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Why does any of this matter, even in the slightest, when talking about "Argo and the Cloudflare Global Private Backbone" which is what this post is about.

Not everyone needs to have a web page, nor does an employee of a company have to use their services (especially if they spun up their domain, website, whathaveyou before working for the company) for any sort of personal project.
This is true only if the company's health insurance is group-rated rather than community-rated. Large employers who self-insure (the employer is actually paying the claims; the insurance company is just providing administration and financing) have premiums set based on the cost of caring for their group of employees and will see their costs go up (and their employees' premiums likely go up too) if their employees are collectively sicker.

Under the ACA, small businesses all end up lumped together in the same state-wide risk pool, so if my small business hires old or sick people it's very unlikely to affect our premiums. In most places this risk pool is larger and somewhat less morbid than the individual market.
Except Sully actually screwed up and put the passengers life in danger by trying to land on water and rather than returning to the airport.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ntsb-sully-could-have-made-it-b...
Meant as a casual flippant joke but your right, people should ignore that colloquialism
JD has a monopoly on repairing John Deere tractors and their electronics.
FWIW it's already been banned in Connecticut.
Alternatively there's https://facebookcorewwwi.onion
Walmart, alibaba, jet.com, Target, and ebay all spring to mind
It's not as if I want them to be smarter and harder, but levels like The Castle are simply a pile of completely different and unrelated monsters with a single objective: to destroy you!

But I don't know what a different implementation would look like.
Well, they want to make money. The design is revolutionary enough that if it does make it into production, there's a decent chance of success.
> What's a 'real business'?

In this case a real business in the sense that you're legally able to actually hire someone else out and have the margins to do so. A lot of these 'sub contract' out your old job to you new business schemes have a lot of restrictions on what you can do and the company isn't going to be paying as much as it cost to employee you + the cost of running your vehicle (otherwise they wouldn't be saving money really). If you're a 'subcontractor but really you can't afford/can't contractually pay anyone else to do this' you're basically just an employee but paying your own taxes, health insurance, insurance, depreciation, and compliance risks.

> doing something for cash is an individual, legal right

You know plus or minus everything you can't do or a company can't pay you to do because it's illegal.
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Not at the US cost of living. Nor would those billions of people be paid a that rate if their cost of living is lower than the US.
> freedom to pick any doctor

Any doctor? Doctors can take so many patients. Though it may benefit a large number of people, some may end up worse. Those who have the best doctors currently (because they can pay) may no longer be able to have those doctors.
Walmart was big on socialized medicine, too.
Getting the government to subsidize their customers is a big win for them.
I'm a huge fan of Firefox's first party isolation (FPI) and using Containers to control Google. FPI kills trackers and Containers allow me to stay logged into certain Google services without having things like my search history tracked.
What are some of the non-payment applications of this new found support?
> it's just a benefit for employees,

And thats what doesn't really work. When your health is a "benefit for employees", you're in a bad spot.
"The thing is, health care is 'natural monopoly', it's a situation where competition is meaningless at the point when a person shows up bleed at the emergency room."

This is a bit of a false narrative. 99% of healthcare is not emergency room, imminent bleeding out. I believe we should have government provided true emergency care for everyone (just like we have fire and police, right?), but for non-emergency stuff (which is most of healthcare), people do have time to shop around and find the best deal for them. The best deal might involve joining a health club like Aetna or Kaiser (these are not insurance, by the way), or it might be saving your money in a bank and paying for stuff piece by piece by yourself, just like we do for just about everything else we need to survive in this world.
"Employment-based insurance covers approximately 60% (180 million of the 310 million) of insured individuals, but enrollment is highly correlated with income. In high-income households (family income >400% of the federal poverty level), 84% are enrolled in employment-based insurance. In low- and middle-income households (family income from 100% to 250% of the federal poverty level), only 35% are enrolled in employment-based insurance."

That line from the beginning just melted my face. I knew it was bad, but I didn't know it was that bad. Filing this factoid away for later!
They aren't known for low prices? They are known for having the same prices as everyone else, with free or cheaper shipping, meaning that effectively the price is lower.

And no, I'm not implying that they are a monopoly.
I'm not fully up to date on farming technology, but you bring up a good point. I think most laypeople don't realize just how complicated these machines are.

