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Re: Rebecca Heineman has died

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Post by simondotau »

anonyfox wrote: post #49
fastball wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Cancer is expensive everywhere, the difference is who pays for it.

actually a difference is also how many players along the supply chain siphon money out of the process. the more greed is allowed and acted on for the treatment, the more expensive it gets. introduce layers of insurances, hedgefonds, pension funds, lobbyism, ... it adds up to riddiculous amounts far beyond the original R&D/infrastructure/treatment costs.

And those are just the downsides of a market-based system. There are also upsides of single-payer systems, like monopsony buying power.

Re: Rebecca Heineman has died

#52

Post by philipallstar »

simondotau wrote: post #51
anonyfox wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

actually a difference is also how many players along the supply chain siphon money out of the process. the more greed is allowed and acted on for the treatment, the more expensive it gets. introduce layers of insurances, hedgefonds, pension funds, lobbyism, ... it adds up to riddiculous amounts far beyond the original R&D/infrastructure/treatment costs.

And those are just the downsides of a market-based system. There are also upsides of single-payer systems, like monopsony buying power.

And also downsides, e.g. many treatments just aren't available, and many others would never have had their discovery funded without the market-based system existing.

Re: Rebecca Heineman has died

#53

Post by ben_w »

simondotau wrote: post #48
superultra wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The United States is the wealthiest nation on the planet according to Forbes, richer than the subsequent three nations combined. It’s a tragedy that our own citizens are not the direct be beneficiaries of that wealth. I think a lot about the scene in Star Trek IV when McCoy is in a hospital and says “what is this the dark ages?” Gofundme is like a kafkaesque tragic absurdity that - hopefully - will be looked at as an…

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> As is often said, capitalism is the worst economic system, except for all the others.

I've only heard it said that "democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time", not capitalism and economics: https://winstonchurchill.org/resources/quotes/the-worst-form...

Re: Rebecca Heineman has died

#54

Post by siev »

rob74 wrote: post #50
zeta0134 wrote: post #9

Rebecca was well known in emulation circles for her high quality work on various games of the era, often pushing the hardware in unusual ways. This article is one of my favorites, detailing the wacky tricks she used to get Another World's 3D rendering system running acceptably on a Super Nintendo https://fabiensanglard.net/another_world_polygons_SNES/ Rest in piece, you absolute legend.

She also somehow pulled off the port of Doom to the hopelessly underpowered hardware of the 3DO in just a few weeks, after others had tried and failed for much longer than that. The final release had a reduced viewport and a bad framerate, but the background music was great (recorded with a band and stored as audio tracks on the game CD). https://github.com/Olde-Skuul/doom3do Also, 62 years is much too young! And one…

Gonna link SSFF's enjoyable telling of the 3DO port story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxF1_wg2d_Q

I will never get over the company CEO sending here PNGs of new weapon models and saying, essentially, "Yeah so you can just copy & paste these into the game, right?"

Re: Rebecca Heineman has died

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Post by ben_w »

philipallstar wrote: post #52
simondotau wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And those are just the downsides of a market-based system. There are also upsides of single-payer systems, like monopsony buying power.

And also downsides, e.g. many treatments just aren't available, and many others would never have had their discovery funded without the market-based system existing.

Governments can (and do) directly fund medical research including drug discovery. This is in part because governments of even just middling competence have an incentive to keep their workforce (which also includes their military) healthy.

Re: Rebecca Heineman has died

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Post by simondotau »

philipallstar wrote: post #52
simondotau wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And those are just the downsides of a market-based system. There are also upsides of single-payer systems, like monopsony buying power.

And also downsides, e.g. many treatments just aren't available, and many others would never have had their discovery funded without the market-based system existing.

Nobody is advocating for eliminating a market-based system. My country (Australia) has both single-payer and a market-based private healthcare system.

Re: Rebecca Heineman has died

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Post by siev »

Dilettante_ wrote: post #47

>Heineman's cancer fundraiser is now collecting for her funeral. Am I crazy or does that sentence have, I don't know how to explain it, the 'rhythm' of a joke? Feels like accidental rhyming, a mark of bad writing?

It unfortunately reads a bit like an unintentional punchline, yes.

Re: Rebecca Heineman has died

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Post by zimpenfish »

DerekL wrote: post #39
splitbrain wrote: post #38

Offtopic: several of the embedded Bluesky posts at the end of the article show "The author of the quoted post has requested their posts not be displayed on external sites." Seems not to phase the PC Gamer "journalists".

It's faze , not phase . It's a common mistake.

[0] is a good article about this; not least that this has been happening since at least 1889 (to the point where I'd say we could now probably consider it a valid alternate spelling.)

[0] https://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/001166.... (no, I've no idea why they're behind the wrong subdomain certificate)

Re: Rebecca Heineman has died

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Post by philipallstar »

simondotau wrote: post #56
philipallstar wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And also downsides, e.g. many treatments just aren't available, and many others would never have had their discovery funded without the market-based system existing.

Nobody is advocating for eliminating a market-based system. My country (Australia) has both single-payer and a market-based private healthcare system.

You can imagine how that system, like most, is actually getting its medical advancements from the US.

Re: Rebecca Heineman has died

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Post by simondotau »

ben_w wrote: post #53
simondotau wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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> As is often said, capitalism is the worst economic system, except for all the others. I've only heard it said that "democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time", not capitalism and economics: https://winstonchurchill.org/resources/quotes/the-worst-form...

The Churchill line is about democracy, but the adapted version is a common variation. It works as a standalone maxim without need of attribution to some famous person.
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