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by ejb999 3y ago
I have a GE refrigerator that is now 70 years old, and has never stopped working or needed repairs (at least in the 30 years I have owned it). Doesn't have a touch screen, and there is no app to tell me what food to order, but it jus
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by ejb999 3y ago
you might be able to refinance if rates drop - it is not a guarantee. If you overpay for a house, and then you owe more than it appraises for around the time you want to refinance, you are going to have a very hard time taking advantage o
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by ejb999 3y ago
same here - some people just have a 'peasant mentality' mindset that will cause them to make bad decisions/self-sabotage themselves their entire life because they identify themselves as someone that struggles to survive, even
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by ejb999 3y ago
couples with two generous 6 figures salaries are not generally the people worried about unexpected huge medical expenses - they have good jobs, and good insurance.
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by ejb999 3y ago
>>Give people enough resources and they'll have more kids. Not sure I buy that - I know plenty of couples, each of them with good 6 figure salaries, who have no interest in having kids, ever - if they had 7 figure salaries, I don
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by ejb999 3y ago
isn't it almost always true that older people - people who have been working for 30-40-50 years will have more money, on average, than people that have just entered the workforce? Once the boomers are all gone, will we just start blami
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by ejb999 3y ago
Many border-crossers can't afford to buy houses - probably most of them - but they do put pressure on the lower cost apartments and are competing with low-income citizens, which drives up the price of the lower cost apartments, which h
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by ejb999 3y ago
its a great thing if all parties want it for the right reasons - if it is done solely out of economic necessity, not-so-much.
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by ejb999 3y ago
>>Doctors office visit won’t address this for most. I agree - it won't come from doctors - there is no financial incentive to keep people healthy. and even more so, patients don't even want to hear it, they want the magic pi
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by ejb999 3y ago
and you can try (and fail again) to explain how 10% of medical care cost for admin (your number) is bigger than the other 90%. The math is not that hard.
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by ejb999 3y ago
if you follow the money, it is pretty easy to connect the dots - ask yourself - who benefits the most, and makes the most money keeping people fat, and on lots of drugs?
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by ejb999 3y ago
maybe one of the reasons, but imo, not even close to the biggest reason - look at the diet and weight and sedentary lifestyle of the average american - that is likey a HUGE reason that people are not healthier - not because they didn't
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by ejb999 3y ago
well it is a 'choice' in the sense that politicians campaign on it, and people vote for those politicians - so it is a choice.
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by ejb999 3y ago
the per capita health care cost is estimated to be around $11,590 in 2019, per the CDC for the USA. Your $1,055 in administrative costs is not even close to "The largest cost of healthcare in the US is all the admin associated with it.
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by ejb999 3y ago
please explain why it would? The government essential funds colleges educations (through loan guarantees and grants etc) for tens of millions of students - has that driven down the cost of college? or did it have the opposite affect?
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by ejb999 3y ago
not to mention the varying obesity rates - USA is almost double that in France - solve that problem and a lot of the health problems and costs will be solved as well. Instead we as a country are glamorizing obesity, which has become a bizar
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by ejb999 3y ago
cash is a great way to aid ill people, if you want to produce a steady stream of new 'ill' people to line up for it.
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by ejb999 3y ago
free money, even better.
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by ejb999 3y ago
not if it leads to even more people living on the streets or in shelters - the media was ripe with stories that if we just stopped criminalizing drug use, it would lead to more people seeking help and overdoses would go down - it had the op
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by ejb999 3y ago
yea, no doubt if you are down on your luck someone handing you $750/month would improve your circumstances in the short run - but it sounds like perhaps you made changes in your life, such that you are no longer homeless - great - but
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by ejb999 3y ago
did it actually get them back on their feet? i.e. to the point where they no longer needed the free money? or did it improve their lives by being able to purchase/consume $750 more of goods and services? Almost anyones life would be im
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by ejb999 3y ago
I hate unit tests, though I am forced to write them to have my CI process not fail (I need 75% coverage or it won't build) - so I have written thousands and thousands of them in the last few years - the problem I have: not a single tim
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by ejb999 3y ago
I agree - which is why less inspectors seem reasonable to m, there are a smaller number of dangerous jobs, less inspectors needed, AND imo, most importantly, the ever-present threat of a very expensive jury award keeps some companies on the
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by ejb999 3y ago
don't you have to have already agreed in the binding arbitration and waived your right to sue - in writing - ahead of time? Not sure that if you have no prior agreement with someone that you can force them to not sue and use arbitratio
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by ejb999 3y ago
it wasn't doctored - I was able to do it myself - and then poof one hour later they put in a fix.
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by ejb999 3y ago
OSHA may have the lowest # of inspectors in ~45 years, but the rate of worker deaths is also at just about its lowest over that same time period - so not sure the # of inspectors is really relevant. More is not always better. Worker deaths
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by ejb999 3y ago
I think interacting with the standard American diet is many multiples more dangerous to the average person than getting into car.
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by ejb999 3y ago
yep, surprised it doesn't exist already - one password to get you in, one password to wipe or hide everything you want and then let the police in to a completely sanitized version of what you want them to see.
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by ejb999 3y ago
Not surprising to me - is she actually notable? as far as I can tell she is no more (or less) notable than any of the millions of people that contributed to the war effort - so along the lines of an army grunt following orders to shoot at t
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by ejb999 3y ago
that is great (no sarcasm) - but I also don't think it is unusual for a <2 year old to spend almost all time with just one or both of the parents. I think the kids that had already in school that were the most affected.

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