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by mgh95 2y ago
> The risk pool should be as large as possible, the whole country, to minimize costs for everyone. The risk pool being larger does not necessarily improve the risk pool.
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Yeah but then how do you pay for social benefits such as SSDI, medicare, medicaid, etc.?
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> As you get older, you start to experience more adverse health affects. You start to need medical attention more. Especially if you've been denied healthcare for the first 65 years. Sort of: as you get older, time catches up to you
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Age 65+ is roughly 17% of pop and accounts for 37% of all spending. It's quite literally the place to focus on cost savings.
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> Yes, we pay more per-capita for our public healthcare system than some countries do for universal coverage, but we don’t cover everyone. Just for the public parts. Yes, because the US is currently experiencing an adverse selection bias
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by mgh95 2y ago
Realistically, the big cost differential in absolute terms in healthcare are borne in the elder group (65+). See this: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7411536/ . This is exactly where the "government s
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> The largest factor in new housing construction is land cost, and withholding land from new construction largely as a financial asset. This is incorrect. The largest factory in new single family housing construction is land cost. The
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> Capital flooding into the residential real estate market hasn't exactly 'sploded the quantity of available housing. No, because zoning (both in terms of timeline and build restrictions) is leading to artificial restriction of
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The downside is that you cannot build units (especially apartments) without large scale capital. To effectively build, you need people (developers) to finance the construction of many units, especially multifamily whether townhomes, apartme
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> Competition drives prices up. Competition doesn't drive prices up. Competition with restricted supply drives prices up. Competition is just the means of price discovery. Look up what happened in Minneapolis, MN when significant su
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This fact is what scares me most about economic populism in the USA. I'm not concerned about higher taxes: I'm concerned people look at the college market and see the problem as lack of subsidy, not about excess capital availabili
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> Those price-fungible goods and services you name capture surplus value to the seller. A Georgian tax on such goods captures that surplus value, limits price growth, and could further finance UBI/GBI and other public welfare projec
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That's fine? It's a market. Work for whoever is offering mutually agreeable terms for as long as that remains the case.
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> Is the employment market actually giving you that? Yes. Not all applications benefit from FAANG experience. There is a lot of work to be done that pays in the 130-200 range that isn't necessarily cutting edge. I should add, benefi
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> If getting the best developers for your budget isn't a priority, hiring remotely allows you to stretch your runway further. If I wanted to stretch my budget, I would go to LATAM. Developers marketing themselves as "go remote,
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If I'm being totally honest, I am not sure it would be totally foreign. Entrepreneurship in Sweden (at least according to a quick google search) is relatively rare. Most of the entrepreneurs coming from the nordics I have interacted wi
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I think a lot of this comes down to perception of ROI for management. If the employment market is giving you qualified candidates at the price you seek in-office, why would you expose yourself to risk? I'm in this situation now where I
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> C# apparently has a "checked" keyword [0] to enable overflow checking, which presumably would have prevented this as well. Java uses unsafe addition by default but, since version 8, has the "addExact" static method
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Yes, but 0 days exist. Software BOM is really only remedial.
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> Your specific example is a good one: interacting with Postgres is one of those things I said people choose despite it being riddled with security issues due to its age and choice of implementation language. Ah there is the issue: proto
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It's important to remember that even `npgsql` can have issues (see https://github.com/npgsql/npgsql/security/advisories/GHSA-x9... ). In your world, would the developer of a piece of software explote
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> Certainly it’s not a system without flaws, but I think it beats congress in specific situations. Congress is where corporations literally write the regulations in a system of unlimited legal bribery and insider trading. But writing the
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> The left has an extremely consistent view of the administrative state. They want it to exist as a quasi-fourth branch where the president doesn’t have full authority to turn those agencies into an embodiment of their personal will. Yes
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I'm going to be honest: I was playing Rome II as this article came up. I didn't play Rome II right at launch, but bought it a couple years on. I play it with mods (DEI). I previously played Shogun 2 (and associated expansions) and
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I very much disagree with this. It is possible (and we do this in production) to branch a pg database without requiring these tools using `pg_dump` or `pg_dumpall` which uses the ability to branch a database. These can be integrated with ei
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Pretty much. You can run your business basically saying things like "we will take PITR not less than every seven (7) days" and then just run it on off hours with `pg_dumpall` on each database and the memory/storage costs are
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by mgh95 2y ago
From the article: > 4. Performance > How can we ensure there are no performance regressions, and even performance improvements? When we launched Shepherd we promised to respond to every submission with an indication in 24 hours or
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This implies that open source tools that do more (i.e. serve more use cases, work with larger amounts of software) work better for the narrowly defined use of a single company, even one as large as Jane Street.
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Two differences: react (and other) conferences are intended to serve a dual mandate of advocacy for a specific method and general education of attendees who may not be knowledgeable about the topic at hand. Even if I write spring boot/
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Yeah, and self describing yourself as "...not having followed the conflict in Gaza especially closely..." and then joining a demonstration for a cause you did not elect to educate yourself on doesn't make it particularly hard

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