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by ixtli 9y ago
This is a beautiful comment, thank you.
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yes. the person you're responding to is getting caught up in a very narrow style of authoritarian communism which honestly i can understand being repulsed by! But, as i was saying in the original comment: hundreds of years of work has
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by ixtli 9y ago
I'm not sure what the "nope" is in response to: Insurance companies profit when people don't collect on their benefits. If I pay and don't use it, they win. This is why companies that self-insure take out further in
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by ixtli 9y ago
As the other commenter said: it's a capitalist solution. But as well I find that the concerted effort to paint the word 'socialism' as a bad thing implicitly in america is exactly why the effect you observe happens. I think,
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by ixtli 9y ago
I'm not sure why this comment was downvoted. I read it as a valid criticism of anti-state discourse. While I'm amenable to quite a bit of left-libertarian philosophy/ideology, I agree from lived experience that hard problems
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by ixtli 9y ago
I have also found that socialist positions get downvoted here. I'd recommend that people read the works of socialists (Marx, Rosa, etc.) because most of my negative associates came from liberal insinuation I received growing up in the
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by ixtli 9y ago
Yeah I mean the fact is that revenue comes from people not collecting benefits.
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by ixtli 9y ago
Given that insurance claims can determine if someone lives or dies I'm not very interested in parsing what the intent was in the, as you rightly say, byzantine halls of large insurers. What matters are outcomes, and these outcomes are
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by ixtli 9y ago
This is exactly the thing that renders me speechless every time this comes up in casual conversation. People generally agree that apple and other tech companies hoarding money in Ireland to avoid tax is Bad™. Then, in the next breath, they
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by ixtli 9y ago
Heh you make a good point.
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by ixtli 9y ago
Thank you! It's always just been a passing annoyance so I never bothered to look into it, but TIL.
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by ixtli 9y ago
Personally I've always used x509 client certs with a self signed root authority / intermediate authority for internal tooling at companies i've worked for. This is possible because 1) i happen to already have a good understan
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by ixtli 9y ago
... and that doesn't even consider the existential risk you take on by working for a place that will push you out / fire you if you get sick or otherwise can't work for more than a few months vs a place that will give you com
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by ixtli 9y ago
>This is weird valley-think. Those people were lucky more than anything, being in the right place, at the right time, with the right skills. _Yes._ A person with a billion dollars does not work a billion times harder than a person with 1
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by ixtli 9y ago
I would say that one very important mitigating factor is that Oprah has clearly demonstrated that she's capable of delegating tasks in order to achieve something larger than what would otherwise be possible with the force of her own pe
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by ixtli 9y ago
There's a 'too big to fail' thing going on here I think, because what you've said about Intel is exactly how I felt about Equifax's breach. At a certain point of terrible-ness people just shrug and carry on.
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by ixtli 9y ago
For anyone reading this: contributing how much you make honestly empowers everyone in our field to bargain for themselves. The ability to bargain is orthogonal to the art of engineering afaict but is whats mostly responsible for how you are
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by ixtli 9y ago
Why is this getting down voted?
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by ixtli 9y ago
I am also a long-time resident and consistent subway rider and I agree with the above. The subway DOES need a massive cash injection to allow it to perform to the standards we'd all like. The city also DOES need to reconcile the fact t
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by ixtli 9y ago
Incredible video. I’m a software engineer but I feel I know so much more about physics now.
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by ixtli 9y ago
not sure anyone's attacking the right to anonymity, but it would be somewhat dishonest to ignore what has come recently from the most anon communities on the internet.
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by ixtli 9y ago
I searched the site for high end Quadro drivers and they all link to the same "March2009" license. EDIT: I was wrong. Apparently they dont include this "datacenter" provision http://www.nvidia.com/content
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by ixtli 9y ago
Linus tried to warn us! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_36yNWw_07g
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by ixtli 9y ago
While these EULAs are head bangingly dumb, generally untested, (and sometimes totally unenforcable) i just wanted to say that i think that's just a CMS artifact. Can confirm that this is still linked as the "software license agre
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by ixtli 9y ago
What is a "datacenter"? I try to come to these things with an open mind but EULAs are really the dregs of legal writing :/
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It's critical to understand that it's not an intentional simplification. Altman and the rest of the rarified VC-connected people on both coasts are very, very disconnected from what its like to live in the lower or middle classes
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by ixtli 9y ago
> self-righteous, smug and viscerally hostile attitude to other parts of the country I'm not sure what this has to do with "political correctness." People being jerks isn't the same as demarcating hate speech and sayi
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by ixtli 9y ago
It sucks that a company is suppressing the will of the people because it's greedy. That said, > So next time you call for censoring "fake news", think again, because it's not you who will benefit from it. This line of
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by ixtli 9y ago
Also worth noting that the author appears to have spent a long time learning the intricacies of how "business" and investment banking work, but seems to throw around the words "Capitalism" and "Communism" witho
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I came to the comments expecting to be upset by people not finding this essay deeply disturbing and I'm glad I was at least a bit wrong :)

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