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by bpt3 1y ago
The ones that had numerous loopholes causing the effective rate to be similar to what it is today? Sure, have at it, but it's not going to have the effect you want. If you think anyone is going to pay an effective tax rate of 90%, I&#x
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by bpt3 1y ago
On what principle? Why should anyone be barred from negotiating the best deal they can get in a fair exchange?
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by bpt3 1y ago
It's still on this page: https://www.atlassian.com/enterprise/data-center/jira $51k for the smallest license they offer. I still run an old version on an air gapped network and will continue to do so until we
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by bpt3 1y ago
It might as well be for the vast majority of companies, since I believe the smallest number of users you can buy support for is 500. To be more specific, they killed off the legacy Jira Server and now only offer these enterprise versions of
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by bpt3 1y ago
I think the system is a disaster and has actually gotten much worse over the last several years, but polls show that most people are satisfied with their care. Maybe they're differentiating their care providers and insurer, but that&#x
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by bpt3 1y ago
Not sure where that number is from, but what I've seen it's around 60% usage and 75% availability for non-Medicare eligible Americans ( https://www.kff.org/health-policy-101-employer-sponsored-hea... ) It's als
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by bpt3 1y ago
Either you have a high deductible, or you're just being subsidized by everyone else. The unsubsidized cost of a standard PPO plan for a family can easily reach $3000 a month. This is situation normal, people just don't see it beca
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by bpt3 1y ago
> However, we see a new type of rationing, based upon how much patients cost, and then denying care. This is not at all new. It's how every other market operates. For healthcare, which is not a normal market by any means, it might m
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by bpt3 1y ago
That's the budget of the federal government, which thankfully isn't 100% of GDP.
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by bpt3 1y ago
America does have a decent healthcare system for the vast majority of its citizens (people with full time jobs and their dependents, plus the elderly). That's a large reason why there is no major change in this area, even though one is
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by bpt3 1y ago
Who is "we" exactly? The original commenter clearly was stating that overregulation was the issue. You're the one who keeps bringing up that it's "badly regulated", which is both an odd term and not what was or
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by bpt3 1y ago
It's poorly managed, but not due to over-regulation IMO as the other commenter implied (not to say that there aren't some areas where deregulation could improve things). The core issue today is that the population of Baltimore con
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by bpt3 1y ago
Yep, good point. In general, services of all kinds will be lacking and will remain so unless there is a massive demographic change (which is highly unlikely).
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by bpt3 1y ago
The catch is that the entire area is in decline and there's little to do for social activities or employment. Declining cities in the US have tried this, and they are not places people generally want to live. This is the same scenario,
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by bpt3 1y ago
I'm far from a union sympathizer, but you've already moved from your initial, absurdly simplistic description of the issue to a major symptom (decades of ineffective government, ranging from benign incompetence to intentional mali
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by bpt3 1y ago
No one is denying that it ever happens. It happens in so few numbers that it has no impact on the overall real estate market. That's why your anecdote is meaningless and can be dismissed immediately.
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by bpt3 1y ago
No one sane would trust an LLM with that task, which is how we know it's not ready for production use yet.
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by bpt3 1y ago
I might put this on a plaque. I realize this sounds harsh, but I assume anyone who is pushing for developers to basically take on all the shit work of a tech lead stuck managing a bunch of incompetent developers is not an actual developer,
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by bpt3 1y ago
No I would not agree that YAML or JSON parsers in any language are far less likely to have logic errors, and I'm not sure why protobuf (a binary format) would be a good choice for a human readable file. INI is not a particularly comple
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by bpt3 1y ago
As mentioned in the article, this is a logic error that has nothing to do with C strings.
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by bpt3 1y ago
Linux won on cost once it was "good enough". AI isn't free (by any definition of free) and is a long way away from "good enough" to be a general replacement for the status quo in a lot of domains. The areas where it
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by bpt3 1y ago
Do you get a discount for paying with cash (or blockchain)? In general the answer is no, meaning you aren't paying the 3.5% transaction fee, the merchant is.
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by bpt3 1y ago
That's what they do in practice, but not what they claim to do. This is what happens when you have people without sufficient domain experience making decisions.
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by bpt3 1y ago
You keep saying your content is "simple", "clear", and "straightforward", yet based on your own take on the interactions here, you are widely misunderstood. How could that be? You literally speak in riddles (vi
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by bpt3 1y ago
> Basically everything I think is here, I think this is all pretty simple and straightforward: https://open.substack.com/pub/andymasley/p/ai-can-be-bad-ove ... It's very clear that you're way more
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by bpt3 1y ago
> I'm really confused about what you're reading into this. I don't "equate" nuclear weapons with video games, I say "here are two completely unrelated things that I'd consider net bad overall, but usefu
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by bpt3 1y ago
Sure, that's worked out super well for open source software creators over and over, and they're not taken advantage of in any way.
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by bpt3 1y ago
So people can create digital things but have no permission to control how their creation is consumed or used? And only digital things have this limitation? Sounds like a recipe for many people to avoid sharing their digital creations with o
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by bpt3 1y ago
You realize people can be aware of the negative consequences of their actions and still make a "stupid" choice, correct? I would say that's true using a strict definition of the term, and is definitely true for common usage o
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by bpt3 1y ago
Equating TikTok (which I am not a fan of but can see the entertainment value), video games (which I do enjoy), and nuclear weapons (which is basically the only thing in existence that can wipe humans off the earth) is absurd. A user of TikT

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