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by wat10000 2mo ago
Who’s going to simply require that? There are ~200 sovereign nations on the planet, they’re not all going to do it, or have effective enforcement if they do.
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by wat10000 2mo ago
Nope, you don't need analytics. You might want analytics, and you might want them enough to bother every single visitor with a popup so you can have them, but you don't need them. And if you decide you need them, you can do th
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by wat10000 2mo ago
I get consistency out of the ridiculous pile of quantum noise that is my CPU. Plenty of random processes produce consistency when handled properly. An LLM won't usually give identical outputs for identical inputs, but it's entirel
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by wat10000 2mo ago
> The government should ensure minimum standards (and sufficient competition in the market). Everything else, let the customers decide what they want or do not want to pay for. I'm pretty sure everyone agrees with this statement. Th
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by wat10000 2mo ago
OK, so don't do that. Web sites work fine without remembering anonymous users' preferences across sessions.
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by wat10000 2mo ago
They're not covering their ass, they're making a deliberate tradeoff. It's trivial to make a site that doesn't need a cookie banner: don't set any cookies. Modern web devs have probably forgotten, but this is actu
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by wat10000 2mo ago
"Medical expenses contributed" is awfully vague. Doesn't any expense contribute to bankruptcy? I'm more interested in the ~40% who didn't have medical expenses contribute. Are they not seeing doctors at all, or ar
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by wat10000 2mo ago
The only reason my hypothetical doesn’t happen is because it’s literally illegal. Your scenario doesn’t happen because solo travelers exist and you don’t get an entire plane full of pairs.
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by wat10000 2mo ago
The point is to be seen to be doing something, so that the nervous public sees that Something is being Done, and so that politicians can say they did all they could the next time there’s an attack. Anything they actually do is very much sec
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by wat10000 2mo ago
There’s a fundamental issue with people, which is that it’s difficult to treat masses of people as separate individuals. After the 20th time you ask someone to take out their laptop, there’s a part of you that’s screaming , “we’ve done thi
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by wat10000 2mo ago
What’s wrong is providing a floor that’s beneath human dignity. Imagine if they charged extra for seat belts, or getting help evacuating after a crash. Some people would be willing to take the extra risk in exchange for paying less. You let
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by wat10000 2mo ago
It’s suspicious that they repeat “without any quality compromise” instead of just outright saying it’s the exact same model. It’s like a motel that insists they have clean beds.
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by wat10000 2mo ago
I blame the readers. It shouldn’t be that hard to think about it for two seconds and conclude they’re probably not just plopping gamers in front of a radar screen. But apparently that’s too much to ask.
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by wat10000 2mo ago
It’s just a recruitment campaign. It’s not like they’re putting people straight into a control tower because they like to play Microsoft Flight Simulator or something. They still go through a whole training process.
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by wat10000 2mo ago
The bad thing isn't the smaller size, it's the deception that goes along with it. Sometimes companies introduce a smaller size as a smaller size, and nobody cares when that happens. Small size candy bars are common and everybody&#
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by wat10000 2mo ago
> Why do you assume most Americans are rich? And why do you assume they are the ones that matter? Very weird. But let's take it at face value. Seriously? The quote you're responding to divides Americans up into "the poores
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by wat10000 2mo ago
Or they could all be single people who went bankrupt because they gambled away all of their money, but they list medical bills as a contributing factor because their bankruptcy filing included a $20 copay for treating their gambler's e
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by wat10000 2mo ago
I'm looking at facts. If someone tells me that the US qualifies as a third-world country based on metrics, and those metrics don't support the claim, I'm going to point that out. I'm sorry if this upsets you. (Not really
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by wat10000 2mo ago
100 million Americans owing $220 billion in medical debt is an average of $2,200 per person. That's too much, but that's not bankruptcy levels of debt. 100 million Americans owe $1.6 trillion in auto loan debt. 530,000 medical ban
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by wat10000 2mo ago
"Most bankruptcies are medical debt" and "most people do not go bankrupt from medical issues" are completely compatible statements.
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by wat10000 2mo ago
No it doesn't. You said "probably will bankrupt your family." This is not true.
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by wat10000 2mo ago
Please don't abuse "objectively." There's no objective measure of what "working OK" even means in the first place, let alone objective information that says whether or not we meet that bar. EU life expectancy w
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by wat10000 2mo ago
Maternal/infant mortality, lifespan, and murder rate are all in a realm I'd call not-great-not-terrible, where we're toward the tail of wealthy countries, but not close to the average of the third world. Those also tend to co
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by wat10000 2mo ago
This somewhat counters the idea that Mississippi is comparable to the middle of the EU pack based on per-capita GDP. But the comment I replied to said that the entire US is "basically a third-world country masquerading as a first-world
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by wat10000 2mo ago
Being poor enough to qualify for Medicaid is another way to get decent care, but it's mostly true if we take "having a good job" to include being part of a family with someone who has one. The thing is, most Americans do ha
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by wat10000 2mo ago
Apparently HN commenters have difficulty with the concept of "metrics." What are the numbers? The US system sucks in a lot of ways, but it works OK for most Americans. If you're very poor, you'll have Medicaid and it&#x2
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by wat10000 2mo ago
What’s the metric for that? The average American has decent health insurance. Our system can be painful and I'm not advocate for it, but the average American is not going bankrupt due to medical issues.
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by wat10000 2mo ago
Per capita GDP of Mississippi still puts it in about the middle of the pack of EU countries, despite being the lowest among US states by some margin.
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by wat10000 2mo ago
Which metrics are those? Things don’t look great for the poorest Americans, but the average American isn’t living a life that’s even remotely third world.
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by wat10000 2mo ago
That was my first reaction too. Did the ultra rich not need to concern themselves with these petty matters in 1917 Russia, for example? But thinking more, things are different today. Wealth is international on a qualitatively different leve

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