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Not sure I like jokes like this, because they imply suggested ideas are bad, because suggested target is bad.
What a way to misread my comment!
Good morning to you from Moscow :)
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#33> We could be running fiber-optic cable to every house in America, and we even know how much it would cost. That's the problem, isn't it? It costs too much. Of course we can fix everything, we could also do everything in the universe, but the question is at what cost? So here's my modest proposal: > I am here to remind you that it will only get worse unless we do something. The problem isn't painful enough. Have you…
>COVID was a great example of this.
Was it?
How many fought against social distancing, masks and vaccines?
Same with climate change, how many fight against necessary measures.
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#34It's ironic for him to suggest government-run healthcare when it doesn't benefit from the #1 best coordinator of resources on the planet - price. He accidentally highlights the reason we have so many coordination failures - smart people with little wisdom think they can solve every problem, using other people's money, with no consequences for their failure. Not everyone should get free college, and not every house sh…
As I understand it, the US government pays more per capita for healthcare than any other rich country. And Americans don't even get free healthcare in return.
I'm not sure what the solution is either, but the status quo ain't it.
https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2...
> Health spending per person in the U.S. was nearly two times higher than in the closest country, Germany, and four times higher than in South Korea.
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#35It's ironic for him to suggest government-run healthcare when it doesn't benefit from the #1 best coordinator of resources on the planet - price. He accidentally highlights the reason we have so many coordination failures - smart people with little wisdom think they can solve every problem, using other people's money, with no consequences for their failure. Not everyone should get free college, and not every house sh…
Price absolutely still exists in government run health care… do you have any idea how it actually works in developed countries?
Price exists. Information that is embedded in the price, or, more precisely, in the myriad of market interactions that, among other things, also create the prices, however, is often lost. Or replaced with other information - e.g. who has a the better lobbyist or can negotiate with the government officials more efficiently. Also, it seems that you are implying there's a single "way it works in developed countries" - if you do, you are seriously mistaken, there are a wide variety of ways and each one has its own set of issues.
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#36I'd like to point out that computer security was solved in the 1970s after lessons were learned by the Military during the Viet Nam conflict. We've blamed everything except our operating systems, which are fundamentally flawed because they don't incorporate Capability Based Security[1].
Things that are not capability based security, but people seem to think they are, include:
App Permission flags on your smartphone
Windows 8 UAE
SELinux
AppArmor
Group Policies
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#37as this fantastic video about the popcorn button explains. Our economic race to the bottom has been sabotaging almost every aspect of engineering in our society. To save a few cents per microwave, the cheap microwaves don’t include a humidity sensor and then lie about having a popcorn button when it can’t actually work properly, which leads to everyone saying “don’t use the popcorn button” and now nobody uses the pop…
That's pretty silly. The 'economic race to the bottom' is exactly how we can all afford microwave ovens in the first place. Of course, you can make a special case for microwave ovens, and we could afford them to be slightly more expensive. But we need the general cost cutting and optimization in the economy to drive progress.
Yes, but then we get useless microwaves and in the end dangerous microwaves.
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#38> We could be running fiber-optic cable to every house in America, and we even know how much it would cost. That's the problem, isn't it? It costs too much. Of course we can fix everything, we could also do everything in the universe, but the question is at what cost? So here's my modest proposal: > I am here to remind you that it will only get worse unless we do something. The problem isn't painful enough. Have you…
>the question is at what cost?
The world will be a wonderful place when schools have all the funding they need and the Air Force must hold a bake sale to pay for new fighter jets.
The US spent $8,000,000,000,000 on the "war on terror" [1], while 21% of adults are illiterate [2]
[1] https://www.brown.edu/news/2021-09-01/costsofwar
[2] https://www.crossrivertherapy.com/research/literacy-statisti...
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#39> We could be running fiber-optic cable to every house in America, and we even know how much it would cost. That's the problem, isn't it? It costs too much. Of course we can fix everything, we could also do everything in the universe, but the question is at what cost? So here's my modest proposal: > I am here to remind you that it will only get worse unless we do something. The problem isn't painful enough. Have you…
>COVID was a great example of this. Was it? How many fought against social distancing, masks and vaccines? Same with climate change, how many fight against necessary measures.
A lot of the people fighting against these things are not feeling the pain. Many people in my family are some degree of anti-vaccine / masking mandates. I can guarantee you that if a single close family member ended up hospitalized due to covid, their tune would do a fast 180.
All of their beliefs are based on whether someone they care about had something happen to them.
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
Price absolutely still exists in government run health care… do you have any idea how it actually works in developed countries?
PP is referring to the price mechanism of markets. Not an arbitrary set price set by a regulator / central planner. By definition if government runs a sector, there can be no pricing mechanism. Otherwise the government isn’t running it; it’s just a market.
The government is the payer, hospitals and doctors can still compete in pricing.
Plenty of US states have an effective duopoly of healthcare insurers, which is no different in effect from having a single payer.
The main difference is with for profit insurers, some % is skimmed off the top as profit instead of going into patient care.