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by vc8f6vVV 3y ago
Only the author of the paper is from Europe?
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by vc8f6vVV 3y ago
If you add "on average" that's exactly what the original paper says. The averaging is over "someone who doesn't get cancer but died of screening complications", "someone who got false positive and decrease
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by vc8f6vVV 3y ago
X-ray is not just adding anxiety, it's harmful, and it's affecting all women who get screening, not only those who actually get cancer. Magic of numbers.
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by vc8f6vVV 3y ago
Just curious, have you read the original article in JAMA?
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by vc8f6vVV 3y ago
You may be decreasing premature deaths from cancer but increasing premature deaths from other causes related to screening, thus you don't increase life expectancy. Read the original article in JAMA.
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by vc8f6vVV 3y ago
You are also presented with a choice: you take a test and you die in X% because of the test itself (there are no non-invasive tests, even IV is potentially dangerous), or you may be diagnosed with cancer with Y% chance of right diagnosis an
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by vc8f6vVV 3y ago
Yes, they do. I have a friend who did just that. Was it justified? I don't know, but it's very real.
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by vc8f6vVV 3y ago
There is another consideration: 1. You have an aggressive (i.e. non-treatable) cancer, maybe you feel slightly off, but you go on with your life, until you finally got worse and die. Or you performed screening, focus on treatment, bankrupt
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by vc8f6vVV 3y ago
Have you read the original article, not the CNN interpretation? They are talking about harm vs benefits of screening. In simple words: you performed colonoscopy, got colon perforation and died of complications. Was colon cancer prevented? A
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by vc8f6vVV 4y ago
MA is not a "high-tax state", it's in the middle by an overall tax burden (depending how you count), so it's another myth. Check this for example: https://wallethub.com/edu/states-with-highest-lowest
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by vc8f6vVV 4y ago
Agree on VAT, but MA also has 6.25% sales tax which I didn't consider, that is if you want to start from revenue. So the difference will be less than 19%. Also VAT in Germany is not 19% on everything, there are exemptions and low rate
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by vc8f6vVV 4y ago
Yep, but you need to count employer paid taxes too to get the whole picture. Tax base will be different (+ 7.3% healthcare + 9.3% pension + 1.5% unemployment), so if your base is ~1.17 of your "official" base, the effective tax be
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by vc8f6vVV 4y ago
Here's some comparison, but it is misleading when it comes to the US. Technically medical insurance (de facto mandatory) can be from ~15% to >25%, depending on the income. It's not reflected on the picture, so in reality tax bu
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by vc8f6vVV 4y ago
You are conveniently leaving out payroll taxes which constitute another ~35%. So 42% becomes ~77%. 19% doesn't technically apply to the payroll, but it does apply when you buy something.
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by vc8f6vVV 4y ago
> People do things alone without ever entering into a community around those activities or showing the results to anyone else. Of course! I'm not saying that "everything is for sale" or we always need to contribute to a so
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by vc8f6vVV 4y ago
It's not necessary about amount, but about distribution. Let's say a medical tax in Germany is 14.6% (correct me if I'm wrong), my medical insurance here in the US for a family of 2 is around 14% (yes, it's paid by my em
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by vc8f6vVV 4y ago
I would include VAT. No matter B2B or not, it's how much your end customer pays is what matters. Yes, business will pass on this tax further, but end consumer won't be able to claim it. It's the same as a sales tax in the US.
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by vc8f6vVV 4y ago
> And then neither them or corporation gets taxes nowhere close to what the normal employee is How did you figure that? Corporate tax rate in the US is 21% which is roughly equivalent to an effective tax for a single filer with about $18
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by vc8f6vVV 4y ago
AI won't take over traditional employment either, humans tend to congregate and choose leader(s) as many tasks are not possible to accomplish alone, with AI or not. If there are leaders, there will be an employment of some kind, it&#x2
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by vc8f6vVV 4y ago
Machines don't produce a value, humans do. Simply because the "value" (added or not) has a meaning only when you exchange goods or services. Nail gun makes things much faster but it's a carpenter who produces the value.
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by vc8f6vVV 4y ago
This world is not fair, do you know how to fix it? I don't. There are different models with different degrees of fairness, but all have their downsides.
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by vc8f6vVV 4y ago
You are talking about added value and it's beyond "basics" :) The point was "if your work has no value, there is no breakfast to exchange it for".
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by vc8f6vVV 4y ago
I specifically mentioned that you don't have to work "for a company". Jeff Bezos is not a traditional employee last time I checked. Neither are mom and pop shops or self-employed contractors. Just not everybody wants to deal
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by vc8f6vVV 4y ago
Let's start from basics. People need to eat, so somebody needs to make food. Those people need tools. Somebody needs to make tools. Now for this to work they need to make extra food and exchange it for tools. This exchange has been in
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by vc8f6vVV 4y ago
I didn't say "economic value". Let's take "modifying a vehicle" as an example. Will you keep it in your garage guarding it from anybody's sight? Why are you doing it? What's coming to your mind? It&#x
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by vc8f6vVV 4y ago
You think so? Have you been in that position? I was. It's not what you think it is. Also unless you want to spend your wealth pretty fast (money has a half-life time like radioactive elements, doesn't depend on quantity) you have
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by vc8f6vVV 4y ago
How about moving to Amish county? You always have a choice. Just don't expect to find there a social utopia where "everybody is free and everybody has at least 6 slaves", people are the same everywhere, with iPhones or not.
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by vc8f6vVV 4y ago
We need that many cars because having own home and living in a suburb is an American dream, isn't it? How many people want to live in a high rise building with noisy neighbors? Yes, it is expensive, but living in a cave is pretty cheap
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by vc8f6vVV 4y ago
Why should they? You make more things, but you consume more things too and they are cheaper.
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by vc8f6vVV 4y ago
I know that comparing averages is not always correct, but. Median home price around 1975 was $100K (give of take), median family income: $14K. Today the median family income in MA is $75K. The median home price in MA is around $550K. You we

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