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We do not have universal single-payer but we have a few very large government-run single-payer systems. If you have an example of a country with a single program that has more effe…

Medicare: 65,748,297 people enrolled [0] Medicaid and CHIP: 85,614,581 people enrolled [1] Military: 9.5 million people covered [2] The US has not one but two of the largest single…

> Before that we also had various moral panics, like the one about roleplaying games pushing "the devil". Ahh, ok. So the moral panic of the early 80s, about 40 years ago. The "vid…

> For example, 15-20 years ago we had conservatives yelling video games are the devil and they need to be censored and some topics not even touched. My memory of the 2003 to 2008 t…

Ahh, ok. I was under the impression that the vaccines were to prevent a severe reaction in those at risk due to age or comorbidities, which is why some areas gave priority to the e…

Why would avoiding the covid vaccine mean someone doesn't care about the safety of others?

There are cultural and legal reasons. One legal reason is fuel economy regulations (CAFE standards) encourage car makers to make their cars large enough to be classified as "light …

> I don't think the other 22 states would be wild about that admission standard. We have a well established process for asking states about this sort of thing, the US Congress. The…

Why choose the least populous state as the standard for admission instead of, say, the median?

Indeed. 436 states, here we come!

> DC statehood has been a hugely locally popular movement for quite some time. I'm sure many locales with 670k residents would love to become states, that'd be a pretty sweet deal.…

An appropriate way to welcome visitors to the city they fund.

> I now designate daily subway rides for reading New York Times breaking news emails so that clients don’t find me in an anxiety-ridden state when they arrive for tutoring sessions…

There was a lot of discussion [0] of that point when the Model View Culture article was originally posted 7 years ago. It's complicated, but the author of the piece seems to take i…

The City of London has an interesting governance structure. There are two types of voters, resident and business [0]. [0] https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/about-us/voting-elections

> they don't have any intention to develop this software without a profit, then they shouldn't have positioned themselves as a free-and-open-source product in the first place. If s…

You can run the SSPL'd code, you can view the SSPL code, if you change the SSPL code then contribute back if you distribute your changes. If you run a service providing the SSPL co…

High schools here start at 8:15, it’s earlier if you have a bus. How late is the proposal? More importantly, why tie recent science (which can change) about the high school populat…

I’d rather have more daylight in the afternoon than bend time around a poorly chosen schedule set by schools. You make a compelling argument for the schools starting later, they sh…

I just posted the guardian version because I didn’t see yours. “maga2020!” and no proof, ridiculous. Easy to believe something crazy if you want to believe it, I guess.