And that is the claim I was contesting. You seem to have an odd intuition that a line of argument that does not reduce to a computing problem is "emotional". Even if one does not believe in retributive justice at all,…
Well you yourself said it reflected the same kind of "emotional thinking" that led to millennia of "torture and abuse". What I am trying to show is that there are plenty of good reasons for this kind of punishment…
You're missing the point because you don't understand the gravity of the crime. A minimum wage fast food worker is constantly observed by a phalanx of cameras that will incriminate her should she attempt to steal five…
This is absolutely correct and should not have been downvoted. It is the abuse of a position of trust that aggravates this crime relative to that of a simple outlaw street dealer. Commenters who are concerned with the…
Right, it's not easy and there are adverse selection issues when you start incentivizing doctors to avoid complex cases that are more likely to involve complications. And the scientific basis for a given procedure is…
"Not all that much" is not how I would describe a chart like this: http://www.clevelandclinicmeded.com/medicalpubs/diseasemanag... And lung cancer is not the only cancer caused by smoking. In any case, cancer death…
> Even beyond that the absolute rate of cancer deaths in the US peaked in 1990 216 per 100k vs 2015 at 158 per 100k. Which is a massive drop even over 1950's pre screening and younger population numbers of 193 per 100k.…
Treating infectious disease than can cause cancer (H. pylori, HPV) has nothing to do with cancer treatment. Treating, for example, thyroid or prostate cancers that would not have killed the person improves cancer…
"People cared" maybe plays a bigger role than you realize here. There were stronger social norms back then about the role of medical care in society. Most hospitals were community or religious owned, physicians were…
>Heath care has gotten vastly better over time. Look at 5 year cancer survival rates for example. No. These rates are affected by more screening procedures. Some nipped a potentially fatal cancer in the bud, others just…
>Maybe some sort of system where if the provider states that something is medically necessary then they are on the hook if insurance denies the claim Not only should a provider be legally prohibited from trying to…
Nice idea, but how realistic is it? Most patients are not scientifically-literate, some are flat out incapacitated. For all the stories about heartless insurance companies denying to pay for things, perhaps they should…
But genetics may or may not be the "base truth" in regard to disease risk. It's difficult to tease out the effects of genes as opposed to environment. When your model has thousands or millions of genetic loci this only…
C'mon people...this is not science, this is fortune telling. They are just doing a bunch of huge multiparameter curve fits, which are going to pick up signal from all sorts of things that have nothing to do with biology…
>"Increasingly, banks recognized the value of tellers enabled by information technology, not primarily as checkout clerks, but as salespersons, forging relationships with customers and introducing them to additional…
No, no shooting. They should have just let the market work and the banks go under. It would have been a financial loss but a moral victory. An important lesson about carefully choosing who you trust.
Really? It's "self-evident" Visa fucked up? Yeah...I'll be waiting for the statement to that effect on visa.com And then I saw this comment: "Thats weird. I have a mastercard and was charged twice. So how is it Visas…
>As I’ve stated multiple times and you keep ignoring, ideal case, it can take under 12hrs I must have missed where you said that. You said I was likely mistaking ACH for wire transfer because mine were happening that…
No...the claim that ACH takes "3-5 business days", "several days", or whatever, is just flat out wrong. I can do ACH (not wire transfer, not "credit") between my totally unrelated bank accounts--whether those be at big…
Again...no, it is not. You are confusing different things here. Even if they just learned about it the night before, your bank cannot withhold your direct deposit without breaking the law. Unless there is some special…
No! They are not being "optimistic," they are just following Regulation CC. Ask anyone on the street when they can get the money from their paycheck direct deposit. Unless they just opened their account, they are not…
No, I am not mistaking ACH for wire transfer, or any kind of "credit" system. If your bank is taking longer it's because your bank sucks. But yes please provide those "technical details" whenever you have a chance.…
For ten years I've been able to place a ACH transfer at one bank by 6 pm and have it available in my other bank by 8 am the following morning. It has never taken "3-5 business days". Anyone claiming there are large…
Does diminishing returns/low hanging fruit mean anything to you? Also, from that pool of drugs you're referring to, we've eliminated a number of things that had strong effects but whose side-effects were later found…
>I also wonder what the culture is like for orthopedic surgeons. It is among the worst specialties as far as being based on tradition/folklore/marketing. When you see one of their own being injured this badly you…
