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by 794CD01 9y ago
Something being a recognized diagnosis is not meaningful on its own. The nature of medical documentation and its ties to payment in the US and interoperability everywhere means structured, defined codes are needed for everything that could
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by 794CD01 9y ago
Do you also go to ADP and marvel at how they are weirdly focused on payroll? The size of the US military and the society's focus on it is in large part what allows other countries to ignore their own. Other countries have simply outsou
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by 794CD01 9y ago
Adults whinged constantly before the internet too. The only difference is that you used to not be able to hear them unless you were at the same water cooler/bar at the same time.
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by 794CD01 9y ago
Prompting the user every time for a nuance they likely don't understand instead of just doing the thing they want 99% of the time is bad UX.
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by 794CD01 9y ago
There are systems like the one we use today where it doesn't have one, but that means each vendor has its own independent source of truth for things like your mailing address, delivery preferences, etc that are more convenient to maint
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by 794CD01 9y ago
I believe that's called "being out of touch".
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by 794CD01 9y ago
If that's your preference, then instead you'd opt to have your dry cleaning delivered to your home or workplace as well.
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by 794CD01 9y ago
If I did have such a number, the dry cleaner could know when I was on my way to the store and bring my clothes up to the counter so they are ready when I arrive. And they could hold my amazon purchases for me to pick up at the same time.
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by 794CD01 9y ago
Right, which is why the people who assume there is one are racists.
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by 794CD01 9y ago
That was merely an accident of history. The I in IBM doesn't stand for American.
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by 794CD01 9y ago
That's just a side effect of him trying to fit the entire USA diplomacy into his head, which has approximately the same capacity.
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by 794CD01 9y ago
No, it implies that they are not illegal, and I would agree. That doesn't necessarily mean they are legal - they are alegal since US law does not apply outside its borders. Just like there doesn't need to be a US law making it leg
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by 794CD01 9y ago
How does that work? You put a piece of tape over the front-facing camera?
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by 794CD01 9y ago
No, some of us would love for the government to have one in an ideal world, we just recognize that the US government that exists today is not competent enough to be trusted to run such a database. Just think about the topic we're discu
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by 794CD01 9y ago
It's easy to think "more logging/transparency never hurts" until you actually try it out and see how much data you get that you don't really care about. The EU cookie law is nothing but an annoyance already - making
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by 794CD01 9y ago
Then that's our own fault for being too stupid to have self-driving cars. Ideally, we should embrace them even if they are slightly more dangerous than human drivers, because we are getting the benefit of the time that would otherwise
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by 794CD01 9y ago
Who are you to decide what the right balance for other people should be? If they are happy working 11 hours a day while you only work 8, what is wrong with that? Are you actually intervening because you are concerned for them or are you sim
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by 794CD01 9y ago
San Francisco has insane loopholes for rent control too. If he were really paying 300/mo he'd have been kicked out for an OMI 10 years ago.
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by 794CD01 9y ago
Then this is a poor example. I can certainly empty my own trash - I do that at home. It's far more efficient to have one person with no education or special skills come around and collect everyone's trash into a big container once
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by 794CD01 9y ago
So find the smartest person and make them the dictator. Problem solved.
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by 794CD01 9y ago
You're free to quit your job and go empty peoples' trash if you really find it so much more meaningful.
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by 794CD01 9y ago
You would laugh because they have no power to enforce their laws globally, and possibly also because the country you live in has free speech laws that make them unlikely to extradite someone for lese-majeste. The US does have that power and
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by 794CD01 9y ago
If they were the same people, the technology would be rather pointless.
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by 794CD01 9y ago
You're still treating second order effects instead of root causes. Ma Bell wasn't forced to provide equal treatment to its customers. It was broken up.
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by 794CD01 9y ago
What you're decribing plainly doesn't happen. That's part of why people buy fancier cars in the first place - to be treated better by those who judge them on it. But that's also the part I don't really care about. I
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by 794CD01 9y ago
In other words, the problem is not that people are allowed to pay different prices for different products, but rather the lack of a competitive marketplace? Now we're getting somewhere!
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by 794CD01 9y ago
In other words, you should probably be focusing on repealing the stupid law that requires you to drive a Toyota?
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by 794CD01 9y ago
Not really. Richer people can use toll roads while the poor might take a longer route that doesn't cost money. The poor might follow laws that the rich break because they can afford to pay the fines. But I think this is approaching the
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by 794CD01 9y ago
It sounds like you're saying or at least working towards the real problem is that there is no competition among ISPs, rather than "the ... problem eating away at our democracy: ... people with money get disproportionate representa
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by 794CD01 9y ago
If they didn't interfere with my own usage of normal roads and restaurants, I might be a little jealous but otherwise wouldn't mind. If your real objection is that they would interfere, you should base your argument on that instea

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