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by learc83 6y ago
A country avoids nuclear exchanges because retaliation will also devastate it. An integrated economy isn’t going be any more of a deterrent in this respect. If a country is willing to deal with nuclear devastation they are certainly willing
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by learc83 6y ago
I don’t know. Our economy was almost completely decoupled from the Soviet Union and that never turned into a shooting war. What’s different this time that is going to overcome MAD and allow for a conventional war?
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by learc83 6y ago
>It doesn't take much effort to find current instances of sword, famine, and plague. And yet those things are affecting fewer people proportionally than at any time in recorded history.
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by learc83 6y ago
The last shared cultural "moment" was much more recent--the COVID lockdown.
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by learc83 6y ago
This isn't screening to get in, it's screening to leave. So your shift ends at 5, and they make you wait in a line to get out the door--after you'd already clocked out. And yes, you would be threatened with termination if you
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by learc83 6y ago
I worked at Best Buy during college, and if you closed you'd have to wait for a manager to unlock the door for you and check your stuff. If I had to wait more than a minute or so, I'd fill out a time correction for the time I was
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by learc83 6y ago
>Apple isn't alone here, but they're obviously a fun big target for it. They aren't. Too bad no one reported the situation at the call center. That's a textbook case of unpaid wages. I've worked at company before
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by learc83 6y ago
>"ineffective and may cause dangerous side effects" Dangerous on an individual level, not really. But at a population level if hundreds of millions of people start taking it, you're going to have high absolute numbers of b
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by learc83 6y ago
Millions of economically vulnerable Americans already had wholly unusable insurance. Before the ACA there were no out of pocket maximums, coverage was mostly limited to $100k per year per person, insurance companies could price you out or d
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by learc83 6y ago
> is better than a system where a single payer simply pays at a set rate for specific treatments. It's not. >but effectively will not cover unexpected large expenses That was the claim though, and it's wrong.
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by learc83 6y ago
For emergency treatments, insurance companies are required by the ACA to pay the out of network provider, but charge you as if you are using an in network provider. It's possible for the out of network provider to then bill separately
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by learc83 6y ago
>In normal countries you don't have that kind of criminogenic environment. Also, do stop the victim blaming. Stop using "victim blaming" as a way to shut down discourse. In every country in the world people run scams. Univ
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by learc83 6y ago
Commercial speech is subject to more regulation than non commercial speech. Likeness rights in commercial speech are already a thing. Also if you aren't very explicit in saying that this is not really a famous celebrity, then you'
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by learc83 6y ago
>He was kind of surprised that wasn't available for everyone, like, you know, citizens... It is available for citizens. Citizens who make below a certain amount. If the OP's fiancee lost her job and didn't have medical cov
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by learc83 6y ago
People will gladly collect money they aren't legally owed. In this case, unless there is more to the story, you shouldn't have paid it.
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by learc83 6y ago
You said >Since then kid themselves also had an ambulance ride (seizure), and that too was "out of networking" in spite of being the only ambulance provider available within 15+ minutes. That's the illegal part.
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by learc83 6y ago
>The US government says that private insurers deny 20% of claims. 20% are denied at least once, not 20% are never paid. There's a lot of gray area in what is medically necessary, and there's a lot of outright fraud. Plus many c
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by learc83 6y ago
What you're describing is completely illegal now. Under the Affordable Care Act, which applies nationwide, insurers are required to cover out-of-network emergency care as if it was in-network care, which means your deductible and coins
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by learc83 6y ago
>you know, citizens It has nothing to do with immigration status. Medicaid is available in California for people making below a certain income.
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by learc83 6y ago
Under the Affordable Care Act, which applies nationwide, insurers are required to cover out-of-network emergency care as if it was in-network care, which means your deductible and coinsurance can't be higher than the regular in-network
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by learc83 6y ago
>These kinds of plans were common (and cheaper) prior to the ACA. They weren't comparable because before the ACA these plans almost exclusively had lifetime and yearly coverage limits, and they could raise your premiums to affordabl
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by learc83 6y ago
>On paper it may seem to insure you against catastrophic loss, that is, if the insurance company can't find a way to deny your claim for one reason or another. You can surely bet they will be trying. The most common method of denyin
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by learc83 6y ago
That isn’t true at all. It used to be true because health care plans had lifetime limits to coverage, but the ACA removed those limits. The ACA also ads out of pocket maximums. They might still be high enough to cause problems for some peop
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by learc83 6y ago
> removed joint-venture restrictions from most sectors of the economy, This is misleading. On paper sure, but not in reality. The majority of large companies in China will in fact be forced to participate in a joint venture. And sure the
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by learc83 6y ago
1. China has many industries that outright ban participation by foreign companies. 2. Following Chinese law includes following whatever arbitrary whims the party decides to enforce—including forced IP transfer.
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by learc83 6y ago
Because your excerpt starts with "To accomplish the twin goals of artificially elevated incomes and worship by patients." The thoroughly footnote supporting the latter part of that sentence is supposedly comes from something writt
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by learc83 6y ago
Take a look at the hey email client. It's built by basecamp--the guys who created rails. As for web app vs web page--it's a very blurry line, and it's rare that I end up building something where the entire site could be consi
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by learc83 6y ago
Why would Taiwanese companies be subject to this? Are you talking about Taiwanese companies operating in China, or are you under the impression that China actually controls Taiwan?
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by learc83 6y ago
What area is that? Can you link to some stats.
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by learc83 6y ago
A paramedic isn’t going anywhere near a person waving a gun or a knife to inject them. This is only for people who are already restrained.

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