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by bensonn 7y ago
I mostly agree with the sentiment and ideas. Since the US Federal government is sooo inefficient I am not sure how it would work. Using stats from another poster- ~34% are on medicaid/care. Another ~40% are covered by private insurance
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by bensonn 7y ago
"Help" isn't always helpful. Healthcare- ~50k per year means mandatory $300/month for the "benefit" of an $8,000 deductible plan, or for many people you pay $300 per month for the "benefit" of paying
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by bensonn 7y ago
Do managers give books as a work assignments and provide time/place to read the book. If you want an employee to "change the way they react to stress" giving them 8 hours of voluntary (but not really) homework probably doesn&
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by bensonn 7y ago
The Idaho Statesman did a write-up a while back asking if Californians moving to Idaho would change the politics. What they figured is that it was mostly right-leaning Californians coming to Idaho. While it surely will change the politics I
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by bensonn 7y ago
1. Even if NPV is a good idea, this is the wrong way to do it. Doing it the wrong way means legal chaos. Doing it the wrong way means it can probably be undone or made worse the wrong way. 2. George Mason vs. Elisabeth Warren. James Madison
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by bensonn 7y ago
I almost bought Bacon from Costco one time. At the last second I realized it wasn't bacon, it was some soy/TVP thing called bacon. I don't think it was Costco brand but I can't remember the brand. There is marketing, the
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by bensonn 7y ago
I am probably not the standard gamer so all this is personal opinion. I am still playing Skyrim. I don't like FPS games, I don't like multi-player games and I don't like sports games. The $60 soft-cap makes sense. That is nor
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by bensonn 7y ago
From "Currency Wars: The Making of the Next Global Crisis", which I read too many years ago to clearly remember, this was a economic war strategy. During economic war-games the Pentagon set up this strategy was successfully employ
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by bensonn 7y ago
He struggled to come up with the $300 a month he owed upon graduation... He then went back to school to pursue a master’s degree in comparative literature . He brought home $1700 per month and lived with his mother but still couldn'
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by bensonn 7y ago
7 in 10 voters thought Palin said she could see Russia from her house but it was Tina Fey on SNL.
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by bensonn 7y ago
The airlines chose to turn a simple logistical procedure into a silly game of caste and cash. Passengers chose to play the game and try to win, beating their fellow passengers. Moving 100 people 100 feet takes 45 minutes and 5 crew members
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by bensonn 7y ago
Based on how they framed it, I am not too surprised it is in the NYT. Headline: Many Hospitals Charge Double or Even Triple What Medicare Would Pay You have to get about 80% of the way through to read a more accurate version of the truth:
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by bensonn 8y ago
From the inventor of the Moth Ladder.
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by bensonn 8y ago
digikam is the closest I have found. UI is not nearly as clean and simple.
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by bensonn 8y ago
In a completely hypothetical scenario- if every morning another zero was added to the national debt would there be any downsides? All other variables remain the same, unemployment, GDP, etc, only the debt increase ten-fold. Does debt not ma
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by bensonn 8y ago
These arguments almost always seem like encryption is about access to information but isn't encryption about understanding information? If they are asking for a key to decrypt then they already have access to the data. If you write a n
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by bensonn 8y ago
Warrants have to be specific, correct? If they asked for your Xyz password and you didn't know it, you explained you used a password manager- would they have to get an expanded warrant to compel you to disclose that password? Would tha
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by bensonn 8y ago
If Amazon buys Sears it will be a mind-boggling Inception of Amazon's present history predicting its own past's future. What, OMG?! I can actually see this happening. Sears locations might make pretty decent mini-DCs/Echo sal
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by bensonn 8y ago
As I was walking the dog last night I was thinking about SEO and how even the "experts" don't really know Google's secret sauce or how the recipe will change. There are best-practices that seem to work but with Google&#x
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by bensonn 8y ago
ZOHO also offers the free plan. FREE PLAN Up to five users. 5GB/User, 25MB attachment limit. Web access only. Email hosting for single domain.
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by bensonn 8y ago
ZOHO! FREE PLAN - Up to five users. 5GB/User, 25MB attachment limit. This is to have all 5 users in one "organization". ZOHO offers full G-suite replacement, free. They have many more applications too. I used the free plan fo
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by bensonn 8y ago
Vapid seems like what I am after, a super simple CMS for "brochure" sites. Using page templates might allow www.surrealcms.com to manage a blog. Builtin blogging is planned for version 7.1. Hugo + Netlify is the direction I am goi
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by bensonn 8y ago
A few unrelated points- 1. This is an article to sell a book. "I took the job as part of the research for my book" This isn't unbiased factual research. The author is obviously going to cherry-pick the the craziest things he
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by bensonn 8y ago
"With so much of the U.S. population in urban areas, it’s little surprise that these areas contribute an outsize amount to the economy. The 10 most productive metropolitan areas alone contributed to about 40 percent of U.S. GDP in 2016
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by bensonn 8y ago
I second Zoho, Zoho everything. I run a 1 person company and love Zoho. I think their mail is far superior to gmail, their office apps are superior to gsuite, invoicing is great too. I don't use Desk or many of their other apps, but th
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by bensonn 9y ago
I realize the self-driving/lidar/AI/IR is more interesting to the HN audience but what about the pedestrian? How can the pedestrian not see, anticipate and react to a 4000 pound SUV, on the road (where cars normally are), wit
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by bensonn 9y ago
Just to clarify, it is 42-57% of discretionary. When compared to non-discretionary spending like Social Security defense spending is pretty small.
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by bensonn 9y ago
Everybody tends to put that certain point above where they are at. I realize, as limited to a US discussion, it is easy to say Bezos and Gates are rich, I am not. But if this was expanded, simply as a thought experiment, to the entire world
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by bensonn 9y ago
At the turn of the century HOV lanes were rare (1 on I-5, 0 on 16) and Sound Transit was almost non-existent (sure they were there but they just quietly taxed us and nobody really saw them and no light rail around here. At the turn of the c
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by bensonn 9y ago
How did Seattle get more people to ride the bus? 1. They made coummuting by car miserable. Average commute time for Everett to Seattle (24 miles) is 76 minutes, Federal Way to Seattle (22 miles) is 66 minutes... Reducing congestion is not

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