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by mirkules 6y ago
I see healthcare as a special case, though (the rule about exceptions becoming the rule, notwithstanding). The healthcare system is interwoven with rules and regulations. For instance, we already have tax rules depending on your yearly FSA&
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by mirkules 6y ago
I’m not entirely sure this is the case. I suspect (but can’t prove) it’s mostly split among party lines, with an equal pool of wealth between them. That is, there are plenty of rich Democrats that could bankroll this.
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by mirkules 6y ago
The issue is that of incentive, to put it bluntly. What is the incentive of a medical provider to provide The Best Care Possible, when they know for sure there is no competition? You end up with a system whose only raison d’etre is to conti
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by mirkules 6y ago
I am an immigrant from a socialist, ex-communist country in the Balkans, where socialized medicine is the norm, as is having really good doctors. The few times I’ve had to go to the doctor there, either to be seen myself or to help my grand
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by mirkules 6y ago
I hope you realize that grocery stores track you in other ways than just your zip code or phone number [1]. You have a beacon in your pocket that is always searching for SSIDs or Bluetooth IDs, which is more than enough to uniquely ID you.
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by mirkules 6y ago
> Illegal Alien: person. This is like saying “another word for car is ‘vehicle’”. It’s not the same thing. Maybe it’s an outdated expression, but it still signifies a person who crossed a country’s border illegally and does not have le
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by mirkules 6y ago
Sharing screenshots of news sites? Copy-pasting text verbatim or non-verbatim? Any number of ways users can - and will - get around it to maintain the toxic environment. Just look at Twitter.
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by mirkules 6y ago
I’ve heard this line before, except back then it was Microsoft and Internet Explorer.
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by mirkules 6y ago
Thank you for mentioning the insanity of perpetually and badly reinventing the wheel. I’m in my 40s now, and I realized last year I’m utterly burned out. The passion for programming is just gone. I get home from work now and the last thing
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by mirkules 6y ago
It’s so easy to think of “societal net gain” when you are on the winning side. However, when you are on the receiving end of “societal net gain,” it is a much tougher pill to swallow. In other words, personal sacrifice by choice is laudable
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by mirkules 6y ago
Exactly right. Thank you for writing this. I’m in a similar position, where I’m responsible for reducing tech debt, reducing internal operating costs, while ensuring the infrastructure still operates, and while being responsible for testing
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by mirkules 6y ago
As weird as it sounds, inefficiency can be a feature of regulation, especially for big companies because it creates a slow and expensive hurdle for smaller competitors. Sometimes, even as a consumer, this is desired, for ex when new drugs a
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by mirkules 6y ago
From my own recent experience, I ended up buying a Fender Strat HM (the yellow one), during the early days of the pandemic. First, their physical store - for where I bought the guitar for pickup - didn’t have a record of my purchase. So the
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by mirkules 6y ago
Thanks for the info. I’ve updated my original post to point out I was mistaken in my assumption.
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by mirkules 6y ago
Actually, I don’t have a source, it was just my assumption, so you’re probably right. But seeing the downvotes roll in, I should have known better than to question the financial motivation for an environmental study on HN.
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by mirkules 6y ago
The way you frame this makes it seem like a road tax is in our future. That, in turn, makes me more skeptical about this study, the funds for which were granted by the EPA. I’m not really insinuating the EPA is after your tax dollars, but t
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by mirkules 6y ago
Wait, is that AM or PM?
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by mirkules 6y ago
Oh, I was not insinuating you were. I was directing my comment into the V8 developers’ direction
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by mirkules 6y ago
“You’re using it wrong” is a poor argument for undesired/unexpected behavior (aka, a bug).
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by mirkules 6y ago
I tried to do something similar. I didn't want to accept Google's terms of service because of all the data collection, but since I wanted to cast to my TV from my devices, I had no other choice - the TV's interface would just
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by mirkules 6y ago
Wow thanks for digging that up. My dad was a “regular contributor” so it’s really cool to see his work. Računari also, IIRC.
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by mirkules 6y ago
I would caution against mounting phones on handlebars. I used an iPhone for a few months, and then I noticed my camera would constantly jitter - constant shaking and bumping damaged the camera’s autofocus. Using them once in a while is prob
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by mirkules 6y ago
Modern take on it: Scrum meetings will continue until morale improves Edit: Accidentally submitted twice
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by mirkules 6y ago
Wow this guy got me pumped. I used to do P90X last decade, but as my body’s getting older and my eating habits and motivation are not what they used to be, I need a bit of a change. This guy has that “it” factor that just makes you want to
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by mirkules 6y ago
It’s no coincidence this is happening now. The seeds of Marxism were planted long before the Soviet Union died. One of the most fascinating lectures by Yuri Bezmenov, a KGB defector, described 30+ years ago exactly what the long-term plans
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by mirkules 6y ago
If a system’s purpose is to protect citizens from bad actors, it is only a matter of time before the citizens become suspected bad actors, and the machinery is turned against the citizens. This is a concept that is sadly missing in well-int
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by mirkules 6y ago
I just watched the MuseScore video. I get that he’s trying to be entertaining, but he just comes off as a jerk to me. Doesn’t make him less correct of course, but do we really need a blood-vomiting Shostakovich or imagined email exchange ma
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by mirkules 6y ago
There are so many weird things like that, but the one that infuriates me the most is the inability to move notes left and right. The answer is to cut and paste, which - if you have already written out multiple bars but realize one note is i
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by mirkules 6y ago
This is lovely, thanks!
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by mirkules 6y ago
You mentioned the volume/brightness sliders as being imprecise. I don’t have a MBP, but I noticed that touchscreen sliders are really difficult to use accurately. Whenever I slide to a value I wanted, lifting my finger inevitably moves

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