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by myrmidon 1y ago
What is a reason to end up multiple times a week in ER? I have a bunch of people with serious conditions in my "bubble" (spontaneus penumothorax, diabetes, ...) and none of those needed the ER more than ~1/lifeyear. If weekly
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by myrmidon 1y ago
> Don't you do research before picking a hospital and doctor? No. Preventing rapid unplanned end of life is the main purpose of hospitals in my view. Enough time to make a choice of hospitals (or even to collect information on spe
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by myrmidon 1y ago
That's exactly my point. Number of competitors is only one of the inputs for how competitive a market is, and price intransparency + lack of information on treatment quality make it moot for the healthcare sector in my view. I don&#x27
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by myrmidon 1y ago
> The issue with American healthcare is the profit-seeking capitalists. Profit seeking capitalists would be fine if healthcare was a competitive market, like grocery sale. But it isn't, and I honestly don't see how to make it o
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by myrmidon 1y ago
I don't really get it. If you are arguing that the customer is not paying for inefficient providers, then I strongly disagree. Customers always end up paying for inefficient supply chains. If you end up with an inefficient allocation o
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by myrmidon 1y ago
I don't think that is a good comparison at all. Unlike grocery stores, hospital ERs don't get frequent repeat customer interaction, so that makes the competition aspect basically completely inapplicable. As typical ER visitor, - Y
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by myrmidon 1y ago
How would higher hospital density help quell healthcare costs, though? Isn't that just more infrastructure, administration overhead and staffing that victims have to pay for, in the end?
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by myrmidon 1y ago
> As for the middle class, most of the reason for the decline is people moving into the upper class. Thats not what I get from the source you provided. It shows that middle (and lower class) are massively losing income share: Ine 1971, y
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by myrmidon 1y ago
I think the main motivation is simply that reduced transparency enables better price discrimination: As a company, you want every individual to pay as much as they are willing/capable. You explicitly don't want to sell the same
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by myrmidon 1y ago
Can't wage war effectively if you're starving.
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by myrmidon 1y ago
I agree with a lot of what you say, but I think one aspect of sanctions that you are missing a bit is that they stifle growth (especially long-term) by forcing the victim to waste ressources on unwanted/inefficient industries or conv
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by myrmidon 1y ago
> the amount of buyers is no where near where regulators want them to be [...] The real problem regulators can't regulate away is that people are not buying EVs To quote the article: Analysts note that a 20–25% share is enough to me
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by myrmidon 1y ago
> We are rationally scared that, once enough well-off people have switched to EVs, this market share will be used as an excuse to stop poor people from driving their petrol or diesel cars. I don't think that is rational at all. Have
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by myrmidon 1y ago
> In 50 years there will be literally nothing left that China doesn't do better than the west This is not at all obvious or inevitable. The exact same concerns where voiced when much of the electronics industry moved to Japan 30 yea
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by myrmidon 1y ago
Insufficient sun (light) exposure also increases risk of myopia (sort-sightedness) by an insane amount, by messing with eye growth.
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by myrmidon 1y ago
If you barely consider yourself middle-class with an income 50% over the median then you are probably at least living in a "high income" region :P And your self-classification is questionable, but that is very common. Maybe a good
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by myrmidon 1y ago
I'm not saying that everyone critical of immigration is a selfish hypocrite, but "mainstream" alt-right (even/especially european flavors) appears that way to me.
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by myrmidon 1y ago
> Praha This is a pet peeve of mine, but there is an english name for that city and it's Prague . There is no point in using the local spelling because it adds no clarity, is less obvious to pronounce for any reader and the locals
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by myrmidon 1y ago
You also get the baumol effect increasing wages even for unrelated sectors (sounds helpful at first). The flipside is that every american industry becomes less competitive globally without the H1b guys.
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by myrmidon 1y ago
One thing that really pisses me off about the whole populist anti-immigration stance is how thankless, hypocritical and selfish the whole thing is: People want to avoid negative effects from immigration (cultural/language/crimerat
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by myrmidon 1y ago
I'm curious if AI writing style is going to leach into human use and possibly even self-reinforce. I also really don't understand why it is apparently so difficult to teach LLMs not to repeat the same sloppy sentence style multipl
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by myrmidon 1y ago
> Things were fine in Germany under the moderate Merkel government Disagree completely. I would put significant part of the blame for the whole Ukraine disaster on western reaction in 2014, when Crimea was annexed (thats not to say that
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by myrmidon 1y ago
> Regardless of heat and power generation, natural gas is a crucial feedstock for manufacturing many types of chemicals. Maybe, but the vast majority of gas use in industry is for heat and power and electricity is a trivial substitute th
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by myrmidon 1y ago
Demand side management is a nice concept, but it is neither free nor a cure-all: It has real costs because it limits the utilization of involved infrastructure and is simply not feasible for a lot of industries. It does not help when reside
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by myrmidon 1y ago
> We sold out the younger generation [...] for some greater good, and if you dare question that you’re a fascist. I think this is a very flawed argument. Immigration was tolerated/encouraged because it kept demographics stable, labo
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by myrmidon 1y ago
> Or if someone takes an action knowing that it could crash an airliner with hundreds of people aboard, they should not be imprisoned? If the risk is not excessive, my answer would be no. If the behavior is only realistically punishable
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by myrmidon 1y ago
I do agree with you that corporate accountability is often quite poor, but I think the notion that every serious incident should conclude with someone going to prison is simply wrong. Overly punitive handling of accidents does not lead to b
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by myrmidon 1y ago
You raise good points, but I think none of the anti-renewable arguments are really show-stoppers, mainly because of how cheap things have become; solar panels are cheaper than glass windows now and prismatic LiFePo cells are down to ~$60 fo
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by myrmidon 1y ago
> Then why do current generations have to pay for the profits that the previous generations have banked? Because the vast majority of "profits" (externalities that were not paid for) were not banked, they were simply not paid
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by myrmidon 1y ago
> Sure, but people's rent and bills are due now and if they can't pay up, you can't gaslighting them with "your sacrifice is necessary for the future of the environment" which is a luxury belief. My point of view

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