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by ejstronge 3y ago
This is a difficult issue - if we accept the statements on their face (and I don't have enough information to accept or reject the statements), it seems that there was waste by hospitals that were doing just what I mentioned, solicitin
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by ejstronge 3y ago
I'm not an expert on this topic, but the article confuses a handful of issues that should be separated. There is a limit on the number of seats in US medical schools but this does not affect the number of new practicing physicians in
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by ejstronge 3y ago
Do you have evidence of this lobbying? It does not stand to reason, since care provided by residents is quite cheap to hospitals from the perspective of labor. Hospitals have no obligation to hire the residents they produce, so an optimal b
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by ejstronge 3y ago
You are precisely correct - this is not an AMA issue. Funding for this is tied to Medicare/Medicaid and thus a political issue that does not turn based on what the AMA may request. In searching for the below table, it seems that there
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by ejstronge 3y ago
Landlord property insurance policies do actually cover loss of rents - maybe the OP’s policy doesn’t have a landlord endorsement
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by ejstronge 3y ago
If one searches Reddit, there are brokers who will pass on wholesale car shipping prices which are lower than the prices of those one may find on Google.
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by ejstronge 3y ago
Yes, we are on the same page the whole way. My question is why we need to reframe our extant system as a 'land value tax.' This proposition suggests that we should give concessions to developers in areas where there is a need for
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by ejstronge 3y ago
Your argument ignores that changes to neighbors' property would then cause an increased burden to a land owner. This would not seem to be an improvement for freedom
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by ejstronge 3y ago
> Land with a skyscraper already on it and land next to a skyscraper have related but not equal market values. I agree! But in appraisals that I have seen, there is an effort to assess the highest and best use of a parcel as well as a br
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by ejstronge 3y ago
> Property tax: The more of your money you invest into your property, the more you pay for taxes (punishing investment) > Land value tax: Your tax is unchanged on how much you invest in your properties. A rundown parking lot pays the
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by ejstronge 3y ago
Perhaps someone who has thought about this more can explain how a 'land value tax' differs from existing property tax regimes that explicitly examine the value of improvements and the value of land... This Detroit case is interest
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by ejstronge 3y ago
It’s not absurd - the bank has to spend money to move depositors’ cash. This is a standard part of a commercial banking relationship
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by ejstronge 3y ago
I did read the post. There is no monopoly because there is no single 'MLS'
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by ejstronge 3y ago
I don't think 'MLS' is a single entity - instead different areas have their own MLS, and these are interconnected based on contracts. Thus, there isn't a monopoly to disrupt in the first place.
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by ejstronge 3y ago
ISPs are offering 'Netflix-included' or discounted Disney+ plans. I don't know how they account for downloads from these services but the bundling is definitely happening.
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by ejstronge 3y ago
The added genetic factors may, themselves, be exogenous and genetically modified. Your argument does make sense over thousands of years, however.
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by ejstronge 3y ago
> If this tool is even 1% lower on average, it's already better than a human. Without diving into the source data behind the 'wiendlaw.com' article (are they authoritative sources? Can we believe their interpretation of a
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by ejstronge 3y ago
> , but it's important to realize that just because a specific security measure could not prevent what happened to you, that doesn't mean it's wholly ineffectual or not worth having. I think you are missing the point of th
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by ejstronge 3y ago
> (If anyone at Apple is reading this: ffs, allow the legitimate owner of a device to "unpair" all components in their phone in iCloud so that legitimate second-hand shops can strip a broken device at least for its parts) I was
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by ejstronge 3y ago
Curiously, rural regions of the US have a fair amount of power due to how electoral seats are distributed. I'm not sure if this is also true in Canada, so it is possible that the GP's situation differs from your own experiences.
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by ejstronge 3y ago
Your and a sibling comment want to make the Floyd protests into an explanation for the data… while the trend both existed before the event and has continued afterwards
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by ejstronge 3y ago
> So long and sooner into the landfill for a thermal camera, higher end environmental noise monitoring microphone, decent wrap around game controller pad, etc, and repurchasing all of the above. This must be some of that "reducing e
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by ejstronge 3y ago
> That is if we transfer the DNA to an advanced alien civilization - would they be able to make a human. You'd need a cell to start the process, with the various nucleic acids distributed correctly and proteins/energy with whic
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by ejstronge 3y ago
> The FDA could work with sponsors to come up with a range of risk profiles and expand access. They indeed do this and have various avenues for treatments to be approved on expedited timelines.
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by ejstronge 3y ago
Write-off is an accounting term that would seem not to have a meaning outside of taxes.
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by ejstronge 3y ago
At the same time, your education costs were much lower - through no fault of your own. Why should younger borrowers be penalized for market forces they did not contribute to?
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by ejstronge 3y ago
> to take computer science as an example: a 4 years bachelor degree only has about 500 hours of classroom instruction in comp sci subjects. > a 9-5 vocational training program can provide 480 hours of classroom instruction in 3 months
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by ejstronge 4y ago
Can anyone comment on how necessary this sort of behavior might be to operate in middle economies / developing economies?
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Sam Bankman-Fried Is Charged with Foreign Bribery(nytimes.com)
20 points by ejstronge 4y ago|12 comments
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by ejstronge 4y ago
Yes, this happened using GPT-4 and a coding plugin: https://twitter.com/gdb/status/1638971232443076609

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