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prolikewhoaon A Million-Dollar Cancer Treatment: Who Will Pay?

I'd knock 100% off and make it non-profit with a socialized healthcare system just like almost every other western country in the world.

A majority in the USA even favor it.

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/06/23/public-suppo...

prolikewhoaon A Million-Dollar Cancer Treatment: Who Will Pay?

http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2015/mtct-hiv-c...

Works in other systems where there is no profit motive.

prolikewhoaon A Million-Dollar Cancer Treatment: Who Will Pay?

Simple (yet complex) Solution: don't make health a for-profit business.

prolikewhoaon After Facebook scrutiny, is Google next?

That doesn't really make sense. Facebook is a large advertising platform for journalists and media that have existed for a very long time. It's not exactly a space for creators like Youtube.

prolikewhoaon After Facebook scrutiny, is Google next?

That CNN article they quote is nothing more than CNN disliking that Youtube is challenging them in viewers and ad money. CNN isn't exactly the bastion of legitimacy and journalistic standards either. They're also trying to take down true left wing media like Jimmy Dore, painting him as a 'conspiracy theorist' for not being certain about the Syrian gas attacks before the OPCW was even there, as real journalists should do -- not just take talking points from the Pentagon. Cenk Uygur had to step in on TYT and denounce that stupid CNN article advocating for censorship and bring Jimmy out of that hole.

prolikewhoaon After Facebook scrutiny, is Google next?

What would happen to Google? Nothing happened to Facebook except a slap on the wrist. They'll continue doing everything they do and only a few of us nerds on the internet will really care.

Americans have the attention span of fruit flies, which is why none of this actually matters long term.

prolikewhoaon The AI Revolution Hasn’t Happened Yet

What are we defining as AI now? It seems like AI has had a lot of hype in the past few years, but I really don't think we're even close unless it's created by mistake. We don't understand the brain fully, we don't understand consciousness, we just know so little in the grand scheme of things.

Do we have the computing power to come anywhere close to what we need, will we have that computing power any time soon without a major breakthrough?

prolikewhoaon Proposed NYC legislation would give employees right to ignore after-work email

Why did the workers allow this to happen? Why do we just simply give up more and more of our lives to give more profit to the corporation you work for? When are we going to stick up for our rights? It's not exactly a radical position.

We did this.

prolikewhoaon Bitcoin, the Biggest Bubble in History, Is Popping

I'm only seeing two major rises when looking at the price chart (ALL). 2011 didn't make it past $20 and and 2013 was its rise to the Mt. Gox scam.

Are you also accounting for Mt. Gox creating the first one in Dec 2013? Technically, there was only one real big non-manufactured rise and it happened in late 2017.

You have a sample size of 1.

prolikewhoaon Mark Zuckerberg testifies before Congress

Nothing. The general public doesn't care, only us nerds on websites like this do and when you think about it, it's a very sad and disturbing reality.

prolikewhoaon Bitcoin, the Biggest Bubble in History, Is Popping

You only have two samples. Not exactly a fantastic sample size.

prolikewhoaon Bitcoin, the Biggest Bubble in History, Is Popping

Excellent, I can't wait for accellerated climate change & global warming from even more mining! /s

This seems like fanboyism and marketing. Crypto around for 9-10 years now and I haven't seen it change anything in the world for the better. I worked for exchanges and worked on multiple crypto projects, but due to the nature of the cryptocurrency community being extremely toxic, I could no longer handle the death threats and pulled out of crypto entirely. Feel free to name something that it's changed. What do you think it's going to change and how?

prolikewhoaon Bitcoin, the Biggest Bubble in History, Is Popping

Most other cryptos are heavily linked to Bitcoin's price. If the Bitcoin bubble bursts, it's fairly safe to say miners are going to start dumping the mining equipment used for other coins, so yes, the ripple effect.

prolikewhoaon Bitcoin, the Biggest Bubble in History, Is Popping

Why?

prolikewhoaon Uber enters dockless bike wars with Jump acquisition

I haven't tried the Lime e-bikes yet, but I'm definitely interested because I see them all around my workplace now.

