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by nvm0n1 3y ago
It's silly to claim British companies were flouting employment law on a massive scale just a few years ago. That wasn't the case, especially as even pre-2017 legal costs were awarded to the winner and you can get a year's wag
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by nvm0n1 3y ago
Why does preventing cancer make less GDP than curing it? That would surely depend on how you're trying to prevent cancer. By prevent do you mean keeping a cancer somewhat under control? > smoothly transporting oil without incident
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by nvm0n1 3y ago
That's in a small town not Dublin proper, right? Gotta say that's a huge number of deliveries for a weekend in a place with only 30,000 people living there. Was that weekend during a special offer?
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by nvm0n1 3y ago
They aren't that similar. US has at-will employment, it's very straightforward. In the UK that's only true for a short period, then Euro-style worker protections start kicking in.
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by nvm0n1 3y ago
The US is self-sufficient in oil because it developed the tech to do fracking of the oil sands, it's nothing to do with Iraq.
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by nvm0n1 3y ago
> cancer patient is diagnosed, the GDP goes up. Is this how we measure economic progress? Yes, obviously so! Diagnosing cancer early is one of the best ways to save someone from it. The cancer is there anyway, it's a natural occurre
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by nvm0n1 3y ago
Indeed that's so, but it's not what I said. Those politicians want to dismantle the NHS because they believe that it will inevitably fail regardless of what they do, indeed that it already is failing, and that there's just no
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by nvm0n1 3y ago
Kinda odd phrasing from Nolan there. "The rise of companies over the last 15 years bandying about words like ‘algorithm,’ not knowing what they mean in any kind of meaningful, mathematical sense." That's a description of sc
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by nvm0n1 3y ago
Given one of the primary justifications for not leaving the EU was to retain access to unlimited cheap labor for the NHS, it isn't easy to blame low medical worker wages on Brexit. If you want medical staff to make more money, removing
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by nvm0n1 3y ago
Switzerland has a massive foreign-born population compared to other places - their largest city is something like 30% foreign - yet very few problems caused by that even though those people often don't learn the local dialects or not e
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by nvm0n1 3y ago
"Getting worse" can be relative. If progress in your country had stopped in 1920 then it would be fair for people who lived there to think things had got worse over the past 100 years when they look to America and see how people l
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by nvm0n1 3y ago
I don't think the UK has ever had a government that actually wanted the NHS to fail. Even the most right wing conservatives realize they're stuck with it and that voters will be happier if it works better. They have very few lever
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by nvm0n1 3y ago
Maybe. There's a lot of noise in these measurements. A lack of error bars doesn't mean a lack of errors. For many years activist orgs and newspapers liked to claim the UK was at the rock bottom of EU healthcare spending, that it s
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by nvm0n1 3y ago
Alternative hypothesis: it's hard to define what "smart" and "dumb" mean, and the metrics they're using are optimizing for a different definition than what other people are using. For example if their definitio
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by nvm0n1 3y ago
The Swiss system works well. It at least isn't in crisis like many of the others.
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by nvm0n1 3y ago
Your study doesn't actually say that. You'd expect their comparison to be with other developed countries given how it's worded, but in reality: The UK had the lowest healthcare expenditure per capita relative to our comparat
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by nvm0n1 3y ago
Integrated healthcare systems in other countries like Kaiser can balance patient flows between hospitals and care homes. This is something that in theory the UK should be good at given it's also an integrated system, but the dysfunctio
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by nvm0n1 3y ago
Do all doctors need that much or is it just the homogenizing effect of licensing? You could argue that programmers need many years of schooling and apprenticeship to become useful if you set the bar of utility at the same place Google used