foolbiter

18 karma · joined July 25, 2019

foolbiteron “How Could a Reasonable Person Ever Inject Heroin?”

Was vaguely interesting -- until the parts about "racial heritage" and "the white man walking alone". Check out this guy's other posts for a surprise.

foolbiteron Single-payer healthcare would save $450B and 68k lives a year: study

the end result of the public option is employer-based plans offloading their least valuable (and most vulnerable) customers onto the public option, leading to much higher costs for everyone. the abolition of private insurance is necessary for the efficiency and bargaining power of a maximalist medicare-for-all system.

foolbiteron Mike Bloomberg is plowing millions of dollars into a secretive tech firm

comp isn't above market rate. without equity or bonuses & with the long hours required, not sure what the upside is.

foolbiteron Thinking in React Hooks

Nope. Since the dep array is empty, the effect only runs once after the first render, & the cleanup function returned from the effect only runs on unmount.

foolbiteron Thinking in React Hooks

  function Counter() {
    const [counter, setCounter] = React.useState(0);
    React.useEffect(() => {
      const interval = setInterval(() => setCounter(n => n + 1), 100);
      return () => clearInterval(interval);
    }, [])

    return (
      <div>{counter}</div>
    );
  }

foolbiteron 15 states are trying to make the electoral college obselete

All the real money is already on the side of preserving the electoral college. You should examine why this is and reassess.

foolbiteron McKinsey Advised Johnson and Johnson on Increasing Opioid Sales

There are at least two currently-running candidates who do seem have the balls to directly confront the pharma industry! Why do you think there aren't?