Have you tried and confirmed you can make it up the hill with little to no issues?

prolikewhoaon Uber enters dockless bike wars with Jump acquisition

I would argue it's fairly safe, especially comparing to rural areas. I now live south a few miles outside of the normal Seattle walking/biking and I've already experienced a few near-death situations, but didn't have any problems in my two years downtown. This is just a personal anecdote, but I still do feel people driving Seattle downtown & on the hill are fairly aware of bikers and people walking at any time they want.

prolikewhoaon Uber enters dockless bike wars with Jump acquisition

I rode up Capitol Hill at 4:30PM every day last spring/summer, took me 10-15 minutes to get home from 2nd & Seneca and never had any safety issues. Drivers in Seattle are fairly aware of their surroundings with everyone walking randomly at all times and the city is adding new bike lanes often.

Going up the hill on a Lime, Spin, or Ofo...no way -- you see those at the bottom of every hill.

prolikewhoaon Uber enters dockless bike wars with Jump acquisition

Seattle seems like it's doing well with Ofo, Limebike, and Spin however it will never be a replacement for a car, and they're 40-70lb bikes that can't make it up Seattle's hills which makes them kind of useless outside of downtown. They are used often and I see people riding them all day down by the waterfront, especially in the late spring/summer.

I unfortunately don't see them being any kind of major replacement for anything in Seattle anytime soon unless the Mayor actually puts high tolls on downtown exits -- especially since we have fairly good public transit.

prolikewhoaon China’s Social Credit: Rewards and Punishments

Looks to be legitimate.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-credit/china-to-bar...

Unreal. How long until this takes root in the west?

What happens to people who don't use social media, don't necessarily like being social, and just want to sit at home and play video games or reball some BGP's? Does this mean they're a bad person?

prolikewhoaon Blockchain is not only crappy technology but a bad vision for the future

Cryptocurrency is so decentralized that most of it is held in a hand full of exchanges (aka, centralized).

It seems the crypto community also does not care about the obvious centralization, but who would've ever thought major contradictions would come out of cryptocurrency?

prolikewhoaon Free speech cannot be sacrificed to strike fake news

I'm surprised nobody has thought about putting more money into education.

prolikewhoaon Free speech cannot be sacrificed to strike fake news

I agree with your second point. Who controls what's considered fake news? Very little is done in the interest of the citizens of the USA anymore [1], so why would we trust our government or media to show us what's in our best interest?

[1] https://youtu.be/5tu32CCA_Ig (Fully Sourced in Description)

prolikewhoaon Free speech cannot be sacrificed to strike fake news

Spend more on education and less on war. There's one solution.

prolikewhoaon Supply and Demand Does a Poor Job of Explaining Depressed Wages

I don't think you read the article at all. This has nothing to do about LinkedIn or networking. You have to be seriously deluded to think that LinkedIn or any other social media company, as well as general networking is the way to defeat our massive levels of income inequality. You're essentially telling bootless people to pull up their bootstraps by making friends with executives and managers. It's not that simple, and condensing the problem into what you're talking about is ignorant at best.

prolikewhoaon Coinbase Ventures

Because it is?

prolikewhoaon Coinbase Ventures

How many blockchains aren't using proof of work? There are large mining operations everywhere for various cryptocurrencies (the largest most popular ones!) taking large amounts of power and greatly contributing to climate change.

The graphics card shortages proves my point here.

prolikewhoaon Coinbase Ventures

Hopefully they invest heavily into making blockchain technology green and energy efficient because without doing so, you can't "help billions of people".

prolikewhoaon Apple’s 2019 Mac Pro will be shaped by workflows

Dell XPS laptops are very high quality and a definite suitable replacement for a Macbook Pro if you can justify getting rid of OSX. XPS laptops are also fully Linux supported out of the box.

prolikewhoaon Apple’s 2019 Mac Pro will be shaped by workflows

You can't knock everything else just because it's not a Mac. I've personally had my fair share of Mac problems and when I worked Help Desk we had our fair share of Mac Laptop problems that were comparable if not greater than our failure rate of Thinkpad's. This was in 2017 too.

prolikewhoaon Reddit’s Redesign

I'm trying to get off of it right now. It's my last online "addiction". I've been there since 2009 and watched most things change for the worst. The community got more toxic and it's clear there is corporate control over some subreddits.