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by loeg 2mo ago
US federal budget is 23% of GDP, while UK is 44% of GDP. You can't compare fractions of the fractions directly. (Total spend is something like 11% vs 18% GDP.)
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by loeg 2mo ago
I think this one might not be true anymore. Canada has 432 machines as of ~2023 (340 in 2015) and MA is on the order of ~300 (can't find exact figures). It's still a lot lower per capita (10.8 per million vs 42 per million).
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by loeg 2mo ago
Our life expectancy and infant mortality rates are downstream of driving a lot of miles and unhealthy behaviors (mostly diet and exercise) of American mothers (i.e., obesity). Those are things it would be good to improve, but it isn&#x27
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by loeg 2mo ago
The US' healthcare model is not unique, and almost no countries have zero-cost-to-consumer healthcare systems (and none of them are free -- they're just paid by taxpayers instead of consumers). "Free" healthcare is th
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by loeg 2mo ago
Dividends aren't a Loss.
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by loeg 2mo ago
Right.
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by loeg 2mo ago
Wikipedia's (UBS') US figure ($69k) is probably wrong? US median household wealth is ~$193k[1]. I don't think there's a way to square claimed median individual wealth of $69k with that? Even taking into account childr
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by loeg 2mo ago
Some sort of public key crypto scheme + including hard-to-change local device characteristics in the challenge.
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by loeg 2mo ago
Yes, but the question is why do you believe that particular rule would benefit society.
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by loeg 2mo ago
I guess what I'm getting at is that a Progressive slate that is unpopular with the older electorate isn't going to magically win as Gen Z reaches voting age.
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by loeg 2mo ago
I'm seeing 28% Conservative for gen z and 24% for millennials. (And 21% Republican identifying in both groups.) https://prri.org/research/generation-zs-views-on-generationa...
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by loeg 2mo ago
We want consumers to consider cost when evaluating what services to buy, though. That's a feature. The medical emergency debt statistic is just the usual thing of people not really understanding how medical insurance works.
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by loeg 2mo ago
They're excessively optimistic (as in, unrealistic) about both. (Healthcare mostly doesn't bankrupt people -- the vast majority are insured, and the rest pay ~nothing.)
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by loeg 2mo ago
UHC proponents are just excessively optimistic about impact on health outcomes.
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by loeg 2mo ago
If private health insurance was allowed, UHC would be stillborn. It only works if providers don't have better options than medicare reimbursement rates.
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by loeg 2mo ago
Americans just consume a lot of healthcare services. Any substantial cost savings requires providing less healthcare service.
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by loeg 2mo ago
What UHC proponents never honestly admit is that these headline figures require incredibly optimistic assumptions and also much more rationing of care than our current model. We spend a lot on healthcare because we consume a lot of servi
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by loeg 2mo ago
It has negative side effects in many people: https://www.mayoclinic.org/drugs-supplements/metformin-oral-...
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by loeg 2mo ago
It's not as significant as most people make it out to be (also born out by the research).
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by loeg 2mo ago
I have no trouble eating maintenance calories at 25.0 BMI on 3.5-4.5 mg/wk of tirzepatide, lol. (1mg every 10 days normalizes to 0.7mg/wk.)
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by loeg 2mo ago
Metformin is miserable. Why go on that over a GLP-1?
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by loeg 2mo ago
> At my weight, I'm not a candidate for going on a GLP-1. I'm sure I could find an unethical doctor to prescribe it if I looked hard enough, FWIW, BMI as low as 27.0 is on-label ish, so if you went to an ordinary doctor with so
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by loeg 2mo ago
(Trade volume is relevant because it's how market makers make revenue. They make, in aggregate, at most half a penny per share traded.)
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by loeg 2mo ago
Are you done losing weight? It will probably feel better to go back to maintenance calories than to be in a deficit. And consider lowering your dose, gradually.
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by loeg 2mo ago
I think this is basically correct, although ebikes shift the distribution rightward -- the average rider+bike system is marginally heavier, average speeds are marginally higher -- at the margin, someone is going to be unable to brake to pre
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by loeg 2mo ago
Associative population-level sugar trends are basically meaningless for 10+ hour/week exercisers, who are a tiny minority of the population. (When I say sugar, I mean things like gummies, gels, and sugar-sweetened beverages. If sede
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by loeg 2mo ago
It clearly can.
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by loeg 2mo ago
Also, it's just clearly not true, even for the government? For example, here is the CDC mentioning Opioids, which are ostensibly "banned:" https://www.cdc.gov/overdose-prevention/about/understanding
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by loeg 2mo ago
> the costs paid by the market is the full operating budget of these companies plus their profits plus their negative externalities Agreed. > which combined ends up being significant No. Combined, it is still de minimis. US equity ma
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by loeg 2mo ago
I wouldn't worry about it in this application, because the added weight and power is so minimal. Also: many of the cheap ebikes ($1000-1500 range) have absolutely terrible, underprovisioned brakes.

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