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by marcuskane2 2y ago
> I admit I don't understand the mechanism I'll simplify it for you: The government pays health care providers for providing healthcare. It is very easy to defraud the government by billing for fake work, so fraud is common and
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by marcuskane2 2y ago
> the world has collectively lost it's mind since 2020 Covid causes brain damage. The common symptom of "loss of smell" was found to actually be due to covid infection of the neurons in brain & cranial nerves. Obviousl
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by marcuskane2 2y ago
> they can pretty much do whatever they want in their EEZ This reminds me of an old Simpsons episode, where Bart and Lisa both close their eyes and declare that they're going to punch and kick the air in their personal space, and it
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by marcuskane2 2y ago
> maintaining a healthy weight have long been the most important factors in cancer prevention. I don't think that's controversial You'd be surprised. There are unfortunately many people who will aggressively attack anyone
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by marcuskane2 2y ago
The reactionary panic to any geoengineering efforts to counter climate change always kind of entertain me. Announce that you're opening a new factory to build useless trinkets that will also pollute the air with sulfur as a side-effect
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by marcuskane2 2y ago
Reddit will in turn be paying the people who posted the content, right?
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by marcuskane2 2y ago
No, that is not what is "most likely" that's just a completely unrelated thing that happened to you.
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by marcuskane2 2y ago
Makes sense. Norway's economy ever since discovery of offshore oil is similar to Saudi Arabia, Dubai or Qatar's. The difference is just that while Saudi wealth is concentrated among roughly 20,000 members of the extended royal fam
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by marcuskane2 2y ago
Americans today have fewer friends and fewer close friends than historically. The number of men with zero close friends is higher than ever. The majority of gen Z people don't feel comfortable asking/being asked out in person beca
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by marcuskane2 2y ago
Maybe it starts there, but over time works its way up to better jobs as it becomes normalized. Also, our current system is already pretty terrible. Generally some recruiter who reports into HR is the first pass, and they generally don'
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by marcuskane2 2y ago
Healthcare costs are essentially meaningless to tech workers in America. My salary works out to roughly $120 per hour. I pay a $15 premium to insurance from each paycheck and a $20 fee to see a doctor. Even if I had some catastrophic car cr
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by marcuskane2 2y ago
I wish we didn't use euphemisms like "reproductive healthcare" when talking about abortion, because I don't know if this comment is suggesting there have been actual changes to healthcare for pregnant women, or just sayi
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by marcuskane2 2y ago
> why would a tech oligarch support someone that is advocating limiting tech? Regulatory capture. The last thing they want is a new generation of hungry young entrepreneurs disrupting their businesses and displacing them from positions o
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by marcuskane2 2y ago
"Coloniser" is a tricky word. Historically, colonization included two very different types of societies- in America, it was primarily poor European peasants moving to undeveloped land and starting farms they worked themselves and
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by marcuskane2 2y ago
Both the Democrats and Republicans are (were?) neoliberal economically throughout most of the past few decades. Bill Clinton signed NAFTA into law in 1993, which was probably one of the most impactful neoliberal policies for average America
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by marcuskane2 2y ago
1 in 5 households in America is a millionaire. We need to stop treating "millionaire" to mean "rich" like it did before decades of inflation. A two-earner household, that buys a house, uses their employer's 401k and
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by marcuskane2 2y ago
These events almost certainly cause long-term brain damage. The type of brain damage that will make the participants more likely to commit acts of violence in the future due to impulse control issues (see the high incidence of prior concuss
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by marcuskane2 2y ago
We're in strange new times, but the equivalence of human cognition and synthetic will likely become mainstream and mundane in the coming years. Sci-fi has long had various "cyborg" type things as a plot element, but if you wa
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by marcuskane2 2y ago
Far from it. I'm a libertarian and an environmentalist. Pollution is harming other people just as clearly and directly as assault, rape or murder and so regulations against that harm still fit naturally and comfortably within even fair
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by marcuskane2 2y ago
This is such an insane take. At this point, I think as a society we need to just say copyright as a concept and law has completely failed and scrap the whole thing. The 0.01% of powerful copyright cartel publishers get rich while harming 99
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by marcuskane2 2y ago
To counter your anecdote with mine, I can't recall ever hearing this term used until this year, and I've now heard it multiple times from multiple people in the last few months. Maybe your company, region or industry were the star
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by marcuskane2 2y ago
> there really isn't any way to meaningfully increase housing supply There completely is though, just build more housing. The restrictions are completely arbitrary. Jackson could build a dozen 5-story high apartment complexes to hou
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by marcuskane2 2y ago
The curious piece of this is that every instance of deflation that I've actually experienced in my life has been a good thing. Working class Americans now have flat screen TVs and smartphones because of massive deflation in the prices
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by marcuskane2 2y ago
I've long been kind of fascinated by Ari Emanuel. If he were a video game character his stats would be like: high intelligence, high charisma, high work ethic, zero morality, zero ethics, zero empathy. I suspect the world at large is f
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by marcuskane2 2y ago
I'm saying if an adult man can't bench press 70kg then they are unhealthily frail, yes. "Doesn't work out at all" is a problem. That's unhealthy and decreases their quality of life and shortens their lifespan.
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by marcuskane2 2y ago
Honestly though, that sounds... amazing. I've spent some of my life working in undeveloped, tropical areas. Because of this, I'm vaccinated against a bunch of diseases the average Western citizen doesn't worry about- Yellow F
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by marcuskane2 2y ago
> For the first time in my life I got really strong, bench pressing my bodyweight I quit reading here. Absolute beginner starts exercising and immediately starts preaching as an expert. A bodyweight bench press isn't "really st
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by marcuskane2 2y ago
De-regulation and regulatory capture are almost opposite things. De-regulation is a solution to the problem of regulatory capture. Regulatory capture is a central problem in America today. The big powerful entities- major corporations, larg
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by marcuskane2 2y ago
This is an egregious ad-hominem attack, which is both against HN guidelines and a failure of rational discourse. The people who want to reduce pollution most likely just want to reduce the harms associated with that pollution, not your wack
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by marcuskane2 2y ago
This is completely misleading. Their "stable coin" system was doomed to fail from the beginning. They made up two new coins, which were algorithmically tied together so that coin A's value was variable and coin B's value

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