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by slibhb 2y ago
> The more direct your ability to help and the more acute the need, the stronger the moral obligation. A hospital that can provide a life-saving drug at a lower price but chooses not to, in order to maximize profit, is directly and immed
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> This is not a soldier or a serial killer. It's worse than both. How can you be so morally clueless? When an insurance company denies coverage, it isn't killing someone. It didn't make anyone sick. Rather, it didn't
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I don't think racism is much like classism. I'm not sure what your second clause means other than "currently, people with more money can buy more health care". Of course it would be nice if the supply matched the demand
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That is not, in fact, what insurance is.
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If you think the average person celebrates CEOs being gunned down in the street, you're the one who's out of touch.
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> Trying to find people who haven’t been fucked by health insurance will be near impossible What world do you live in?
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Racism is nothing like health care. Health care is a good or service that depends on other people's labor. People do not have a right to other people's labor (no matter how much they insist otherwise). It's entirely reasonabl
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by slibhb 2y ago
70%+ of Americans are happy with their healthcare. I have UHC and I'm happy with my coverage. The comments in the article and your post bring to mind nihilism more than some CEO none of us knew. Edit, source: https://news.ga
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People celebrating a murder are mentally ill weirdos. They don't represent secular society. The idea that anyone against murder must be religious is wrong. You can ground "murder is wrong" in reason e.g. the golden rule, the
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> If I go visit my grandma over the weekend, my activities do not register on GDP. Yes they do. How do you visit her? What do you do while you're together? Eat some food? There's almost no way your visit doesn't register o
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> As I understand in US, if you take vacation longer than week, you're in the fear you will be fired. Is it true? I have a coworker who takes off 3 weeks in a row every year. Never been an issue. In general in the US, tech companies
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I don't know if it's explicitly Christian, but New Criterion is quite right wing. From that perspective, Bonhoeffer would be controversial due to his ecumenicalism and radical theology.
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> Tech is the problem. The internet is global (or perhaps two or three regions), and winner takes all - so global value creation is being experienced everywhere, but being monetised in the US stock market. I don't really understand
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The problem here wasn't getting bit, it was not getting vaccinated. It took a month for symptoms to appear (which is typical) and at that point it's too late. Growing up, it wasn't too uncommon for a bat to get stuck in the h
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One of Don DeLillo's later good novels is about this stuff (Zero K). I always think people's attitude toward possible future worlds is interesting. You can see a wide spread of opinion in this thread -- whether you think functiona
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> There are two futures, both bad. "Keep 'em barefoot and pregnant", or "Will the last one to leave please turn out the lights." One data point against this dichotomy is that most women in the West generally repo
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> The whole thing is just short term profiteering over tradition and a rich history. Some things need preserving. Some things do. But is this one of them? The article doesn't make a great case. And building something new here won&#x
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It's very hard, maybe impossible, to answer the question of whether social media harms people. It's like asking if TV, video games, etc harm people. Maybe -- but I don't trust the studies and at any rate, these are things peo
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So you really not see a difference between _lung cancer_ and "my teenager is moody"? The evidence that Facebook harms people is extremely iffy.
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Among other things, there is solid evidence that the move toward gambling in the US has been a disaster. This is a topic that's fairly easy to study in objective terms. The evidence for social media harming people is highly disputed an
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Some regulations are good. Like the ones regulating drugs and gambling (that have been largely dismantled). But we don't need the government to protect people from Facebook!
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Governments should not be in the business of telling tech companies how to design software. Honest observers will look back on the anti-social-media movement as a moral panic. It isn't so much that social media is good, it's that
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by slibhb 2y ago
I wouldn't put it this quite this way but I think you're onto something. Japanese novels are almost uniformly un-woke...yet they don't come off conservative. It's hard to find novels in the West that seem so politically
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> Terrorism is defined as the use of violence in the pursuit of political aims. Using this definition, all war is terrorism. No one defines terrorism this broadly! > Hell, Jewish military & paramilitary groups like Irgun, Tzahal,
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I don't think it has anything to do with your logic here. Actually, people just like talking shit about OpenAI on HN. It gets you upvotes.
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> The word “monopoly” means different things in law and everyday use. To most people, Apple is a monopoly - it just means a company that is unjustifiably large and powerful and relatively immune to competition and pressure. We need to ch
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I think your post is very reasonable. Singal may be exaggerating how bad SciAm is. Though my view is that the Wilson article is part of a pattern. I responded to this because I read a biography of EO Wilson recently. It's strange to sa
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I imagine this (new) law has something to do with Shinzo Abe, who was assassinated with a homemade gun.
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> (c) There's absolutely nothing "surreal" about taking Wilson to task for his support of scientific racism; multiple headline stories have been written about it, in particular his relationship with John Philippe Rushton,
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The slant of the article is that there's brain drain from Bhutan. But the meat is more interesting. Apparently, Bhutan is building a charter-like city: "A Bhutanese team is collaborating with experts around the world, seeking inve

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