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by danjayh 9y ago
The insurance company's methods of establishing the pool are far less coercive and destructive than the state's. Additionally, people can opt not to participate with an insurance company (or at least they used to be able to), so t
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by danjayh 9y ago
Their primary function is risk pooling. Secondarily they ration limited resources, attempting to distribute the available resources to effect the greatest good (this is why you often have such a hard time getting them to cover things, and w
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by danjayh 9y ago
Not trying to be snarky - serious question: if you feel that way, what's stopping you? I've often contemplated what I would do if the US leans further left, and sadly, there aren't a lot of other places to go where I can have
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by danjayh 9y ago
My yard is 11 acres, and I wouldn't trade it for the world. 17 min commute.
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by danjayh 9y ago
My employer has traditionally been very good about 40 hour weeks. However, recently everyone on the team has been doing 55-80 hours per week. On about week 4, I pointed out to my manager that the last time we were on an extended stretch of
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by danjayh 9y ago
Exactly what I came here to say. Ramp up STEM grads? Pay drops. Ramp up attorney grads? Pay drops. Ramp up workforce in a sector? Pay drops. Adding women to the marketplace for a particular job significantly increases competition for employ
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by danjayh 9y ago
Let's add workplace injuries and deaths per 100,000 workers while we're at it. We could get another article that writes itself, and one that's gotten way less airtime and print space than the one you're talking about.
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by danjayh 9y ago
I've got a few answers anyway, if you're interested: 1) The federal government sucks up all of the money -- see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Federal,_State,_and_Local... . And that chart only encompass
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by danjayh 9y ago
Most things that the federal government wants to do these days (healthcare, education, food assistance, etc.) can be done just as effectively at the state level (and possibly at the county or city level). In general, if things are done at l
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by danjayh 9y ago
I find the typical stereotypes about conservative voters to be kind of amusing. I'm fairly young, and I have an BSCE, MSEE, and a very decent paying job doing tech work. I'm a libertarian and I vote conservative because they at le
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by danjayh 9y ago
Honestly, I just go to Reuters now. It's better than most major news outlets, and certainly better than Google's aggregator.
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> When it comes to the most central tenet of individualism — free will — the tech companies have a different way. They hope to automate the choices, both large and small, we make as we float through the day. It’s their algorithms that su
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by danjayh 9y ago
The reason I don't care about the wall is simple: Yes, our immigration laws are complicated and need reform, but people shouldn't be crossing the border illegally, full-stop. That's why we have laws. A country that selectivel
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Also, justices last a lifetime. A few bad justices could shred the constitution and trash our entire democracy faster than you can blink. A president properly constrained by congress and the courts cannot. Nominating activist judges and jus
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by danjayh 9y ago
I really couldn't care less about the wall. I do think that choosing not to enforce immigration laws through an exective order was wrong - that is the domain of congress. In the case of an institution as important as the government of
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by danjayh 9y ago
All depends on your perspective. Unlike many on ycombinator, I voted for Trump. I suppose it is more accurate to say that I actually voted for his Supreme Court justice list -- I viewed that issue as far more important than the president
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by danjayh 9y ago
As others have stated, Detroit was eliminated for sluggish growth, not low population. Having said that, I'm definitely in their target demographic (35 yrs old, BSCE and MSEE, 10 years software development experience and team leadershi
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by danjayh 9y ago
> Why not just have three exactly identical chips, run the exact same code on them, and compare results? If results ever differ, you power cycle the bad one, self test it, and you're good to go again. Easier said than done :) But ye
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by danjayh 9y ago
Our problem doesn't have to do with radiation hardening. In fact, we don't even need radiation hardened cores -- our problem is actually due to design decisions that have been made in modern cores that sacrifice determinism for sp
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by danjayh 9y ago
At the company I work for, we've been struggling with the fact that nobody has made a new-design CPU or SOC that's suitable for our safety-critical, "high integrity at the source" application with modest radiation exposu
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by danjayh 9y ago
Not completely true. With the advent of ScanTron, Blackboard, online tests and quizzes, etc. much of the 'manual' work of teaching can be automated. Couple this with online classes, and one professor can run WAY more sections of a
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by danjayh 9y ago
and yet he goes on to say exactly that. Hey, I'm not claiming this is actually reality, but did you know that women aren't as good at their jobs as men, and that's why they get paid less?^^ Yeah, I didn't think that putt
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by danjayh 9y ago
Sounds like a lot of of stereotyping with a cop-out "hey, this is the reason! (but I really don't know)" disclaimer. Got any hard data to back this up?
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by danjayh 9y ago
Much of the problem lies with future unfunded obligations in Social Security. When Social Security was enacted, the average life expectancy was 61 and the full retirement age was 65 - the average person died before getting a dime. This is n
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by danjayh 9y ago
Quite generous, referring to him as a philosopher. I mistook his 'philosophy' for a bad case of verbal diarrhea. I think he could benefit from George Orwell's rules: (i) Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech
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by danjayh 9y ago
I skipped to his last paragraph or two, which in only a few hundred words summed up his point. Your sentence is much better -- this man seems to think that he's far more intelligent than the rest of us, and yet he admits to being a Mar
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by danjayh 9y ago
Provided that there is competition, it's actually a good idea. My knee-jerk response to this was "you can do this, but you have to take away their monopolies." In a heavily competitive environment, ISPs wouldn't be able
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by danjayh 9y ago
Too hard to find people who know ada, and more difficult to do some of the low-level things that operating systems need to do (for the same reasons that it's safer). Might not be the case for application software -- I work mostly on pl
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Have it at work :)
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This is a good amount of knowledge that I use in my day-to-day job all wound up in one place. Most excellent -- takes people years to get good at and accustomed to designing systems and software for a hard real time, safety-critical environ

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