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by leepowers 9y ago
I guess I never understood the elitism and strong feelings around programming languages. It's such a strange thing to stake one's _identity_ to. It's like getting upset that Dostoyevsky wrote _Crime and Punishment_ in Russian
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by leepowers 9y ago
Yes, it's a euphemism for price controls. Which may or may not be a no-go depending on your political bent. Another issue here is termination shock - if a provider comes up under the current system, getting into massive student debt in
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by leepowers 9y ago
> It thus makes no sense to reject single-payer on the grounds that it would require higher tax revenues. That’s true, of course, but it’s an irrelevant objection. > The most important source of cost savings under single-payer is that
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by leepowers 9y ago
Additional security is absolutely necessary. The docs have table and field level permissions but that's not enough. A user should only be able to edit their own row in the database, and their password should always be one-way encrypted
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by leepowers 9y ago
Email is also universal. Using Twist or some other app means you have to onboard and train a customer onto a new platform to even start talking with them. There are some cases where you can replace email with Twist (formalized team communic
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by leepowers 9y ago
Feynman is an outlier, a very rare talent that could handle very complex maths and also communicate these concepts in an approachable, charming, and laid-back style. This is an in-born talent and also a skill that can be taught. But communi
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by leepowers 9y ago
Aside from the bureaucratic inertia that all large groups ultimately accumulate have you ever thought that this is by design? Facebook investing resources into really polishing and optimizing the web experience of comments doesn't real
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by leepowers 9y ago
A few thoughts from my own experiences: A) They have been good with payment in the past, so there's still a chance they will settle up once their cash situation is sorted out. The key thing here is to keep your needs on their mind. Mea
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by leepowers 9y ago
1) Note, you can patch this in a theme or plugin of your own by explicitly setting a sender email address: add_filter("wp_mail_from", function($generated_from) { return "mysender@mydomain.com"; }); 2) The thing
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by leepowers 10y ago
Social media is a game, just like MMORPG's are games, and slot gambling is a game, or call of duty is a game. For some reason a large chunk of society has been convinced that social media is the "real" game and more normative
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by leepowers 10y ago
Or `display: table` and `display: table-cell` so you can use a `<div>` instead of the dreaded `<table>` tag.
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by leepowers 10y ago
Integration with the rest of Google's services. More specifically: when logged into my Google account Chrome will automatically sync my browser history and bookmarks between devices. Adding a device is as simple as logging into a Googl
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by leepowers 10y ago
TSOM is the WWII generation looking back on the struggles and evils that defined their world, and finding hope and beauty in it. The von Trapp family does not defeat evil, they escape it - an archetype that maps neatly onto the cold war era
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by leepowers 10y ago
UBI is not adding money to the system. No new dollars would be printed. So there would be little to no effect on inflation. It's moving around existing money via taxation and redistribution. Under this scheme there wouldn't be any
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by leepowers 10y ago
UBI is talked about, but is probably a long way off. But it's important to get the conversation started. We already have massive wealth redistribution in the U.S., in the form of Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, etc., which make up
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by leepowers 10y ago
Just as an aside most DBRMS come with query profiling tools to help you optimize and troubleshoot queries in relation to the schema. EXPLAIN in MySQL has saved me many times, or at least enabled me to ask intelligent questions: http:&#x2F
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by leepowers 10y ago
Also during an emergency situation you may be taken to an out-of-network hospital or be treated by an out-of-network doctor at a hospital, of which insurance may only cover 0%-50% of the bill. So you have no choice in provider, no choice in
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by leepowers 10y ago
Demand for health care is inelastic which makes it mostly immune to market forces. With health care consumers really don't have a choice. Either they pay whatever price is set by providers or they die or become disabled by their condit
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by leepowers 10y ago
You're absolutely right. I often conflate "single payer" with "universal coverage", which you rightly note are not the same thing. By "capitalist democracy" I simply wanted to point out that a country can
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by leepowers 10y ago
> It is really interesting how the American mindset is to never look abroad to see what works and what doesn't. Oh we definitely look abroad. In fact that's one of the major arguments for a single-payer system in the U.S. - s
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by leepowers 10y ago
It's a conclusion I can definitely see a spook coming to. Neutralize the leverage of blackmail material by making it public. The political fallout for Trump is secondary to ensuring he can't be manipulated by a foreign government.
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by leepowers 10y ago
What are you passionate about? Do that. The advantage the money gives you is an ability to fail. You can follow your passion, fall flat on your face, and yet still have stability in your life. So shoot for the moon. If you follow this route
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by leepowers 10y ago
I love the design and layout of this app. Very nice! A killer feature would be add options to calculate complementary, monochromatic, analogous, etc. color harmonies, similar to a color calculator: https://www.sessions.edu/c
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by leepowers 10y ago
That's a good start. Do the devs talk about their projects? Or do you? Getting eyes-on your existing projects and asking devs for feedback can be a good way to engage. The goal here is to reciprocate - get a look at their projects and
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by leepowers 10y ago
Developers know other developers. But developers also know business people, startup aspirants, and other existing and potential customers. Developers can also have "overflow" where they have more work than they can handle and need
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by leepowers 10y ago
High-margin crops, minimal overhead, and intensive cultivation (i.e., greenhouses) to get the most out the available space. Pretty much be the only way to go on a small acreage: > Though his book The Urban Farmer still similarly emphasi
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by leepowers 10y ago
One of the great things about WordPress is the plugin ecosystem. This is also a something of an achilles heel, especially when it comes to security. WordPress seems to attract a lot of lowest-common-denominator coders who create plugins. So
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by leepowers 10y ago
Wait, you don't spec out project changes? You just start writing code and attempt to figure it out as you go along? That seems like a recipe for disaster, or at least a lot of wasted effort. How do you even quantify that you've do
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by leepowers 10y ago
Even more than that Kurzweil boldly predicts that nanobots will cure virtually all disease within ~15-25 years (by 2030s at least, but no later than the 2040s). I certainly hope this prediction is true. But I think it has more to do with th
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by leepowers 10y ago
We can conceptualize problems as discrete units to be solved and enumerated. But reality is dynamic and relational, and all problems are ultimately interrelated somehow. It's that true discrete problem units are smaller and simpler tha

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