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by shantly 7y ago
I just mean all the developer tools, consumer-facing GUI software, and a wide variety of server software & daemons. All of those that I’ve seen in Java over the last 20ish years. Perhaps the tech giants are all writing Java that’s nearl
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by shantly 7y ago
Same but I’m willing to copy them all to one place. Bonus if it ingests sources and does the copying for me, but in some kind of sane or simply flat file layout. Difficulty: must support live photos, and videos, too, and no cloud crap (or I
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by shantly 7y ago
It’s been the case ever since I can remember that “Java’s basically as efficient as native, it’s super fast” but all the actual java software I encounter is a slowish, bloated memory hog. I don’t know why, but that’s how it is.
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by shantly 7y ago
Apologies. My post was too harsh and impersonal—dealing in generalities when a human whose concerns and actions are particular was involved. Sorry about that. Have a nice holiday season.
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by shantly 7y ago
> The best defense of democracy is Churchill's: democracy is the worst form of Government except for all the rest. So Two Cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism. Two cheers are quite
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by shantly 7y ago
All the stuff I wrote about in the first comment, which is zero of the things you just strawmanned?
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by shantly 7y ago
... which means you can go look at them to see how it's working out. Again, I am legitimately interested in learning about any healthcare system in a state with an advanced economy that doesn't employ price controls in one for
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by shantly 7y ago
AFAIK every single other OECD state has explicit or de-facto (via monopsony) price controls for much of the healthcare sector. Hell, even non-OECD free-marketer-beloved Singapore does. I would, no kidding, love to see any example of a suc
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by shantly 7y ago
Our current system puts a huge time burden on healthcare "consumers" despite being vastly more expensive than any remotely similarly-effective system. This time burden falls largely, though not entirely, on the sick and their fa
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by shantly 7y ago
Yes this is exactly what dealing with medical billing is like and why it's awful, and not a non-sequitur.
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by shantly 7y ago
Ah, pretty sure I've never been under nor been close to anyone under an HMO so I'm not familiar with how those operate. Given how common stuff like in TFA is, plus so much more on smaller and less eye-popping scales, and seeming e
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by shantly 7y ago
So higher medical spending does not let them make greater profits?
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by shantly 7y ago
No part of medical billing whatsoever would fly most anywhere else. It's batshit crazy, top to bottom. Go get service at one place, get fifteen damn bills from five people & companies spread out over three months plus a pile of mai
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by shantly 7y ago
Are insurance companies' take of the pie still defined as a percentage of total spending? If so, they have little reason not to look the other way, especially if fighting the problem in a systemic fashion (rather than just every now an
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by shantly 7y ago
I wonder what percentage of Google's ad clicks come from people clicking an ad for something they would have ended up at anyway, because it's exactly what they were searching for. Especially with their deceptive bullshit ad placem
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by shantly 7y ago
I have a suspicion that most application of computing and Internet technology, even in business, has in fact been neutral or somewhat negative in terms of productivity and, for humans, also for happiness, but some minority of the applicatio
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by shantly 7y ago
A lot of traditional cooking and recipes are based on systems . They interconnect with other cooking. So you make one dish or you slaughter one animal or whatever, end up with fat or lard or something as a byproduct, use that to make other
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by shantly 7y ago
I wonder whether people think they're aiding communication with it.
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by shantly 7y ago
Incentives and punishments only matter for little people. With the rich and powerful, of course they'll do a good job because they simply like doing a good job. ... is apparently the argument. I mean, see also: drug tests for the minim
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by shantly 7y ago
There are lots of systems around, many aimed at simpler and more story-focused play than D&D. Downside is they usually have fewer resources for DMs so you'll be making your own campaigns, designing your own encounters, and so on, m
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by shantly 7y ago
A US kid who hates school but has above-average general intelligence (so, not the prodigies who teach themselves Attic Greek at age 6 and go to Harvard at 12, just normal 1-in-50 or 1-in-25 smart kids) can probably bail on high school when
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by shantly 7y ago
Being good at quickly figuring out the intended correct answer of multiple choice questions has two actual uses in adult life: personality & behavioral screening tests for jobs in the lower tier of the economic pyramid, and corporate&#x
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by shantly 7y ago
You pay quite a bit extra for peanut butter without sugar or corn syrup as the second listed ingredient, in the US, and have to look around a bit to find it on the shelves that are 95%+ full of peanut+sugar butter. That's "normal&
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by shantly 7y ago
> Buckwheat That one's not common in food in the US, either. A lot more "odd" ingredients are widely available now than used to be in the US, so you can find it without too much trouble, but it's still not something m
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by shantly 7y ago
They set the precedent by dealing with one already. The saying “don’t feed the trolls” exists for a reason.
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by shantly 7y ago
Thing is, different companies interview so differently and with such wildly different expectations—for apparently nearly-identical jobs!—that I’m not even sure the odd bit of feedback here and there would even be all that useful.
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by shantly 7y ago
Android docs feel the same way, with a side of "eh, just make the interns do it".
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by shantly 7y ago
Quick solution: fine phone companies instead, since it's easy to collect from them. Give 'em 6 months notice and I bet spam and scam calls are nearly eliminated before the notice period's up and you barely end up collecting a
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by shantly 7y ago
You don't go out of your way to place a base near another state unless you consider them a threat, or consider them no threat at all but want to conquer them in the near future. I think the former is more likely the intention in this c
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by shantly 7y ago
> None of the TypeScript teams got past level 5. All of the rest got past level 15. The TypeScript-using teams also wrote a bunch of machine-verifiable documentation and code navigation tools, so I'm not surprised it was slower. I c

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