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by kelnos 6mo ago
This is actually a problem with e.g. airline pilots. They'll hide conditions (especially mental health issues) that they know could trigger a suspension or re-evaluation of their ability to fly. Even if those conditions are entirely
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That's not how it works, though. People/companies that find efficiency gains don't sit back and relax the rest of the time. They do more work with the extra time they have. So in your example, they'll continue to doubl
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by kelnos 6mo ago
The best time to fix that was 20 years ago. The next-best time to fix that is today. But we're still not doing that, and that's a huge oversight. (Or is intentional, to protect the doctor-training to hospital-slot pipeline carte
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by kelnos 6mo ago
> If you're the former, it works great. I don't think that's true at all. "Insured" doesn't mean just one thing. There are many different kinds of insurance, levels of plans, etc. Most insurance compani
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by kelnos 6mo ago
The problem is that (as addressed by the article), any efficiency wins end up pushing more patients on the provider. So if you used to have a 15-minute appointment, and five minutes of that were spent with the doctor writing down notes, wi
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by kelnos 6mo ago
Great, glad to hear that. I'm still concerned, though. I absolutely believe that's indeed your official policy, but people get tired, and people get overworked, and sometimes they'll succumb to the temptation to instead jus
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by kelnos 6mo ago
It's only illegal until someone in power decides it isn't. Anyone watching the US over the past year should know that by now. (And anyone who has lived under a repressive regime or a country that has slid into autocracy or fasci
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by kelnos 6mo ago
How have you evaluated the error rate? It's unreasonable to expect that these systems will not commit any errors at all. Have any errors resulted in adverse patient outcomes? Also consider that these aren't usually just transcr
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by kelnos 6mo ago
Maybe? I mean, should we live in a world where the only way to create savings is by denying yourself any fun? You've picked a number, $1k, because it sounds good to support your argument, but maybe after paying for the essentials, a f
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I don't think that had anything to do with it. A majority of Americans support some level of access to abortion, and only a small minority believes it should be banned. The real problem was that Hillary Clinton was just not a particul
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by kelnos 6mo ago
> The growing secularization up to 2020 follows the long-term trend towards unhappiness and peak secularization and peak unhappiness line up too. Are we looking at the same graphs? That's not what I saw.
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> secularism and inability to publish reproducible papers is positively correlated. It's annoying that I need to say this, but: correlation is not causation.
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> In the US atheists have fertility rate of 1.2 (half of replacement) somewhat religious people have the rate of 3.3 and "orthodox" closer to 6. Other main drivers of birthrate are education and access to contraceptives. Giv
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by kelnos 6mo ago
Because atheism isn't a club like an organized religion is. You don't need to join a specific community or church or organization in order to be an atheist. You just stop believing in religion, and there you are. We don't n
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by kelnos 6mo ago
Not the person you're replying to, but Christianity in America makes me sad, too. I grew up in a fairly religious area. The Christians (mostly Catholics, as my family was) I knew were largely good, friendly, helpful people, with a str
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by kelnos 6mo ago
That's not what the article says at all. Perhaps you should re-read it, especially the section that directly contradicts what you are saying about religion and happiness. If anything, Americans are more religious than they were pre-
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> That makes it more resolute, because for the secular person if the cost of the care greatly outweighs the benefit of "common decency", then there is no reason to continue. You seem to be latching onto "common decency&q
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by kelnos 6mo ago
> Can you provide a reason to care for someone that has nothing to do with religion and nothing to do with a personal/societal gain? Sure: because I want to. That's it. I don't need a justification. I don't need
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by kelnos 6mo ago
Wow, that's a load of garbage. Clearly you have some bigotry against people who don't follow your religion. Hard to take any of your opinions on this topic seriously.
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> that the Judeo-Christian world view was absolutely necessary for the start of real science That's ridiculous. > Because the Christian view was that God was a reasonable God, and He made the universe. And because He also gave
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> In the United States, medical malpractice is the third leading cause of death. No it's not; this claim comes from a flawed study that even the BMJ's then-editor-in-chief has admitted was poorly researched. And even if the
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by kelnos 6mo ago
Oh jeez, here we go again with this. Secularization isn't the problem. Isolation is the problem. Avoiding community and treating others as strangers to be feared is the problem. Maybe read the article? It covers all this, and point
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by kelnos 6mo ago
You said "usury", which is a word that describes loaning money at an exorbitant interest rate. So it's no surprise GP thought you were talking about interest rates. (Yes, I know "usury" has had other meanings, but
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> But no one dreams of owning an apartment as opposed to a free-standing house. I think you might be a little out of touch. Plenty of people dream of owning any kind of real property.
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There are also plenty of cases where something like this has happened, and the prediction market paid out and did nothing. Ultimately they don't care too much about this kind of tampering, except when it has the potential to damage the
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> At least legally, a missile could only be used in defense or in a war authorized by the congress. Some Iranians might disagree with you on that point. They can't, though, as they're dead, killed by missiles used not in def
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The reasons given were complete bullshit. So maybe it's not true that they weren't articulated, but the reasons that were articulated don't hold up to scrutiny. And, yes, on top of that, the action itself was poorly planned
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Those are incredibly thin justifications that don't really hold up to scrutiny. 1) The deal was holding. And even if we take Trump's word for it that it wasn't, he told us that he destroyed their nuclear capability a year
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> Whenever people here mention to my critique of US healthcare how its now mostly solved problem now Who says that? I don't think anyone sane can believe that US healthcare is "solved".
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It technically does indeed matter, because "then" means a totally different thing in that sentence, but using "then" in that way would be an odd enough way to construct that sentence that it's blindingly obvious tha

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