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If it happens much more in US than in other countries - it contributes. There's about 500 000 medical bankrupcies in US per year. That's huge. Also - medical debt (not even bankrup…

Medical bankrupcy would make you homeless and cause you to abuse drugs and commit crimes at higher rate for one example. Badly controlled medical system with bad incentives caused …

If you pay much more and get worse results that's objectively not OK. It means the system is inefficient and could be easily improved saving lives and money. > Bad life expectancy …

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/home-owne... Also my bad, it's 65.7% for US and 87.3% for Poland

US life expectancy is 79.76 years. That's 62nd in the world, lover than EU average, lower than many less wealthy countries. It's objectively not "working OK" for most Americans, es…

87% of Poles own a house in comparison to 67% in US.

Doesn't matter which kind of GDP you use - it won't tell you how wealthy a country or its people are. That's because GDP measures how much you did in one year, and wealth is accumu…

Make the floor transparent.

False accusations and lies are evil. It's not a debatable statement. Trying to spin it into a positive is not going to work.

They will do that anyway. No amount of pandering will change their minds.

The time for this debate was 100 years ago. Now only people who can't be convinced aren't convinced, so there's no point convincing. So why not make fun of them? There's no downsid…

Strength of fibers scales with crossection area, mass scales with volume.

I really liked Stanisław Lem's take on this in the short story "The Tale of the Computer That Fought a Dragon". https://www.oocities.org/stanislaw_lem/opowiadania/opowiadan... A so…

There's a pretty cool article about trying to understand electronics and fix a radio the way we try to understand biology. https://mappingignorance.org/2014/07/02/biologists-cant-u…

Unpopular opionion - Dostoyevsky is just russian Kipling. Empire apologist who pretended to write about deep stuff but in the end always got the convenient result.

People in Europe tow stuff with 120 HP sedans or combis all the time. Driving a vehicle that you can't park, that's unsafe for pedestrians and burns 50% more every day just so you …

What's more comfortable about SUV or a truck than a minivan or combi? How is a tall hood increasing your family comfort? It only increases your ego.

Id we wanted to do sth similar for SUVs and Trucks it would be a special driving licence required, with additional requirements and more expansive insurance.

Going from 90% to 95% efficiency you're halving the thermal loses, thus reducing the need for cooling by half. It's a big deal. Same with going from 99% to 99.5% efficiency. It sti…

> Now it becomes way more expensive for small studios to come out with games that have online features. Good riddance. Online features suck. Make your game multiplayer or make it s…

Commit messages are usually more useful than code comments. For one thing they change when the code changes, so they are much less likely to lie.

If you need to search for a variable named i - you should have named it something else (and no, jj is NOT an improvement in that case). One letter variables are supposed to be used…

1. there's a trade-off between graphics/sound quality and story complexity. The better quality your voiced dialogue is - the more you have to pay for every additional line - so you…

No mention of the Witcher? The whole franchise is based on moral dilemmas like that.