AlexTWithBeard

Customers demand it, but customers are not willing to pay for it.

With a choice to pay $1k "with a small probability of surprise bill" or $5k all-included most patients will prefer the former.

So... Imagine there's a law banning surprise bills. No longer separate bills from a hospital and then from a surgeon and then from anesthesiologist and then from the janitor. No "oopsie, sorry, your pimple removal went wrong and you had a cardiac arrest, here's your bill".

How much better will things become?

It's just if you're not homeless, your drug scenes won't be open.

Any attempt to establish a short term housing prompts multiple questions. For example, do you allow drunk people in? If you don't, you leave a lot of people on the shore. If you do, you end up with drunk fights and vomit on the stairs.

Go figure.

I don't see how being poor forces people to throw garbage in the streets and pee in the streets.

One thing I can tell after living outside of the USA for some time, is that a couple of unemployed drug addicts can turn an otherwise neat and tidy house into a shithole. And that was a country with a free medical care. Including addiction treatment.

I doubt it, but would be happy to see the data proving the opposite.

Just for comparison, in top-of-the-shelf socialist Sweden there are 30k homeless people per 10 million population. It matches pretty well to 500k of homeless people in the USA.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homelessness_in_Sweden

How is it going to help?

Okay, you offer help, the person tells you to fuck off.

Very few mentally ill people realize they need help.

It's more like a government oversight in food industry: you're free to reap the benefits, but if you get too many complaints you'll be shagged by a hefty fine.

Well, paid parking, among other things is a way of managing a scarce resource of public parking spots.

What if dispute handling is handled by the city then, while the actual job on the ground is outsourced?

You think it's gonna help?

So what do we do with the person who urinates in his own piece of housing?

He's certainly mentally ill, but urinating in private place does not usually qualify as direct danger to the society, so no forced treatment can be applied.

What's next?

What kind of degenerate outcomes? Just curious. Any good links to read?

I wonder how it compares to prisoners of other countries.

How do we prevent these houses from turning into slums?

> Yes, but those were brought down by a unlucky quarters in between.

Am I reading it right: "Under Obama economy was great if we ignore periods when it was not"?

Would be good if our next president doesn't know the war starting protocol as well.

He won the war, but lost the election... What an irony!

Trump's year by year numbers are not that bad either, as can be seen in [1]

Final numbers have been heavily affected by 2020 covid, so cannot be compared directly. That being said:

> failed to beat Obama’s final 3 years in terms of gdp growth or job growth Obama's YoY for the final three years are 2.3%, 2.7% and 1.7%. Trump's first three years are 2.3%, 2.9%, 2.3%. [1]

> Unemployment fell from 10% to 4.7% Employment rate under Trump's presidency has been also growing steadily until covid [2]

[1] https://www.factcheck.org/2021/10/trumps-final-numbers/

[2] https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/employment-rate

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat W. Churchill

Sometimes fear is the right thing to sell.

Just off the top of my head:

- made hospitals disclose healthcare prices

- cleaned up asylum rules

- banned Chinese equipment from 5G networks

- enacted criminal justice reform

And the most important: he's the only recent president who didn't start a new war. That alone would be enough to write his name in golden letters.

Wait.

Are you saying there are commercials in paid subscriptions?

Am I reading it right then, that the key problem of Amazon warehouse as a workplace is inconsistent application of corporate policies.

So when the workers unionize, what's gonna change? Workers will not be notified of their mistakes? They will not be fired if they make too many of those? Miscalculating the items won't longer be a mistake? They will pay the double of minimum salary?

How a non-toxic company should've called it? "A terrible fuckup notice"?

But... but what kind of pattern would he expect to see in an urgent care servicing mostly (I assume) warehouse workers?

I do not fully understand what's going on.

> Bryson had made 22 errors, the 2018 write-up said... If Bryson erred like this six times within a year, the notice stated, he would be fired

Six is surely more than twenty two?

Do you have an example of a dynamically typed language where, say, addition of two lists of doubles would be significantly faster than in Python?

One of the biggest contributors in Python's (lack of) speed is dynamic typing. While a jump is a jump and an assignment is an assignment, an addition is more like "hmm... what is a left operand... is it double? what is a right operand? wow, it's also a double! okay, cpu add eax, ebx".