Technically at 1 failure out of 100k makes this a seven 9's system. That's on pair with medical devices and aerospace systems. That's a very stable system in general.
To put that into perspective, if you were running trying to run a system with a seven 9's uptime that ran 24/7/365 you would only have outage of about 36 mins over the course of a year. These are very stable and dependable systems.
1. No, not everyone who gets the vaccine is immune, generally vaccines have around an 95% success rate.
2. No, not everyone who doesn't get a vaccine did it by choice. Some people with certain allergies can't have certain vaccines.
That's were herd immunity comes in, we are trying to protect THOSE people. By electing to not inoculate your children, you lower the effectiveness of herd immunity by skewing the coverage group in the wrong direction. Unfortunately though, your "choice" can endanger the lives of people around you and your children.
Non medical exemptions are dangerous to the population as a whole and should be banned.
Balance billing isn't the only reason that this is a good thing to be publicly available. Hospitals have been playing a game with insurance companies for years. The how much is too much game. Lets say service X actually costs the hospital $100 dollars to perform. Even though many hospitals are supposed non-profits (funny how 7 of the top 10 most "profitable" hospitals in the US are non-profits) they determine, hey we're going to charge insurance $300 dollars for service X. Insurance company doesn't argue.... so next year, hospital decides to raise cost of service X to $500 dollars, and the insurance company doesn't argue. So the hospital goes, "Hey, wonder if they'll pay $1000!" and raises the cost of service X to $1000. Insurance company goes, no that's too much for that service, we'll pay you only $800. So the hospital decides, "fine, so they'll pay us $800, so lets keep it on the chargemaster as $1000 so we can continue to justify receiving 800 from the insurance companies and maybe some poor sucker with no insurance will be stuck paying us $1000 sometimes.
Hopefully being able to see the chargemaster and the ludicrous pricing that hospitals charge will open the eyes of the public to say enough is enough.
Forget ditching DST, get rid of standard time. Who cares if i go to work in the dark, I want to come home to enjoy some sunlight! During standard time in the winter I not only get the joy of coming to work in the dark, but getting home in the dark as well, because it's sunset by the time I leave.
I'd love to have an hour of daylight to get stuff done outside when i get home and not have to wait for the weekend!
Yes but those people are quickly removed from the pool of drivers through death or loss of license, won't happen with the cars.
You don't honestly think loss of license means that a person is no longer in the "pool of drivers" do you? Currently 1 in 5 accidents are caused by unlicensed drivers in the US equating to about 8400 deaths annually. So obviously a lack of a license means nothing to tens of thousands of people.
Our solution is broken, but many 1st world systems are broken. Just giving everyone access to healthcare doesn't necessarily improve healthcare. We have many more issues beyond just that. We need to come up with effective policies for handling wait times, delays for essential testing and services, the inevitable loss of incoming medical professionals when incomes stagnate or fall, and the lack of innovation in medicine that artificially deflating costs will cause (ever wonder why many of these countries sickest people seek help in the US)?
Wow, so I was one of the LUCKY ones that not only had to switch my plans, but ended up having to pay more for worst benefits.
Hooray for ACA! I'm sorry, but forcing people to shittier coverage just to make it so that everyone can have shitty coverage is not a win for anyone. My personal premium costs went up 15% and my out of pocket responsibility went up by 1600 dollars (at the time). Why? Because my previous plan was considered a Cadillac plan, so the insurance provider was going to be penalized for offering it. Now just a few short years later i've swung to a high deductable HSA to keep premiums down and just deal with the fact that I have to build up a large warchest to cover unexpected medical expenses.
Premiums slowed, because the plans got worst, not because the ACA did anything positive to reduce them.
Being conservative in the USA means believe in individual liberty, natural law, and limited government
That doesn't mean you are a conservative, it means you are a libertarian. I think many people both republican and democrat misrepresent themselves in politics.
