SerialStateLineXer
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SerialStateLineXer
6mo ago
There are different kinds of sunflower oil, high-oleic, high-linoleic, and I guess maybe some in between.
SerialStateLineXer
6mo ago
Linoleic acid. I wouldn't say it's unusual, but you wouldn't normally get it in the concentrations you get in processed foods cooked in seed oil.
SerialStateLineXer
6mo ago
The users of Bluesky, a platform that promotes itself as X/Twitter but without hate speech
Without hate speech, or with the right kind of hate speech?
My friend Fred says that median real wages for doctors have been going up since 2000 at least. Although $2700/week seems pretty low. What's your source for the claim that they're going down?
Anyway, I don't think we should cut doctors' salaries as such. We should allow more people to become doctors and let the market sort it out.
SerialStateLineXer
6mo ago
If it pays the bills...
SerialStateLineXer
6mo ago
Oh no! It's contāgious!
SerialStateLineXer
6mo ago
which given usage statistics means middle class Americans are relatively redistributing more of their wealth to the old and poor in healthcare costs than many Europeans are.
Not the middle class. The professional and upper classes. The Medicare tax only covers about a third of Medicare expenditures, and because it's uncapped and progressive, it's disproportionally paid by high earners. The main source of revenue for Medicare is general revenue, which is wildly disproportionately funded by high-income households.
Medicare is a really good deal for the average person, who doesn't come close to paying the net present value of future Medicare benefits in Medicare payroll taxes. The American middle class is carried by high-income taxpayers to a much greater extent than the European middle class is.
SerialStateLineXer
6mo ago
I'm sure they do seem like a lovely person
I'm not picking on you in particular, but I see this all the time and genuinely wonder why people do this. The person in question is clearly identified as a "girl," and OP consistently refers to her with the appropriate female pronouns. Why the "they/them?"
SerialStateLineXer
6mo ago
That confidence interval must be a misprint. If the lower bound is not 1.08, but -1.08, it makes perfect sense, since 0.58 is the midpoint between -1.08 and 2.24.
SerialStateLineXer
6mo ago
However I think the issue with insurance is when it becomes mandatory or defacto mandatory, because then you lose proper economic controls on the price via supply and demand.
Failure to consume food is much more quickly and reliably fatal than failure to buy health insurance, and that market works fine. It just isn't true that supply and demand don't apply to necessities. I may have to buy food, but as long as I don't have to buy from you, you're not going to have much luck selling me potatoes for $10/pound.
The bigger problem is just that health care is really expensive. Supply constraints may play an important role here: The US just doesn't have enough doctors. Coverage mandates may be another issue. The government mandates coverage for treatment x, which adds $y to the premium. How many consumers, when fully informed, would a priori actually be willing to pay an extra $y per year for x to be covered?
Lack of price transparency is another issue. Lack of competition among insurers may be an issue, but insurer profit margins are pretty small, so it's likely a minor issue.
SerialStateLineXer
6mo ago
Not even a personal grievance, just terminal Reddit-brain?
SerialStateLineXer
6mo ago
Selecting an unpopular target?
This is obviously it, isn't it? The media don't want to prevent copycat attacks.
SerialStateLineXer
6mo ago
with simple tips like “wear a suit to a job interview” or “don’t curse in front of your boss.”
Sometimes I forget that the tech industry is weird.
SerialStateLineXer
6mo ago
My point was not that she's doomed, but that if she actually has the quantitative skills and conscientiousness needed to do well in finance classes, she'll probably be fine and not be magically handicapped by having been poor as a child.
SerialStateLineXer
6mo ago
one interesting data point that I've come across is that people who grew up poor tend to lag behind, even after obtaining the degree
It's worth noting here that years of education completed is a piss-poor measure of human capital. It's better than nothing, but there's tremendous variation in IQ, non-cognitive skills, and even knowledge among people who nominally have the same educational attainment. Since IQ and non-cognitive skills are highly heritable, it's not surprising that people whose parents were weak in those areas and consequently had limited earning power do not, on average, accomplish as much with 17 years of formal education as people whose parents were strong in those areas and consequently had high earning power.
The flip side is that if you actually do have those traits, either because you got lucky with meiosis or because your parents were poor for reasons unrelated to lack of talent, your parents having been poor isn't nearly as much of a handicap as that Brookings white paper suggests.
SerialStateLineXer
6mo ago
The fact that breasts lose elasticity with age is proof that there is no God.
SerialStateLineXer
6mo ago
Famously Evelyn Waugh (the male writer) was married to a female Evelyn.
I heard she was wild in bed. A real homonymph.
SerialStateLineXer
7mo ago
My redpill was all the stories about how white the tech industry is.
SerialStateLineXer
7mo ago
The main advantage of a blockchain is that it makes it extremely difficult to rewrite history. It doesn't really do anything to prevent writing lies into a new record, especially when it's about claims that require real-world evidence to verify.
SerialStateLineXer
7mo ago
I don't know that health insurance is particularly unprofitable. Profit margins can be misleading, because they're a percentage of revenue. With health insurance, it's easy to take in huge revenues, because you get thousands or even tens of thousands of dollars per customer every year. It's one of the highest-revenue industries there is. Of course, you also have to spend a ton of money. But due to the high revenues, a health insurer can have large profits with a small profit margin.
Also, profits go to the shareholders. Maybe there is a wage premium for employees.
Not to dispute the broader point, which is that insurers provide an important service. The irrationality of the public puts them in a bad position. The public wants low premiums, low deductibles, and unlimited coverage, and they will always side with providers over insurers. There's no good way to satisfy them.
SerialStateLineXer
7mo ago
How do we distinguish the effects of COVID from the effects of the anti-standards and anti-law-enforcement movement born out of BLM?
SerialStateLineXer
7mo ago
My feed is also full of asses and boobs, but not that kind.
SerialStateLineXer
7mo ago
There been dragons.
SerialStateLineXer
7mo ago
How many tabs do you have open, that closing 10% merits inclusion in this list?
Quote laundering. If you want to say something that's not, strictly speaking, true, you can just quote somebody else saying it.
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