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by bruce511 4y ago
I appreciate your honesty. I completely agree that the current system is excellent for those who can afford it, and queuing-based-on-worth certainly appeals to those with worth. In the US this worth translates into money, which translates i
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by bruce511 4y ago
Its pretty easy to find shortages and flaws in any system. And yes, national health is always tempting for budget cuts because its a huge number, and trimming it 5% gives real returns. Shortages of drugs and equipment are often tied to supp
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by bruce511 4y ago
I don't disagree that the population pyramid shape is a root factor. And that shape is likely to get worse, not better as time goes on. Given that it's not "solvable" (at least not without a nice pandemic targeting old p
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by bruce511 4y ago
You use the words "red-tape" and "inefficiency" there in a very patient-centric way. Whereas from a profit point of view fewer doctors is good, more insurance red tape is good, effeciently increasing bills and billing cu
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by bruce511 4y ago
To be fair, the current govt is preciding over a (self inflicted) economic collapse in all areas, not just the NHS. And ultimately voters have no-one to blame but themselves. (or half of them anyway.) leaving the EU is epically dumb on a tr
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by bruce511 4y ago
In the USA its all about the money. Those "political forces" are not a grassroots movement, people in the street demanding insurance-based healthcare. No, it's well organizes, very well paid, lobbying on behalf of a profit-ba
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by bruce511 4y ago
I hear you, I'm just not sure if the attitude is against big tech, or against management. I'm wondering if the shift is not towards big tech, but towards management, as more people age into management, and so see it from the other
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by bruce511 4y ago
In a one-man business you have a complete view of everything. So you make endless decisions every day on what yo work on, and what can wait for tomorrow. Students are a "one man business" in this respect. Complete autonomy. Comple
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by bruce511 4y ago
For me, as an employer, I see it as completely the opposite. I would treat it as a major positive, and I've always preferred employees with out-of-school projects. Basically most everyone does their work when studying g there's no
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by bruce511 4y ago
There are two ways to view the world, and what we do in it. Which one we adopt largely depends on the one those around us adopt. I make no judgement about which is "better" or "worse" - they both have positives and negat
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by bruce511 4y ago
In a few countries you are required to provide a service to the community (ie national service) - in a few you need to adhere to the "must vote" requirement. But in America all we want is your money. In America its _always_ about
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by bruce511 4y ago
You might need to define success, and fail, to quote a statistic like this. There are multiple groups of people (old owners, new owners, sellers-employees, buyers-employees, customers), multiple assets (physical, intellectual, human, custom
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by bruce511 4y ago
This power-law distribution happens everywhere, all the time. Most people get exceedingly uncomfortable when they encounter people doing things in a different way, using different tools. Anytime you deviate from the main-stream there are up
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by bruce511 4y ago
The problem with knowledge on the Web is that it's mixed in with a lot of noise, and, frankly, there's just too much of it clamouring for your attention. So, sure, you can Google the hell out of CSS, and clearly that's good e
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by bruce511 4y ago
You're both getting what you want, but you are different businesses, so you are optimizing for different things. In other words, you have a business of a certain size with a certain set of constraints and goals. For most small business
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by bruce511 4y ago
While your point is valid, I can't help but smile. I men, first world problems? It does however highlight how things that are of benefit to millions, (or at least, hopefully of benefit to those millions) can have unexpected (?) impact
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by bruce511 4y ago
Interestingly though GET with data exists in the wild, and has for many years. I manage a http library class, and a customer encountered an API that required a GET but with data. (think query parameters passed as XML). I implemented that fo
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by bruce511 4y ago
It makes sense to align your costs methodology with your income methodology. In other words most businesses have figured out that their big costs (salaries, rent etc) are "subscriptions" and so by making their income into subscrip
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by bruce511 4y ago
Technically there's a place (well, line) where North is one way, but the compass points south. Flying a great-circle route that intersects the North Pole, and magnetic North Pole, would mean travelling both north and south at the same
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by bruce511 4y ago
Time travel, time travel, wherefore art thou time travel. When it comes to build versus buy, there are only right answers with hind-sight. >> Maybe cataloging the feature set of the internal software, seeing what is a necessity, and s
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by bruce511 4y ago
We did a similar assignment at University many years ago. I think it was the same assignment, one per day for two weeks. Each time in a different language. The goal was to see how similar code is, and how little it matters which language yo
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by bruce511 4y ago
When the date spans a wide possible period, like birth date, this approach doesn't solve the root problem.
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by bruce511 4y ago
I know it's not the fashion now, but the jQuery UI date picker works really well, can be configured for various situations And let's you type the date instead. I wrote code on the back-end to also parsing. So just type 11 for the
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by bruce511 4y ago
I guess it could go one of two ways, and ultimately boils down to whether or not the employee has access to the bank account. Assuming they do, and assuming it's an actual business (llc or whatever) then the employee could keep it goin
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by bruce511 4y ago
I agree that current systems should have no problem running for years between reboots, but which for verious reasons would not be a good idea now. (conversely my current desktop boots so fast that I now shut it down every day. Saves a bit o
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by bruce511 4y ago
>> Just cos majority shares an opinion it doesn’t mean that opinion is somehow “good”. Exactly. For a couple hundred years _after_ US independence, the majority considered women to be second-class people. (quite a few still do.) >&
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by bruce511 4y ago
>> Pure democracy works better when you’re talking about very large groups I'd argue it gets worse the larger the group. Its very hard to change the direction of a large group because of inertia. Libertarianism has been around a
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by bruce511 4y ago
>> First, where did you get this extra context that our OP and I both seem to be missing, that "free speech is about time and place," or that political rants are only ok when people are "free to leave?" I'm no
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Clearly universities have "personality" (as do all business's) and that factors a lot in which university I choose to attend. I expect a different world-view in say Alabama compared to say California. I might steer clear of B
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Note the use of the words "in the classroom". Free speech is about time and place. They are saying that speech can be free, but going into a political rant in the middle of a class on calculus is not appropriate. Free speech is ab

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