As defined by George Mason University's Institute For Human Studies :
The libertarian or “classical liberal” perspective is that peace, prosperity, and social harmony are fostered by “as much liberty as possible” and “as little government as necessary.” With a long intellectual tradition spanning hundreds of years, libertarian ideas of individual rights, economic liberty, and limited government have contributed to history-changing movements like abolition, women’s suffrage, and the civil rights movement.
I think they should do a film adaptation of the plot from the Force Awakens video games. Show how the remaining stragglers from the Jedi order were hunted down. Maybe throw in a plot to assassinate the emperor into the mix.
So what are your ideas for a good anthology movie?
I ask Jose Santos, the crew leader, whether he thinks robots will do this work someday. He smiles. "Hey, it could happen! Put a man on the moon, didn't we?"
Put people on the moon. Believe that story do ya?
Yes this was a joke, no I don't think we didn't land on the moon. But dinosaurs..... now THAT's all hollywood fakery!
Actually it is next to impossible for a 3rd party candidate to be elected anymore. Both political parties have lobbied very hard in some states to make it difficult for 3rd party candidates to even get on the ballot. Many require you to submit signed petitions with thousands of signatures by certain deadlines to even be considered.
Am I missing something here? Isn't it the SAME? I earn 35k as a UBI where I don't have to work to make a living wage or I can work 40hr/wk to make 50k. So again, my 40 hrs of work is only a marginal gain.
Also, a UBI would appear from the outside to be extremely unfair to certain groups based on the COL for the area they live in. If I live in San Franciso, I would need probably a $70k UBI using bankrates COL calculator, where someone in Dubuque, IA would only need $35k. From the outside that seems an completely unfair distribution of funds. Even though equivalently they are identical.
I honestly believe that we need to offer more welfare based on supplemental services. Free childcare, education/training, food assistance. Make it easier for people to advance their employment, and begin achieving self reliance, not give them incentives to not work and be reliant on the government to subsist.
What has happened is the Republican party allowed the religious right to hijack them. It started in 1988 with Pat Robertson. Back then, it appeared to be just a freak occurrence, but then the religious conservatives began to see that they could begin to influence the political scene. The Tea Party was the easiest thing to hijack. Remember, it wasn't started as a social conservatism movement, but a fiscal one. It was a reaction to the perceived lack of fiscal responsibility of government.
Unfortunately, as it gained momentum and support it was easily corrupted and warped by the religious right into an ultra conservative movement in the GOP. Giving them an area to vomit their ultra conservative social narrative that was outside of the normal GOP channels. The media lapped up this rhetoric because it made for ratings, thus giving them more and more power.
Our system is broken, and it's spiraling into a giant pit of crap that we may not escape. We've let both sides vilify each other damn near to the point of violence. We allow them to whip their respective fanatic bases with so much half truth, sound bite nonsense that the average American truly has no clue what the hell they truly stand for. It's all a smokescreen used to blind the average person to the fact that all we've done is created an elected oligarchy whose sole purpose seems to be to keep itself in power, or at least those with the financial influence necessary in power.
I'm a social moderate / fiscal conservative that has no voice in politics anymore. Democrats do not satisfy my standpoints fiscally, and Republicans have gone so far to the right to pander to the ultra conservative religious right they've lost me there as well.
If your electric robotaxi needs to charge while you're in it, do you get charged for the 9 hours your waiting? If it runs out of charge at your home, are you obligated to charge it? Do you get refunded for the cost of electricity if you do?
I must have answers!!!
I highly divisible universal currency being tested by banks. Might not be a horrible idea. Remove the necessity for currency exchange markets. If you economy is tanking, the price of goods increase but based off of a universally monitored and controlled currency with a specific market value. I don't necessarily like the idea of the value of the currency fluctuating independently of a given nations inflation, but the idea still would have merit to investigate.
My 2015 TDI get's better than advertised mileage as well. We range from 45-50 on long trips and 39 in town (advertised mileage was 34/42) and we're just over 8k miles on it, so it's still not even broken in yet.
