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811.
by rqtwteye 3y ago
Considering that company profits and the income of the top 20% went up, it seems fair that other income goes up too. There may be some inflation but I think wage earners would still be much better off.
812.
by rqtwteye 3y ago
If churches only followed their own preachings :-)
813.
by rqtwteye 3y ago
Well said. And of course they still want to stay super rich.
814.
by rqtwteye 3y ago
Same for US hospitals and health insurance. They constantly make “mistakes” in their favor and the worst thing that can happen is that they have to pay what they are required to pay anyways.
815.
by rqtwteye 3y ago
Totally agree. There should be a standard that uses access keys and provides APIs to access the data. If that existed I could easily cobble something together with some python scripts and a database.
816.
by rqtwteye 3y ago
I still miss MS Money. It did everything I needed and I didn't hand over my account passwords to a cloud service like Mint. It's kind of mindboggling that this got ever accepted as the way to do things.
817.
by rqtwteye 3y ago
It's always amazing to think that somebody at some point had to invent things we now take for granted and feel like they just have to be that way. As a sidenote it's sad that WinFS failed.
818.
by rqtwteye 3y ago
I remember taking to a film maker at Yellowstone. He told me that you have a fixed amount of time and budget to get footage. If you don’t get everything you need, you fill with some other footage. That footage may be from previous projects
819.
by rqtwteye 3y ago
Agree about AI. It would be way more patient and take its time to talk to the patient than doctors have these days.
820.
by rqtwteye 3y ago
Plenty of doctors make >1,000,000.
821.
by rqtwteye 3y ago
"Doctors are expected to be able to catch nearly any disease in their specialty based on an honest consultation." From my experience they don't. If you have any problem off the beaten path you may spend years and multiple doc
822.
by rqtwteye 3y ago
“ expensive fixes instead of actually addressing root causes.” There is the old quote “the Americans will always do the right thing. Right after they have tried everything else”. It feels like this in a lot of social issues like health care
823.
by rqtwteye 3y ago
Football stadiums, defense.
824.
by rqtwteye 3y ago
It’s built by a European agency. US airbases in Germany are usually called “American” and it seems the Germans are ok with it.
825.
by rqtwteye 3y ago
The distances in New Mexico are huge and not much population.
826.
by rqtwteye 3y ago
The Cosmic Campground is pretty close and they often have guys with telescopes there.
827.
by rqtwteye 3y ago
Imagine how well companies would do if we would do away with these pesky workplace safety regulations and the five day workweek the unions fought for.
828.
by rqtwteye 3y ago
"I find it odd that there is this widespread meme—on HN, not in the industry—that microservices are never justified" I think the problem is the word "micro". At my company I see a lot of projects that are run by three de
829.
by rqtwteye 3y ago
I wish we would give tech writers and generally the art of writing more respect. My company is in the medical field so we have to produce a ton of documentation. Turns out most developers aren't good writers, don't really want to
830.
by rqtwteye 3y ago
I think it drives people away. A micropayment system with a few cents per article would be way better in my opinion.
831.
by rqtwteye 3y ago
I have heard similar stories from US teachers I hike with. Parents will side with their kinds or just not care and school administration will side with the parents or do nothing. This leaves teachers having to deal with discipline issues bu
832.
by rqtwteye 3y ago
"but he and his wife turned out to be the ultimate NIMBYs when it was actually their backyard: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/08/marc-andre ..." This episode is all you need to k
833.
by rqtwteye 3y ago
During the whole election fraud situation a lot of republicans wouldn't publicly say that the allegations were nonsense although they privately knew that there was no massive fraud. So with truth standard I mean an ethics standard wher
834.
by rqtwteye 3y ago
I don't think they are just a reflection. They also shape society.
835.
by rqtwteye 3y ago
I really wish US politicians would adopt some truth standard in campaigning. I know they won’t do that but it would be really nice if the constant blatant lying would stop. I don’t think AI will make the situation much worse. If anything, i
836.
by rqtwteye 3y ago
Same here. When VB4 came out I wrote a COM based plugin system with it which worked perfectly.
837.
by rqtwteye 3y ago
I see some Rivians when I go shopping and I just think they are obscenely big. They often basically use up two parking spots. I don’t think that’s the direction we want to go. Same complaint for the Tesla Cybertruck.
838.
by rqtwteye 3y ago
Do you still have to enter all your data or does it prefill the data it already knows like W-2 and 1099? That’s where the real benefit comes in my opinion.
839.
by rqtwteye 3y ago
I have written tons of perfectly fine C++ code for many platforms. I totally failed doing something for Nokia because tooling and documentation was terrible.
840.
by rqtwteye 3y ago
I feel in today's workplace we need to collaborate all the time (preferably in a loud open office) and nobody needs to do any actual work. I love to collaborate but my best work got done when I had several weeks of uninterrupted focus

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