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by guylhem 14y ago
> you believe in your side beyond reason I don't believe in anything. Maybe universal healthcare will be possible some day, and even a good thing. Presently, in the US, it's a really bad idea. Australia is the token example of what I sa
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by guylhem 14y ago
Such as increasing our level of technology so that the next generation will be better off, which is what every generation did until we got the idea that putting a bigger and bigger chuck of the GDP on healthcare each year was a bright idea.
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by guylhem 14y ago
:-) I lived with the burnt stuff for a while too, but decided that the next one would be a 100% microwave to avoid any cleaning issues
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by guylhem 14y ago
I'm sorry if I seem to be making a special case of the US - what I wanted to say is universal healthcare is not a good idea in general, and even more in the US which is like a worst case for trying to implement it. Universal healthcare redu
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by guylhem 14y ago
had one of these dual things for a time - they are a pain to clean
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by guylhem 14y ago
I know that. In the US, a market economy applied to healthcare limits the demand. Yet a lot of money gets spent uselessly in healthcare- and this happens even in government run programs. People want more of everything, but there are physica
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by guylhem 14y ago
It's easy : - I eat all my vegetables raw: apple, lettuce, tomatoes, red pepper... The only "non fresh" vegetables I buy (for convenience - can't find it raw where I live) is frozen broccoli which is perfectly unfrozen in the microwave, not
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by guylhem 14y ago
These are separate studies about specific cancers, and interesting. But the biggest point in the study I remember reading was that it mixed up all the "not easy to treat [1]" cancers together, pondering each cost and survival time with the
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by guylhem 14y ago
I can't comment of the UK system, I haven't had any experience with it (theoretical experience is not the same as the actual experience) QALYs and DALYs have a potential - they are interesting tools to separate covered cancer from uncovered
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by guylhem 14y ago
Not sure about the car idea. It's quite useful to have one. Alternative hints : - thumb rule "if you have had this stuff for 6 months but have not used it yet/removed it from its box and installed it/repaired it, then it's a waste of time a
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by guylhem 14y ago
I remember about an Australian medical economics study from approx 2 years ago which specifically removed "easy" to treat cancer (skin cancer + some leukemias) then tried to compute the average cost and average survival compared to abstenti
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by guylhem 14y ago
In a best case scenario, with educated and understanding people, no political interference, even with our limited technology, it would be a good thing and I'd favor it - especially for diseases which are cheap and easy to treat if caught ea
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by guylhem 14y ago
Agreed - but how frequent is that ? And how will people understand that some cancers should be convered while others shouldn't? (especially if they have the "other" cancers) Add to the mix a difference of incidence based on ethnicity and pe
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by guylhem 14y ago
Sorry, I should be more precise. First, I don't believe that IQ exist as a measurable quantity - IQ is too many things thrown together in a single bad. Tests group together various things which may be handled by different subsystems in the
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by guylhem 14y ago
FWI, I do not believe in IQ. The evolution of scores alone makes me think there is a confounding variable. Students should just study what they can get money from and they are interested in. In France, there are 4 curriculum of approximatel
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by guylhem 14y ago
I disagree. The current perspective of IQ and ethnicities show that while there might be slight differences, they are dwarfed by the differences in the education process. If you want another example besides Singapore, look at french math te
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by guylhem 14y ago
> "it is also imporant for us as a people to let go when nothing can be done, not to make things worse out of a need to be seen doing something" In the case of cancer, universal care unfortunately seems like running in the opposite di
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by guylhem 14y ago
I guess it all depends on one's utility function. If you think that in life, suffering is a good thing, or that some things are more important that your own happiness, yes they are.
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by guylhem 14y ago
I'm sorry it got me in an uproar, but I really think what she did is offensive. She made a change, noticed the negative difference - end of the story. Some people may want to make a change (even if they know it's vain to try and conform to
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by guylhem 14y ago
Sorry if this is rude, but this post feels like a bleeding hart white liberal voluntary experiencing with discrimination caused by obvious self sabotage - and then discovering that discrimination exists indeed, and blogging about her discov
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by guylhem 14y ago
Excellent point. But "if the result of happiness_from_identification_with_current_religion + happiness_from_how_people_make_me_feel" is negative, maybe a) you are unhappy, b) it's not an untractable problem because c) there is something you
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by guylhem 14y ago
This "white girl trying to wear an hijab" screams to me as a kind of self sabotage. She won at the genetic lottery : she conforms to the usual expectations about "looking good" in the country she lives in - did she never realized that priv
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by guylhem 14y ago
Unfortunately not - sad truth.
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by guylhem 14y ago
If wearing a hijab cause people to call you names, throw bad looks or more generally makes you feel discriminated against, what about trying not to wear an hijab?? Maybe I'm clueless and prejudiced and all that but it seems to me that relig
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by guylhem 14y ago
Indeed, and one way to improve that is to separate the random variable that represents the population by different random variables (say male immigrant with at least master level studies, female of less than 30 years, other males, other fem
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by guylhem 14y ago
So what you say with your example is that in a layered sample (say separate the population by heigh or muscle mass), the weighted mean is a better estimator than the arithmetic mean of a sample ? It is not ignored by statistics. http://en
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by guylhem 14y ago
Start with a very rich country - a former superpower that fought with its rival for world domination. I'm not talking about USA and USSR but France and England. The #1 spots comes with lot of advantages like accumulated wealth, educated wor
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by guylhem 14y ago
It lacks some paleoalignment pictures to illustrate the facts. See http://ars.els-cdn.com/content/image/1-s2.0-S092054460800003... for the end carnian impacts - perfect alignment between Manitoba, Quebec, France and Azerbaijan craters
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by guylhem 14y ago
No, it contradicts his own title and facts : When he was in jail, with its regular routines and meals, Tim usually stabilized. But when he was released (...) he destabilized right away The "humane reforms" may not have been just for the g
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by guylhem 14y ago
The stress trigger remains an unproved theory - there are other many potential explains (vitamin D, parasites, sociological baed on family dysfunctions...) but so far there is not a good fit.

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