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by yequalsx 9y ago
That's a fair point. But the value in stock comes from profit which comes from...
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by yequalsx 9y ago
Whatever your politics that $500 million comes from profit in healthcare. Aetna has an economic incentive to denvy as much care as they can. That $500 million to one person is part of the overall cost of healthcare in the U.S. Is this re
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by yequalsx 9y ago
My comment was about how socialism has different connotations to different people. That capitalists in America decry universal healthcare as socialist and capitalists in Europe tend not to. Just labeling capitalism as good or bad is not h
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by yequalsx 9y ago
The word socialist has a variety of connotations in the U.S. For instance to a segment of the U.S. population having universal healthcare is equated with socialism. Capitalists in France, Great Britain, Denmark, Germany etc. tend disagree
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by yequalsx 9y ago
Given that there are some knowledgeable economists and historians who are socialists your comment makes no sense. Care to perhaps post something insightful? Or comment in a meaningful way to OP?
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by yequalsx 9y ago
The Postal Service can’t just raise prices as it sees fit. It needs approval from the Postal Regulatory Commission. Also they’ve had to pre-pay something like 30 years of retiree health benefits. You can send packages to France without u
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by yequalsx 9y ago
There's an economics adage that is appropriate to keep in mind: Economists have predicted 15 of the last 10 crashes. Just before a crash the best place to keep your money is in cash. Those who are liquid after a crash can clean up by
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by yequalsx 9y ago
If you truly, deep down in your heart, believe there is a crash coming soon then the best thing you can do with your money is to keep it in cash. Invest after the crash. If, like most people, you aren't absolutely certain there will
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by yequalsx 9y ago
I strongly disagree that there is no such thing as responsible censorship. Furthermore censorship is not always, "...just as bad." As an extreme example of good censorship look at child pornography. We have laws that prohibit sp
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by yequalsx 9y ago
The most pro-environment thing a person can do is to not have kids. There are way too many people given the level of consumption that people desire. Something has to give and it eventually a price will be paid unless world's populati
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by yequalsx 9y ago
In the context of the sequence in the article I think "infinite value" is confusing. Infinity is a better choice. Using infinity signifies that that number of regular polytopes is not finite. The ∞ in this context just means tha
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by yequalsx 9y ago
I’m not a psychiatrist, my wife is. I don’t know hat 5-HT1A is or what your point is. The brain is an organ. It’s the only organ that can be harmed by non-physical means. My understanding is that behavior problems resulting from lack of
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by yequalsx 9y ago
If it the jerk state is the result of a chemical/biological problem in the brain then yes.
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by yequalsx 9y ago
It doesn't have to involve higher taxes on everyone else. We spend well over a trillion dollars a year on national defense/spying. Also, we spend way higher per capita on healthcare than any national healthcare system and those
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by yequalsx 9y ago
Taxes and whatnot account for 50% of her salary. She does need to save for retirement and one must include more than just the federal income tax rate to calculate how much is taken out in taxes. There's FICA, state taxes, and state s
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by yequalsx 9y ago
Hallucinations are generally a pyschiatric problem. Being manic/depressive is a pyschiatric problem. Being a jerk isn't. Having a hard time saying saying no isn't. There are gray areas. As a rough approximation, where dr
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by yequalsx 9y ago
So it's not reasonable for a person to work 96 hours. But apparently it is reasonable for 24 hours. The goal is to minimize information loss while maximizing performance. There's a tradeoff. Apparently 24 hours is a local max
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by yequalsx 9y ago
My wife is a psychiatrist. She doesn't prescribe drugs to people with psychological problems. She prescribes drugs to people with psychiatric problems. She's been trained to know the difference. The PA that works under her has
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by yequalsx 9y ago
My wife is a doctor. She is just over a year out of residency. She makes around $300,000 per year. It's a lot of money. She has to make that much money because the U.S. has stupidly decided to burden doctors with massive med school
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by yequalsx 9y ago
I suspect that state actors won’t allow such a system to reach critical mass.
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by yequalsx 9y ago
Facebook learned the lesson of MySpace; buy any competitor that looks like it's gaining traction. Facebook has the resources to engage in this strategy. It's going to be a lot harder to disrupt Facebook as a company than it was
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by yequalsx 9y ago
In terms of the analogy it’s not an isolated system. There is an energy input; the active suppression of information. Therefore the second law does not apply.
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by yequalsx 9y ago
The second law of thermodynamics does not seem to apply here. Without a source of energy entropy must increase. Using the second law as an analogy of the information situation in China one would say you are correct if there was no externa
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by yequalsx 9y ago
Generally when talking about tax rates in this context it's about the income tax. There is no wealth tax in the U.S. I don't think there ever has been one either. Reagan believed the tax on labor should be less than the tax on
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by yequalsx 9y ago
My statement does not imply what you say it does. My statement is about religious conservatives and defining a characteristic of such people. It does not define greedy people. My statement isn't even about greed it's about a su
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by yequalsx 9y ago
I think you have a gross misunderstanding of economics. The government doesn't just issue bonds. It sells them to buyers. It will have to pay interest on those bonds to the holders of those bonds. There is a fiscal capacity for the
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by yequalsx 9y ago
No. I think your logic may be off. If I say all A have property B this does not imply that no other type of object can have property B. For instance, it is true that all living men have cells that reproduce. But men aren’t the only livi
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by yequalsx 9y ago
I wasn't drawing a caricature. I asked a question about wealth concentration. How about answering it? Is there a level of wealth concentration that is immoral or unfair? I believe so. I think it is the case that 500 people control
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by yequalsx 9y ago
"There is no reduction in public service capability by the rich having vast sums of money 'offshore'. " There is a reduction. The U.S. government runs at a deficit. Thus money is borrowed and thus interest is paid on t
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by yequalsx 9y ago
H.L. Mencken once defined puritanism as the haunting fear that someone, somewhere is having fun. Based on my interactions with conservatives in the U.S. who are religious I've modified Mencken's quote: Religious conservatism is t

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