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by clavalle 9y ago
Maybe my experience is different than others, but when I dream lucidly it is fun but my dreams lose a lot of spontaneity and richness because I realize I am in control of everything in the dream. I suspect this is because the conscious mind
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by clavalle 9y ago
I agree. There is no reason we can't pursue both simultaneously. Nothing in the ACA prevents posting of price lists or incentivizing patients with cash payouts for finding cheaper than average care. That is what has driven me crazy ab
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by clavalle 9y ago
You have expertly found a flaw in my offhand comment. But the point, that much lauded tort reform doesn't do much, if anything, to help consumers (and, in fact, could hurt them) in the healthcare space, stands. If you step back from pe
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by clavalle 9y ago
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1635882 "...find no evidence of reduced spending in Texas post-reform, and some evidence that physician spending rose in Texas relative to control states. In sum
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by clavalle 9y ago
Unless there are other variables at play that contribute to the cost increases of premiums, which, of course, there are.
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by clavalle 9y ago
True. I forgot about that. Trump seems to think it will lead to the ACA falling apart. He might be right but only as part of the entire current insurance system falling apart around it. I really don't know what the intention was, th
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by clavalle 9y ago
Unless we are going to, as a society, agree that people who don't pay don't get treated for disease, then it is a cost-forcing scheme whichever path is chosen. Before the ACA those that paid for insurance were forced to shoulder t
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by clavalle 9y ago
Do you go to the doctor when you don't need to? Going to the doctor is essentially free to me as well and I haven't gone in years. Elasticity of demand goes both ways. States like mine (Texas) have instituted tort reform. What h
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by clavalle 9y ago
>>working hard solves everything and that their country is the best in the world period >what's wrong with that exactly? I think I can answer this. The Puritan work ethic is great. Working hard actually does solve many, many
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by clavalle 9y ago
>The point was that was state level...so other states could follow if they wanted. When it comes to cost-sharing schemes the bigger the pool the better -- costs are more predictable the more people are in the pool. I agree with the gener
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by clavalle 9y ago
Common sense ways this could have been avoided: 1) Interview neighbors: "Did you hear a gunshot tonight?" 2) Get more info from the caller. "How do you know this detailed information from inside the house?", "Wher
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by clavalle 9y ago
Not only that but it makes it easier for criminals to have protection from police bullets.
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No, net neutrality rules have been around since 2004. Before that there wasn't much need because dial-up was regulated as a telephone service which have had their own neutrality regulatioins since forever. Those early rules were largel
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by clavalle 9y ago
Cost and ease of transaction. Difficult to steal or confiscate. Confidence of transaction completion in a low trust environment. I'm sure there are more but those are three off the top of my head.
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by clavalle 9y ago
I felt the same way when I toured the Austin Techshop. They touted some hugely expensive machine and I was thinking 'How many people need to cut an 8 inch block of marble with precision?' Honestly, I think a similar concept would
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by clavalle 9y ago
Yes. It is a multibillion dollar industry. Also a relatively quiet one so I understand the confusion.
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The policy on gender and religious freedom is only the tip of the iceberg. Freedom as a concept seems to be under direct attack in their Kingdom considering the Crown Prince is rounding up political enemies en masse with complete impunity.
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Yes. Far worse.
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The reform agenda only reaches as far as the door to the throne room. Assuming perfect execution of western reforms we'll still be left with an enormously wealthy, powerful, and ruthless autocratic regime actively trying to spread the
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by clavalle 9y ago
When it is all said and done the Saudi Crown is going to have significant stakes in many critical American and Western companies including huge media companies. This makes me very uncomfortable.
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I think you're on to something, there.
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I have what amounts to a special purpose radiator bolted to the wall with flat curvy panels that heat the whole towel when you hang them on it. My wife bought it but I think it came from Bath and Body Works.
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by clavalle 9y ago
'Computer' is the obvious answer (though I'd have to pick one from my early childhood like Commodore 64 or Atari 800 since it gave me the programming bug early). My most surprising bit of joy that I never would have thought o
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Quite a few. Famously Medallion: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-21/how-renai...
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AI is generally strictly bounded. It only looks at certain data and can only take certain actions based on that data.
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It's an opinion piece by a psychologist.
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Hmm. Seems like Millennials are wary of the abuse of freedom.
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No. They tend to skew negative, in my experience. I once got a bad review because I had the audacity to quiz a candidate that said they'd done work with databases before about SQL. We're talking 'what's the difference b
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Compressable joints between each section?
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>The difference is that you could not make more than that Pretty big difference. A core difference, as a matter of fact. Switzerland has the 9th highest GDP per capita (higher than the US) in the world. They rank 4th in a tight bunch at

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