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by wwweston 4y ago
Protections of the ACA include the requirement to submit premium increases for state and federal review, and limits on how much of premiums can be used for anything other than medical costs. This means that they cannot legally "just&qu
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Additionally, "legally required" was a dubious way to describe the state of affairs even before then: you could continue to live freely your entire life without ever enrolling in an health insurance plan either by demonstrating pa
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This is the part that gets me every time this topic comes up: > "the U.S.... spends far more on healthcare than comparable nations both on a per-person basis and as a share of gross domestic product. And it's not just "on
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by wwweston 4y ago
This speaks to the point in the article "The real problem is that C++ is neither easy nor loved," which they offset with "The language may be hard. But it's also worth it." The problem is that there's a law of
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by wwweston 4y ago
> there's no way to escape them without the content blocker You can pay for the service, which supports it and the content creators, plus you get a few extra goodies. I started doing it about a year ago for the "play in backgro
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by wwweston 4y ago
> My biblical ethics classes taught the opposite of what the Bible teaches. Nothing more biblical than that, since the bible is polyvocal and therefore contains positions that are in tension and even on occasion outright opposition with
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by wwweston 4y ago
I'm now just coming into my 6th year and 2nd job that have been largely remote work, and while I can relate to the issues with the blurred boundaries between work and life... I'm still in the honeymoon period. I've probably b
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by wwweston 4y ago
Even before covid there were reasonable arguments that open office concepts were a form of managerial malfeasance. With the reminder that infectious disease is a thing and is often spread via the air, nobody has an excuse to not know that
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It's good to appreciate the privileges that come with being a well-paid 21st Century knowledge worker. It's also good to appreciate what even a well-paid 21st C knowledge worker has in common with other labor, including coal miner
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Eh, of all the threats I can think of, law enforcement being able to killswitch autopilot on my car is not even gonna make the top 100. Whether on the run for crimes or being pursued by sinister oppressors the automotive autopilot is not go
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Can you expand AEON (I assume it's an acronym)?
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This is exactly why when I picked a file-sync/storage service I have never once considered iCloud (or OneDrive for that matter) and never will. And in general I've stopped adopting Apple-originated software entirely, weaned myself
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The usual relevant questions here are: 1) Are there externalized costs? 2) How much the value is actually created by owners vs other labor within the company? 3) Are all participants rewarded proportionally to the value they create, or is t
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by wwweston 4y ago
That's interesting. Are you saying many people you know don't usually check street signs against the name of the streets the GPS directs users to? I know that's my reflex when I have readable street signs, but I guess I have
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by wwweston 4y ago
I think GPS is best thought of as "directions as a service" (demand defaulting to JIT). What would probably happen is that people would start asking for / giving directions again; my impression is that maps have usually been
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If you're a rideshare or cab driver and you also happen to see / recognize billboards nobody is going to hassle you for storing those in your neural net or suggest law should do so. If you're a designer and you take "bil
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When I finally got a smart phone 5 years after the iPhone came out, one of the first things I tried to do was train myself by not getting service on it for over 3 months. The idea was to make sure I had other kinds of content on it that w
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by wwweston 4y ago
Note that you list two pros and ignore any of the cons. And one of the pros (low cost) is potentially transient and may depend on externalized costs. "Natural gas stoves, which are used in about 40% of homes in the US, emit air polluta
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by wwweston 4y ago
Not adding supply and taking existing supply off the market both contribute to supply issues. And I'm not sure that AirBnB avoids any particular segment of the market; it can as easily cannibalize 1bd condos as it can 4bd homes.
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Amen. And don't forget that some of the formative policies people are critical of now ( cough Prop 13) actually stem from periods where conservatives had the pull to win elections and ballot initiatives in California. And California&#
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Thanks for introducing me to MoCA! Gigabit magnitude networking over coax that can coexist with DOCSIS sounds exactly like what I'm looking for.
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That's a good thought, and I guess I could even use it as pull for both replacement coax and CAT6, while I'm at it. But probably beyond what the owner would like me doing in rental situations, and maybe more work than I'd l
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Climate is indeed one of the reasons it's popular. That's not even remotely a counterargument against the premise that most of the state's problems are primarily from popularity rather than policy. And "batshit policy&qu
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> This sparked a housing crisis here in Boise, Idaho. How interesting. Presumably as enlightened examples of the opposite of California governance, they wouldn't have any such thing as a housing crisis caused by popularity. Or... i
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There was a point where I would have held the charitable reading of Republican ideology and I still know some people who identify with the party who probably understand their own position this way. But at this point, no, I don't believ
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If California were particularly terrible, it wouldn't be so damn popular, and most of its problems would go away. California does have some specific policy problems, but most of what it has are popular place problems. It also doesn&#x2
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See the parenthetical in the 2nd paragraph of the comment you're replying to.
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The US is astoundingly well-functioning and most US citizens astoundingly lucky by historical and/or global standards, and certain kinds of minimally functional mutual accountability are part of the reason why we've gotten this fa
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For better and worse, this is pretty much what I'd expect. It's not a serious attempt to genuinely govern or otherwise make reasonable policy, it's sending up an ideological flag, and since the fundamental ideology is actuall
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They're making money, that's for certain. They're not making new product categories and markets like they used to, though, just iterations on things they were already doing well enough (and sometimes those iterations take awa

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