Here's a lettuce transplanter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQ1u9IwJrs8

It can transplant a lot of lettuce in a very quick amount of time, with a crew of 3 (1 driver + 2 workers on the back). You're not going to beat this plant-tape methodology with 90s era technology.
Here's how one of the biggest online electronics retailers in Switzerland handles storage / logistics for their smaller items [1].

As is the case with your amazon example, putting the items in the storage containers and picking them for shipping is still handled manually. I'm really curious as to how this compares to the moving shelf idea efficiency-wise and how a possible "solution" (if it is a problem that needs solving...) for the picking could look like, e.g. standardized containers for small items that could be handled by a machine or something like that.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Scql9_7RjfU
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That requires making the case that the consumer believes they are buying a general computing device that they can use for any purpose and customize freely, which is simply not the case.

Furthermore, repair applies to the hardware of the device, not the software ecosystem. You have to make a separate, very different argument for software as it is more malleable and less restricted than hardware components are.
This is getting into market definition, which is kind of complicated and subjective, but one of the key factors is substitution.

So for example, is "Clorox bleach" its own market, separate from just "bleach"? Well, no. Clorox bleach is chemically identical to any other bleach. You could switch one for the other and not even be able to tell the difference.

On the other hand, is "broadband internet service in Pittsburgh" a different market than just "broadband internet service"? It kind of is. There may be a dozen different ISPs in varying cities across the country, but the prerequisite to using one that doesn't offer service in your city is to sell your house and move somewhere else. That doesn't make it a particularly viable substitute.

So then is "iOS app store" a different market than just "app store"? Well, what do you have to do to substitute one for the other? Is it reasonable to have to exchange your $600 phone, or buy a second $600 phone, in order to buy a $1 app from a different store?
If you don't do it to prevent climate change, you'll eventually be doing it because of climate change. If you survive at all.

People who think that's hyper alarmist underestimate how nasty things will get when the harvest fails.
Sadly there's a lockup period for most work besides standard cleanings within the first 90-180 days with a lot of providers. Mine had a 1 year hold on fillings and crown repair etc. Even then they only covered part of it at that.
I also have the highest plan available from the Provider (employer paid in full) with a nominal annual deductible for the whole plan. Understanding what's covered and not, how much etc. is tough. Planning your dental care involves the Dentists looking at Timelines and fitting procedures around timelines more than priority simply because of the billing issues noted above.
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The challenge of getting documented farm labor in rural areas is massive and we face that ourselves, and tractor software lock-in is neither a potential exacerbating factor nor a potential future solution to this problem. Not sure if I understand your question?
Under the current system, you can't get the same insurance costs vs benefits as an individual or small business, even through the Obamacare exchanges, that you can get from a large, stable employer that has leverage to negotiate with insurance companies and health providers. In turn, that is an incredible amount of leverage that big employers have over certain employees who need to be part of a shared insurance negotiating pool. This is obviously not as relevant when comparing jobs at Google, Apple, or Microsoft, who all have equivalent health benefits, but it definitely matters when considering jobs at startups, nonprofits, or for being self-employed.
> it arguably makes the general job market less efficient

I didn't understand this until I started my own business. I was desperately trying to find a job during the '08 crash to get health insurance for my family but was unable to find one.

As a last resort I started my own consultancy which turned out to be a fantastic opportunity.

Self paying for health care was a massive barrier to starting my own business.

Once I hired people health care benefits were frequently top of their list in interview questions.
Yeah. Unfortunately, that means we are having the wrong discussions, not just here, but with the people in our lives. If most people have abandoned DIY and want to purchase, and ship worldwide, every item we use, then paper vs. plastic vs. cloth isn't even a drop in the bucket of the environmental impact our lifestyle choices have on the world.
I believe we've known about plastic bags at the bottom of the Mariana Trench since [1998](http://www.godac.jamstec.go.jp/catalog/dsdebris/metadataDisp...)
Plant life matters called. They said thank you.
Last time I was dealing with a hospital bill, they told me not to worry because it usually doesn't get resolved until the hospital and insurance company start threatening to sue eachother about it. 8 months after the procedure, my bill was resolved.

Sounds pretty efficient to me!
It's a "roller coaster" procedure where the plane is pitched down to lessen aerodynamic forces on the stabiliser, allowing the trim wheels to be manually turned, then pitched up to regain altitude. The process is repeated as necessary until the trim wheels can be manually moved without it.
I’m all for the experiment, something tells me the expiration of something important will pass (maybe an important civil liberty?) and we might realize law makers intentionally delayed and let it lapse? I just think it comes with some side effects that could look innocent but depending who wants what to happen could be used to let things go away silently. Ie environmental laws when the government wants to allow mineral extraction but public sentiment would never allow it.

