deregulateMed

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   by deregulateMed 5y ago

   Stop calling it a "walled garden". It's a "walled prison".
2. 62.▲
   by deregulateMed 5y ago

   Do what we did to fight tabacco addiction? Combination of support and shaming?
3. 63.▲
   by deregulateMed 5y ago

   Are you implying the heavily marketed alternative works better? Haha I missed more streets with their map program, their music store is more complicated, and their podcast app is more buggy. It's marketing.
4. 64.▲
   by deregulateMed 5y ago

   Laziness
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   by deregulateMed 5y ago

   Engineers aren't unionized. Physicians on the other hand are unionized in all but name.
6. 66.▲
   by deregulateMed 5y ago

   We knocked down a 1930s depression house to put up a half million dollar home. My property tax is 5x my neighbors. Who's complaining? My neighbors who have fantastic schools and pay trivial taxes?
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   by deregulateMed 5y ago

   Swap all that with "big marketing budget" You can see how easy politicians can conquer minds, it's no surprise trillion dollar companies are able to sell anti consumer products at luxury pricing. "convenience" is ju
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   by deregulateMed 5y ago

   I do my part by using FOSS. My only sin is using Windows at work because it's what the Engineers use. My cellphone OS and web browser are FOSS. My personal and side project server is FOSS. I even used GIMP for 10+ years before finally
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   by deregulateMed 5y ago

   I agree, but by October they were everywhere.
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    by deregulateMed 5y ago

    I don't see how medicine can cost less when the supply hasn't changed. Patents are the same. Residencies are the same. Hospitals are the same. Do you think the physician cartel is going to stop living in Mansions?
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    by deregulateMed 5y ago

    Walmart seems fantastic for customers, bad for employees and bad for suppliers. I wonder if every company was like this, what would happen to the world.
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    by deregulateMed 5y ago

    Yep. My cart looks different than most people's at Walmart. Fresh food, nothing frozen outside occasional vegetables. You can be a picture of health shopping at Walmart, just as you can be a danger to yourself shopping at whole foods.
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    by deregulateMed 5y ago

    Who pays the bills is not the problem in healthcare, it's a supply issue. The various medical cartels have lobbied to artificially decrease the supply of competitors, workers, and companies in the healthcare industry. Single payer heal
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    by deregulateMed 5y ago

    Given the medical industry is more than okay with going Full Evil, I'm happy to see Walmart knocking them down a notch in evil. If nothing else, this may cause something foreign to the medical industry- Competition.
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    by deregulateMed 5y ago

    I trust Walmart as a customer significantly more than the healthcare cartels. Benevolent? It's not exactly hard to be more benevolent than the medical establishment.
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    by deregulateMed 5y ago

    N95 masks were never useless and Fauci should be seen as a monster. What I don't understand is why there were no nations giving away n95 masks and education on how to wear it. It seems like we hivemind to the unsustainable lockdowns.
17. 77.▲
    by deregulateMed 5y ago

    I was hoping for some old guard bill Clinton style, not Ron Paul.
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    by deregulateMed 5y ago

    I have an addictive personality so I gave it up completely. It only sucked on a Friday evening for like 1 hour. weird because I would game every night.
19. 79.▲
    by deregulateMed 5y ago

    And did the company invoke it?
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    by deregulateMed 5y ago

    What makes you think I'm talking about the scraps? I'm something between fiscal conservative, neoliberal, libertarian, and moderate. Labels are bad imo.
21. 81.▲
    by deregulateMed 5y ago

    We are talking about people who's company actually used the non compete. These are not typical people.
22. 82.▲
    by deregulateMed 5y ago

    I wonder if those supposedly secure Linux distros are actually secure. Anything from MS, Google, and Apple cannot be trusted.
23. 83.▲
    by deregulateMed 5y ago

    Start a new career, start an unrelated company, do non profit work, do research, etc... I imagine these people have money, so what's making potentially an extra 200k? You make that in a year.
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    by deregulateMed 5y ago

    Simple solution for me was to do a dopamine detox. This requires getting rid of things you enjoy, but that's somewhat the point. Instead of doing things you want, you are wasting time on things you don't. After giving up video gam
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    by deregulateMed 5y ago

    I'm so horribly disappointed in Biden. He ran a campaign pretending to be moderate, but cannot stop spending money. Doesn't seem to matter which party you choose, both are pro war and pro big government corruption/cronyism. A
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    by deregulateMed 5y ago

    So it's an Android with pre installed apps. Android is pretty cool. I wonder if history was different and M$ replaced Google for phones, if we'd have 2 walled prisons.
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    by deregulateMed 5y ago

    "but Tesla gave away their patents to help humanity." I remember that marketing trick. "Change the world" I remember that one too. Now I'm a skeptic. I just can't get excited about Tesla claims anymore. My brai
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    by deregulateMed 5y ago

    I think less than 1% of people make minimum wage. I wonder who takes minimum wage jobs, even in 2016. There were plenty of 10$/hr jobs. You'd almost have to look for them.
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    by deregulateMed 5y ago

    Ancedote, I didn't feel addicted to a drug. I would go a day or few without having it. This was until someone claimed I was addicted. As soon as I heard that, I did research to learn if I was actually addicted to the drug. Like a switc
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    by deregulateMed 5y ago

    I would love a science based alternative to our current Authority based healthcare system. Cheaper, potentially better outcomes, less errors. That said, the physician cartel would never let it happen.