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931.
by fastball 2y ago
Believe it or not, there is significantly more to the world than the EU.
932.
by fastball 2y ago
The US doesn't have universal public healthcare because it is a country of 350M people and would probably be a disaster. Significantly smaller countries (UK/Canada) have major issues with their systems with a fraction of the popul
933.
by fastball 2y ago
How exactly does killing a CEO save 10k people? Hint: it doesn't. In fact, the only result I can imagine from this is the opposite. After all, UHC will probably need to pay their CEO (if anyone takes the job) more for a while, to ove
934.
by fastball 2y ago
No, a gap is still not an issue. There is nothing fundamentally wrong with a world where everyone has everything they need and one person has a net worth of a gazillion dollars.
935.
by fastball 2y ago
I assumed it was "boiling point".
936.
by fastball 2y ago
Most health insurance in most of the world has the concept of "pre-existing conditions". How could it be otherwise? Insurance was invented to hedge risk. In the case of healthcare, if you literally already have a condition that ha
937.
by fastball 2y ago
It says that at the end of the article. > Despite previous litigation against would-be imitators of their safety brake, SawStop has committed to dedicating its original patent to the public when these new regulations go into effect.
938.
by fastball 2y ago
Could you give some examples of recent SCOTUS opinions that you think have a worse veneer of legal principles than the average veneer from previously?
939.
by fastball 2y ago
Anything you want to write in JS. After all we are comparing Trailbase to Pocketbase, both of which allow you to write application logic in JS.
940.
by fastball 2y ago
YouTube is a US company with US costs. It might not be worth it to provide the service at a rate that Liberians can afford. The reason they do so now is because the ad-driven model allows them to extract a lot more value out of the US (or o
941.
by fastball 2y ago
Using adblocker on YouTube (for example) is a violation of the ToS, which is not an "implicit contract".
942.
by fastball 2y ago
How exactly are you planning to adjust the situation so that someone in Liberia making $2.50/day can afford a YouTube subscription?
943.
by fastball 2y ago
All JS I write in 2024 is ES6+ (usually more like ES2022+)
944.
by fastball 2y ago
There is only so much time in the day. If you have a job where increased productivity translates to increases income (not just hourly metered jobs) then you will see a benefit.
945.
by fastball 2y ago
And uses V8 as the JS runtime so you can use modern JS language features (goja in pocketbase is ES5 only).
946.
by fastball 2y ago
From a quick reading: - Lang: Go vs Rust - JS Runtime: goja (ES5 only) vs V8
947.
by fastball 2y ago
Might be good to have some filtering as well. I added a repo that has a heap of localized docs that don't make much sense to ingest into an LLM but probably use up a majority of the tokens.
948.
by fastball 2y ago
You can amend displayed order for humans (what matters for 99% of usage), while still allowing anyone interested to see when the message actually arrived at the homeserver (making the suggested gambit impractical).
949.
by fastball 2y ago
Why do you think the Chinese domestic market is more competitive than the US domestic market? Do Americans not also like having the best solar panels?
950.
by fastball 2y ago
> aside from the huge ecosystem
951.
by fastball 2y ago
Is LONGi "free competition"? They haven't been given a leg up by the CCP in any way?
952.
by fastball 2y ago
What is your suggestion?
953.
by fastball 2y ago
Paying the captain of a cargo vessel to damage an undersea cable by dragging his anchor for 160km isn't exactly a conspiracy theory that requires Russian "omnipotence". Most people I know think the Ukrainians blew up Nordstre
954.
by fastball 2y ago
Then the US should get capable. Within tariffs is the possibility to light a fire under domestic asses.
955.
by fastball 2y ago
Producing vehicles for transport is one of the most productive uses of capital and labor I can imagine in 2024. If we are incapable of producing good cars, what in the world makes you think we would be capable of producing any of the other
956.
by fastball 2y ago
Chinese solar panels being cheaper is not "better technology" which is what I was responding to – that's just China producing things cheaper, for a variety of reasons. If solar panels in general are a better tech (by whatever
957.
by fastball 2y ago
Not really. If I have a profitable app that only uses 10% CPU on average, and you have a profitable app that uses 90% CPU on average (because it is a more CPU intensive program), both of us are going to keep paying our hosting provider inde
958.
by fastball 2y ago
I think you might be confusing economic tactics. Tariffs don't discourage adoption of the best technologies, they discourage importing products from other countries. If solar/wind/batteries/nuclear/hydro/whate
959.
by fastball 2y ago
Completely backwards. A server that is being paid for but not utilized is the best-case scenario for a hosting provider – revenue the same, lower costs (electrical/cooling/etc).
960.
by fastball 2y ago
EVs have the benefit of regen breaking though, which means less break dust contributing to the pollution.

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