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by patmcc 8y ago
>>"Doctors want patients, not cures". Really stuck with me. I suspect you don't know many doctor personally. If you have the intelligence, patience, grit, money, etc. to go through the many years of school and training
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by patmcc 8y ago
They may 'accept the tip' and then try to verify/track it down with other sources (and say "I've heard X, can you confirm that for me?"), but no, a reputable journalist will never publish a quote from an anonym
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by patmcc 8y ago
I'm a bit mixed about this; it is clearly discriminatory to publish a job ad that says "women need not apply", but it doesn't feel inherently discriminatory to advertise a job in, say, "Men's Health" but n
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by patmcc 8y ago
I was very curious about this, found an interesting article: https://reformjudaism.org/were-jews-slaves-egypt Last paragraph: "In short, the biblical writers invented the idea that the Israelites lived in Egypt in orde
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by patmcc 8y ago
30% of a single app purchase might be reasonable, we can argue about that. 30% of a recurring monthly subscription (like netflix) is bonkers.
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by patmcc 8y ago
>>In fact, all I like about standups is seeing my team mates once a day. Yeah, I think a better way to do standups is a couple minutes of social time, and "anybody finish anything? any blockers?" rather than going person-by-
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by patmcc 8y ago
>>You can't throw more money at a problem, then declare you've come up with a general solution. You can if "not enough money" was the problem in the first place. And for public schools in low income areas of Americ
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by patmcc 8y ago
'Extra tests' can be dangerous in a few ways: x-ray and CT scans give you a significant dose of radiation, MRIs and mammograms have high false positive rates (that can lead to painful and potentially damaging biopsies), etc. Plus
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by patmcc 8y ago
https://xkcd.com/882/
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by patmcc 8y ago
For some people, in some communities (that lean left, weird), obtaining and maintaining physical photo ID is non-trivial. To the politicians that those people won't vote for, they have exactly zero incentive to improve their access to
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by patmcc 8y ago
Yeah I don't disagree - I think the author made rational decisions, I just think he's not going to get anywhere with the insurance company.
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by patmcc 8y ago
>>“£5,000,000 in medical cover” With travel insurance generally, I think there's a distinction between emergency medical care you need RIGHT NOW and medical care that you need at some point. If I get hit by a train and need to be
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by patmcc 8y ago
A few things seems to help, although there certainly still is some discrimination (in certain jobs especially). 1) All your competitors have to follow the law too, so it's just another cost of doing business. 2) Women are having childr
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by patmcc 8y ago
>> it's not even a hard choice: I'll take the former as by far the lesser of the two evils. Right or wrong, I think you're in the extreme minority here. Edit: I'm not necessarily speaking for myself here, but then
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by patmcc 8y ago
>>unless both parties are very, very agreeable This is the real problem, I think - people can't seem to split agreeably. If you have a good solution for that I'm sure we can clean up all the messy divorces. Until then though
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by patmcc 8y ago
Three things with that: 1) Prenuptial agreements exist, you can alter the terms of the partnership. 2) As someone else mentioned, pre-marriage assets are generally kept separate. 3) Business partners enter into all kinds of arrangements - m
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by patmcc 8y ago
>> My mother's partner of more than ten years is still legally married to someone else, because to divorce would set off financial destruction for both parties. This is something I really don't understand. If both parties wa
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by patmcc 8y ago
A marriage is very much like a partnership, legally. Both partners are held to be answerable to each other, share joint ownership of assets, be jointly responsible for children, etc. Joining with a bad business partner can ruin you complete
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by patmcc 8y ago
>>well understood and accepted link between increased unionization and increased unemployment. Yes, I know what point the parent was making, and I agreed with that; my points also stand. Unemployment isn't the only consideration
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by patmcc 8y ago
>>I have yet to see a union that would support management firing an underperforming employee, but have seen many that would protect underperformers. What unions almost always do is require management to follow the procedures in place
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by patmcc 8y ago
>>You will find interesting that there is a link between high unionization and unemployment. Yes, and there's a link between high unionization and higher wages/better benefits/better working conditions. Of course there
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by patmcc 8y ago
There was a very recent Supreme Court decision that impacts this - employers can insist (as a condition of employment) that employees use arbitration only for these kind of claims. Which makes class action suits impossible, and leads to mor
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by patmcc 8y ago
1) Lots of unions and guilds don't operate like this; maybe you get more based on seniority, education, performance reviews, by hitting targets, or some other measure. Maybe the guild (think of the hollywood ones; writers and actors gu
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by patmcc 8y ago
Is this stealing by whatever definition police/the courts currently use? Isn't it an intentional part of the design of a cryptocurrency that decisions are made by a consensus based on hashing power? If you have 51% of the hashing
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by patmcc 8y ago
>>>Crypto currencies are worthless unless they have an enormous amount of hashing power behind them. And maybe they're worthless even then. Time will tell on that.
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by patmcc 8y ago
>>Google publicly announce they're illegally recording calls in a two-party consent state Why wouldn't they just run these tests in a one-party consent jurisdiction? From a quick google only 12 states are two-party. Nothing
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by patmcc 8y ago
Oh, I want to be clear - I don't think it's abuse at all to use it as you describe - even if you want to go to the same movie every day that seems completely fine to me. Abuse would be getting the ticket using MoviePass and then g
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by patmcc 8y ago
>>Getting rid of repeats saving 35% seems to point to some pretty widespread abuse. Who are these people seeing the same movie multiple times during its initial theater run? I wouldn't be surprised if there were people (especiall
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by patmcc 8y ago
>>>He runs a media company that has—with Google’s help—dominated the vast majority of digital ad dollars and eviscerated the journalism industry’s business model Oh, bullshit. Google and Facebook didn't kill journalism, "
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by patmcc 9y ago
>>>So you assume that in the west, seduced by free market economics, rent control is coming back? Not really; but I also don't think UBI is likely to happen in any real way without pretty drastic societal changes. In a world w

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