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Comment Re:60% of accounts carry balances month-to-month! (Score 2) 127

The key bit of financial ignorance here is not understanding that credit cards are unsecured loans.

Other forms of credit have lower interest rates because the risk of default is mitigated by the ability to seize and sell an asset used to guarantee.

Being unable to pay your bills on time (or at all) increases how much you pay for all forms of credit.

Comment People make fun of Bulwer-Lytton (Score 1) 14

But they still quote "the pen is mightier than the sword", which in context is a superb description of good government:: "Beneath the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword". He should get credit. Besides, the opening of Paul Clifford was standard Victorian style.

Comment Re: China is cheaper (Score 1) 102

More people would receive treatment and survive conditions that would otherwise be terminal without treatment. This would lead to more people lingering on with chronic conditions and needing future care related or unrelated to what would have killed them.

Some of these treatments and followup supportive care can be very very expensive.

Savings from admin overhead would be more than erased by more people getting better access to services.

Comment The alignment problem vs. the halting problem (Score 1) 133

I was talking to a CS prof specializing in software ethics and made fun of myself for saying the alignment problem was harder than the halting problem. What could be harder than being impossible?
She quickly replied that of course it's way harder because there are special cases where the halting problem has solutions.

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