mapremap

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by mapremap 14d ago
I blame your fine-tuning.
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by mapremap 15d ago
Is there someone out there seriously arguing that developing nations should just recycle and entirely skip modern landfills? It's even worse than that. There are a bunch of nonprofits that are spending their limited funds building re
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by mapremap 15d ago
I saved my plastic bags and used them as trash bags for the little bin in my bathroom. Now that my city banned single-use grocery bags, I have to buy actual trash bags made up of even thicker plastic. So those of us that use trash bags will
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by mapremap 4y ago
The guy got off because he was legitimately acting in self-defense.
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by mapremap 4y ago
If the cost is 100 for 10 cases, then it's going to be 10 for 1 case. Cost per person is still the same. You need fewer doctors, nurses, and medical devices to treat fewer people.
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by mapremap 4y ago
Ok, I see where the problem is. The 10 people requiring the 100 treatment in your example will cost 1000. That's one dollar per person, not one tenth. For the group of 100, 1 person will require the 100 treatment and it is still 1 doll
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by mapremap 4y ago
It does make sense. A smaller group will have a correspondingly smaller number of people who will end up needing treatment, so the expected value for an individual's cost doesn't actually depend on the number of people in the grou
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by mapremap 4y ago
A risk pool being split among multiple companies doesn't actually increase the average amount that each group would have to pay. For the group of 100 in your example, only one tenth of a person is going to have to get one tenth of the
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by mapremap 4y ago
D and E are simply the result of healthcare consumers choosing to spend their money on care that wouldn't even be available under a public system. Taking that into consideration, "look how much of our GDP we spend on healthcare&qu
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by mapremap 4y ago
What an empathic viewpoint you have there.
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by mapremap 4y ago
How is that policing the police? Are disparities supposed to be evidence of something nefarious going on? Given that there are fundamental distinctions between members in different groups (otherwise they would be in the same group) and almo