Judges are not soft, it's just liberal cities don't hire enough prosecutors. So judges never receive properly investigated charges, and can do nothing but acquit. Prosecutors defend public (us) from criminals, but for some reason are neglected.

I don't believe at all this is from a lack of funds. The only thing that lacks here is the desire to put criminals in prison.

And public defenders are the main line of defense against prosecutors yet prosecution budgets are significantly higher.

No, it’s not a quantity issue, it’s a quality issue.

DAs used to go after particularly egregious offenders and throw the book at them. This creates incentive effects for all the other would be criminals. It doesn’t take all that much enforcement before criminals get the idea and stop or are put in jail for decades.

Instead we have prosecutors going after all the wrong kinds of crime. Murderers are getting no cash bail while guys who cut down a tree in their yard are getting visits from the police and court summons for non-crimes.

This is intentional policy from DA offices. Pay attention next time your DA is up for reelection, they impact your quality of life far more than your representatives.

Ok, what should I say to my doctor to order the full-body MRI scan? (Sorry I don't have an MRI machine at home).

Last time EU fined Facebook for merging WhatsApp userbase merging with Facebook, that they explicitly forbade. Facebook just paid the fee and moved along. What would be different here?

"try"? If it's harder than your skin it means it did, not tried.

Just because you succeeded doesn't mean you didn't try.

Life is like a box of noodles

It may have gotten a nibble but empirically I still have a finger :)

Doesn't mean you were not bitten though.

If it wasn't accidental, that bite represents an attempt to bite.

A steel door is certainly harder than my skin and also certainly can't be used to "bite" me or puncture my skin (save for crushing it given enough force)

Just because it's harder doesn't mean it necessarily has the strength to tear off skin.

> but you make the choice

No US doctor would ever tell you how much any procedure would cost (even though they know, at least "in-network" doctors).

But if in your EMT you inform the patient of the potential costs of the ride, then yea, I agree they make an informed choice.

I’d argue nobody getting into an ambulance is making an informed choice.

Under distress, yes. But honestly, I did piloting a little (airplane and various soaring aircrafts), and think that thinking there is also under distress, and that's ok, you still need to make decisions, that's life.

You’re getting in an ambulance, not calling a cab. You’re probably unconscious, maybe at least disoriented, overwhelmed, concerned about what’s happening more than doing math. Also you’re there on the floor bleeding, what’s your alternative? “Nah don’t worry, I’ll figure out this exposed fracture in the uber, I got points with them so it’s cheaper”?

Parent talked about conscious and aware.

I had fractures several times, and I did think about the costs. In fact, the last one was pretty bad, andy first thought was "good thing I'm in a country with good medical care, even though expensive".

And Redis has auto-delete rows (aka TTL). In Postgres you need a cron job to clear stale rows.

You can create an index on an expires_at column and opportunistically DELETE on each write to the cache table.

This is one way to handle the problem, but not the only...

Well, then any insurance is also gambling, according to your argument. Mean return of buying insurance must be always worse than not buying, but you don't want it to happen to _you_.

PS: except for home insurance in hurricane areas, government allows insurance plans to be non-actuarial, so essentially all other taxpayers pay for destroyed homes there. Gov even promotes rebuilding destroyed homes in the same place, instead of people moving out, only exacerbating the problem. Whether it's good or bad I don't know.

> Well, then any insurance is also gambling, according to your argument.

That's what they are. Three big industries are net-losses to the economy by definition: banking, insurance and gambling.

> Well, then any insurance is also gambling

It literally is. You're buying a YES token on a black swan event that pays you if that event happens. The entire American system is built on gambling, and that's my point.

If you want, and you're good at math, you can even buy such insurance from Kalshi. Hell, if you're worried about an alien attack, you can buy insurance against that on Kalshi by buying the $0.05 YES for that. If aliens attack and mess us all up, you get a payout of $1. You can insure yourself against politics, against a market crash, against war, lots of other things. See my point? Insurance IS gambling.

BTW, there are other countries where healthcare is almost free and you don't need to buy insurance.

But will those other countries protect you from an alien attack for free?

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