Also, the health hazard argument is BS anyway. The avg Nox output of the TDI's being recalled is about the same as a mid 2000's motorcycle. And there are more registered motorcycles in the state of California than there were TDI's sold in the US for the whole recall period. So yes, they didn't meet the crazy standards adopted by the US (which are half that of the EU), and they should be penalized, but the cars shouldn't be vilified as being a public health hazard when there are far more polluting vehicles on the road than the small handful (in comparison) of TDI's.
Honestly what seems stupid is that our government currently pays farmers to NOT farm almost 4 million acres each year (that doesn't include the almost 600,000 acres that get denied). Removing this subsidy (which at least in iowa, is mostly abused by non-farmers anyway especially since the top 2 recipients of this subsidy are also some of the richest people in the state), would add plenty of usable acres to produce viable biofuel crops.
Also, realize that the VAST majority of crops in the US aren't grown for human consumption. 90% of all soybeans, 80% of corn, and 70% of all grains are grown for livestock feed. Luckily, the mash byproduct of producing ethanol is sold as feed anyway, so adding biofuel processing as a middle step gives us additional benefit from the crops we currently grow.
Totally agree with you. I'm 6'4" and based off of my current BF% i'd still way 240lbs if I had 0% body fat. Sorry I wasn't born scrawny or lanky. As I always said in gym back in high school, I'm a Clydesdale not a race horse, stop expecting me to perform like one.
People need to realize that we're not all popped out of the same mold.
I do not care how deeeeep the industry's pocket is, in a democracy the ultimate decider is still the PEOPLE --- those who vote, that is
The industry can only get something going if the people let them - and in this case, the people still have the right to SUE the government (and indirectly sue the politicians) over the passage of the laws
Since this happens in Canada the Canadians have to mobilize themselves to see that such laws be overturned and the politicians who are on-the-take be punished accordingly
No the people don't have a say because Canada is a republic, just like the USA, NOT a democracy. We vote for representatives to supposedly make decisions in the best interest of their constituency (which is totally laughable). What we actually have done is created an elected oligarchy where the only people who benefit from anything are the people in power and those with the money to keep them in power.
Mostly because of idiot bosses that think they need to be able to walk up to you and poke you with a stick to make sure you are working.
A large number of jobs can be done at home over the network. Maybe someday we will start getting Executives and managers at businesses that have IQ's over 80 that will start allowing it or even require it.
While true a large number of jobs can be done over the network with little to no problem, that isn't the concern. Many people do not possess the self discipline necessary to work in an environment with that many distractions. The temptation to not actually work is too great. So the easiest solution for companies is to force people to come into the office.
There have been recent studies that point that it's not necessarily a lack of opportunities that prevent girls from getting into CS fields of study, but that early educator's biases may be more to blame.
There's plenty of crappy coders out there who think they're way better than they really are.
My dad had a saying when trying to hire competent developers. Out of every 100 who apply, you're lucky if 10 are good, and most often only 1 is great. I have to say, that it definitely seems to hold true in many situations.
Plenty of people honestly. Whether through cancellation of plans due to lack of mandated coverages, or in my own personal case, being forced to a plan with weaker benefits because my wife's employer was going to be penalized for offering a "Cadillac" plan to their employee's. For those that don't know what that is, it's a mandated 40% excise tax placed on plans that offer premium coverage.
So now we pay about the same amount as before and have a deductible and coinsurance that we didn't have before. Thanks ever so much for that. Considering now we have to be concerned for up to 4800 dollars more a year in expenses. In an environment with looming inflation, and stagnant income growth. Hurray for Obama. Thanks so much for causing millions of Americans into the threat of financial instability.
If the 10 million people now being covered are primarily from poor and rural areas, you could have easily covered them by modifying existing options like medicare to better suite the needs of those unable to properly insure themselves. And probably at a lesser expense.
So yeah, lots of people have reason to hate the ACA, and the people who shoved it down our throats.
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Technically at 1 failure out of 100k makes this a seven 9's system. That's on pair with medical devices and aerospace systems. That's a very stable system in general. To put that into perspective, if you were running trying to run a system with a seven 9's uptime that ran 24/7/365 you would only have outage of about 36 mins over the course of a year. These are very stable and dependable systems.
