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by khriss 2mo ago
> 10y later they're richer than ever Overall as a country, undoubtedly. However, a vast majority of Americans are worse off than a decade ago. A lot of wealth was created, relatively little went to the people though.
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by khriss 2mo ago
Quick question, without looking it up, can you list the number of laws you can break which will result in your license revocation? The law is sufficiently complex and broad that there is essentially zero chance that you are not breaking a s
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by khriss 2mo ago
> It's also majority private sector funded, Really? Wasn't it supposed to be 100% funded by Trump's cronies, who of course were doing so completely out of the goodness of their hearts. Why did that shift to 'majorit
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by khriss 2mo ago
Hmm let's examine how well the US sanctions against China and Russia are working, shall we? Forget those, how well are the vaunted US sanctions working against Iran?
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by khriss 2mo ago
I'm curious as to how your experience actually using the plan for more than preventive coverage? IIRC, plans before the ACA had a ton of customer unfriendly provisions which made the insurance far less usable in practice. E.g. denying
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by khriss 2mo ago
> ACA was predicated on studies like this, to no avail ACA was also predicated on broad participation. As with all insurance, the bigger the pool, the lower the premium. Insurance of any kind is primarily a risk arbitrage business and fu
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by khriss 2mo ago
Heart rate, no, but monitoring breathing is possible using mmWave radar(eg 60 GHz Doppler radar nowadays, or the 5.8 GHz band earlier). Resmed S+ was probably the most well known, but it's been discontinued for a while now. If you sear
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by khriss 2mo ago
Whatever savings you have, you still need to contend with the reality that the US has no real social safety net and it's expensive , esp since the last few years. You are always potentially one doctors visit away from bankruptcy witho
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by khriss 2mo ago
> Does that even make a difference? Yes, intent matters. As an example, Trump and Republicans spent all of Biden's term complaining about the direct relief provided to the common people.
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by khriss 2mo ago
Yeah, but for most people, the paycheck from being a 'corporate NPC' is a profound and unbeatable argument. Rent is due every month and stores don't accept personal IOUs....
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by khriss 2mo ago
Aaaaaand right on cue the flagging brigade promptly flagged this to get it off the front page. What's stunning is that there doesn't seem to be a single way in which the United States has come out ahead on this conflict. We have *
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by khriss 2mo ago
This comment is peak HN! In depth, thoughtful comments about someone deeply passionate about technology were the reason why HN became the place on the web for hackers. Thanks for keeping the spirit alive!
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by khriss 2mo ago
Hmm, not sure D is so heavily used anymore. Still mad respect to Walter!
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by khriss 2mo ago
The device is presumably listening and recording everything and you can bet your last dollar there is fine print in the TOS that says Altman actually owns everything you say near the device and can use it for whatever he wants. Oh, you thou
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by khriss 2mo ago
> Will my kids be an ethnic minority in their own country in the next generation - and if so, what's that going to be like for them? Are you sure they are not more concerned about 'Will my kids be able to get a good job, own a
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by khriss 2mo ago
What's stunning is that there doesn't seem to be a single way in which the United States has come out ahead on this conflict. We have * Established that US zero ability or will to protect it's 'allies' in region b
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by khriss 2mo ago
It's the same forces driving software quality to the bottom. Simply put, enshittification has become the expected norm and there is more money to be made pushing out barely acceptable slop than the higher effort(and cost) of better mad
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by khriss 3mo ago
Really? The linked article clearly says the limit is 12 weeks. Quite a ways away from 'one day' before delivery. Also, you didn't really answer the question....
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by khriss 3mo ago
> That's clearly already a child and I will object. Clearly you believe in the primacy of preserving life. I am wondering if your belief extends to after the child is born?
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by khriss 3mo ago
What is worse than the current actions of the govt is that no one will ever be held accountable. Trump has blanket immunity by the supreme court and he will certainly pardon his inner circle preemptively. When you remove consequences, it&
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by khriss 3mo ago
Sadly, we live in a decidedly imperfect world. I don't think there is a single completely good person on the planet, let alone a country.
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by khriss 3mo ago
The problem is that this strategy is only feasible in a tax-advantaged account. Otherwise the drag of taxes during rebalancing dramatically lowers the returns.
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by khriss 3mo ago
This is such a fundamentally misguided policy. The real competition isn't where the models are today . It's where the innovation will be tomorrow and what that should look like. Trying to protect existing incumbents by banning
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by khriss 3mo ago
Yeah, but they'll need to time their bust for before Jan next year. There is a significantly lower chance of a Democratic congress being as sympathetic.
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by khriss 3mo ago
I don't know if the criticism was of the notion of tariffs. Instead it was of the bone headed implementation by the Trump administration, where tariffs were not well thought out(we tariffed islands of penguins, but specifically exemp
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by khriss 3mo ago
Sure, but why should regular people pay for the upgrades needed to power data centers? The tech companies can surely afford that easily given their record profits for the past decade?
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by khriss 3mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32183302 TL;DR A lot of evidence supporting the Amyloid hypothesis is suspect.
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by khriss 3mo ago
Recently, even the TDAP (Tetanus) vaccine was correlated with lower incidence of dementia https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26919881 I recall seeing a few discussions on HN comments hypothesizing that immune system stimu
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by khriss 3mo ago
Centralized and KYCd, yes. Private? Not really. See https://www.bankbazaar.com/tax/tax-on-upi-transactions.html
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by khriss 3mo ago
> In short, Indian government does not track or they don't have the scaling to track This is completely wrong. Not only can the Indian govt track each these transactions, it's actually written into law via the 'anti money

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