mancerayder

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by mancerayder 3mo ago
Starting a business, but that requires financial independence, right? If not, what do you do in your 40's with no healthcare? Or the state marketplace healthcare that is basically 'catrastrophe only', with no out of network
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by mancerayder 3mo ago
Gmail is a good example of being a Very Good Company, waiting a few years when everyone is hooked on the products the company made, and then turning in the one we know today where Do No Evil was long scrubbed as a motto.
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by mancerayder 3mo ago
You lost us after "Canada." I have zero doubt things like furniture and clothing are going to be superior if made in Canada than the U.S. or China. I checked your link and there are no stores in the U.S. (or their zip code searc
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by mancerayder 3mo ago
No one ever cared, at least in the U.S. about 'food rent healthcare transport'. In the U.S. we don't combine those ideas together. Unless you're a student or a politician, almost no one talks like that. You and I kno
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by mancerayder 3mo ago
How much is private equity to blame? At first I was tired of the bogeyman, but it's starting to show patterns. Working in tech, I've seen from colleagues the shannanigans played - they come in the form of taking out debt of one
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The Great American Fun Shortage of 2026(bloomberg.com)
2 points by mancerayder 3mo ago|0 comments
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by mancerayder 3mo ago
This was a fun article to read. Yes Windows is more surveillance software than Android or Apple are - the article makes that case well at the end when talking about how tracking is more explicit and can be turned off on those. But I'm
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AI Is Making Silicon Valley Productive, Anxious and Afraid to Log Off(bloomberg.com)
2 points by mancerayder 3mo ago|1 comments
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by mancerayder 3mo ago
Be careful of Paypal! Go info your subscriptions section and check it out - there's a decade of past ones, including companies in the grave. Some aren't, like Evernote, which renewed automatically for a year on an old email I do
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by mancerayder 3mo ago
In English (is it worse in American English?) we frequently convert gerunds into simpler forms of the word. The spending turns into the spend. Related,the request turns into the ask (although this example turns out to have a strong anglo
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I Survived Europe's Heat Wave Without AC(reason.com)
5 points by mancerayder 3mo ago|0 comments
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by mancerayder 3mo ago
The immigration issue is very much tied to race, for the DSA and much of the Progressive movement. Let us just say it is not Ukrainian immigrants they're losing sleep over protecting.
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by mancerayder 3mo ago
Everyone in his entourage was talking about Israel as one of their top activist concerns, including his wife, and the new folks he just helped get elected. And he made notable 'statements' by avoiding certain events and other thi
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by mancerayder 3mo ago
All fine. The only part that I have trouble with in your message is the 1.5M number. Why should something like anemia cost 1.5M a year of treament? And out of that 1.5M a year to the hospital, how much goes to: a) administration b) health
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by mancerayder 3mo ago
> Health insurance stopped being insurance when the government forced them to cover everything. You are paying for risks that will never apply to you. Your entire message is extremely localized to your state. In New York State, the stat
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by mancerayder 3mo ago
The DSA has a narrow agenda: Israel is number one, second is immigration, racial and gender issues, maybe a distant other wish is actual socialist principles. In other words, it truly feels as though the left in the U.S., just as the righ
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by mancerayder 4mo ago
Me, in my fantasies. Sadly I'm tightly mortgaged and in a very high cost of living area in the US. My plan is to move to Europe so I can cut my cost of living in half, not stress over health care, and eat real food instead of fake Amer
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by mancerayder 4mo ago
You're repeating talking points that seem ideological in a response to a direct, falsifiable set of assertions. That's the most terrifying thing about ideologies, whether right or left - they just don't pay attention to deba
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by mancerayder 4mo ago
Did I misread? I hover over the Nuclear and it literally says 0% of electricity is nuclear" for Germany.
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by mancerayder 4mo ago
Your theory is just that - theory. Just talk to someone who owns property, or do the research. Insurance costs, Up, energy, Up, when something breaks, it costs more to fix it. It's basic input cost math. I don't know what &#x27
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by mancerayder 4mo ago
Well the Greens in Europe handed Russia leverage thanks to relying on natural gas instead of nuclear, which it opposed (thanks German Greens). In France these ideologues oppose A/C becauase it's evil: it makes us comfortable when
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by mancerayder 4mo ago
Underlying rent are other things going up - property taxes, input costs like labor and materials, and insurance. While we must be mindful of greed and abuse, we need to include all underlying costs before just assuming people are cranking u
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by mancerayder 4mo ago
If my memory serves me correct (no pun intended), when I was a kid I remember bugging my mom to buy me like 2 or 4 1 MB modules, it was at least 50 bucks or 100 bucks each. Now everyone's going to talk about how cheap everything is by
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by mancerayder 4mo ago
Software was leaner! Today, software can do insane things with video, AI, graphics.. But the basics have gotten fat. Browsers and OSes are hungry monsters demanding you to have as much CPU and memory as possible.
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by mancerayder 4mo ago
Too late! Win10 Pro absolutely demanded and harassed me til I upgraded to the dreaded 11. I put up with it for gaming and did registry hack workarounds to stop the stupid web connectivity and TV-like content it was pushing. It wasn'
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by mancerayder 4mo ago
It's extreme heat because there's a strong moral opposition and infrastructure immaturity when it comes to air conditioning. Look no further than France where there's even air conditioning in trains but they keep it borderli
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by mancerayder 4mo ago
So much capital has exited even the dominant coins. Is it another low to be inflated up again in a year or two? This has happened every single time The End was declared.
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by mancerayder 4mo ago
Won't that filter out actual sane people who would find Pascal knowledge requirements off-putting? It's like if you said, must have experience with OS/2 Warp to a DevOps guy. Or do you mention somehow that it's an AI c
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by mancerayder 4mo ago
I'm in agreement in general. I argue against people who think Manhattan should be more dense, or parklands should turn into apartment blocs. The problem with a lot of the US is that the city designs are atrocious - if you can call the
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by mancerayder 4mo ago
Here are two. Suburbs, good ones with low crime, access to jobs and good schools are desirable. Desirability leads to prices going up. Prices going up leads to property tax revenue going up. That budget going up leads to a higher $/

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