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by koolba 11mo ago
> …and they're about to ban windowless bedrooms which will make office-to-housing conversions impossible. Where is this not banned? And it’s not like offices don’t have windows or you can’t cut them. The ban on windowless bedrooms i
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by koolba 11mo ago
Neat stuff. For more esoteric environments that could use this type of automated leg up, check out MUMPS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUMPS There's a bunch of mainly legacy hospital and government (primarily VA)
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by koolba 11mo ago
IIUC, what's being solved here is not the mainframe, it's the lack of knowledge transfer of what the heck that software is doing and how it works. Anything that drives down the cost of answering those types of questions, whether f
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by koolba 11mo ago
The number one audience for commit messages is yourself. If you don’t have respect for your future self, don’t expect me to have respect for you.
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by koolba 11mo ago
What warehouse worker is doing HIIT? I’m not saying they’re sedentary, but there is no way a warehouse worker is moving at the pace of a HIIT workout, let alone for an entire shift. There’s no job on the plan outside of drug runner that req
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by koolba 11mo ago
Yes it’s true that those provisions expired, the Republicans are not changing or removing anything, and it’s the Democrats that are demanding additional funding to replace the Covid era funding that is expiring.
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by koolba 11mo ago
> Indeed, elections have consequences, so why are you so upset with the democrats? Aren't you going to fix things now? The destruction I see is being done by the unreasonable Democrat Senators holding hostage hungry children and Fed
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by koolba 11mo ago
> That's what PJ's means. It means pyjamas, it always has. I read it as pajamas. And I bet you enjoy burgers with chips rather than fries. But the point still stands.
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by koolba 11mo ago
> The crazy thing is people predicted the shutdown in the spring and the government still drove the boat straight into this iceberg. The Democrats also had ample opportunity to extend the bonus Covid era subsidies when they controlled al
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by koolba 11mo ago
Pull all air traffic controllers from private airports and shutdown all routes for private jets, then this government shutdown will be done by tomorrow morning.
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by koolba 11mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308
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Tesla shareholders approve Musk's $1T pay plan with 75%+ voting in favor(cnbc.com)
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You have two dishwashers in one kitchen?
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by koolba 11mo ago
Or there simply weren’t any bullies. Not everybody’s childhood played out like Lord of the Flies.
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by koolba 11mo ago
High risk pools existed before the ACA.
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by koolba 11mo ago
It’s basic economics, supply and demand. To lower prices you need to either increase supply or decrease demand. The reverse shifts the curves the other way and costs go up. The ACA did nothing to increase supply. There were no new doctors o
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by koolba 11mo ago
Which was another stupid part of the ACA. Capping profits at 12% of the gross just means the only way to increase profits is to increase your costs. It directly incentivizes raising prices!
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by koolba 11mo ago
> … unless someone had a magic machine to mint thousands of new doctors. That exists. Just buy them from overseas. Grant special visas to doctors who commit to working at clinics for X years. Pay them some guaranteed wage that’s higher t
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by koolba 11mo ago
If that doesn’t happen how will he pay for all the stuff he wants to give away? The money has to come from somewhere.
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by koolba 11mo ago
For the small minority that get fully subsidized plans of course it’s great. Free stuff is always great for the receiver. But that’s only 5M people. For everybody else it just made healthcare more expensive. Nothing, absolutely nothing, in
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by koolba 11mo ago
I’m a big believer that the people elect the government they deserve. Let’s see how this plays out.
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by koolba 11mo ago
The purpose of which is to encourage mobility. Sack that tax credit and watch the housing market becomes even more illiquid.
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by koolba 11mo ago
> tax 100% above it. (should only concern a fraction of a fraction of cases) 3) put all this tax's proceeds in a sovereign wealth fund 4) at 21, a citizen gets access to her redistributed generational wealth 5) profit If you think y
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by koolba 11mo ago
The PITA of that is that you have to keep track of the post tax additions pretty much for ever afterward or you’ll end up paying double tax on them.
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by koolba 11mo ago
The slight advantage for employer contributions to HSA are that they avoid payroll tax. You’ll get the employEE part of it back when you file your taxes, so the savings is the 7.5% employER side.
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by koolba 11mo ago
> Can someone explain why anyone would want non-squashed PRs? So you can differentiate the plumbing from the porcelain. If all the helpers, function expansions, typo corrections, and general renamings are isolated, what remains is the pu
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by koolba 1y ago
No level of planning can match the raw joy of spontaneously enjoying something with like minded friends. > Some people want the best possible experience and can’t be confident they aren’t missing out unless they have done the research. T
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by koolba 1y ago
There’s about 5M software devs in the US so even at $1000/year/person spend, that’s only $5B of revenue to go around. Theres plenty of other uses cases but focusing on pure tech usage, it’s hard to see how the net present value of
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by koolba 1y ago
This is the mental distinction of what something represents vs what is its value. The former should never change regardless of mutability (for any sane program…), and the latter would never change for a const declaration. The value (pun int
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by koolba 1y ago
Alternatively we’ll have hyper inflation and they’ll be even madder that all their nominal scrimping and saving was meaningless.

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