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by rimbo789 11mo ago
I’m a Canadian and I’ve worked in health care. This is only done for very specialized treatments where the province (they run the health care delivery) doesn’t have the treatment and/or the American resource is closer than a Canadian t
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by rimbo789 11mo ago
Nationalize health care. Doctors should work for the government, hospitals should be owned by the government; for profit health care is a scam.
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by rimbo789 11mo ago
Read any thread in HN about the unhoused and it is very clear many many people think the poor deserve their condition and are lesser for being so.
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by rimbo789 11mo ago
Given all the raping, enslaving, pillaging, and general genociding europeans did upon arrival to North America I don’t think we can say it was the First Nations that were “primitive”
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by rimbo789 11mo ago
Excellent essay Few myths in our society are as dangerous and as anti-social as the “self made man”. No one is self made and all achievements are the result of groups of people working together.
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by rimbo789 11mo ago
So you want all the humans replaced then?
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by rimbo789 11mo ago
This is the kind of government waste that needs to be highlighted. Police forces consume a massively disproportionate amount of resources from our cities.
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by rimbo789 11mo ago
This is another item high on the “in the future we will all have been against this” list. Well funded public education is a bedrock of fair equal society (which is why the right attacks it ever since its invention). Public education isn’t p
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by rimbo789 11mo ago
Debates have never been about finding the truth - or at least an objective truth. They have always been about emotions and controlling the audiences reactions. At their best debates help us find some emotional truths but that’s it.
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by rimbo789 11mo ago
Thankfully GenAI has no creative potential so we aren’t losing much. I do agree Netflix wants to crush creators.
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by rimbo789 1y ago
That anyone would use any LLM for medical advice is beyond me. It’s webMD with slicker ui. Obviously they should disallow them and more broadly should be banned from providing anyone medical Advice
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by rimbo789 1y ago
Why would anyone accept such a terrible deal
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by rimbo789 1y ago
Yes this is about hiring folks for low wages and limited ability to leave because they have less transferable skills
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by rimbo789 1y ago
Inheritance tax should be 100%; taxation isn’t theft, excess riches are. State thugs are much less a threat than private ones. The difference between organized crime and large corporations is just branding.
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by rimbo789 1y ago
If the “victim” is a large corporation is almost certainly does
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by rimbo789 1y ago
On the pre-nup point, check the jurisdiction the marriage is in. I’m in Ontario, Canada, where pre-nups are much less powerful than people assume. For example you can’t use it to kick someone out of the family home nor can prenups determine
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by rimbo789 1y ago
Are there any organizations on earth that, for their economic size, produce so little value to society than the Big 4?
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by rimbo789 1y ago
Because it isn’t overregulation? Ensuring cars don’t kill people is a good thing. It’s proven from the last century of road deaths that people can’t actually drive them safely so automating safety is the next best thing. More generally I do
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by rimbo789 1y ago
Markets are very bad at holding people to account for anything So is this administration. But markets are also bad at it
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by rimbo789 1y ago
Yes; the way the us government big business and the media, specifically Hollywood colluded during the Cold War
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by rimbo789 1y ago
There should be a tracker on all cars that automatically charges them a fee when they stop on public land for longer than a traffic light. You get mailed the bill monthly. Fail to pay you lose your license.
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by rimbo789 1y ago
Nationalize health care. All health care should be owned by the state and operated not for profit. The profit motive and health care outcomes are fundamentally at odds.
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by rimbo789 1y ago
Yes you clawback commissions. It’s a very common practice.
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by rimbo789 1y ago
If interns existed like that they haven’t in the 21st century. They are a free disposable short term labour to be ripped through. Also what company do you know of thinks in 40 year terms? The longest budgeting process I’ve been part of has
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by rimbo789 1y ago
You got there in the end. Hiring people is a necessary evil and ai allows companies to massive reduce the necessity of that evil. Having done budgeting and forecasting for a wide range or organizations companies will do anything to avoid hi
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by rimbo789 1y ago
Free labour, easy to dispose of labour? Even though it’s low quality at that price point it can’t be beat. That’s the only use I have ever seen.
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by rimbo789 1y ago
Polymer Corp itself is a fascinating origination. Created in ww2 to create synthetic rubber - which the Germans had all of the ip of - it was a wildly successful research to commercialization entity. It was so successful after the war it w
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by rimbo789 1y ago
The volume of containers is unimaginably huge. Take the Evergiven. It can fit ~20k containers. A “quick” check each going 2 minutes would add 40k minutes to loading, or 667 hours or 27 days. A month basically. In a world where time is money
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by rimbo789 1y ago
Everything about American cities makes more sense when you realize they are designed entirely for cars to go fast. That is the sole metric and everything is optimized to sure cars can go as fast as possible no matter the cost, both literal
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by rimbo789 1y ago
The Fire Next time changed my view of America and people in general. It’s an incredible work and James is one of the best writers of America.

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