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by gnaritas 10y ago
> then that person is not capable of paying for their own health care and needs charity They need an effective government and socialized medicine. Charity is not a workable solution. > It is certainly insane to expect people who are i
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by gnaritas 10y ago
> Competition between producers already incentivizes eliminating labor whenever you can do a job cheaper without human labor. That provides enduring pressure for more automation without any basic changes to the incentive structure of mar
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by gnaritas 10y ago
Your point is off the mark, propaganda works, it cost Hillary the election; that last minute FBI story swayed people and secured Trump as the winner despite the story being false.
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by gnaritas 10y ago
Agree, but doing so requires changing our economy to not be based on capitalism. How do you see that happening?
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by gnaritas 10y ago
It's insane because it just forces people who can't afford the deductible anyway to choose this plan for the low premium thus breaking the entire point of the system.
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by gnaritas 10y ago
> A cheap, catastrophic insurance coverage plan for young, healthy people addresses all three of these reasons. No it doesn't. This is insurance, if the young healthy people aren't paying more than a bare minimum, there isn&#x
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by gnaritas 10y ago
Markets work well for those things, they don't for healthcare, that we're here is proof of that. There's a good reason civilized nations have socialized medicine, it's the best solution to the problem. Markets are not
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by gnaritas 10y ago
They would immediately start taking Medicare when nearly all available patients moved to it. They can only afford to not take it now because other customers are available.
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by gnaritas 10y ago
A public option is just a mandate by another name, it has to be paid for by higher taxes: still a mandate. But yes, we should do it that way.
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by gnaritas 10y ago
We're discussing what would be realistic in our world, precisely because what's happening in the show is implausible. How Dolores behaves wouldn't be relevant to this conversation.
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by gnaritas 10y ago
It's not, you can do everything in lowercase. Still sucks.
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by gnaritas 10y ago
AI of that level would be unprecedented and far more dangerous than nukes; to think the government wouldn't interfere would be unrealistic.
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by gnaritas 10y ago
With that kind of tech, they wouldn't allow him the option of choosing. It'd be classified immediately as a national security issue and the government would assert ownership via eminent domain. We do not live in a world where a lo
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by gnaritas 10y ago
That's well within the reach of a single trade.
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by gnaritas 10y ago
> It's not very difficult to clean up one's objects manually in a well-thought-out codebase. Given the rarity of a well thought out codebase, I'd say it is. As soon as multiple people work on something confusion always ens
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by gnaritas 10y ago
Those big sites sell users to advertisers, the users of said free software are their product, not their customer. This site is just a hobby project.
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by gnaritas 10y ago
> I know it was nasty, and I'm certainly going to avoid it, but when I'm not actually in pain, I cannot summon up even a shadow of a sensation of what the pain itself was actually like. That's physical pain, but if you try
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by gnaritas 10y ago
That's an idea with zero evidence and thus indistinguishable from fantasy.
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by gnaritas 10y ago
You've got it a bit backwards, the state is in control, always has been; the world isn't going that way, it's been that way. The Internet is not immune to laws or nations. > And every effort to circumvent state control ge
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by gnaritas 10y ago
When it's the difference in winning the majority and still losing the election, it is significant.
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by gnaritas 10y ago
Those are the same thing.
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by gnaritas 10y ago
Is that a real question? Because do please show me where I'm insulting 50% of the country. Are you claiming that me saying they aren't a majority constitutes an insult? That's pretty bold, yet that's all I've said
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by gnaritas 10y ago
No, it isn't semantics; more people voted for Clinton, therefore there is no silent majority voting for Trump; that is a fact. Yes polling overlooked a big chunk of people who voted for Trump, but that chunk is not a silent majority by
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by gnaritas 10y ago
They do not have a majority, silent or not, she will win the popular vote. Stop this nonsense of pretending they're a majority, they are not. Trump won the electoral college, not the majority of votes.
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by gnaritas 10y ago
There is no mandate here, and there will be no coming together; she's going to win the popular vote, dems win more votes in the house yet because of the electoral college and gerrymandering republicans carry the win. Nothing has happe
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by gnaritas 10y ago
Not really, tens of millions would line up for it; it'd be vastly better than surgery and plenty of pills can kill people now but we deal with that just fine and death is much scarier than sterilization. What you're doing there..
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by gnaritas 10y ago
So it needs work, but a chemical vasectomy would be great.
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by gnaritas 10y ago
Sounds better than a vasectomy for men who want that. Good drug, wrong market perhaps.
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by gnaritas 10y ago
> monopoly All businesses want that; it just isn't healthy for the economy.
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by gnaritas 10y ago
> Tesla doesn't make a mass-market car. Uh, yes they do, they make cars that are available to the mass market; anyone can buy a Tesla if they want to. That's what mass market means.

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