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by mgh95 1y ago
I have a family member with an incidence of autoimmune encephalitis secondary to other conditions (my entire family is an autoimmune cluster) who is actually hospitalized for it now. This almost matches my experience to a tee, though anti-N
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by mgh95 1y ago
I have always found this question haunting. I would imagine if I had the ability to forever banish a single though from my head, this would be it.
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by mgh95 1y ago
This goes directly to the question of the PBGC giving bailouts ( https://www.pbgc.gov/arp-sfa ) rather than windups and dissolution. These bailouts -- and the decisions if a pension fund should be forcibly closed -- are polit
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by mgh95 1y ago
Honestly, I think people are beginning to see pensions through the lens of the common adage "if something is too good to be true, it probably is". I just think it's a sign of the times where the population isn't expandin
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by mgh95 1y ago
> I don't know, I've never heard of this distinction before. As far as I'm concerned we decide which types of programs we want to have in our society, and then we find the funds for these programs. The only moral option th
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by mgh95 1y ago
Not really. It won't be "solvent" in the sense it can pay out full benefits and people will not receive the face value of what was promised. And I say this as someone who unabashedly supports allowing it to revert to its stat
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by mgh95 1y ago
> To be fair, republicans have been saying SS will go insolvent from the moment it was written into law. It's been almost a century. After a certain point, we have to call a spade a spade and just admit there's a lot of people
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by mgh95 1y ago
> Social security is self-funded. It has literally no impact on the deficit or our ability to pay off debt. By statute. There is a very real problem that social security is project to be no longer solvent in 2035. (see here: https:&#x2F
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by mgh95 1y ago
> Push it too far, and the only alternative you're going to get is having to look over your shoulder everywhere you go, living in constant fear that someone will pillage your property and threaten your personal safety. But that&#x27
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by mgh95 2y ago
China isn't sending a "small number"; casualties alone have supposedly reached into the hundreds (see this account: https://x.com/whyyoutouzhele/ you will need to go back awhile) and recruiting is heavil
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by mgh95 2y ago
First, 3,500 is a drop in the bucket. Second, just because China hasn't yet mobilized doesn't mean they won't if they feel a line is crossed like they did in Korea. With a country like China, everything is on the table
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by mgh95 2y ago
Yes, and the point I'm making is that (1) Chinese nationals have served, indicating that Beijing at least tacitly approves mercenary actions and (2) China can increase deployment if needed by either economic or prisoner release coercio
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by mgh95 2y ago
China has been supplying Russia missing materials (semiconductors, mostly; see: https://ssi.armywarcollege.edu/SSI-Media/Recent-Publications... ) and permitting their citizens to serve as mercinaries (see: https:/
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by mgh95 2y ago
> Hence my confusion: Why is it bad for the US government to let insurers raise rates? Because of a very, very, bad decision to make the California (and I really should have written California gov, not US gov) an elected position. And pe
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by mgh95 2y ago
The statement in question reads: > Perhaps the more pertinent question is what if the US gov doesn't recognize the risk and allow insurers to raise rates. Breaking it down: if the US gov (or its subdivisions) believes the risk is &q
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by mgh95 2y ago
California advocates frequently accused home insurers of price gouging (see: https://consumerwatchdog.org/insurance/study-public-scrutiny... ) arguing that price increases need expensive and time consuming hearings proc
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by mgh95 2y ago
Perhaps the more pertinent question is what if the US gov doesn't recognize the risk and allow insurers to raise rates. A now significant portion of the problem is the fact that California's FAIR plan will potentially be insolvent
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by mgh95 2y ago
Possible. I know little more than what I can google about .NETs history; I wasn't around for it. What I can say (MS hesitance aside) is that it is excellent for web applications where the ability to sustainably bear complexity of busin
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by mgh95 2y ago
Honestly, I could see myself writing this some time ago, but I somewhat disagree with it now. The problem isn't the patterns themselves, the problem is the overuse. C# provides many tools to allow you to defer needing to apply patterns
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by mgh95 2y ago
Possibly. I'm a relatively recent comer to the c# ecosystem (2021ish). It's been good and avoids some of the warts of java. Really, though, I'm very happy there is competition in the GC enterprise languages for linux. Regar
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by mgh95 2y ago
From what I gather, the only time this occurred was very early in the C#/.NET ecosystem (.NET2) when generics were added in November 2005. So it should be at 20 years this year. Both languages are very impressive and benefit from the c
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by mgh95 2y ago
Pretty much. And that's just one program that services a small portion of the population. The issue is we can't make this level of spending work, why should we believe spending more money will be successful?
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by mgh95 2y ago
Yes, we are tracking to grow to as much as some not all or most . Emphasis on tracking to grow which you should see the source for 2033 forecast. The fact that one program (Medicare) is growing to be as large as the NHE should be cau
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by mgh95 2y ago
I don't see what EMTALA has to deal with homelessness in this context. It largely comes down to uninsured, even post-ACA. If we can't afford the current system, it's not a matter of if, but when, either hospitals or providers
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by mgh95 2y ago
> Because it's the only way to get universal coverage, which if you don't have, means a portion of the population gets really sick, jams the ER, can't afford to pay the resulting bill (maybe declaring bankrupcy), and someo
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by mgh95 2y ago
> And for a couple with good jobs and without kids taxes bite really hard, purchasing power is not the one expected from top earners. Add rising mandatory medical and retirement insurance costs. This is just not good. About this, as I tr
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by mgh95 2y ago
I don't think you realize LATAM such as Brazil and CR is becoming the go-to destination for outsourcing, not India. IME, it's much more stable in SA than India.
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by mgh95 2y ago
> As it should be, why should we defer to corporations only following a profit motive the freedoms you have? You open a can of worms by allowing companies to control people's behaviour through how much they can pay for it. There&#x2
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by mgh95 2y ago
> They have no need to when they can simply deny claims or coverage. It seems strange to me that we should have private corporations shaming the public by acting as the arbiters of health. I agree that people have unhealthy habits, but s
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by mgh95 2y ago
No, the risk pools should not be "trying to move towards large and average". The insurers should be utilizing their market position to incentivize both employers and employees to adopt practices that reduce healthcare needs. One i

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