "common use" test of Heller
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by bumby 3y ago
Gotcha. That makes your above point somewhat confusing, since it makes it a moot point whether people want to live like the Amish or not.
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by bumby 3y ago
> Abraham Lincoln was a Marxist, for example. Is this widely accepted by historians or is this a fringe theory? Marx's Capital wasn't published until after Lincoln's death, so I'm a bit skeptical.
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by bumby 3y ago
I think you've lost the thread. Here's the comment you were originally responding to in the context of our back-and-forth: > Nobody wealthy is sitting around scheming how to keep the proles dumb and subdued. To which you repli
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by bumby 3y ago
I think "that" = "the idea that rich assholes would like to keep the education level of the general population below a threatening threshold is not conspiracy thinking to me, it's just obvious." ("the idea&qu
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by bumby 3y ago
> I fail to see how this is a counter point. Well, that's probably because you are constantly arguing different points that aren't necessarily germane to the discussion. Remember, this was about your point that wealthy people
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by bumby 3y ago
> People don't want to live like the Amish. To the OP's point, do you think living like the Amish is necessary to keeping surplus labor value?
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by bumby 3y ago
You certainly did say those things. They are quoted from your posts, but abbreviated to be less verbose and wandering. I used ellipses to show where words were cut, and I think you understand this so you seem to just be difficult/obtus
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by bumby 3y ago
You seem to imply they are a higher rate of rich assholes, no? The most cited research on this (Piff et al.) is highly flawed IMO and hasn’t been able to be replicated. Or is your point that people are assholes in general? If the latter, I’
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by bumby 3y ago
> The prevalence of assholes is a documented thing...latest numbers I've heard was over 6% of clinical narcissists...who would ever be surprised that high-status people like being high-status?...the idea that rich assholes would lik
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by bumby 3y ago
Are you implying the OP was over-sampling on wealthier Michigan neighborhoods? Because I read their quote as applying to Michigan as a whole, and there are certainly parts of Michigan that are poor enough to have strained local taxes.
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by bumby 3y ago
You did say they want to remain high status, likely due to their over indexing in narcissism. Even if that’s not your main point, the logical leap that we seem to disagree on is that promoting illiteracy is the means to that end. Carnegie d
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by bumby 3y ago
What evidence would it take to change your mind? Because it seems like you'll rationalize any outcome to fit your mental model. If the wealthy don't fund something, it's because they're narcissists. If they do, it's
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by bumby 3y ago
But then you go on to say, > Though I'm afraid they tend to be selected out of ludicrous wealth. The irony is that one of the most ludicrously wealthy people in history was also probably the single largest contributor to public lib
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by bumby 3y ago
This is a strong claim that needs some data to back it up.
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by bumby 3y ago
The irony is that one of the largest contributions to the public library system was one of the richest guys ever. Carnegie funded over 2500.
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Never? You don’t think NSA or Israeli 8200 has preeminent software developers? I think your assumption hinges on people being motivated solely by money. That may be largely generalizable, but I suspect there are relatively large exceptions
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by bumby 3y ago
I get the politician argument, but politicians aren’t writing software or software requirements, so I don’t think that’s it

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