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> if a private business with all the incentive in the world can't figure out how to lower healthcare costs What if their incentives aren't to lower cost? Insurance companies make m…

Competition based on benefits really comes in at the low end and the top end of employment. If you're a tradesperson, just having insurance coverage is a big thing. It doesn't matt…

I completely agree. While it's counter intuitive, many businesses want to maintain control of employee's healthcare. Some companies look at it as a way to compete by offering bette…

To start, it was clear that many were Musk fan boys. I don't think "bright" was a driving force, but "young, with no prior experience" would be great if you wanted people to make d…

I'm sorry, but I can't help myself with this one... https://youtu.be/dalNQF8NmIs?si=lHyKeTiCLDFczZk6

Psychopath? No. But it's also not insulting their intelligence by having that little catch up. You're asking someone for something that they don't have to do for you. Showing up in…

> Fixing healthcare costs will require a lot of people losing their job, and that wont be popular. Agreed, but I also don't think it _has_ to be this way. First and foremost, a swi…

The thing that debt to GDP misses is the rates which need to be paid on that debt. For a while those rates were so low, it meant there was little reason to focus on paying down the…

But why did the US lose their AAA rating? It has nothing to do with how much debt we have. It has far more to do with a non-functioning congress that simply decided it wasn't going…

This story is incredibly frustrating because it seems to throw a lot of numbers at things (which isn't a bad thing, it's just not super useful) as if that's going to change things …

I think this quote misses that there can (and arguably should) be differences between your persistence model and your actual data structures. I'd argue that keeping things 1:1 with…

To give a slightly more technical answer, at a large insurance company I used to work for, the legal department had provided definitions on what conditions we would consider variou…

This misses the mark for me completely. >My theory is that neither individuals nor organizations feel comfortable being frivolous or indulgent with their wealth anymore. I guess th…

Having recently bought a metal lathe, and in general having a long time fascination with manufacturing, broaching is freaking mind blowing. Imparting form into metal by extremely s…

>It's hard to really understand why it matters that the previous rounds occurred at all It's not hard at all. Humans are not perfectly rational beings. It's not purely about odds, …

I love this, and it brings an interesting twist to an old favorite. What initially tripped me up is the cells at the points are considered a neighbor. Of course as I write that it …

A few things you're missing. You're making a batch in your kitchen. They're making a significantly higher volume through an industrialized process. You probably throw things in a z…

I'm not entirely sure that those were all Kubrick's tricks though. Classical music is used throughout the book as a way to humanize Alex playing on stereotypes that someone who wou…

I think the most important aspect of "A Clockwork Orange" is it's use of language as a literary tool. It's also key to its misunderstanding, as it tends to lead towards secondary i…

From OP's comment history, I'm going to assume this is about https://www.fretboardhacking.com/fretpro-app/ As a guitarist myself there is incredible saturation in the market right …

Growing up my best friend and I loved The Far Side. In many ways it was the basis to the quirky humor we both shared, and would continue to explore throughout our youth. In element…

The filling mechanism of the pen is what tends to dictate whether there is a shutoff valve, and there two mechanisms that have this feature; vacuum fillers, and Japanese eyedropper…

I don't disagree that those are potential cons, but it also highlights how much versatility you can have with a fountain pen. For instance, there are ones that travel very well wit…

Paper that mentions that it's fountain pen friendly is usually helpful. My go to "cheap" paper is Black & Red Notebooks. I tend to use Rhodia a lot, but that may be pricier for som…

I always feel that fountain pens should come with bigger caveats than they're typically presented with. I absolutely love them (more than you'd even guess), but if someone is just …