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by runako 11mo ago
Quick summary: the US does not have anything approaching a modern healthcare system. (And likely will not for quite some time due to a set of structural factors.) Obamacare (the Affordable Care Act or ACA) was an attempt to expand coverage
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by runako 11mo ago
This is misleading. Health insurance premiums cost about as much as buying a new car every year. Healthcare is generally on top of those premium payments.
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by runako 11mo ago
Starlink solves for a problem where there is not a good alternative: high-speed Internet access for rural environments. Land-based solutions for this are potentially even more expensive than putting satellites in space. But clearly Starlink
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by runako 11mo ago
Actually surprising when programmers (especially) push back. A couple years ago, people were doing copy/paste from ChatGPT to their IDEs. Now, they generally work at a higher level of abstraction in dedicated tools like Coded or Cursor
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by runako 11mo ago
Without weighing in on the accuracy of this claim, this would be an expected part of the maturity cycle. Compare to databases. You could probably have plotted a chart of database adoption rates in the '90s as small companies started ru
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by runako 11mo ago
> we combine the movement of money and subsequent state transitions involved in unlocking value > it's granting entitlements This is what Chargebee is doing[1]. I believe Zuora is another big company operating in the space. 1 -
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by runako 11mo ago
Ahhh so this is mainly for subscription software companies? That also did not come across. As we approach Black Friday in the US, I'm thinking of the giant volume of e-commerce transactions that are not subscriptions (or usage-based),
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by runako 11mo ago
It looks like this is more akin to a React-only Chargebee where entitlements etc. are stored with the billing provider. (Apologies if I am misreading the site.)
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by runako 11mo ago
> pretty much every Stripe integration uses Stripe Billing Isn't Stripe Billing only for subscriptions?
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by runako 11mo ago
It is a freedom we had at the beginning of 2025 to purchase goods from more countries with lower taxes, I don't understand your response. This cannot be in debate. I agree with you that US citizens have a different suite of freedoms th
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by runako 11mo ago
The sticky part is we are also one of the largest producers in the world, and there is every reason to think that our producers will also take hits from our chaotic trade "policy." (This is in addition to the fact that imposing bi
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by runako 11mo ago
It's shockingly easy to scare some people away from public transit. Same city, private transport: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-08-13/carjacki... Personally, I would rather be on a bus wi
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by runako 11mo ago
> New Zealand effective taxes rates are generally higher than the US US tax rates are complex due to local variance and other factors. Tax rate on the median NZ income appears to be ~30%. Tax on median US is lower, but state taxes can ad
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by runako 11mo ago
I included the Swiss example exactly for this reason, to show that it's not 100% about the delivery model.
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by runako 11mo ago
Varies by state and age? My very red state does not allow a group of 40, full stop. The largest group allowed is for 3-year-olds, with a 1:15 adult:child ratio. For younger children, the ratios and group sizes are smaller. I was off on the
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by runako 11mo ago
Those subsidies tend to be €X00 per month. I am not aware of any scheme that even attempted to replace 80% of forfeited wages. A subsidy that ends up with you having to move impoverish yourself is not going to have the desired effect.
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by runako 11mo ago
There's a couple of fallacies embedded here. For example, that there is a thorough and deep vetting process that is also impartial (vs being invested in denying benefits). Also the assumption that an application that is denied == fraud
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by runako 11mo ago
The data on UBI isn't out there, but it is notable that countries with similar tax rates to the US manage to have universal healthcare and more expansive safety nets. Some examples: New Zealand (tax rate ~30% less than the US), Korea,
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by runako 11mo ago
This analysis is incomplete for a couple of reasons: 1. any universal childcare scheme will involve groups larger than the median at-home familial group. Avery is watching ~1-2 kids, but if those kids are at creche, they are in a group of (
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by runako 11mo ago
Congrats on the launch! Feedback: this site crashes my Safari (Sequoia) reliably, so I can't see the demo.
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by runako 11mo ago
He consulted with the most notorious child sex trafficker of modern times on his plan to use the power of his position to coerce a young woman into sex. In those consultations, he used a racial slur to refer to the young woman. There are ot
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by runako 11mo ago
> its most valuable elder statesman That's Barack Obama. Among other things, he's not 80 and still has the vigor of youth. Clinton is just old at this point.
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by runako 11mo ago
"Being in charge of a social media project is, turns out, quite the stressful endeavour" -- Rochko rhymes with "You wake up in the morning, look at my phone, you get like a million messages, right, of stuff that come in. It&#
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by runako 11mo ago
> the landlords, asset holders, and tech companies Largest household expense after housing is usually (sometimes indirect) health insurance premiums. For a family of 4, this is running on the order of $30k annually now. That's creep
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by runako 11mo ago
No, but only with the GOP can you be certain that those things will happen.
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by runako 11mo ago
> Hardware failures on server hardware at the scale of 1 machine are far less common than us-east-1 downtime A couple pieces of gentle pushback here: - if you chose a hyperscaler, you should use their (often one-click) geographic redunda
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by runako 11mo ago
The Senate is already an antidemocratic brake/stabilizer. Adding a brake to it is stultifying. > so that small swings in representation, say 51-49 to 49-51 can't produce massive swings in policy Exactly, and this is bad. Voters
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by runako 11mo ago
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by runako 11mo ago
Yes, none of this is in conflict with my message.
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by runako 11mo ago
Not a historian, but some possibilities: - some governments were explicitly modeled on the US system - others were influenced by the US system as they moved from e.g. monarchies - most countries have some sort of caste system that establish

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