tinokid

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by tinokid 9y ago
And that is the claim I was contesting. You seem to have an odd intuition that a line of argument that does not reduce to a computing problem is "emotional". Even if one does not believe in retributive justice at all, an adequate
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by tinokid 9y ago
Well you yourself said it reflected the same kind of "emotional thinking" that led to millennia of "torture and abuse". What I am trying to show is that there are plenty of good reasons for this kind of punishment (wheth
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by tinokid 9y ago
You're missing the point because you don't understand the gravity of the crime. A minimum wage fast food worker is constantly observed by a phalanx of cameras that will incriminate her should she attempt to steal five dollars from
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by tinokid 9y ago
This is absolutely correct and should not have been downvoted. It is the abuse of a position of trust that aggravates this crime relative to that of a simple outlaw street dealer. Commenters who are concerned with the effect on the convic
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by tinokid 9y ago
Right, it's not easy and there are adverse selection issues when you start incentivizing doctors to avoid complex cases that are more likely to involve complications. And the scientific basis for a given procedure is likely more import
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by tinokid 9y ago
"Not all that much" is not how I would describe a chart like this: http://www.clevelandclinicmeded.com/medicalpubs/diseasemanag... And lung cancer is not the only cancer caused by smoking. In any case, cance
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by tinokid 9y ago
> Even beyond that the absolute rate of cancer deaths in the US peaked in 1990 216 per 100k vs 2015 at 158 per 100k. Which is a massive drop even over 1950's pre screening and younger population numbers of 193 per 100k. Hmmm... Appl
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by tinokid 9y ago
Treating infectious disease than can cause cancer (H. pylori, HPV) has nothing to do with cancer treatment. Treating, for example, thyroid or prostate cancers that would not have killed the person improves cancer survival statistics but not
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by tinokid 9y ago
"People cared" maybe plays a bigger role than you realize here. There were stronger social norms back then about the role of medical care in society. Most hospitals were community or religious owned, physicians were content with m
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by tinokid 9y ago
>Heath care has gotten vastly better over time. Look at 5 year cancer survival rates for example. No. These rates are affected by more screening procedures. Some nipped a potentially fatal cancer in the bud, others just found and removed
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by tinokid 9y ago
>Maybe some sort of system where if the provider states that something is medically necessary then they are on the hook if insurance denies the claim Not only should a provider be legally prohibited from trying to collect payment for unn
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by tinokid 9y ago
Nice idea, but how realistic is it? Most patients are not scientifically-literate, some are flat out incapacitated. For all the stories about heartless insurance companies denying to pay for things, perhaps they should actually be more st
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by tinokid 9y ago
But genetics may or may not be the "base truth" in regard to disease risk. It's difficult to tease out the effects of genes as opposed to environment. When your model has thousands or millions of genetic loci this only gets
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by tinokid 9y ago
C'mon people...this is not science, this is fortune telling. They are just doing a bunch of huge multiparameter curve fits, which are going to pick up signal from all sorts of things that have nothing to do with biology no matter how b
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by tinokid 9y ago
>"Increasingly, banks recognized the value of tellers enabled by information technology, not primarily as checkout clerks, but as salespersons, forging relationships with customers and introducing them to additional bank services li
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by tinokid 9y ago
No, no shooting. They should have just let the market work and the banks go under. It would have been a financial loss but a moral victory. An important lesson about carefully choosing who you trust.
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by tinokid 9y ago
Really? It's "self-evident" Visa fucked up? Yeah...I'll be waiting for the statement to that effect on visa.com And then I saw this comment: "Thats weird. I have a mastercard and was charged twice. So how is it Visa
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by tinokid 9y ago
>As I’ve stated multiple times and you keep ignoring, ideal case, it can take under 12hrs I must have missed where you said that. You said I was likely mistaking ACH for wire transfer because mine were happening that fast. The point stan
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by tinokid 9y ago
No...the claim that ACH takes "3-5 business days", "several days", or whatever, is just flat out wrong. I can do ACH (not wire transfer, not "credit") between my totally unrelated bank accounts--whether those b
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by tinokid 9y ago
Again...no, it is not. You are confusing different things here. Even if they just learned about it the night before, your bank cannot withhold your direct deposit without breaking the law. Unless there is some special situation like a new a
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by tinokid 9y ago
No! They are not being "optimistic," they are just following Regulation CC. Ask anyone on the street when they can get the money from their paycheck direct deposit. Unless they just opened their account, they are not waiting days.
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by tinokid 9y ago
No, I am not mistaking ACH for wire transfer, or any kind of "credit" system. If your bank is taking longer it's because your bank sucks. But yes please provide those "technical details" whenever you have a chance.
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by tinokid 9y ago
For ten years I've been able to place a ACH transfer at one bank by 6 pm and have it available in my other bank by 8 am the following morning. It has never taken "3-5 business days". Anyone claiming there are large inherent d
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by tinokid 9y ago
Does diminishing returns/low hanging fruit mean anything to you? Also, from that pool of drugs you're referring to, we've eliminated a number of things that had strong effects but whose side-effects were later found after car
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by tinokid 9y ago
>I also wonder what the culture is like for orthopedic surgeons. It is among the worst specialties as far as being based on tradition/folklore/marketing. When you see one of their own being injured this badly you realize how wh
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by tinokid 9y ago
Well mine doesn't take two days. But yeah, the whole point of 401k was so business could use peoples' retirement savings as blackmail to get them to vote for business-friendly policies.
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by tinokid 9y ago
Meritocracy is just a bare-bones version of a "founding myth" that a society adopts when enough people reject the traditional narrative. The problem is that it is so absolutist that it is easy to find holes and internal inconsiste
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by tinokid 9y ago
I didn't mean to suggest the person would not want contact. An apology doesn't itself assuage a guilty conscience, it is just an acknowledgement of the debt created by the wrong. A fake apology may be worse than saying nothing, bu
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by tinokid 9y ago
Yeah this is just a bizarre and selfish way of treating others. If you wronged someone, apologize. It has nothing to do with whether they will accept it, and certainly not with how well you know them. Say you were texting and killed a kid c
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by tinokid 9y ago
I don't know what you think is "false" about my scenario. It's fiction, but it's far more realistic than the picture you painted. Your claim that >There are very few scenarios now where the consumer benefits from

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