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by xyzzyz 2y ago
> Smallholder farms across Africa are quite productive if you measure inputs (labor, energy, capital, fertilizer, water, land use) against outputs (calories, nutrition). This sounds intelligent, but is extremely wrong perspective. For ex
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We should not model our food supply chain on Africa. In fact, it is beyond absurd to suggest it. African small holders run very unproductive farms, with horrible yields despite high labor intensive practices. Most countries have been on the
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This doesn’t make any sense whatsoever given the facts on the facts on the ground. Have you read the article at all? What we are talking about here is people who already finished the ATC school and aced the technical aptitude test, but got
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by xyzzyz 2y ago
This is not just "bad methodology in service of dubious goal". It's blatantly illegal, and not just by weak "disparate impact" standard. According to disparate impact standard, procedures that result in disparate ou
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by xyzzyz 2y ago
Sorry, which law is being broken here? Can you be specific?
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by xyzzyz 2y ago
Sorry, can you be more specific as to what law is being broken? You imply that this is illegal, but you don’t say how exactly.
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Yes, that's what's being discussed, and the argument that's being made in this discussion is that Trump has so far apparently never done anything like that before.
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If schools get $20k+ per student, but somehow fails to keep AC working, then it is a clear case of extreme incompetence at best, likely pointing to criminal levels of mismanagement. You don’t solve that problem with shoveling even more mone
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by xyzzyz 2y ago
This doesn’t pass a smell test. You are saying that maintenance spend is significant fraction of school fundings. Let’s say that that fraction is 20% of funding (if it was much lower, your argument doesn’t make sense, because it would make
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This is pretty ridiculous. US is already an undisputed world leader in building data centers. Our companies are great at building data centers already at their own initiative, and they don’t need government’s subsidies to do that. This just
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> Our study adds to the evidence that structural racism in federal policy is associated with the disproportionate siting of oil and gas wells in marginalized neighborhoods. Yes, 2x is clearly "disproportionate", but it's a
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by xyzzyz 2y ago
Thank you for corroborating my claim with evidence. I said: > They were not often near oil refineries, or other sources of industrial polution. At best, you could argue that they were more often closer to it than the districts marked as
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by xyzzyz 2y ago
> Redline districts are often near oil refiners and other highly polluted. They were not often near oil refineries, or other sources of industrial polution. At best, you could argue that they were more often closer to it than the dis
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by xyzzyz 2y ago
If denials tripled under his watch, as CEO you don't think he necessarily was involved in that? He clearly approved of profiting off of literal unnecessary deaths. You have yet to show that tripling denials of a particular category
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by xyzzyz 2y ago
OK, I’m glad that we agree that any healthcare system will deny care to some people. That’s my point: this is necessarily the case, so it cannot be automatically “violence” when that happens. It is extremely naive to believe that whenever t
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by xyzzyz 2y ago
Again, you exemplify the exact attitude I describe. Can you point to any single decision that Thompson made that cost live and causes suffering? You can’t, but you assume there must have been some, because you start with assumption that the
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by xyzzyz 2y ago
Of course they care, they’d rather the debtor never go bankrupt, so that they can keep collecting. Do you understand how loans work?
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No, denial of “post-acute care, or services and support needed after a hospitalization” claims is a narrow category, it’s not all claim denials.
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No. Whether you charge large or small interest, you never want your debtor to go bankrupt, because it means cessation of the interest payments.
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This is just false, and a quick look at any municipal budget is enough to confirm it. Infrastructure costs are small fraction of spend of any municipality. It’s typically under 10%. Making infra spend twice aa efficient will only increase
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by xyzzyz 2y ago
OK, but why is there only two ventilators? Who made this decision, and based on what? Try to think a couple of steps ahead.
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There are no systems anywhere in the world which don’t deny life saving care. All systems make life and death decisions. British NHS, for example, will generally deny life saving care, if such procedure will cost more than 30,000 pounds per
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by xyzzyz 2y ago
There are other factors which you keep ignoring. I am ignoring that? This thread is literally full of people who take any insurance denial as automatically wrong. It is me who's asking people to think carefully about this! If yo
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by xyzzyz 2y ago
I'm confused, you said that there isn't any denial of healthcare where you are, but then described very clearly and explicitly how some people are denied healthcare, and they sometimes die as a result. Maybe you understand the wor
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by xyzzyz 2y ago
Thank you for your comment, I thought that there's nobody left here who understands this.
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My understanding is that people are twisting themselves into pretzels to blame the murder victim for something, but they have extremely hard time finding anything explicit to point to, so they just throw allusions, hoping that the reader wi
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Of course, there are plenty of places and circumstances where my phone company does not provide me service.
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What is "resource availability"? In a non-profit healthcare systems, how exactly the amount of available resources is determined? Is there no person involved making a decision that causes the amount of available resources to chang
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> It is when the care is necessary So when the insurance denies coverage, and so the doctors don't work for free on the case, and the patient dies, are the doctors perpetrating violence too?
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> Nobody argues against that, but United Healthcare had a denial rate of more than 30%, which is the highest among the major health insurance companies in the US. As it happens, there will always exist a health insurance company with hig

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