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Having a government payment processor I'm sure would be quite a nightmare as well. Imagine your credit card is the DMV.

The reason these credit card companies wield so much power is the modern duopolistic system. "Monopolies are ILLEGAL" they said. Thusly, an array of duopolistic megacorps essentially acting as a monopoly. Something something game theory. Visa and mastercard. Coke and Pepsi. iPhone and Android. Windows and MacOS. Google search and google search. NASDAQ and NYSE.

The answer is to have 10+ actually competing, financially healthy payment processors. At some point the cabal-like duopolistic behavior breaks down.

dude is saying it's even worse than laissez faire

it's laissez faire towards monopolies, let them be

but not laissez faire when a company is about to collapse, then the government rescues them. laissez faire would be less sympathetic. i.e. bank bailouts of 2008, automaker bailouts of 2020, current intel bailouts

thus not only is the government allowing monoplies/duopolies, but in fact pumping money into them to continue their survival

the best kill switch is to write a slop codebase only you understand. no intentional evil little mechanisms, no intentional breaking, just the slop, slop written in good faith. now that is legal

dude is saying the bubble will burst when people least expect it. if there's people expecting it then that's not the right bursting condition

have you taken the maryland test? no road test. an obstacle course

to take this one step further - go back one infitesmal back in time and adjust position one infitensmal, thusly, a fixed time machine

He's not a bully, hell is other people and the phantom aerial farter speaks for all of us

> In sane units: 3.8 kW

5.1 Horsepower

0-60 in 1.8 seconds

tylenol is the one that's hepatotoxic (spanish for harmful to the liver) - ibuprofen is nephrotoxic (italian for harmful to the kidney) maybe you are mixing up your very similar painkillers. in kiddos it's common to go back and forth between them for pain control, thusly attenuating specific insult to liver or kidney. then there's aspirin, don't give that to kids, that's a whole thing

this piece de resistance swan song is only 35% fish but then my fish tank is like 90% various formats of blackface fish, nazi fish, and swimming penises

Cars, dogs, and water.

Just to go off of this, springs as well. Usually it's garage door springs or suspension of a car springs. People will DIY thinking it's a small thing but they can easily decapitate you. Some garage door springs have been known to level the families of entire neighborhoods or small townships. Garage door spring related deaths are far more common that you will ever know. Garage door springs also are known to be the main transmission vector for tetanus so if you survive the unspringing be advised there's a 90% chance it flung a deadly dose of tetatus and botulism (also grows on springs) into your every bodily orifice. You may think "well why is a kid fixing a car's suspension" but of course kids like poke around and explore because they're curious or they could be exploring your shop or your garage door mechanism.

In practice, no one donates like this with their own money. They just vote for the government to take incremental money from others via ever more taxation.

In practice they throw piles of money at Trump - knowingly that it will lead to them saving an even larger money pile and thusly a net win.

Trump, who then happily drives up debt. Taxing people more is so uncool, so let's go easy on the whole taxes thing, just have the money printer go brrrrr and let inflationary tax serve its purpose

This a wonderful summary of the unfair dystopia that is the Bay Area real estate market.

I would also add, the forklift driver who bought the house for 40k in 1971, by state law (Proposition 13), is still paying 1971 valuation property taxes and contributing essentially nothing to local school funding, funding which is mostly covered by you according to a "new guy has to hold the bag" type scheme. In a state obsessed with fairness, a most unfair policy.

Should you wish to modify the property, conventional area wisdom is to just do so unpermitted. Boomers don't like construction because it increases supply and they want no supply, only demand, home price go brrrr. Environmentalists don't like construction because the more nature the better. Others don't like construction because they make it their business to set the vibe of the area as static and frozen. These political interests culminate in a construction permitting process that basically autorejects everything, paradoxically increasing public danger because everyone now does everything unpermitted.

Even the famously wealthy Steve Jobs ran afoul of it and couldn't buy his way out. He had a property he wanted to modify but they wouldn't let him touch it at all. So he just let it sit and rot to make a point. Ultimately the government agreed his plan was better than a rotting house.

Yea, exactly.

You pay for healthcare in -any- system, even a completely communist/socialist system. Healthcare costs resources which much be allocated to a greater or lesser extent.