I’d love to type more but I’m on my phone and down to one thumb due to an injury. Sorry for not engaging more on this!
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Over the course of the year I worked here, boss went from "yeah we'll eventually get unit tests, they will finally realize..." to downplaying my effort and difficulties, playing the authority card (programmer for 20 years), veiled threats by referring to my personal feedback report, convincing me that not having a single pull request reverted is not an achievement because everyone has one every now and then... not actually true, because early in my work here he called me twice after work about the reverts, only to find out later that it was somebody else's PR. I think he's a deeply manipulative individual and I'm jumping out of this company without a parachute (no another secured job), I have good reasons to afraid he would make me commit to these deadlines, blame for not achieving them, and fire me with a bad opinion. I need to make the first move.

I wanted an outside perspective to see if I'm perhaps overreacting.

I do believe this code is really fixable with some months of effort, but management will have none of it. Refactoring provides no perceived shareholder value for them. And I did try to clean it up, and tried to build support in our team for doing so. It's mostly political/organizational roadblocks. They want code monkeys. Code cleanups are viewed with deep suspicion even by code reviewers.
At some point, it helps to broaden your programming language exposure, even if you stick to mostly one language for most of your work. You'll find ways to apply ideas from other languages/communities to your work.

Try to spend some time learning idiomatic programming from one of the Lisp family (Scheme, Racket, CL, Emacs Lisp, and Clojure all have different thinking, but a lot of overlap). Play a bit with Smalltalk or a similar descendant, even if you're already doing OOP elsewhere. At some point you should learn a textual expansion language, like one of the Unix shell scripting ones, or Tcl (and learning basic Bash scripting will probably be useful in tech work). Try a logic programming language, like Prolog, or one that's a minilanguage within another, like Mini-Kanren. Maybe buckle down for hardcore functional programming (e.g., Haskell, OCaml, or discipline yourself to do it in a Lisp?). You should also get comfortable with C or at least an assembly language at some point, to have a better idea of what other languages are and aren't giving you, and also C is just a really useful thing to know when you need to write a little fast code, FFI to a native library, or get into languages/IRs for newer target architectures.

(Disclosure: I've been especially involved with Racket, an energetic close descendant of Scheme, and have some interest in promoting it, but I'd list a Lisp as one of the first in any case.)
That's actually a good point! That doesn't mean every independent source is equally valid though. In this case, I asked for an argument as to why CNN and the Washington Post weren't left wing and got a link to a blog with instructions to read the methodology section (which I did and wasn't impressed).
Most likely aerodynamically relieving trim wheel pressure by intentionally letting the nose of the plane drift down. This allows the pilots to more easily crank the trim wheel and fix the issue.

If I remember correctly, this procedure was specifically described in older 737 manuals, but had been dropped more recently.
> This is so self-evidently true that I find it hard to understand how anyone could deny it, but modern architects and hangers-on such as architectural journalists do deny it, like war criminals who, for ­obvious reasons, continue to deny their crimes in the face of overwhelming evidence.

That's a very convincing argument right in the second paragraph.
Looked at those. Problem with libffi is it wasn't ported to a 32 bit arm. And the interface is 'clunkie'

I think what I want is llvm's blocks. Which isn't available in gcc.
In the UK that would make you an employee. It's specifically called out in IR35.
When I was looking at a Game of Thrones subreddit after the episode last night, I realized I was getting more emotionally from the memes (which aren’t exactly the sort of memes Dawkins was thinking of) than long-winded analysis of what was good/bad about the episode. Those reddit memes are a way to encapsulate quite a bit of thought and feeling with only a few words and an image or two. Aside: those memes have been building up on each other for years, so quite a few images, words and online interactions are involved in their existence from a historical perspective. Not to say there is anything profound about this memeified manner of communication, or that it is all that much different from other types of human language and the appreciation of art or a photograph, but I still found it interesting (futuristic?) that I was thinking that way.
> there is no incentive to continue lowering prices,

Yes there is. Lower prices means that consumers will buy more.

