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by thrance 6mo ago
Yes, wanting the law to be applied fairly isn't incompatible with also seeking to change it.
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by thrance 6mo ago
4Gb times 2,000,000,000 chrome installs gives us 8,000 petabytes. Are we allowed to worry now?
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by thrance 6mo ago
Just build hospitals closer to people. Or make people move closer to them. If it wasn't possible to fly to the hospital, people would just not live so far from them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induced_demand
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by thrance 6mo ago
Sure they would. And some noble souls would pave the roads and build schools, act as firefighters... Like they did in Grafton. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_State_Project#Free_Town_P...
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by thrance 6mo ago
If we let the free market do its work, there'd be no airlines. Jet fuel is heavily subsidized, the State injects massive amounts of money into airports and plane manufacturers, etc. Honestly, with the looming climate crisis, we should
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by thrance 6mo ago
> So that doesn't explain why Americans live less despite being able to get cutting edge care faster. Yes it does. Average lifespan in an average . Americans have worse access to healthcare on average than Europeans, hence wh
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by thrance 6mo ago
Here goes: Healthcare is an inelastic market, people are willing to pay anything to get it. Private insurance companies have grown into a kind of cartel and are able to jack up prices at will, going as high as customers are able to pay. The
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by thrance 6mo ago
So, are American just inherently less disciplined that Europeans? Is that the issue with healthcare in America? I find this explanation very unsatisfying. You have to look at systems to understand what is actually happening.
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by thrance 6mo ago
> Life expectancy for a country of 300m compared with a subsection of Europe that is most wealthy...seems like a fairly disingenuous comparison. Always the same weird "You don't understand, America is really big" argumen
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by thrance 6mo ago
> the US has a bigger public healthcare system than, afaik, every European country In which metric(s)? Afaik, life expectancy is lower in the US than in most of western Europe. And Americans are known to pay much more than Europeans on h
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by thrance 6mo ago
> What is the root cause w.r.t. the current situation? The current US is built to accomodate the top 0.1%. Their profiteering is more important than the good health of the population. > Are there any obvious ways out? Not really. Get
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by thrance 6mo ago
No "simple rule", I'm afraid. Push money out of politics and aggressively redistribute wealth to curb inequalities, that's the only way to weaken the reactionary and authoritarian ideals currently flourishing. Until then
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by thrance 6mo ago
Apparently so. Posted 12 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47831621
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by thrance 6mo ago
Your claim was: > Turns out markets are pretty good when you leave them alone. But when they're not left alone (as is the case with water today!!) you get some weird shit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motte-and
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by thrance 6mo ago
Gasoline is heavily regulated and subsidized. Leaving the oil market alone resulted in Standard Oil, and we obviously don't want that again.
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by thrance 6mo ago
Lina Khan's FTC sought to break Google into multiple companies, leaving Chrome alone. Alas, Google escaped unscathed.
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by thrance 6mo ago
There's a new-ish rule on HN: > Don't post generated comments or AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans. No one cares about what ChatGPT had to say to you on TFA. What do you have to say about it?
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by thrance 6mo ago
Or you can literally just manipulate your SVG through the DOM in an external JS script... I still have no idea what the original motivation behind scripts in SVGs was.
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by thrance 6mo ago
My own understanding is: all three of existentialism, nihilism and absurdism are responses to the same question (that of the meaning of life). All three agree on the fact that there is no inherent, "natural" meaning. Nihilism give
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by thrance 6mo ago
What you're describing is "existentialism", and Camus's absurdidm is a reaction to it. The difference is subtle, but important to Camus.
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by thrance 6mo ago
I disagree wholeheartedly. > I vehemently insist on the right of my fellow humans to smoke. And I vehemently insist on the right of my fellow humans to live a healthy life. My Grandpa died of an horrific lung disease directly linked to h
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by thrance 6mo ago
Everyone already knows that Trump himself was a pedophile. Yet he's still president, and no one's seriously challenging him on this. When he said "I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn&#
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by thrance 6mo ago
Yeah, murder is illegal too, but still the number of murders is non-zero. Maybe we should just legalize it? Sarcasm aside, if the goal is to reduce consumption, criminalization does work. Repression, though, does come with its own can of wo
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by thrance 6mo ago
Sure, in a few million years .
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by thrance 6mo ago
The "tourist scammers" are already illegal... Holy whataboutism.
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by thrance 6mo ago
> Works really well, on average everyone wins. How can you claim that just after speaking of Banana Republics? These clearly show that free markets alone are terrible for the vast majority of people.
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by thrance 6mo ago
You completely missed the issue. Météo-France already has tens of thousands of stations across the country, they're very obviously not basing their entire models off of one sensor in Paris CDG. The degenerate idiots from Polymarket b
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by thrance 6mo ago
I'm not going on max. I barely hit 20% of my weekly limits on pro, to hell with Anthropic if they drop this plan.
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by thrance 6mo ago
I really don't want to dive in this rabbithole, but Israel and its allies are very present online and spend obscene amounts of money to buy influencers, politicians and media. The video of Netanyahou repeating "TikTok, TikTok, Tik
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by thrance 6mo ago
https://xkcd.com/1732/

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