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by gozur88 9y ago
I think telling people you're a family doctor would be worse. Do you really want every every person you meet to try to get free advice on their hemorrhoids?
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This doesn't surprise me. Africa hosted the biggest war since WW II starting in 1998 and most people in the US and Europe couldn't tell you anything about it. Not even the name.
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Public hospitals don't treat people for free officially, but the reality is most of the people don't pay and they won't refuse to treat you.
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No chance. http://bastiat.org/en/twisatwins.html
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Japan didn't (over)build that flood control system because they're worried about global warming or thousand year floods. They did it to create jobs. In the same way the US is said to have a "military industrial complex"
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by gozur88 9y ago
Every time I buy a new computer I find the old hard disk fits in its entirety on the new one, leaving me with plenty of space to spare. I think I have four or five generations nested into the current one. I suspect storage will remain chea
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>In the US, there are people who can't access healthcare at all - not because there's not enough providers, but simply because they don't have enough money. That's not true. We have public hospitals, and we also have
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You have to identify a demand for lemonade before you can reasonably invest in more lemonade stand. In a lot of industries the demand just hasn't been there, and in that case it doesn't make sense to increase capacity no matter h
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I would have thought even if they're not treating symptoms they'd want to know things like blood pressure and blood chemistry change over time. Like, "We're going to keep drawing blood every hour until things look to be
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by gozur88 9y ago
I know you're making a joke, but what you're saying is not at all true. Most people in the US have quite good healthcare. That's why it's so hard to change anything.
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People at Starbucks don't make minimum wage, and they have good benefits. And yes, free trade tends to make countries more equal in terms of wealth, but it tends to make wealth inequality greater within countries. Personally I'd
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Exactly what environmental protection is Trump rolling back?
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Feudalism was more about political power than concentration of wealth. The big problem was the peasants didn't get to vote, not that they didn't have money.
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But the whole point of being a criminal is to get a lot of money for not much effort. If you have to put that much work into it, you may as well get a job.
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There's a big difference between "I stopped contributing because people said things that upset me" and "I got arrested for saying something." I don't accept the premise that people who are upset by what they r
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It's fine for people to not want to read things online. What's not fine is giving them the power to prevent those things from being written.
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>This is a paradox if you still pretend we live in a hierarchical meritocracy. Not really, no. It's a paradox if you think a single-minded concentration on grades is the right strategy to rise to the top of a meritocracy. People s
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by gozur88 9y ago
It's hard to know the exact number, but there certainly are people prone to violence. I don't see any indication there exists a reliable method to make them less so.
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Yeah, I'm so angry they awarded it to that notorious right wing professor Paul Krugman.
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Yeah, the peace prize has become a joke. I have to disagree with the author about the science prizes, though - I think it's pretty reasonable to award people for moving the ball forward even if they didn't do it all themselves.
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by gozur88 9y ago
"I wouldn't be surprised..." isn't really a strong enough sentiment to support the statement "vaping definitely isn't healthy". At the moment, the harms of vaping are speculative.
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It used to be most people who quit permanently did so by going cold turkey. That was true even after patches and gums, but I'm not sure if it's still true with vaping. Though I have a theory cold turkey quitting normally happens
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by gozur88 9y ago
>You believe that anyone can be trained to be an effective programmer. If that's true, then there's some truth to your argument: why not invest in education and training to meet the high demand for programmers? We have. We&#x2
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Or in their own country.
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You mean like the Rachel Maddow fan who shot Steve Scalise?
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But they've always been the smartest in a group of the smartest people. It's not that they're not being smart or not being adult. It's that they feel this is just another step in a road they've been traveling sinc
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Every country on the planet tries to influence US elections to some degree or another. Why focus on Russia and not, say, Israel or China? Clinton didn't lose because of Russia. She lost because she was a bad candidate who ran a bad c
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Well... there's intellectual understanding and then there's emotional understanding. These are people who were the very top in their high school and the very top as undergrads. They've always made the cut when most everyone
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>The complaint is the practice of using those misdemeanors as a way to pad their productivity, and by extension their department's budget. The evidence for that is spotty at best, and you're missing the point, which is cops won
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But they have to put pressure on cops to make arrests, because if they don't, cops will only make an arrest when someone pisses them off or does something so bad and so public it's going to make the papers. Speeding tickets are a

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