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by refurb 9mo ago
If by “money” you mean “spending limited health dollars on treatments where the benefit justifies the amount spent” then you’d be correct.
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by refurb 9mo ago
That’s not how drug approvals work. You don’t make assumptions about safety, you make decisions based on data. The original trials were for a specific population - no prior HPV infection, young women. Hence the approval was for that popul
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by refurb 9mo ago
Putting people in prison for weed, something China does as well, is not the same as imprisoning people for blog posts (something China does the US doesn't).
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by refurb 9mo ago
> There actually literally is a free lunch. Debt owed to the government by itself isn’t real. False. It may not be the same as debt owed to other parties, but not paying it still has consequences for things like money supply. Otherwise,
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by refurb 9mo ago
For the same reason countries don’t like it. It guts their domestic industry and puts you at the mercy of an authoritarian country? I thought the last few decades of the US losing key industries to China was a lesson everyone learned?
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by refurb 9mo ago
I’ve never seen a comment so misinformed. You claim Tesla is created by government subsidies yet ignore the $230B in subsidies for the Chinese market?
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by refurb 9mo ago
There is no free lunch. Debt in China is still owed to someone. Printing money creates inflation. Oversupply leads to deflation. It’s why China’s real estate company debt is dragging down the economy as a whole. It’s all connected. Chin
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by refurb 9mo ago
No, you could make a weak case for the US doing that by using vague definitions and a lot of handwaving. The Chinese government does this a lot.
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Stock prices are forward looking . You bought BYD after it had been hyped to the moon. Of course the price doesn’t move when it meets sales expectations.
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by refurb 9mo ago
> Whether or not they're credible to you, they're still the #2 ranked general medicine journal in the world, second only to the NEJM. Their ranking is based on how often papers are referenced in total, not the validity of any o
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by refurb 9mo ago
https://www.electrive.com/2025/08/22/china-discloses-subsidi... $230B is the number thrown around, but those are the direct subsidies. When suppliers are subsidized it gets hard to account for all of it.
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by refurb 9mo ago
The Chinese EVs were particularly atrocious in their handling. And sure some American cars are plastic and flimsy (particularly the low end models), but these are premium Chinese brands.
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by refurb 9mo ago
Making predictions that don't come true is no fraud. Calling it fraud it hyperbole. And Jesus some people have more time on their hands than they know what to do with making a site like that. Imagine if they put their efforts into pro
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by refurb 9mo ago
That makes sense, but the idea of no touching things after becomes an impossible process considering fecal coliform contamination is everywhere .
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by refurb 9mo ago
It’s not only a logical negotiating position, it has legal implications. Way back in the 50-60’s the government put in laws around “usual and customary price” in an attempt to rein in medical costs. What providers were doing is charging cas
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by refurb 10mo ago
Or, rather than trying to keep your hands sterile which is a futile exercise, doing what the military teaches - keep your hands away from your face (eyes, nose, mouth) and don't scratch your skin. The reason you care about germs on you
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by refurb 10mo ago
Over promising is fraud. The hyperbole doesn’t help your argument at all.
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by refurb 10mo ago
High quality? I’ve ridden in several. It’s an all plastic deal with a flimsy feel. The ride is horrible and from the reviews I e read the handling is terrible.
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by refurb 10mo ago
The Chinese cars makers are heavily government funded, with the goal of flooding markets. It’s not hard to sell EVs when you’re losing money on each one.
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Lancet lost all credibility long ago. They had to retract several seminal papers on autism and vaccines as well as Covid. USAID isn’t an aid organization, it’s a front for CIA efforts internationally. It funded CORDS during the Vietnam Wa
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by refurb 10mo ago
In science we have the idea of background noise - a random signal that is always there is random fashion. And what is typically done is you ignore it. It’s always there, it’s random, and it applies to all samples. Same with luck and succes
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by refurb 10mo ago
I used to scoff at people skills too. I don’t any more. Getting thousands of employees to all work towards a common goal is EXTREMELY difficult. Not to mention selling it to customers, investors, etc. It doesn’t matter how technically pro
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by refurb 10mo ago
But the dice gets rolled for everyone and clearly success isn’t randomly distributed. So what does that tell you? It must be luck plus something else.
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by refurb 10mo ago
This article fundamentally misunderstands the role of a CEO. The main job of CEOs is not decision making. 99% of company decisions are made below the level of CEO. For the ones that make it to CEO, the board tends to have final say. It’s
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This approach is why carbon taxes won't work. Tax carbon, then credit it back to a majority of the population because "they can't afford it". Leaving the people who can afford it to not reduce their carbon use. Thus en
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Not necessarily. If it just sits on a shelf, there is no new data on it's use in humans.
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Yup. It’s wild seeing the internet chat about the latest flavor of the week of “the sky is falling”. Try going back 1 year and look at those headlines. What you’ll find seem silly looking back.
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by refurb 10mo ago
Good observations. Not only that, I find it funny when title of “global reserve currency” is based on a static measure of what countries are holding. This ignores transactions entirely.
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Yup. I’ve gotten documents from an Asian country’s government. One known for its good governance and meritocracy, that had hidden sheets with competitor data. Don’t underestimate work shoved onto a university intern.
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I would say when you’re trying to stamp out broad beliefs like “each person has a right to choose their own government” or “suppression of freedom of speech is a human right violation” the impact is much broader than “dont show information

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