Problem with the US system is WHOM do you pay. Ultimately, to a degree perhaps greater than almost any other nation - you're paying quite a lot to stock holders, both public and private, stock holders of insurance, stock holders of pharma companies, stock holders of pharmacy companies, stock holders of EMR software (private company, Epic), and I'm sure, many other for-profit companies. Hospitals tend to be the only technically not for profits in the equation, as well as healthcare groups, but even then these groups tend to operate in a for-profit manner in service of ambitions of regional growth

I'm not going to waste my Saturday doing a writeup on the dirtiest city in America. It can be said easily, what happened to Baltimore is it got Detroit'ed

I don't think corporate election influence or mass media really have anything to do with it.

Is any particular group overrepresented there? Hairy, long hooked nose? I'm talking about white cishetero men of course, this is all their fault. We need to have more, and by more, I mean ALL, such people to be non-cishetero non-white non-men.

don't think of it as a prompt sharing site, thinking of it as a vibe artist gallery, and you don't want vibe artists to go hungry do you?

The challenge is that clearly stating things is and always has been the hard part.

I state things crystal clear in real life on the internets. Seems like most of the time, nobody has any idea what I'm saying. My direct reports too.

Anyway, my point is, if human confusion and lack of clarity is the training set for these things, what do you expect

The issue is the representation went from 1:999 to 1:99999999999 representative ratio, so no voice is heard. It's like being in a class of 30 people vs 300,000 people.

The answer is common sense abstraction, for example, I am writing this on a JVM on a docker on VM on a docker on a VM on a cloud on a VM. The use of so many layers of abstractions makes it exponentially more powerful. What we need is basically a docker for government, docker being a nobel prize tier invention because of the tremendous degrees of abstraction it permits. We return to a 1:999 ratio for a represenative, who attend a congress to vote for a virtual representative acting in a 1:999 ratio at a higher tier of congress, who themselves virtually represent a single individual at a higher tier 1:999 ratio

Yup, that's a thing. Mostly along the lines of "CPU memory is cheap, GPU memory is expensive, if CPU performance is made good enough we can run really really big models for much less because of cheaper RAM"

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medical information is not this, this is addresses.

also the us govt did pay the hospital to treat these people

Per the Wayback Machine the username used was danikpapas. As far as Google and duckduckgo know these are the only packages theat username ever uploaded.

I mean... ... if this was a malicious actor who is to say they don't have 15 aliases on 5 linux distros

It's not that people troll too much with low effort comments.

It's that low effort comments are followed by troll-lighting the original commenter as the troll, downvoting their post, upvoting ones own. That is - often the biggest troll in the room is the one accusing others of trolling.

It's like this

go take a flight demand your photo be taken "as far as I know it's mandatory" "I assure you the image is deleted" "fingerprints derived from the image, what are those" Thanks TSA for logging the facial parameters of 200 million citizens, I'm sure that invasion of privacy helped your basic mission, to screen passengers for planes

This is a one-man lab, with simple services, all on docker. I also work in IT.

TBH your mistake was only running one layer of virtualization. What I do on my home setup is run a docker in a VM in a VM in a docker in a docker in a VM in a docker in a VM in a VM in a docker. This, I feel, ought to be the minimum level of indirection and virtualization in any technical configuration in perpetuity. Anything less is bush league and prone to errors.

forget that - suppose ozempic, blood pressure, cholesterol meds were made OTC

I would wager cardiac and arterial disease would plummet.

This has a mode where it communicates with the solar system,

I just find this so cool. We have projects like SETI where the solar system tries to communicate with us. Here, you, just one person, have set up a machine talking with outer space and the solar system. Space is talking and we are listening. Amazing. Rock on space cowboy.

We have a housing shortage. As long as it looks like the shortage will continue, investors--people--will buy depreciating assets in the hopes that population growth will cause them to be worth more tomorrow than they are today

This is the most interesting point. With the current birthrate, what will these homes be worth in 30, 40 years, when depopulation is ongoing? Prices will drop, and so will supply. Look to Japan, deaths of all towns that are not major cities, I expect that to occur in the US

Completely agree. For all the hate Mozilla gets on HN, I’ve been using Firefox every day

Completely agree, Mozilla and Chrom is a lot like a president election, they both suck hard, you're kinda stuck choosing the lesser of two evils. I mean Kamala isn't great, but me, as a dainty woman who happens to have a penis and does not happen to have documentation surrounding my residency in the US, Kamala isn't so bad in comparison! Kamala is firefox.