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by pwnstigator 17y ago
Artists face inverse-BCD. They aren't qualified for other jobs (primarily because of their lack of a resume) so they lose out on the options that someone with 5 years' experience as a corporate grunt would have. This makes them poor relativ
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by pwnstigator 17y ago
Much of the ER flooding comes from two sources: 1. Uninsured people who go to the ER because they legally can't be turned away there. 2. Panic attacks. Untreated anxiety/panic disorders are a huge burden on the hospitals. Most repeat panic
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by pwnstigator 17y ago
Just to play devil's advocate, here's a mind bender for you: we should be grateful to that asshole. Until you or I get cancer, that is. Last I checked, the probability of you and I having at least one life-threatening health problem in th
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by pwnstigator 17y ago
Mouth-breathing teabagger reasoning: It's soshullism, therefore it must suck. Also, Canada's cold and Europe can't decide on a common language, so no point taking those people seriously. I also find it odd that these people can focus on the
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by pwnstigator 17y ago
Any time you want to talk about cancer, you have to acknowledge the fact that it's actually over a hundred diseases. Cancer treatment is phenomenally effective for some cancers, for some classes of patients, and ineffective for others. I ca
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by pwnstigator 17y ago
And in the US, you get the privilege of paying for the paper on which the denial letter was printed... and, to make it better, the bureaucrat's salary. If you buy private health insurance, you're literally paying the salary of the asshole w
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by pwnstigator 17y ago
List comprehensions are great, but they're sort of a DSL-- something the syntax recognizes as special and converts to something else. It's unusual that you can pass around higher-order syntactic elements, while every modern language worth i
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by pwnstigator 17y ago
One second-order benefit of universal healthcare is that countries with such plans view health problems as a social cost, so there's more regulation of food production, industrial practices, et cetera. Consequently, Western Europe is a safe
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by pwnstigator 17y ago
You made an inappropriate analogy. There are no inherent costs to the consumer in eating fine foods. There are enormous inherent costs to medical care. Most patients want to be treated with minimal pain, risk, and time lost, so they can get
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by pwnstigator 17y ago
Somehow, I think there's a difference between eating filet mignon and being treated for cancer. I could eat a good steak every day, but I wouldn't want chemotherapy unless I was pretty sure I had cancer in the first place. Most people are j
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by pwnstigator 17y ago
Some good ideas, but mostly revolting. He's basically trying to preserve a system where the wealthy get better treatment than the rest. (See items #3, 9, 14, and 15.) Realize that screening doesn’t save money for society. Um, link? Althou
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by pwnstigator 17y ago
I like lambda because it allows anonymous functions-- functions that can be defined on the fly (dynamically) and then thrown away. IMO, it's generally bad form for a program to be dynamically creating named functions, filling the namespace.
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by pwnstigator 17y ago
The connection is actually the inverse of "Baumol's Cost Disease". BCD describes the increase in labor costs when the laborers have other options. The problem for artists and writers is that they're concentrating on their artistic work, rat