1. No, not everyone who gets the vaccine is immune, generally vaccines have around an 95% success rate.
2. No, not everyone who doesn't get a vaccine did it by choice. Some people with certain allergies can't have certain vaccines.
That's were herd immunity comes in, we are trying to protect THOSE people. By electing to not inoculate your children, you lower the effectiveness of herd immunity by skewing the coverage group in the wrong direction. Unfortunately though, your "choice" can endanger the lives of people around you and your children.
Non medical exemptions are dangerous to the population as a whole and should be banned.
Balance billing isn't the only reason that this is a good thing to be publicly available. Hospitals have been playing a game with insurance companies for years. The how much is too much game. Lets say service X actually costs the hospital $100 dollars to perform. Even though many hospitals are supposed non-profits (funny how 7 of the top 10 most "profitable" hospitals in the US are non-profits) they determine, hey we're going to charge insurance $300 dollars for service X. Insurance company doesn't argue.... so next year, hospital decides to raise cost of service X to $500 dollars, and the insurance company doesn't argue. So the hospital goes, "Hey, wonder if they'll pay $1000!" and raises the cost of service X to $1000. Insurance company goes, no that's too much for that service, we'll pay you only $800. So the hospital decides, "fine, so they'll pay us $800, so lets keep it on the chargemaster as $1000 so we can continue to justify receiving 800 from the insurance companies and maybe some poor sucker with no insurance will be stuck paying us $1000 sometimes.
Hopefully being able to see the chargemaster and the ludicrous pricing that hospitals charge will open the eyes of the public to say enough is enough.
Forget ditching DST, get rid of standard time. Who cares if i go to work in the dark, I want to come home to enjoy some sunlight! During standard time in the winter I not only get the joy of coming to work in the dark, but getting home in the dark as well, because it's sunset by the time I leave.
I'd love to have an hour of daylight to get stuff done outside when i get home and not have to wait for the weekend!
Yes but those people are quickly removed from the pool of drivers through death or loss of license, won't happen with the cars.
You don't honestly think loss of license means that a person is no longer in the "pool of drivers" do you? Currently 1 in 5 accidents are caused by unlicensed drivers in the US equating to about 8400 deaths annually. So obviously a lack of a license means nothing to tens of thousands of people.
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Yep we see lots of examples of working single payer solutions.
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Our solution is broken, but many 1st world systems are broken. Just giving everyone access to healthcare doesn't necessarily improve healthcare. We have many more issues beyond just that. We need to come up with effective policies for handling wait times, delays for essential testing and services, the inevitable loss of incoming medical professionals when incomes stagnate or fall, and the lack of innovation in medicine that artificially deflating costs will cause (ever wonder why many of these countries sickest people seek help in the US)?
Wow, so I was one of the LUCKY ones that not only had to switch my plans, but ended up having to pay more for worst benefits.
Hooray for ACA! I'm sorry, but forcing people to shittier coverage just to make it so that everyone can have shitty coverage is not a win for anyone. My personal premium costs went up 15% and my out of pocket responsibility went up by 1600 dollars (at the time). Why? Because my previous plan was considered a Cadillac plan, so the insurance provider was going to be penalized for offering it. Now just a few short years later i've swung to a high deductable HSA to keep premiums down and just deal with the fact that I have to build up a large warchest to cover unexpected medical expenses.
Premiums slowed, because the plans got worst, not because the ACA did anything positive to reduce them.
Being conservative in the USA means believe in individual liberty, natural law, and limited government
That doesn't mean you are a conservative, it means you are a libertarian. I think many people both republican and democrat misrepresent themselves in politics.
As defined by George Mason University's Institute For Human Studies :
The libertarian or “classical liberal” perspective is that peace, prosperity, and social harmony are fostered by “as much liberty as possible” and “as little government as necessary.” With a long intellectual tradition spanning hundreds of years, libertarian ideas of individual rights, economic liberty, and limited government have contributed to history-changing movements like abolition, women’s suffrage, and the civil rights movement.
