jzackpete

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by jzackpete 1y ago
their whole point is that the law can be abused
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by jzackpete 1y ago
I'm talking about the regulatory capture of everything related to health care: medications, credentialing, insurance, etc. Any regulation imposed on the production of a good or provision of a service is a constraint on the supply. Redu
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by jzackpete 1y ago
It's silly that believing more government intervention will solve the problem, given that a big reason healthcare became tied to employment in the first place was wage freezes by the government, from which employer sponsored health ins
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by jzackpete 1y ago
neither, for the same reasons
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by jzackpete 1y ago
Yeah it's probably a combination, which might explain why my experience isn't the norm. Ever since I had it done, any poke, foreign objects like sand, etc. is much more painful than before, so the pain from dryness gets amplified.
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by jzackpete 1y ago
you mean artificially colored canola soy extrusions, with an unspecified (i.e. very small) quantity of chemically replicated salmon cells? how about counterfeit biohazard salmon?
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by jzackpete 1y ago
I had PRK 15 years ago. I also woke up multiple times last night because my eyes felt like they had a bad sunburn (eyes so dry they stick to your eyelids + REM sleep.) Some unsolicited advice: wait for widespread adoption, and review data o
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by jzackpete 1y ago
having been a customer for more than a decade, I've noticed an inverse correlation between their org size and the quality of their products
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by jzackpete 1y ago
by that logic every business in the country should be nationalized, given the existence of the civil rights act
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by jzackpete 1y ago
perfect is the enemy of good, with WhatsApp being neither (at least wrt privacy)
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by jzackpete 1y ago
yes, as a citizen of the USA, deporting the non-citizens feels exactly like slavery
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by jzackpete 1y ago
how many people do you know who actually believe in the 2nd amendment and don't support trump? do you even live in the US?
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by jzackpete 2y ago
that would imply the existence of an objective authority on the meaning of the statement, which is debatable
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by jzackpete 2y ago
piracy probably wasn't the reason they won back then, but I think the point was that the change in IP enforcement since then might be the reason they can maintain their lead now
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by jzackpete 2y ago
more like kicking out the staff after they convinced everyone that your house is a hotel that they own and operate
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by jzackpete 2y ago
unless the US selects people at random to immigrate that chart is irrelevant
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by jzackpete 2y ago
because he's the only one that people whine about like a jilted ex girlfriend
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by jzackpete 2y ago
are you referring to the act of playing video games or the act of not playing video games
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by jzackpete 2y ago
Nope. When I worked in a factory as a teenager, ICE came in and presumably deported all of the illegals, because they didn't show up the next day. A big reason Trump got elected is because they stopped doing that, and "mass deport
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by jzackpete 2y ago
You mean a country that is more white?
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by jzackpete 2y ago
Can you name a policy of today's republican party that is further right than the republican party of 20 years ago? From my perspective they've ceded ground on many social issues. They had a porn star speak at the RNC convention th
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by jzackpete 2y ago
electoral votes and number of representatives are allocated based on census numbers, which have nothing to do with citizenship status /!s
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by jzackpete 2y ago
I'm an atheist, so I wouldn't consider myself an expert on their beliefs, but you don't appear to be either: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thou_shalt_not_kill
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by jzackpete 2y ago
If that were a real concern and not a cope for having to submit to pointless security theater, airlines could just charge by weight. The weight of my contact lens solution is negligible
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by jzackpete 2y ago
No one born there (and where I'm from as well) is willing to do the hard jobs at the current market rate . Every conversation about a "labor shortage" seems to disingenuously pretend that wages are a fixed part of the equati
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by jzackpete 2y ago
Because immigration (i.e. increasing the labor pool, increasing competition in the labor market, increasing demand for housing) actively harms the average member of the electorate? I fail to see how working _more_ hours is a consequence of
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by jzackpete 2y ago
I've left 2 companies that have reorganized around SAFe, and I'm currently at the third one now. It's a malignant egregore that I can't escape
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by jzackpete 2y ago
skill issue
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by jzackpete 3y ago
I'll dismiss it until the risk is quantified, because all I've heard is "might" and "maybe" when it comes to long term effects. Then compare that quantified risk to the precautions required to avoid being infec
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by jzackpete 3y ago
Pascal's wager. Masking and isolating children has a known cost, your speculative consequences don't

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