scottLobster

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by scottLobster 2mo ago
Lol, Sam Altman has had an ethics team this whole time? Her typical day: "No Sam, you can't just publicly screw over everyone and get rid of all the jobs, the peasants care about that sort of thing and if they get angry enough we&
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by scottLobster 2mo ago
The TACOs have never been unilateral, you need some sort of pain they care about. The bond market spiking interest rates contained the worst of the tariffs, SCOTUS rulings have curtailed some of his more egregious abuses, protests and thei
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by scottLobster 2mo ago
If anyone doubts that popular media has at least somewhat taken the place of religion, here you go
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by scottLobster 2mo ago
As an American, we've had to watch this administration almost directly defy our own Supreme Court. A "warning" from Greenland or Denmark that doesn't include ordnance pointed at those shipping containers isn't goin
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by scottLobster 2mo ago
That's a nice theory. The stock prices of many of these companies seems to disagree. They aren't performing some tragic triage in the service of preventing the healthcare system from total collapse, they're making money. Lo
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by scottLobster 2mo ago
Raising taxes to pay for the public welfare isn't stealing. Rationing and wait-lists are a problem in some countries, and they're preferable problems to the ones existing in our current system. You don't want to help, and you
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by scottLobster 2mo ago
They don't have to believe the insured, they can believe the doctors, plural. Also, their "errors", even when innocent, are on you to solve. I'm currently working to get my 2nd autistic child covered for ABA services, b
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by scottLobster 2mo ago
Excessive is knowingly denying someone necessary medical coverage solely for financial gain. If private insurers want to play that game then they can register as a non-profit organization or be an optional layer on top of a public backstop
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by scottLobster 2mo ago
Where do you think all criminal codes come from? Are they mined out of the earth already written? It's a constantly evolving set of rules based on a society's collective moralities. There are many crimes today that did not exist
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by scottLobster 2mo ago
Depends on your employer/occupation. You can purchase insurance directly as an individual but it's usually the most expensive way to go as you have no group bargaining power. Small businesses are also hit by this, as they'r
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by scottLobster 2mo ago
I was presenting an extreme hypothetical to a make a point that the insurers are motivated by selfishness. In the real world, not a hypothetical, your market driven approach ensures they approve the minimum necessary to prevent customers fr
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by scottLobster 2mo ago
The moral crime of excessive claims denials that resulted in many needless death for no better reason than he wanted a to boost UHC's stock price to get a bigger bonus. He deserved death, but the manner in which that death is administe
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by scottLobster 2mo ago
As a mid-career software dev I'm just sick of most of my job being a highly paid technical janitor mopping a floor that never gets clean. I've had maybe 2-3 years combined where I actually got to build something I could be proud o
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by scottLobster 2mo ago
He murdered a guilty man, not an innocent one. Still murder, and murder is wrong, but let's not get things twisted
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by scottLobster 2mo ago
Anyone who's lost a loved one over a denied claim can sympathize with Luigi even if they disapprove of his methods. Sounds like you haven't gone through that experience, but a lot of Americans have.
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by scottLobster 2mo ago
If Mangione was the CEO's health insurer and knowingly denied him cancer treatment the CEO's doctor said he needed, all to boost his quarterly earnings, resulting in his death, would you have this same level of outrage? For-profit
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by scottLobster 2mo ago
The only reason in my mind to view Mangione unfavorably is that vigilante justice, however justified, does not result in a civilization anyone would want to live in. It's the same reason we can't just go around killing everyone i
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by scottLobster 2mo ago
If you think all denied claims are denied in good faith, I don't know what to do for you. The insurers are hardly running up against hard resource limits, where there just isn't enough to go around and they have to triage. They a
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by scottLobster 2mo ago
> This seems contradictory. The first seems like wishful thinking/unclear rationalization. The second implies a contradiction. Why are the polls relevant unless you mean to suggest this war involved more commitment? Yet it also ende
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by scottLobster 2mo ago
> I don't think this is accurate. What do you mean by this? China has never abided by WTO rules and has engaged in rampant dumping for decades, among IP theft and other unfair practices. I don't blame them for doing so, I bla
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by scottLobster 2mo ago
The argument is self-evident. Businesses need sales to make money. By refusing to allow them to export, you artificially limit the sales they are able to make. Businesses with fewer sales make less money, businesses that make less money
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by scottLobster 2mo ago
Yes, in China's case through mass exports. What you're suggesting is North Korean Juche. Turning China into a larger North Korea will not increase its prosperity.
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by scottLobster 2mo ago
Because that would lead to mass unemployment and deindustrialization, as China lacks the wealth among the lower classes and the demographics to consume everything that it produces.
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by scottLobster 2mo ago
China does not treat us as a partner any more than we do them. They have spent decades exploiting good will and abusing any attempts at genuine partnership. I don't blame anyone for looking for alternatives to the US in the current c
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by scottLobster 2mo ago
"Please consult your history?" You could replace "China" with "The USSR" in this post and be almost indistinguishable from arguments straight out of the 1950s. You point to universal healthcare, the modern Eur
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by scottLobster 2mo ago
Plus, China's growth to this day is built on the back of foreign, primarily American, consumption. If they ever beat us too badly, they go down with us. They'd need to find alternate consumer markets to alleviate this, and what a
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by scottLobster 3mo ago
In my experience, when someone (not being euphemistic, I've witnessed it many times) too mission-focused tries to get beyond program-level leadership they inevitably get sidelined and either coast to retirement or demote themselves bac
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by scottLobster 3mo ago
Even at a basic level when asking the AI how to do something in a new language, sure it saves time, but I no longer have to manually scan documentation and get the incidental discovery of "oh, that function also exists, cool" whic
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by scottLobster 3mo ago
Is it? Another is that modern society has created a system where advancing to the top ranks of corporate and political leadership requires mediocrity, and excellence is actively discouraged past a certain level of authority. The mediocre h
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by scottLobster 3mo ago
It's not illogical, it's called leading by example. You consider it unrealistic because most corporate leadership, especially in America, never feels like doing it. Samsung executives by contrast have a tradition of taking seriou

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