Makes me long for the good old days of Pets.com..... Man I miss that sock puppet!
I think they should do a film adaptation of the plot from the Force Awakens video games. Show how the remaining stragglers from the Jedi order were hunted down. Maybe throw in a plot to assassinate the emperor into the mix.
So what are your ideas for a good anthology movie?
The idea of the neighborhood reactors. They were to be powered by uranium hydride and be the size of a garden shed. Did these ever come to fruition? https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2008/nov/09/miniature-nuclear-reactors-los-alamos
I ask Jose Santos, the crew leader, whether he thinks robots will do this work someday. He smiles. "Hey, it could happen! Put a man on the moon, didn't we?"
Put people on the moon. Believe that story do ya?
Yes this was a joke, no I don't think we didn't land on the moon. But dinosaurs..... now THAT's all hollywood fakery!
Another joke BTW
Actually it is next to impossible for a 3rd party candidate to be elected anymore. Both political parties have lobbied very hard in some states to make it difficult for 3rd party candidates to even get on the ballot. Many require you to submit signed petitions with thousands of signatures by certain deadlines to even be considered.
Am I missing something here? Isn't it the SAME? I earn 35k as a UBI where I don't have to work to make a living wage or I can work 40hr/wk to make 50k. So again, my 40 hrs of work is only a marginal gain. Also, a UBI would appear from the outside to be extremely unfair to certain groups based on the COL for the area they live in. If I live in San Franciso, I would need probably a $70k UBI using bankrates COL calculator, where someone in Dubuque, IA would only need $35k. From the outside that seems an completely unfair distribution of funds. Even though equivalently they are identical.
I honestly believe that we need to offer more welfare based on supplemental services. Free childcare, education/training, food assistance. Make it easier for people to advance their employment, and begin achieving self reliance, not give them incentives to not work and be reliant on the government to subsist.
What has happened is the Republican party allowed the religious right to hijack them. It started in 1988 with Pat Robertson. Back then, it appeared to be just a freak occurrence, but then the religious conservatives began to see that they could begin to influence the political scene. The Tea Party was the easiest thing to hijack. Remember, it wasn't started as a social conservatism movement, but a fiscal one. It was a reaction to the perceived lack of fiscal responsibility of government.
Unfortunately, as it gained momentum and support it was easily corrupted and warped by the religious right into an ultra conservative movement in the GOP. Giving them an area to vomit their ultra conservative social narrative that was outside of the normal GOP channels. The media lapped up this rhetoric because it made for ratings, thus giving them more and more power.
Our system is broken, and it's spiraling into a giant pit of crap that we may not escape. We've let both sides vilify each other damn near to the point of violence. We allow them to whip their respective fanatic bases with so much half truth, sound bite nonsense that the average American truly has no clue what the hell they truly stand for. It's all a smokescreen used to blind the average person to the fact that all we've done is created an elected oligarchy whose sole purpose seems to be to keep itself in power, or at least those with the financial influence necessary in power.
I'm a social moderate / fiscal conservative that has no voice in politics anymore. Democrats do not satisfy my standpoints fiscally, and Republicans have gone so far to the right to pander to the ultra conservative religious right they've lost me there as well.
If your electric robotaxi needs to charge while you're in it, do you get charged for the 9 hours your waiting? If it runs out of charge at your home, are you obligated to charge it? Do you get refunded for the cost of electricity if you do? I must have answers!!!
I highly divisible universal currency being tested by banks. Might not be a horrible idea. Remove the necessity for currency exchange markets. If you economy is tanking, the price of goods increase but based off of a universally monitored and controlled currency with a specific market value. I don't necessarily like the idea of the value of the currency fluctuating independently of a given nations inflation, but the idea still would have merit to investigate.
My 2015 TDI get's better than advertised mileage as well. We range from 45-50 on long trips and 39 in town (advertised mileage was 34/42) and we're just over 8k miles on it, so it's still not even broken in yet.
