softdevca

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   by softdevca 3mo ago

   Fee-for-service doesn't prevent ambulances from being considered a communal expense, it just makes sticky. There is nothing preventing a government from making ambulances equivalent to fire or police except the will. From the article:
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   by softdevca 3mo ago

   I don't understand why taxes can be used to save property but not a person.
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   by softdevca 3y ago

   Those that are worth listening to often are.
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   by softdevca 3y ago

   Early in in my career I was part of a small company that developed a grid-based language for geospatial applications. The grid approach worked well for a lot of aspects, like implicit caching and concurrency. The cells could contain data th
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   by softdevca 4y ago

   I may have misconstrued that ELI5 was snark for "elide", in the same vein as I18N or A11Y. Present me wishes I could explain Explain ELI5 Like I'm 5 to my past self.