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by jgeada 9mo ago
All empirical evidence shows that single payer systems work better, producing far better outcomes at lower cost, than the US system. In fact, so much better that a single payer system is what Congress has chosen for itself! But seems some p
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by jgeada 9mo ago
Markets can remain irrational, or colluding, far longer than you can stay solvent (or even alive). For example, while the Phoebus cartel only really lasted from 1925 through to 1939, 1000hr incandescent light bulbs remain the standard offer
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by jgeada 9mo ago
Because when you're dying you have no bargaining position. You can't just wait it out. And you're just a single client, whether you personally die or not does not meaningfully change their bottom line. So it is a highly asymm
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by jgeada 10mo ago
Why does everyone immediately pivot to EVs on this subject, instead of (looks around) gargantuan SUVs and trucks everywhere, due to peculiarities of US policies regulating SUVs more leniently than cars on fuel efficiency?
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by jgeada 10mo ago
Articles like this seem to keep highlighting a fundamental disconnect between what software teams really do vs what the people "managing" software teams a couple of layers above think those teams actually do. The people up in the
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by jgeada 10mo ago
Word of mouth. If you make happy customers, they'll readily tell others. But the truth is most modern products aren't good enough to earn word of mouth. A good example of how to work it right is Steam: while it is not perfect, mos
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by jgeada 10mo ago
And what's happened since 1995 (30 years ago!) ? Because all the trends seem to indicate that to make a living people are working longer hours, holding multiple concurrent jobs (eg https://gameofjobs.org/are-americans-n
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by jgeada 10mo ago
The Big Dig has been an enormous success though, it has completely revitalized Boston.
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by jgeada 10mo ago
Fundamentally this is not a statement about programming or software. It is a statement that management at almost all companies is abysmally inept and are hardly ever held to account. Most sizeable software projects require understanding, in
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by jgeada 10mo ago
This type of idea is never popular with the people that have large stores of the prior government backed currency. The rich never want to have their wealth in any way threatened, and they have the reach and influence to make the governmen
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by jgeada 11mo ago
Would be interesting to see the historical trends for operating margins. These days it seems that 30%+ operating margins are what VCs and stock market are expecting now, which seems unsustainable. Software and similar businesses can easily
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by jgeada 11mo ago
The odd thing is that in the US we we deliberately do not differentiate free speech from other things such as dollars, lies, propaganda and outright manipulation. This is a relatively new thing, forced upon us in the last few decades, and i
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by jgeada 11mo ago
For reference, TSMC's yearly capital investment budget is about $50B/year ( https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/biz/archives/2025/03/07/200... ) This business is expensive , making and ru
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by jgeada 11mo ago
Piddling sum in this domain, that amount won't even buy you enough for 1 production line, let alone where to put in, staff it and get all the necessary collateral to allow people to design to it. And no amount of money will get you one
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by jgeada 11mo ago
Right, because the guy earning a normal salary has as much influence as the billionaire that is rubbing shoulders with and paying bribes to the decision makers, and also controls the editorial policy, salary and employment of the newspaper
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by jgeada 1y ago
They're words with consequences, backed by law and the freedom of companies doing all they're permitted to do; but fundamentally just words. Contracts are just words, but words with meaning and power, because we all agree to play
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by jgeada 1y ago
Most people in the western world are more frequently harmed by words than by physical violence. Way more frequently. You're fired is just words, your health insurance is denied is just words, we don't accept your type here is word
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by jgeada 1y ago
I think this might be a misinterpretation of the word "responsible". If a platform lies or spread malicious content, it seems people want the platform to have the liability and consequences for the malfeasance. That is what most p
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by jgeada 1y ago
I know it is hearsay, but it seems many times interviews try to get free work from candidates. Here, have a look at this real problem, see if you can solve it in whatever the interview time frame is. When there are too many candidates and n
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by jgeada 1y ago
It is the usual complexity rule of software: solving 80% of the problem is usually pretty easy at only takes about 50% of the estimated effort, it is the remaining 20% that takes up the remaining 90% of estimated effort (thus the usual sche
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by jgeada 1y ago
Because that was when the factories & their support infrastructure moved, not when a handful of entitled wealthy moved. Note also that while the factories moved to China, the wealthy stayed right here in the US, & didn't go whe
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by jgeada 1y ago
You sir are part of the problem. How on earth do you have any standing to make any pronouncement? "You've done your research"? You know better with your 5 minutes of googling than scientists that spent their careers studying
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by jgeada 1y ago
In reality, it is not the DoD that contracts out the big stuff, but Congress. And when the purchaser isn't the actual user, then a whole bunch of nefarious negative feedback loops come into being. The Congresscritter mostly only cares
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by jgeada 1y ago
It is the worms in the brain, isn't it?
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by jgeada 1y ago
The tradeoff was that pedestrians were not considered and any pedestrian death was therefore considered an acceptable tradeoff to allow cars the least encumbrance.
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Would you prefer government by engineers or lawyers?(theatlantic.com)
8 points by jgeada 1y ago|10 comments
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by jgeada 1y ago
The modern US is notoriously run for lawyers, by lawyers, and every facet of everything is contoured by what lawyers want. But does this lead to a viable country or is it a path to paralysis?
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by jgeada 1y ago
Right, just "nerd harder". The mathematics of encryption just doesn't play that way.
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by jgeada 1y ago
That is a bad faith argument. As soon as there is another untrusted party in the encryption, an in particular a party with a "skeleton key" that can decrypt anybody's message, then your encrypted communications are merely one
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by jgeada 1y ago
"The market can remain irrational longer than you can stay solvent" -- John Maynard Keynes

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