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by estearum 2mo ago
Maybe so, but that wasn't the claim the Ariane guy was making at all.
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by estearum 2mo ago
Oh sure, I bet you can find plenty of random people on the Internet who said it's impossible. You can also find plenty of people on the Internet who say that humanoid reptiles live in the earth's core. Is either one interesting wh
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by estearum 2mo ago
You read through the first 3 links, including what... all 8 parts of the deep investigative work done by the leading healthcare publication with the subtitle "How UnitedHealth Group wields its unrivaled physician empire to boost its pr
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by estearum 2mo ago
... a Reddit comment? I guess I assumed you meant "people who should have a pretty good idea said it was impossible" since that could be interesting, and not "a random person on the Internet said X", since that's no
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by estearum 2mo ago
So your very substantive contribution to "they're abusing market power" is the observation "they could only do this if they have market power?" And you're wanting someone else to go demonstrate to you that the
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by estearum 2mo ago
Insurers in the US actually are retailing you medical services. All the large insurers own huge (and growing) numbers of medical providers and they use their insurance plans to abuse non-owned medical providers into selling out to the ins
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by estearum 2mo ago
Uhh...? We know for a fact that this is how it works. It's actually far more insidious. The payer will have non-owned providers on their network, and by virtue of processing those claims they will understand a lot about the provider. T
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by estearum 2mo ago
Calling reusability "a dream" is different from saying "Starlink is impossible." You can try to read the tea leaves on tone and some creative interpretation of implicature (despite Starlink actually needing fewer than
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by estearum 2mo ago
Did you watch the video? This person didn't say it was impossible to launch enough satellites for Starlink. He said the Falcon 1 launch price of $5MM was unrealistic, which ended up being correct. At the time, Falcon 1 was supposed to
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by estearum 2mo ago
Could you find a source of someone saying this?
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by estearum 2mo ago
Well yeah, but that is exactly the cynical lip service that I'm referring to. It's a useless statement for exactly the reason you mention.
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by estearum 2mo ago
A single Starship launch produces motorcycle (100dB) to permanent hearing loss + immediate pain (140dB) sound out to about 7 miles. Having that intermittently a couple times per day I think will be very disruptive.
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by estearum 2mo ago
> Pecan Island and nearby wetlands are high-value habitat for migratory waterfowl, shorebirds, wading birds, and other coastal wildlife. SpaceX is not developing the full footprint of the land and will preserve wetlands and wildlife habi
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by estearum 2mo ago
Even assuming that difference is real (seems questionable IMO), why is it relevant? Same thing with a manmade thing: Is saying that you ate too many breadsticks just denying the essence of Olive Garden's unlimited breadstick basket?
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by estearum 2mo ago
Totally, I didn't say it was illogical to hypothesize. GP made a factual assertion that there is a difference.
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by estearum 2mo ago
You hypothesize it's an important distinction. For now, what we have evidence for is the correlations of those things bundled together.
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by estearum 2mo ago
Surely people created a lot more art, but you're eliding the dynamic of professionalism. Art is ludicrously labor-intensive and so the vast majority of professional art (i.e. most art worth saving) would have been done for rich p
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by estearum 2mo ago
Is saying that cancer is bad and should be mitigated simply "denying the essence of cell division?" Nope. There is no system on the planet, big or small, that can be stabilized by a reinforcing feedback loop.
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by estearum 2mo ago
Yes which is an extremely dangerous and completely unproven idea.
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by estearum 2mo ago
Why does it matter how many people exist within a specific arbitrary line on a map? If China or India split into 5 different political systems each, suddenly the calculus changes? Talk about foolish.
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by estearum 2mo ago
Huh? That's not true. https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chinas-co2-emissions-ha...
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by estearum 2mo ago
Silly argument. You obviously want to be the very last nation on the planet to run out of fossil fuels.
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by estearum 2mo ago
A car on which you slam on the accelerator and the brakes, and which comes to a stop, is in fact stopping despite your pressing on the accelerator.
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by estearum 2mo ago
Global consensus would be great, but "reliable mechanism" would be a decent start. In lieu of that, there's nothing to build consensus around.
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by estearum 2mo ago
EROI is also why we really need to get off of fossil fuels long before we actually literally run out (i.e. now would be great) As a resource reaches depletion, there are two forces acting on EROI: 1) the increased cost of each unit of e
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by estearum 2mo ago
I didn't say to make fun of people who are disadvantaged. I said to make fun of liars and cheaters and ensure that everyone is reaffirmed that lying and cheating is low status.
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by estearum 2mo ago
No, I don't mean that. Being a cheat is low-status. Being disabled is not. Americans actually agree on this, by and large.
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by estearum 2mo ago
Sexism, anti-establishmentism, anti-plutocratism, racism, anti-elitism, etc. Not sure it matters too much in the sense that it's much easier to change the candidate than the electorate. Yeah, Trump's election says very awful thing
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by estearum 2mo ago
There's more to winning elections than being qualified, unfortunately. Blame can be shared among many actors, and generally should be. There's also special value in finding blame in yourself and your own actions where possible, no
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by estearum 2mo ago
No, actually. It's a cute story but there's no evidence of it. We got here by putting two of the most hated people in the country on the ballot against him, twice. One was actively hated for decades by the ultra-powerful evangelic

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