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by supertrope 10mo ago
If it's more profitable to keep your money under a mattress than to make things, provide services, or provide loans, the economy will tilt toward hoarding cash instead of more productive activities.
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by supertrope 10mo ago
Educating and socializing kids takes more than 180 days a year. It takes a village to raise a kid. Think of all the things you learned from your parents, your extended family, your sports coach, your neighbor, or the manager of the corner s
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by supertrope 11mo ago
"Dad, download the PDF and then email it to me." "The file disappeared. I can't find it." "Look in the download folder." "How do I get to that?"
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by supertrope 11mo ago
Even when the phones on both ends use IP calling technology, the interconnection between phone companies is usually not IP.
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by supertrope 11mo ago
iCloud backups are something normal people do each time they plug in their phone.
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by supertrope 11mo ago
No. SS7 predates cellphones. It's the legacy control plane for the PSTN (public switched telephone network). It was never designed for security since it originally never crossed corporate boundaries as everyone had to use the monopoly
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by supertrope 11mo ago
Media mail is a way to make the USPS subsidize schools, teachers, and students. Fiction books are used in English classes so they are considered educational. They set the rules in a way that's enforceable. Imagine if they required you
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by supertrope 1y ago
I understand your concern about software quality. We are deeply committed to delivering the highest standards of the industry, having a customer focused culture, and delivering win-wins in AI digital transformations that excite. Let’s circl
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by supertrope 1y ago
Fraud is knowingly deceiving others for material gain.
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by supertrope 1y ago
Bureaucracies begrudgingly allow a few shortcuts to exist so they can respond to regulators and media attention. But once enough customers realize it exists they will shut it down and raise the bar to keep the vast majority of peasants herd
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by supertrope 1y ago
The hospitals and insurers are locked in a Red Queen Race. The hospital bills for 10x actual market value. The insurer touts they are getting you a 90% discount. The individual who got sick or injured gets crushed in the middle.
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by supertrope 1y ago
In a bazaar you can examine the fruit or rug yourself. An average person cannot call up $750K in a year to pay for cancer treatment. But for-profit businesses (and any organization for that matter) treat you much better if keep the carrot o
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by supertrope 1y ago
Warning! As grotesque as health insurance companies are, in theory they are obligated to pay valid claims under your policy. Health sharing ministries can exercise discretion to deny payment because they disagree with your lifestyle choices
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by supertrope 1y ago
At Costco Pharmacy I stopped using my insurance plan as the co-pay was more than the no claim cash price. I learned later that my health insurance company owns its own pharmacy and they design the claims process to bias you toward their own
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by supertrope 1y ago
Even for politicians who are not absorbed in wedge issues, meaningful reform is a long term task. It would require multiple elections in a row showing that there is a durable political coalition for universal healthcare.
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by supertrope 1y ago
Even if you keep your plan it's getting enshittified every year. It's that time of year again - enroll for 2026 benefits. My employer raised employee premiums by 10%, raised the deductible, added more administrative burden such as
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by supertrope 1y ago
As Lawrence Lessig put it: before the general election and before the primary election, there is a "Lester" election where donors choose who is able to mount a campaign. Candidates are effectively pre-qualified by 0.0005% of Ameri
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by supertrope 1y ago
Always buy standards based equipment. 802.3af, 802.3at, 802.3bt. You can label cables and jacks with red lettering (“Passive PoE. will fry your laptop port. Really!”) but it only takes one mistake to let the magic smoke out.
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by supertrope 1y ago
I switched to dual booting. I only boot Windows for Steam. I wish there was a way to disable the pop-up asking to format the unknown (ext4) partition.
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by supertrope 1y ago
Iranians who who have become US citizens cannot renounce their Iranian citizenship because their country of origin refuses.
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by supertrope 1y ago
Lower end jobs tend to be unforgiving on not planting your butt in seat at the scheduled time. I find the higher end your job the less BS you are forced to endure. e.g. No drug tests, no doctor's note to justify sick leave. If there&#x
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by supertrope 1y ago
Housing and transportation should be considered a single budget category. If you can get rid of a second car but pay $500/mo more in rent it could be a wash.
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by supertrope 1y ago
Cities could create bus and bike lanes literally overnight. Load up a truck with concrete parking curbs and cones and drop them. No one is going to bike until the infrastructure makes it safe and convenient. Like safe enough to let a kid or
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by supertrope 1y ago
A common advertising technique is to exploit peoples' problems. Buy Product(tm) and your problem(s) will be solved! Sometimes this problem doesn't even exist but the advertiser will exploit your fear. If you don't buy Product
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by supertrope 1y ago
I don't think gp comment is advocating doing a cash out re-finance, but to exploit leverage when first financing the purchase. I used to be very debt averse. Owing a six figure sum seemed like a huge burden. Now I understand that mortg
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by supertrope 1y ago
This is analogous to why houses listed for sale are so bland. Realtors and sellers stage the property to appeal to as wide an audience as possible. Even if you could elicit a stronger response from a niche of buyers who love a certain ameni
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by supertrope 1y ago
Please make sure to throw away your Kleenex before stepping onto the Escalator.
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by supertrope 1y ago
At the governmental level non-Western aligned governments are reacting to freezing of Bank of Russia assets. Freezing of foreign currency reserves was really unexpected. Russia was forced into default because they could not access their USD
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by supertrope 1y ago
IPSec originally ran on raw IP. These days it has to be tunneled in UDP due to TCP or UDP only ossification. PMTUD breaks when ICMP is blocked. The same argument can be made that everything but HTTP being blocked is not a problem because ev
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by supertrope 1y ago
Imagine Franz Kafka’s The Trial but the protagonist has been detained because a national security AI has hallucinated that they are a threat.

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