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by jgeada 4y ago
If the profit from denying medically necessary care is greater than the cost of the penalties for denying that same care, then it is profitable to deny that care. A fine that is lower than the profit isn't a fine, it is just cost of bu
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Funny because at corporation level competition is almost gone, and too big to fail makes most of the behemoths immune to consequences for bad decisions. And yet any time people want to enforce antitrust we get astroturfing about too much re
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You cannot be an expert in everything, it is impossible; the domain of human knowledge and experience has grown too vast for anyone to be conversant with anything more than a minor fraction. So, sooner or later, either you distrust everyt
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If they know how much to charge me at the payment step, they know what price to put on the shelf. Everything else is just making excuses for keeping it as opaque as it has always been in the US. Yes, it can get a bit more complicated for in
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It’s a trick question. Neither company will want to pay employees anywhere near market rates if they can avoid it. The smaller the pot for employees the larger the profits & management pools
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I find it particularly revealing that in these discussions about corporate personhood, the supporters go on and on about the rights of corporations but never about the responsibilities of corporations, and absolutely never about parity of c
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Management decides what portion of the pot gets to be divided by the workers, and much of that pot you might get. You're not even a part of that discussion. You are an individual, management is not. They have negotiating power because
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The ecosystem exists because Python does make it possible. That was one of the main thrusts of the article!
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All the gasoline is the same, octane is controlled by a very small amount of additives added at the end. Midgrade (90 octane) and Premium (93-94 octane) are not higher quality gasolines, they are the same gasoline with slightly more addit
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They know how much to charge you at the till, therefore they know what price to put on the label. It is that simple. For webstores, require customer to disclose location so the right price can be computed; they have to do that when it comes
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I don't disagree, but have noticed that the American justice system seems to obsess on jailing/punishing the people following the orders and completely ignores or treats very gently the people making the decisions and giving those
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Might be easier to just jail the employees with real decision making authority. Most companies I know that is a very small subset, most everyone else is just supposed to do what they're told.
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Note that there are 20 year periods where the net gain is close to 0. People starting their economically productive life during one of those intervals will not see any economic gains from investing in the stock market, and to the extent tha
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by jgeada 4y ago
Well, given that the top 1% in the US owns over 43% of all wealth (numbers as of 2011), and who by definition are getting a bigger benefit from all the infrastructure and protections of the system than everyone else, not seeing how a 38.8%
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The difference between medicine and engineering is that largely the AMA has endured that management is a support function and medical doctors largely remain in power in most practices. In engineering, particularly software and electronics
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Not expensive? When the reference cost of not hobbled or otherwise limited development environments for almost every other commercial language out there is $0.00, that the hobbyist entry point for LispWorks is $500 is … more than slightly
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by jgeada 4y ago
So a likely extremely controversial paper being shared publicly to a non-expert audience prior to any peer-review. Is this going to be yet one more of those “will be withdrawn after peer scrutiny but by then it is too late because the false
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by jgeada 4y ago
Where is the code of ethics of the managers of software engineers? Most places that is where all the decision making power really lives, so it is vacuous to put onus on the underlings. And what good is a code that has no teeth? What happen
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by jgeada 4y ago
> where capital's innovation comes from harnessing hacker communities like one uses fire for warmth. I think I'd rephrase this slightly: capital's innovation comes from harnessing hacker communities like one uses lumber (o
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I've heard this excuse, that tax situation is too complicated, and never understood it. The store knows to charge me the correct value, including all appropriate taxes, when I come to pay. So the data clearly is there, and therefore ch
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by jgeada 4y ago
Because bribery has ensured that regulators and regulation got strangled in the US. This has been a multi-decade effort, eg Regan's “Most Terrifying Words – ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help.’” propaganda meme etc. There is
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I the US that inaction is called "thoughts & prayers". Somehow that absolves politicians etc from actually having to do anything constructive.
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Yes, if climate was static. It is pretty obvious that it is not and the earth is warming.
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Risk compensation or risk homeostasis is one of those hypothesis that sound good to economists and the moralizing class, but has never been proven. https://slate.com/technology/2021/11/risk-compensation-debun.
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Because freedom of speech has never been quite what it says. It is basically only immunity from consequences for the rich and powerful. Only they're allowed to have substantive influential speech without consequences, and only they are
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Nice, but aggregates like this hide the distribution: who got that increase matters, and the distribution is likely extremely lopsided towards the upper extreme. The more you had, the greater your percentage increase.
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by jgeada 5y ago
The industry is extremely conservative. Costs of designing and taping out a modern chip range from $100M to $1B; these are the type of costs that will kill most companies if it goes wrong and very few companies can afford to have it go wron
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This article starts out by assuming that understanding sequential programming is sufficient to understand hardware. Yes, Verilog is a simulation description language, and yes, it can be compiled to hardware. But it is a specific subset that
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Useful to whom? There is far too much marketing/designer pressure for appearance over function, appearance over convenience, appearance over <any actual useful metric>. All the extra complication brought onto the web protocols ju
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And that is why the whole 737 Max fleet got grounded and none of those planes were allowed to be operational until Boeing put in place a fix for the problem. And most airlines ended up cancelling pending orders for the 737 Max and switched

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