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Comment Magic card analogy (Score 1) 178

A sibling post mentioned Beanie Babies and Magic cards.
The volatility there is in extremely powerful old cards printed in very small quantities (at least tiny amounts compared to the current playerbase)
WotC won't reprint those because of a promise not to after an old wave of reprints crashed prices but this causes its own problems.
The last several years of new cards hasn't been so crazy.
Playing the game isn't exactly intrinsic value but it's more than crypto or Beanie Babies have

Comment Big problem with ACA (Score 1) 361

Subsidies driving up costs overall, see also skyrocketing college tuition with student loans

The medicaid expansion*, raising the age to 26 for family plans, and requirements for what's covered**, generally make sense. *Making states pick up some of the tab, which turned out to be a legal excuse for them to reject it, didn't work out
** the contraceptive mandate I don't disagree with but it might be too much of a political football in practice

It's a messy compromise between single payer and market healthcare

Comment Re:Must be the flavour of the month (Score 1) 224

I've generally heard of impostor syndrome as a feminist complaint - talented women underestimating themselves for whatever reason, not being confident enough to be aggressive enough to succeed, leading to a negative feedback loop. it being a general problem is new information from this thread. The video focuses on it being general while touching on it being more common amongst women and minorities. Everybody thinking they're doing worse than their peers, mentioned in the clip, reminds me of the "your whole life compared to their highlight reel" issue with social media

Comment Re: All security = an implementation. (Score 1) 106

I agree voter ID sounds sensible in theory, but it's disenfranchisement in practice.
it would be a pain in the butt for poor people to get the paperwork especially if they don't have a car. Fees to get forms could be a de facto poll tax, banned by the 24th amendment (some voter ID laws do include exemptions to govt records office fees). A Texas voter ID law counted concealed carry permits but not college IDs, that sort of thing highlights the conservative bias of such laws.
In New York state you're just ID'ed when registering and sign in at the polling place which can be checked against the signature from the registration form.
Prosecuted cases of vote fraud are rare so it's a "solution" in search of a problem.

Comment I don't get anti gentrification (Score 1) 161

"Gentrification" often seems like an insult for progress. Sucks for the people already there but good overall. I'm tempted to say the same thing about the Indian Wars...now I'll discuss something less controversial, like Israel's security policy.

Comment Re:There seem to be 3 kinds of licenses out there (Score 1) 373

too many cases exist where a "licensed electrician" is required to do something when it shouldn't be required (e.g. those stories of people needing an electrical ticket just to plug something into a power point in a conference hall).

I've heard stuff like that cited as an absurd union contract clause, rather than a general legal requirement.

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