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by sershe 2y ago
The thing missed in all these arguments is a large variety in life expectancy between states, and demographic controls. The states all have more or less the same problems and non problems with their healthcare system, so it cannot really ex
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by sershe 2y ago
It's still a pain; and what do you do if your bag and/or the inbound flight are late? Do you leave it behind or wait and risk missing the connection? And of course ~no other countries do that and nothing bad happens. Musk should h
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by sershe 2y ago
You have to do something with your life anyway, right? I always envied people who have a calling they are good at and work on essentially until they die (especially in academia and art), since I'm not sure if I have one and if I do (d
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by sershe 2y ago
I'd rather they ban political posters trying to turn the place into another subreddit dump where they can call everyone they dislike Nazis
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by sershe 2y ago
Well, I for once dislike what they are doing, but mostly because what they are doing is both ineffective and loud. Instead of carefully, efficiently dismantling the federal regulatory state into nothing, they are not only failing to actuall
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by sershe 2y ago
I just use Office 2007 for my personal stuff. It still works, even on Windows 11! Other than slightly better non-contiguous region operations and QoL improvements to pivot tables in Excel, on 365 that I use at work, I don't really miss
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by sershe 2y ago
You cut out parts of my previous arguments that contradicted your new assertions: 1) "They wouldn’t have a vested interest if ssa was a ponzi scheme ... people support ssa and don’t want to change" First I actually already gave y
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by sershe 2y ago
1) The only real difference I can concede is about lies. Again, it seems to me like nitpicking, as SS operates instead on vast ignorance, but sure - let's say "SS /operates like/ a literal ponzi scheme". EDIT: based
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by sershe 2y ago
Not really. Social security (and medicare) specifically makes promises of future returns to current payers, based on the assumption new entrants will provide the money to pay for those returns. To underscore the point, they are even structu
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by sershe 2y ago
Interesting, I remember from I was young there was tons of fantasy LARPing in Russia. There was a subset of people (easily found in Youtube videos) who were into it due to some combination of making historical-looking armor and weapons, and
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by sershe 2y ago
The scheme can just mean "plan". For the first "difference", ~nobody studies the terms of how social security operates before starting to pay into it. Would you say that if I run a ponzi scheme but put a bit of fine prin
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by sershe 2y ago
Regardless of its merits it's a fringe opinion that most people disagree with. Every other news story (and a few more besides - microchipping! Pizzagate!) would be on topic by that standard, so we could discuss whether they have merit.
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by sershe 2y ago
The rules that define what kind of site this is say if it belongs on news sites it doesn't belong here. This is about as much of a news site as facebook is a book site.
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by sershe 2y ago
What is your definition of a ponzi scheme? It is literally, definitionally one. The only difference from other ponzi schemes where newe entrants pay out unsustainable amounts to old entrants is that new entrants are forced in.
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by sershe 2y ago
Man it was really hard to not contradict you in detail and start discussing politics! Some people don't think it's so dramatic, let's leave it at that. Also there are tons of places online to discuss politics. Maybe too many!
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by sershe 2y ago
Read my bio and look at timestamps. I lurk for tech news and discussions. Once every couple weeks I read, get sucked into, and comment on a political discussion. If I could wave a magic wand and ban posters of off topic political discussion
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by sershe 2y ago
Whole HN down? I don't even see all these off topic political flame wars you guys are having except when I feel particularly lazy and browse extra pages. Other than that my only interaction with them is to flag them. And I'm reall
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by sershe 2y ago
You are conflating democracy and classical liberalism. Democracy is a decision making mechanism that can produce any decisions - democratic cannibals might vote on who to eat. Most people think, and I tentatively agree, that democracy was t
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by sershe 2y ago
It doesn't matter what they voted for, this is not a space for that. It's in the rules. It's there for a reason. As a sidenote, it's funny cause it's the same reason you are alarmed, because someone is disregarding
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by sershe 2y ago
What you are saying is "people who disagree with me are wrong and I need to chase them all over the internet (I hope it's online only!), while they are busy doing unrelated things, and tell them so until they learn" Imagine s
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by sershe 2y ago
Nah you are missing my point entirely (where did I say I was apolitical?). The fact that you cannot make a distinction just illustrates my point. First to clear the misconceptions, (1) I am political, in fact I wish I was less so! I just di
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by sershe 2y ago
A non-insignificant part of the reason of why I am, and I bet many others too are ambivalent about the events is because of this stuff... Not just on hn or even online, but as a general pattern of behavior.. The right-thinking busybodies wh
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by sershe 2y ago
Why? US healthcare costs have nearly nothing to do with insurance and everything with doctor and hospital payments. I think the best way to improve US healthcare is to off all the righteous idiots. Just kidding! The 2nd best way is outlaw h
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by sershe 2y ago
Nah nobody knows that, it is a lie. The reason healthcare in the US is expensive is primarily providers. As reported by e.g. Vox. In fact us out of pocket spending is low compared to OECD, and overhead while relatively high is not huge. It&
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by sershe 2y ago
Happy to help! Go away to reddit with your propaganda
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by sershe 2y ago
According to Brennan center, CA is number one at losing people relative to other states. If it hypothetically exits to prevent other states from making it more like them and less like itself, that would presumably accelerate. Did you budget
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by sershe 2y ago
I'm interested in what it is like. I have and always had 0 and really don't feel like I need to talk about my problems with anyone. Never discussed them with my parents even though we have a loving relationship with my mom, and I
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by sershe 2y ago
They can make it revenue neutral by firing the DEI people :)
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by sershe 2y ago
This doesn't make sense on multiple levels. First of all, why wouldn't Israel want Gazans to go away? All of them somehow moving to Egypt or Syria might in fact be the dream outcome for Israel. As it stands, the track record of Ga
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by sershe 2y ago
I dunno, Gaza (on per-sqkm basis) still looks nothing like Hamburg '43. Until it looks at least like that everywhere, I'd say Israel is being too soft given the historical precedent on dealing with these kinds of movements.

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