Unless you are going to argue that the elasticity of demand is perfectly inelastic. Such cases are rare.
More than a few mobile and even desktop browsers work that way. E.g. Opera's mobile browsers had such function for many years. I think even Firefox's little bro worked the same (dunno what became of that project).
Socialized insurance isn't just my ability to pay, it is the willingness of everyone else to pay. If you need expensive treatment and have money this is an important distinction. With multiple players you in theory have the ability to decide if you want to be in the cheap payout pool that lets you die of concern, or the more expensive pool that covers chemo that can add years of life.

Of course what we have now with employers sponsored plans is the worst of both...
When the universe of approved partners is large enough, the security considerations will be non-trivial.
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Can you legally fix your car or your older tractor? Has that always been true? You can't legally fix these machines because the manufacturer says so. That's new(ish) and a power (money) grab.
This seems to insinuate that there's some reason to be loyal to Uber.
The company interest is also to give customers value
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In some places, the law would call that "rape by deception".
I strongly second the use of a bullet journal.

I can't count the number of times while talking to my psychologist, in the middle of a breakdown thinking "If only there were a system that I could offload all of the dumb things I can't remember to do..."

...and then laughing my way out of the room because my wife told me weeks earlier that she wishes I were using my journal. She notices that I'm happier when I use it, she is much happier because she doesn't have to ask me to do something 4 times...
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I really want one of these.

I hate signing my name. I never sign anything the same way twice, and it's always a random scribble. I've actually gotten into fights with my bank over this, and before my landlord switched to electronic signatures, signing my lease every year was a huge chore due to the number of signatures involved. Maybe if I'm lucky, the first part of the scribble will look vaguely like the left half of a cursive A, but it falls apart after that. The only area where I'm consistent at all is my initials: I always write my initials as a ligature, as my initials are AJB, which easily link up. [0]

So I really envy that the Japanese can just drop down a stamp and be done with it. I've actually been considering having a custom seal made for me, either using my initials ligature (see [0]) or possibly with my name written in Japanese. I should explain the latter: I decided a while back that if I ever need to write my name in Japanese, instead of rendering my name in katakana [1], I'd use a Japanese name that has similar sound/meaning to my own [2].

[0] The main one I use, and an alternative I've been experimenting with https://i.imgur.com/Z30PLre.jpg

[1] Amy Book -> エイミー・ブック

[2] 本えみ <- 本 is the kanji for "Book", and in my name I prefer to read it as もと (Moto), and えみ is Emi (written in hiragana, which is a syllabary that carries no semantic meaning), a fairly common Japanese name that sounds similar to Amy.
Not waiting for the dentist, waiting for the coverage. With a new dental plan, if you didn’t have dental before, you can get cleanings but not other work covered for the first 6 months.

Otherwise since most dental work is not an emergency, you would pay for one month of dental insurance in a year you had any work needed, and pay out of pocket for cleanings.

If you had prior coverage and are just switching plans because of employment changes, then I believe the waiting period is waived.

We used to have the same thing with “pre-existing conditions” in health care. You needed “prior credible coverage” to be able to get treatment for an existing condition in the first 6 months of a plan. Again, it’s to prevent people from only buying insurance after they get sick.
> modernist parts of Chicago, London and New York seem be appreciated at least as much as other cities and districts with well-regarded pre-20thC buildings.

Not according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America%27s_Favorite_Architect... - modernist buildings barely show up in that list. Of course you're right - beauty is subjective. So when a simple popularity poll fails to show support for their chosen style, architects resort to pseudo-intellectual justifications of why the people are wrong to dislike the featureless blocks of glass, steel and concrete built in their cities.
They are so focused on helping those without they forget the powerful argument that small business has to do part time shennanigans to avoid paying healthcare costs
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You might be presuming too much.

Look at the examples given. One is Google doing nothing to "fix a problem" (http://www.joebiden.info) and the other demanding Google fix an issue which they seem to have done - as being anti-left. Google being agnostic and not protecting Joe Biden is not them being Anti-Left.

I will not be bullied into thinking that Google doing nothing is them being anti-left. I disagree with many of the conservatives Google that have been deplatformed, but I recognize how quickly that pendulum could swing.
Is anyone concerned that even in the face of re-training, that two aircraft could find themselves in this position within the first year of operations?

Let's say you were on one of these aircraft and the pilots were able to recover. How terrifying would that be? This is the designed behavior?