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kfterrg67on Over $70T of inherited wealth over next decade will widen inequality, economists

How is it arbitrary? You realise these are the offspring of the deceased? Children are not randomly assigned to taxpaying citizens.

kfterrg67on UnitedHealth pays its own physician groups 17% more than outside ones

I think the incentive itself is good, but there's too much corrupt abstraction in between.

Ultimately I want good providers to be paid well and poor providers to struggle. That is a good system. We don't have that. We MUST recouple healthcare and capitalistic incentives.

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If you really love her you'll let her go

kfterrg67on The only people who feel good are making over $200k and have large portfolios

>"When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure"

This is what "the economy" has become.

It is supposed to be metrics for quantifying the productivity and prosperity of a nation. It has now become the target for short-sighted bureaucrats, usually at great cost to the nation.

It's much more difficult to quantify happiness, community, harmony, purpose, togetherness, connection to people and soil and history. Can't hit those KPIs.

But you can absolutely destroy a nation trying to boost the next GDP stats in time for the election.

kfterrg67on Pornhub says UK visitors down 77% since age checks came in

Sorry to burst your bubble but porn use and addiction is a massive problem among women nowadays too.

FWIW the male spaces I'm in are supportive of porn bans.

kfterrg67on Raspberry Pi Pico Bit-Bangs 100 Mbit/S Ethernet

>"bit-banging" typically means using the CPU

This is significant. It's using a hardware peripheral that is designed and intended for high frequency IO manipulation without CPU intervention. This isn't bit-banging, lest we start calling it "bit-banging" any time an FPGA or ASIC or even a microcontroller peripheral handles any kind of signalling.