tertius

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by tertius 6y ago
Most hospitals are disgusting. Pricing is insane and profits are sickening. Being Non-profit does not insulate hospitals from predatory practices. For-profit hospitals with price transparency may be a better solution than we have now with e
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by tertius 6y ago
Non-profit hospitals still charge normal people insane prices for nothing. Non profit does not insulate us from predatory practices. Hospitals want to grow and want to stay solvent (regardless if they're for or non-profit). $400 Ibupro
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by tertius 6y ago
We'll, if we're using that type of definition of capitalism then we really don't want to compare it to that type of definition of any other competing system.
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by tertius 6y ago
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by tertius 6y ago
What are you avoiding, deep down?
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by tertius 7y ago
As an immigrant, and I'm sure many foreigners would agree, this is extremely American. People, gentile people, who use "might" and "probably" are weak intellectuals by American standards. They are cast aside, especi
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by tertius 7y ago
What you're saying is that votes should be lost. Claiming that they will be is a stretch.
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by tertius 7y ago
Only if the advertisers choose to have their ads served to you. They don't owe you ads.
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by tertius 7y ago
Tiny habits (free course for a week) + never skip 2 days.
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by tertius 7y ago
Which town? (I'm in Houston)
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by tertius 7y ago
It could have been automated and only got a hit when a bug was introduced.
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by tertius 7y ago
> If they stopped expanding they would be quite profitable. That's like saying if I stop eating I'd lose weight. Yes, but pretty soon I'll die. If they need to invest 1b to make 100m we know where that ends up. They can&#
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by tertius 7y ago
> Tesla is in debt largely becaus Yes, massive debt with no income. Ambitious for sure.
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by tertius 7y ago
How much would their cars cost if they actually made a profit? And if they were sold at those prices would anyone but them? My point: their customer service, tech and everything else people love about them is being subsidized by debt. They&
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by tertius 8y ago
> Yes, only people who know how the tech works should be discussing it. Well then we disagree. Being an engineer or a technician does not make you a good ethicist. And that's what we need. Training an ethicist that is impartial or t
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by tertius 8y ago
Possible yes. Many things are possible.
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by tertius 8y ago
Headed for profit, charm and lightheartedness?
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by tertius 8y ago
So only insiders can be on ethics boards? How about pushing this to congress. None of them know hardly anything about anything. They delegate a lot of their thinking. So two problems. 1. People who are practitioners are more likely to be fo
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by tertius 8y ago
A group as a whole can be non-partisan. But a group that is composed of only a small sliver of thought and thus not representative will most definitely be partisan, as a whole.
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by tertius 8y ago
Forming a union is not growing a spine. It's combining the wish of a spine with 100 others until you collectively have a spine. I'm not against unions, but his suggestion is about the individual.
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by tertius 8y ago
This isn't really political. Both the left and the right fall into this camp.
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by tertius 8y ago
Yes, long term capital gains tax is lower than corporate tax. But you limited it to salary not compensation. When we talk about compensation we need to start talking about things like golden handcuffs or parachute. Things linked to performa
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by tertius 8y ago
The CEO is paying higher taxes than the corporation. (You limited it to salary.) So in your example no, more taxes actually.
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by tertius 8y ago
It was sarcasm.
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by tertius 8y ago
Some good data. I guess I was talking about funding research, not actually doing it. Research that is privately funded but published, as an example. Most of the research we're talking about from your data I assume is not published. I.e
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by tertius 8y ago
This was an explanation to your question, no an statement of what I believe.
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by tertius 8y ago
Science is right. There is no risk in giving control of it's conclusions to an ultimate authority.
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by tertius 8y ago
A good deal? The vast majority more like. The one variable here is that the private market does what it wants. So if government 'takes' a larger proportion of the funding 'market' it really means the private market chose
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by tertius 8y ago
I don't care about him all that much. As you imply, he'll do whatever he wants to get whatever he wants. I care about things moving forward. And if we assume that he's not about that, then we need to start moving our gaze to
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by tertius 8y ago
> at some point the democrats will have to concede that the only way to stop the damage is to give in. Which would be the point where your 'they care more' hypothesis would become true. So are they just wanting to hurt him poli

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