We knew it wasn’t going to end well when America helped the world rebuild itself instead of taking it over after WW2 when we had nukes and nobody else did.

Every article I’ve seen posted to HN about this topic has some cute or clickbait title to overhype the nuclear aspect.

AI is going to replace journalism because it won’t feel the need to make cutesy play on words in their clickbait headlines.

Hey thereg always gets a pass.

The key is to treat Windows users like children and lock it down with an administrator password. You’d be amazed how well Windows holds up over the years if you just prevent them from installing whatever random bullshit they find.

Overly pedantic comment. Who cares what the definition of hippy is

I care.

Honestly that’s what doing business in the EU is like right now. Their entire bureaucracy seems to have become an operation for enacting laws that enable them to sue foreign businesses and line the pockets of their politicians.

Border control catching every hitman with the backing of an entire country… You need to stop watching CSI shows buddy.

Because it’s the right thing to do?

When people are being assassinated in beach towns in Spain, society should do something. The people being assassinated, according to the article, are Russians who decided they don’t support Russia. “Running from the problems of their own country” is a time honored tradition of “The West”, according to every American elementary school curriculum explaining the founding of America.

The west claims to be enlightened lands of the free, so people who are part of the west, should be open to sharing that freedom with those who seek it, and protect them from those who seek to shut out freedom.

National pride? What kind of nation allows another nation to spectacularly violate the most fundamental of their laws, deep in the homeland, with laughing impunity?

Russians running away from problems in their country are assets to the west. One of the things that makes the west great is its respect for individual freedom. At some level Russians know this: just compare the numbers of Russians trying to move to the West, compared to the numbers of westerns moving to Russia. We're better, and their population knows it en mass. So from a selfish point of view, it's in our interest to live up to this image. If a Russian says: I refuse to take part in Russia's aggression towards the West, we definitely should treat them extra well.

Also consider that another thing that makes the West great is its respect for rule of law. People who are in the west should have the right to walk down the street without fear of being assassinated, regardless of who they are or where they come from; this is a western value that I prize very much. If you start allowing "I don't care if a person gets illegally killed in Spain because he's a bad guy anyway", you're eroding the power of the West.

And finally, the problem that the west needs to counter act aren't just individuals of specific nationalities: it's an aggressive state and its institutions that have as stated goal to weaken us.

Let me know if you have more questions. As long as they're in good faith I'm happy to continue discussing.

Because they’re often, not always trying to help the west / you ?

It's disappointing to see a brainless comment like that on HN. You don't need to be versed in geopolitics to understand that Russia is a threat to western Europe and people like this create a counterweight to the insane part of Russian society. You need dissidents and oppositionists to have a chance to build a normal country in Russia.

> One the primary goals of any - and indeed every - medical system is to ration resources.

We can fix this. Essentially, every smoker, every alcoholic, and every obese human immediately goes to the back of the line.

No need for this convoluted bullshit of a system.

Firstly, that is still a convoluted bullshit system for rationing healthcare. Logically you'd have to assign some sort of worthiness score to every activity that matters then track everyone to figure out their score and stop them lying to get to the front of the queue. Even if you literally only mean these 3 things, you'd have to track smoking and alcohol consumption. I doubt that'd be enough to effectively ration healthcare though, since the resource demand is practically infinite.

Secondly, you're inviting some really complex moral and political arguments. There have been worse ideas than linking healthcare to a political assessment of lifestyle, but I suspect it'd be up there in the same orbit as communism, genocide and slavery. It is hard to see it ending well once the politicians start to disagree on the healthiness of people's lifestyles.

I dunno, in some ghoulish sense it might be the next logical thing for the US to try. Why stop at merely bad ideas?

The Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) does allow health plans to charge higher premiums to smokers. Implementation varies by state. I'm sure that a lot of plan members just lie to avoid the surcharge.

https://www.kff.org/faqs/faqs-health-insurance-marketplace-a...

That doesn't put smokers at the back of any queues. They still get resources roughly in line with the amount of money that they have.

Hey Russia/China/India, can you keep up your attacks? You might be the only thing that can get this abomination of a system we call healthcare replaced.