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901.
by fastball 2y ago
No True Scotsman.
902.
by fastball 2y ago
Homelessness does not seem particularly related to EoL care.
903.
by fastball 2y ago
Yes, I literally said "not just a pundit", which is the implication made in the GC.
904.
by fastball 2y ago
The loop is being extended as we speak, I'd expect more stations to open up in the next few months. Not sure how much existing public transport infrastructure Las Vegas has, but I would expect connecting anything available would be des
905.
by fastball 2y ago
> more of this huckster selling us flashy stuff and not delivering But... the LVCC loop has literally been delivered? They are continuing to build it out and more stations will be opened in the very near future. You might want to take a
906.
by fastball 2y ago
The Vegas loop is also connecting existing infrastructure, not sure why that would be less constrained in terms of destination than any other public transit project. Again though, the reason I was comparing the two is because The Boring Com
907.
by fastball 2y ago
Maybe the federal government shouldn't be in the business of EoL care at all?
908.
by fastball 2y ago
The LVCC Loop is bi-directional – it has two tunnels, one for each direction. I'd say the main reason routing is less of an issue for the loop is not because it is "leisure" (strange phrasing, the LVCC Loop is also public tra
909.
by fastball 2y ago
That's not a good take at all. The author tries to make out as if Elon Musk is nothing more than a crony capitalist, pointing out that SpaceX has $15B in govt contracts. This conveniently ignores the reason SpaceX has those contracts i
910.
by fastball 2y ago
Musk is certainly not just a pundit. He is an operator.
911.
by fastball 2y ago
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912.
by fastball 2y ago
Gotcha, so 10k lives weren't actually saved, but a "message" was sent. Cool.
913.
by fastball 2y ago
10 smaller systems then require a layer on top to manage those 10 systems. Now you have 11 systems. And there definitely won't be only 2 layers in your public healthcare system for 300M people across 50 different states. Have you never
914.
by fastball 2y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoZhER_-nhg
915.
by fastball 2y ago
Nope, no hard border. Just progressively more difficult (and not linearly). My assumption is that, because any such large-scale human endeavor is a network, the complexity increases by some superlinear rate with size unless a almost superhu
916.
by fastball 2y ago
Humanity is what prevents scaling. We've demonstrated time-and-time again that we struggle to administer something at scale without the benefit of free market dynamics like supply and demand.
917.
by fastball 2y ago
If you won't turn on FSD how do you know Waymo is vastly superior?
918.
by fastball 2y ago
So I assume you've put your money where your mouth is and own GOOG and not TSLA.
919.
by fastball 2y ago
Not sure I understand your point.
920.
by fastball 2y ago
Are you comparing a system 10 years ago with a system now?
921.
by fastball 2y ago
Could you expand on why you think some people being billionaires makes other people drug-addicted and homeless?
922.
by fastball 2y ago
Then why can they perform an RCS evaluation but not some other algo? RCS requires the least number of qubits by a huge margin?
923.
by fastball 2y ago
Yes, why don't we already have public healthcare per state? And why do you think that a nationwide system (which by necessity needs to be vastly more complex) is more achievable?
924.
by fastball 2y ago
Right, so you agree. The problem is the floor, not the gap. People like to point at a gap (in attainment or wealth or whatever) and pretend that this is all they really need to do, because the gap itself is evil. But that is nonsense, as de
925.
by fastball 2y ago
This isn't my argument. This is the argument of many people who think the murder is justified, including the parent comment which implied this is a simple 1 person vs 10,000 people trolley problem. I am pointing out how silly that line
926.
by fastball 2y ago
I didn't say it was the best that we can do, merely that I don't think humans currently have the capacity to manage a project of that nature and scope effectively. My alternate proposal would be for states to implement public heal
927.
by fastball 2y ago
The EU is not one country. It is certainly not one healthcare system. But yes, I 100% agree with you. If the US wants to implement public healthcare, it should follow the EU's lead and implement it at the state level with very limited
928.
by fastball 2y ago
Google's chip is not general enough to perform any quantum algorithm.
929.
by fastball 2y ago
Why should the rates always be the same? Different insurers can make different decisions about who they insure and what they insure and how they insure. This would (entirely reasonably) result in different rates of claims and whether or not
930.
by fastball 2y ago
Again, the default state of the world is "no insurance or free healthcare at all". You absolutely have a choice – to not buy health insurance and always pay for your own healthcare costs. The result of health insurance is that peo

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