Also, the health hazard argument is BS anyway. The avg Nox output of the TDI's being recalled is about the same as a mid 2000's motorcycle. And there are more registered motorcycles in the state of California than there were TDI's sold in the US for the whole recall period. So yes, they didn't meet the crazy standards adopted by the US (which are half that of the EU), and they should be penalized, but the cars shouldn't be vilified as being a public health hazard when there are far more polluting vehicles on the road than the small handful (in comparison) of TDI's.
Honestly what seems stupid is that our government currently pays farmers to NOT farm almost 4 million acres each year (that doesn't include the almost 600,000 acres that get denied). Removing this subsidy (which at least in iowa, is mostly abused by non-farmers anyway especially since the top 2 recipients of this subsidy are also some of the richest people in the state), would add plenty of usable acres to produce viable biofuel crops. Also, realize that the VAST majority of crops in the US aren't grown for human consumption. 90% of all soybeans, 80% of corn, and 70% of all grains are grown for livestock feed. Luckily, the mash byproduct of producing ethanol is sold as feed anyway, so adding biofuel processing as a middle step gives us additional benefit from the crops we currently grow.
Totally agree with you. I'm 6'4" and based off of my current BF% i'd still way 240lbs if I had 0% body fat. Sorry I wasn't born scrawny or lanky. As I always said in gym back in high school, I'm a Clydesdale not a race horse, stop expecting me to perform like one. People need to realize that we're not all popped out of the same mold.
Don't the people have a say in this?
I do not care how deeeeep the industry's pocket is, in a democracy the ultimate decider is still the PEOPLE --- those who vote, that is
The industry can only get something going if the people let them - and in this case, the people still have the right to SUE the government (and indirectly sue the politicians) over the passage of the laws
Since this happens in Canada the Canadians have to mobilize themselves to see that such laws be overturned and the politicians who are on-the-take be punished accordingly
No the people don't have a say because Canada is a republic, just like the USA, NOT a democracy. We vote for representatives to supposedly make decisions in the best interest of their constituency (which is totally laughable). What we actually have done is created an elected oligarchy where the only people who benefit from anything are the people in power and those with the money to keep them in power.
Mostly because of idiot bosses that think they need to be able to walk up to you and poke you with a stick to make sure you are working.
A large number of jobs can be done at home over the network. Maybe someday we will start getting Executives and managers at businesses that have IQ's over 80 that will start allowing it or even require it.
While true a large number of jobs can be done over the network with little to no problem, that isn't the concern. Many people do not possess the self discipline necessary to work in an environment with that many distractions. The temptation to not actually work is too great. So the easiest solution for companies is to force people to come into the office.
There have been recent studies that point that it's not necessarily a lack of opportunities that prevent girls from getting into CS fields of study, but that early educator's biases may be more to blame.
There's plenty of crappy coders out there who think they're way better than they really are.
My dad had a saying when trying to hire competent developers. Out of every 100 who apply, you're lucky if 10 are good, and most often only 1 is great. I have to say, that it definitely seems to hold true in many situations.
Plenty of people honestly. Whether through cancellation of plans due to lack of mandated coverages, or in my own personal case, being forced to a plan with weaker benefits because my wife's employer was going to be penalized for offering a "Cadillac" plan to their employee's. For those that don't know what that is, it's a mandated 40% excise tax placed on plans that offer premium coverage.
So now we pay about the same amount as before and have a deductible and coinsurance that we didn't have before. Thanks ever so much for that. Considering now we have to be concerned for up to 4800 dollars more a year in expenses. In an environment with looming inflation, and stagnant income growth. Hurray for Obama. Thanks so much for causing millions of Americans into the threat of financial instability.
If the 10 million people now being covered are primarily from poor and rural areas, you could have easily covered them by modifying existing options like medicare to better suite the needs of those unable to properly insure themselves. And probably at a lesser expense.
So yeah, lots of people have reason to hate the ACA, and the people who shoved it down our throats.