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by ashark 9y ago
> Single payer would work, free(er) market would work, but we're currently reaping the fruits of generations of entrenched political class for sale. Single payer or similar universal coverage systems would be the safe (dare I say co
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by ashark 9y ago
1) What happens when it breaks? If you plug in a new one, will it auto-restore? Where from? 2) Updates. How do they happen, who does them? What about when they go wrong? What about 5 years in when there are three models of the device (or wa
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by ashark 9y ago
> Toward the end of the book, Harris talks about how being zen is great, but also not terribly effective in the modern world, specifically in the modern workplace. So it's ok to be chill about some things, but there are other things
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by ashark 9y ago
Can anyone recommend a standalone camera that's as easy to use and takes photos as good as an iPhone 7 plus? Camera is now the only reason for me to have a phone rather than a watch. Difficulty: I really like live photos and expect f
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by ashark 9y ago
Is that the kind of thing one might watch on TV (so, not a monitor) enough to make it worth the 4K upgrade? Cables, receiver, TV, all of that. Seems like more of a VR thing to me (though I don't have a VR rig, so what do I know). On a
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by ashark 9y ago
Yeah, TouchID only gets me in like 50% of the time, usually with 2-3 attempts. And yes, I've re-done the prints a couple times. All these people posting about consistently unlocking it without looking seem like they're from a diff
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by ashark 9y ago
> I wonder how many people hit their caps, switch down to 1080P, and realize they can't tell the difference from the couch anyway. I have to stand closer than ~6ft away from my now-considered-tiny 42" 1080p TV to tell the diffe
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by ashark 9y ago
What percentage of TVs in the wild, even among Apple buyers, were 4K at the time? What percentage of streamed content on 4K-supporting devices was 4K? Even a small price increase might have made it a bad idea for a product intended for the
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by ashark 9y ago
Whoa, where do you live? I live in a cheap-as-hell nowhere mid-sized Midwestern city and $85 for a contractor's... not top of market. Closer to $125, maybe a bit higher. You might get a discount for a long-term gig, but $85'd be a
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by ashark 9y ago
Look at what other OECD states spend per capita. Compare to how much the US spends per capita. For a real WTF look at how much public money the US already spends per capita. This is all a google away. The safe bet based on available data
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by ashark 9y ago
> You might get a return, you might not and therefore the taxation rules should reflect that. So... you take a loss on your taxes, probably spreading it out in some way so you don't pay taxes for a few years, if it's a serious
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by ashark 9y ago
If that's true, then it's more or less the same, no?
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by ashark 9y ago
Not sure. How's it work in the entire rest of the OECD?
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by ashark 9y ago
It's been incredibly bad for at least ~3 decades. A sick person with insurance without a dedicated advocate (relative or friend) watching out for them non-stop will likely end up having several care screw-ups occur to them, and with
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by ashark 9y ago
> Whilst I am in favour of the optimisation of resources (and use these sources) we are willingly moving the "View Source" model to for profit entities like github. That ship sailed when we 1) made JS too capable (ability to in
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by ashark 9y ago
> think what happened in that time was a kind of competition, where critics like these had a tendency to write things that are more difficult to read, in an attempt to prove how much more literate they are. Are... these reviews consider
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by ashark 9y ago
That's where the choice of Go (which I like as a language, mind you) has hamstrung them. Anyone who wants to do anything with it must either 1) add an entire separate daemon as a requirement for their project/plugin/library&#
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by ashark 9y ago
Try Richard Yates' Revolutionary Road (1961). It reads almost like it could have been written today. Definitely deserves to be more popular.
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by ashark 9y ago
IPFS has been a frustrating project to watch. It's felt like it was 6 months away from being amazing for... over two years now. Despite their writing it in Go explicitly so they could get something working and usable quickly, rather th
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by ashark 9y ago
> A mentor of mine who used to work for a government agency once told me something that I hadn't really appreciated until recently. To paraphrase, sometimes the best way to change a system that is flawed is to work from within. It&#
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by ashark 9y ago
Very handy with young kids. Saved mine twice in a year from "OK let me bend over to get you (or some item) out of the tub... damnit, there goes my phone". It'd be even more helpful if we let our kids play with our phones like
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by ashark 9y ago
> Why having webfonts at all? Every computer and mobile phone has tons of fonts already installed. Your fonts definitely doesn't look better. Please don't waste my bandwith with it. Designers are really in love with using lit
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by ashark 9y ago
#1 complaint on every platform, for me. Sticky is very bad. Disappearing on scroll down but reappearing on scroll up is even worse. Just let the things scroll off screen, I can scroll to the top if I want to see anything on the header (spoi
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by ashark 9y ago
> Thats the kind of BS math they shouldn't bother teaching. Most of math is about concepts, and if 5 year olds can grapple with super-basic calculus how about teaching 10 year olds proof-based math and concepts (closer to college le
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by ashark 9y ago
Probably depends on the kind of stuff you're used to reading, but I thought it was relatively light and lively, haha. My favorite part was the author's knack for writing a paragraph that caused me to think of several critical ques
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by ashark 9y ago
> Who replaces their windows and doors every 20 years? Do modern windows even last that long? From observation of my own and relatives' houses, and from looking at houses when buying, most lose their seal by 15-20 years—so, efficien
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by ashark 9y ago
Huh? I mean stop watching the low-value media supported by ads, if you can't skip the ads. We're awash in excellent media. The best humanity's created for the last few millennia. The problem of this age (at least in the devel
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by ashark 9y ago
> The fact that you got fooled into thinking that is the opposite of a DSL problem. Which part of what I wrote makes you think I think JSX is an HTML template? The part where I specifically called it "not-html" and the react.cr
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by ashark 9y ago
> Give Debian a shot. Given that Ubuntu is based on Debian, plus some decisions of dubious worth, Debian is basically all the good parts of Ubuntu and none of the bad. Debian and Gentoo were my main distros before I went to Ubuntu for it
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by ashark 9y ago
I switched my gaming desktop over to Linux this year because I just couldn't stand Win10 any more. Ubuntu is, if anything, less stable and less user-friendly than when I left it nearly a decade ago (8.04 or 8.10 was when I got fed

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