And that is the claim I was contesting. You seem to have an odd intuition that a line of argument that does not reduce to a computing problem is "emotional". Even if one does not believe in retributive justice at all,…
Well you yourself said it reflected the same kind of "emotional thinking" that led to millennia of "torture and abuse". What I am trying to show is that there are plenty of good reasons for this kind of punishment…
You're missing the point because you don't understand the gravity of the crime. A minimum wage fast food worker is constantly observed by a phalanx of cameras that will incriminate her should she attempt to steal five…
This is absolutely correct and should not have been downvoted. It is the abuse of a position of trust that aggravates this crime relative to that of a simple outlaw street dealer. Commenters who are concerned with the…
Right, it's not easy and there are adverse selection issues when you start incentivizing doctors to avoid complex cases that are more likely to involve complications. And the scientific basis for a given procedure is…
"Not all that much" is not how I would describe a chart like this: http://www.clevelandclinicmeded.com/medicalpubs/diseasemanag... And lung cancer is not the only cancer caused by smoking. In any case, cancer death…
> Even beyond that the absolute rate of cancer deaths in the US peaked in 1990 216 per 100k vs 2015 at 158 per 100k. Which is a massive drop even over 1950's pre screening and younger population numbers of 193 per 100k.…
Treating infectious disease than can cause cancer (H. pylori, HPV) has nothing to do with cancer treatment. Treating, for example, thyroid or prostate cancers that would not have killed the person improves cancer…
"People cared" maybe plays a bigger role than you realize here. There were stronger social norms back then about the role of medical care in society. Most hospitals were community or religious owned, physicians were…
>Heath care has gotten vastly better over time. Look at 5 year cancer survival rates for example. No. These rates are affected by more screening procedures. Some nipped a potentially fatal cancer in the bud, others just…
>Maybe some sort of system where if the provider states that something is medically necessary then they are on the hook if insurance denies the claim Not only should a provider be legally prohibited from trying to…
Nice idea, but how realistic is it? Most patients are not scientifically-literate, some are flat out incapacitated. For all the stories about heartless insurance companies denying to pay for things, perhaps they should…
But genetics may or may not be the "base truth" in regard to disease risk. It's difficult to tease out the effects of genes as opposed to environment. When your model has thousands or millions of genetic loci this only…
C'mon people...this is not science, this is fortune telling. They are just doing a bunch of huge multiparameter curve fits, which are going to pick up signal from all sorts of things that have nothing to do with biology…
>"Increasingly, banks recognized the value of tellers enabled by information technology, not primarily as checkout clerks, but as salespersons, forging relationships with customers and introducing them to additional…
No, no shooting. They should have just let the market work and the banks go under. It would have been a financial loss but a moral victory. An important lesson about carefully choosing who you trust.
Really? It's "self-evident" Visa fucked up? Yeah...I'll be waiting for the statement to that effect on visa.com And then I saw this comment: "Thats weird. I have a mastercard and was charged twice. So how is it Visas…
>As I’ve stated multiple times and you keep ignoring, ideal case, it can take under 12hrs I must have missed where you said that. You said I was likely mistaking ACH for wire transfer because mine were happening that…
No...the claim that ACH takes "3-5 business days", "several days", or whatever, is just flat out wrong. I can do ACH (not wire transfer, not "credit") between my totally unrelated bank accounts--whether those be at big…
Again...no, it is not. You are confusing different things here. Even if they just learned about it the night before, your bank cannot withhold your direct deposit without breaking the law. Unless there is some special…
No! They are not being "optimistic," they are just following Regulation CC. Ask anyone on the street when they can get the money from their paycheck direct deposit. Unless they just opened their account, they are not…
No, I am not mistaking ACH for wire transfer, or any kind of "credit" system. If your bank is taking longer it's because your bank sucks. But yes please provide those "technical details" whenever you have a chance.…
For ten years I've been able to place a ACH transfer at one bank by 6 pm and have it available in my other bank by 8 am the following morning. It has never taken "3-5 business days". Anyone claiming there are large…
Does diminishing returns/low hanging fruit mean anything to you? Also, from that pool of drugs you're referring to, we've eliminated a number of things that had strong effects but whose side-effects were later found…
>I also wonder what the culture is like for orthopedic surgeons. It is among the worst specialties as far as being based on tradition/folklore/marketing. When you see one of their own being injured this badly you…