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by gedpeck 2y ago
One should not profit from denying care. All health systems ration care. Doing so in a way that people profit from denying care is immoral.
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by gedpeck 2y ago
That’s a meaningless statistic. What matters is how each group respectively would do in the other format versus what they do in their present format.
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by gedpeck 2y ago
Things are different this time around. The political norms are gone. He will use the power of the federal government to retaliate against whomever he wants to. He has Congress and the Supreme Court. No one will stop him. It’s why Zucke
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by gedpeck 2y ago
I’m a liberal and I favor secession. It doesn’t have to be this way but it is this way now. There are major power imbalances. Neither chamber of Congress has proportional representation. Several times in recent elections the Presidential
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by gedpeck 2y ago
There is also precedent for child labor and slavery in the U.S. Societies are far more complex now and the administration and governance of them are correspondingly more complex.
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by gedpeck 2y ago
Indeed we will but I think we are past the point of having a long term stable republic. Stuff like this bill and withholding aid to California normalize in liberal states the idea that secession is a possibility. We are entering in an era
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by gedpeck 2y ago
I sincerely hope this gets enacted. It would be great for states like California to stop subsidizing states like Louisiana.
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by gedpeck 2y ago
This also applies to businesses. I’m free to refuse to do business with a company for racial reasons but a company is not feee to refuse to do business with me due to my race. EDIT: I’m pointing out one of the ways that “free association
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by gedpeck 2y ago
It’s weird you think nurses, anesthesiologists, etc. should work for free while the health insurance company not pay for the care that it has been paid to pay for. I suppose the surgeon should pay for the materials used and for use of the s
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by gedpeck 2y ago
You miss a very important point. In the U.S. freedom of speech specifically refers to limits that the government can impose on stifling speech. It does not apply to Facebook, Meta, Twitter or any other such platform. My point stands. Met
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by gedpeck 2y ago
Meta is embracing free speech while suppressing it!
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by gedpeck 2y ago
She isn’t demanding anything as far as the article indicates. The health insurer demanded to talk to her. How do you know that the health insurer would be operating at a loss? Quite clearly it isn’t as United Health is quite profitable.
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by gedpeck 2y ago
No country embraces free speech in the purest sense of the phrase. All societies regulate speech. The question is where the lines are drawn. Europe does not fear “free speech”. It fears enabling things like the next Putin, Hitler, and S
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by gedpeck 2y ago
…. rather than just do the surgery for free? Weird that you think surgeons, anesthesiologists, hospitals, and nurses should work for free. Should mechanics, teachers, police, firefighters work for free? Are you advocating for a communist
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by gedpeck 2y ago
You got a lot on your hands and I’m writing what follows more for myself than for an attempt to change your mind. The Overton window has greatly shifted rightward the last 50 years. The sort of statements being made by people like Musk me
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by gedpeck 2y ago
He’s smart in Computer Science. I studied mathematics in graduate school. Lots of smart people in my class…in mathematics. What I’ve experienced since graduate school is people being smart in their area of expertise thinking that smartne
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by gedpeck 2y ago
I’ve been on the site since the beginning under various usernames. I agree with your point overall but sometimes something said truly is “bad” (idiotic, foolish, whatever) and is deserving of being called so. I believe writing “after the
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by gedpeck 2y ago
Same shit just different colors I think though that Trump truly is worse. If you made this comment in 2008 or 2012 and used Trump or McCain I’d say you are right. But what happens when a person truly is a vile disgusting human being? Th
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by gedpeck 2y ago
With proper, sensible moderation it won’t get the same posts. Twitter as it is now is what happens when you let certain types of filth be posted.
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by gedpeck 2y ago
I’m not the one who quantified things. Graham did. I take it then you agree with me that Graham’s statement was written without merit or justification. EDIT: Graham wrote, “Not a problem on the scale that the woke believe it to be, but a
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by gedpeck 2y ago
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by gedpeck 2y ago
Anti-vaccine sentiment didn’t arise due to suppression. It arose due to the ease of cheaply spreading a message on social media. We ran the experiment and see the results.
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by gedpeck 2y ago
Indeed. This is corporate America’s version of bending the knee.
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by gedpeck 2y ago
It’s bad for society that peddlers of stupidity can do so at scale and for little cost. We now have millions of people doubting the benefits of the polio vaccine. This disinformation is spread primarily through a few websites. It seems t
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by gedpeck 2y ago
RVs in the parking lot of Walmart is an effective housing solution? I think not.
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by gedpeck 2y ago
From what you and the other person on this thread has said and from what I've read it appears that perhaps the following is true: 1. The axioms of PA_2 are recursively enumerable. 2. The full semantics of PA_2 are what cause categori
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by gedpeck 2y ago
Thanks for the reply. ...it's decidable - otherwise, it would be impossible to decide whether a proof is valid. Isn't that the whole issue with PA_2 vs. PA? In PA_2 with "full semantics" there is no effective procedur
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by gedpeck 2y ago
Thanks for the reply.
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by gedpeck 2y ago
You know more than me. That is certain. However, my understanding is that the incompleteness results apply to only recursively enumerable axiomatic systems. I can find references for this. If I take the standard model of ZFC and collect
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by gedpeck 2y ago
The set of statements about natural numbers that are true.

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