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Expansionary monetary policy has been fueling a controlled economic decline by concentrating wealth and disguising it as growth.

This has led to extreme inconsistencies in the perceived value of money which has become completely detached from productivity or real value.

Media echo chambers are failing to hide these inconsistencies though they did a much better job at insulating the elite from the ideas of the masses than the other way round.

The masses perceive the modern economy and society as an incoherent fictions. In their struggle to make sense of this incoherence, the masses assume that the elites are intentionally conspiring against them. The masses don't understand that the elites are simply delusional.

Unlike the masses, the elites don't feel any disconnect between their experienced reality and mainstream social narratives. The problems in our society are so massive and so obvious that the masses cannot imagine that the elites could possibly not notice them; so they think that the elites must be pretending, they must be conspiring.

There is no conspiracy by the elite. It's just plain old delusion backed self-serving optimism bounced around within echo chambers.
It's a bush league blunder I don't think any really experienced branding team would make.
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Until recently Japan had very few foreign nationals, on the order of 1% even in 2005 [1]. Compare that to 10-12% in the US. That has recently been changing as Japan tries to bring in more foreigners to address its shrinking workforce [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Japan#Foreign_...

[2] https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/06/23/japan-immigration-polic...
The MSP is essentially a head tax. It did not come close to covering the cost of health insurance (Which was almost entirely funded from general tax revenue - income tax). If you were a student, and not working in Canada during your school years, it's likely that you weren't paying very much into the system.

The MSP was also eliminated this year, so now healthcare in BC is fully funded from general tax revenue.
Best option is to marry a US citizen.
This sketch of Soviet Korean dialects, brief as it is, should give some flavor of the essence of a rare (and dying) form of North Hamkyeng Korean. Anybody equipped with a moderate knowledge of Seoul Standard should see immediately the significant differences between Seoul speech and Soviet
Korean, and those with a moderate knowledge of Middle Korean will also see the many direct similarities between 15th- and 16th-century Korean and these data. All in all, the impression is of significant divergence. However, more often than not, the locus of "radical change" has been Seoul Standard and not Soviet Korean: in language change it is usually the center, and not the periphery, that changes "the fastest and the mostest".
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It is not just Health "Care" in the US that is an issue. It is also the Health "Administration/Logistics" due to Insurance Company middle man mafia. Every time you visit a doctor or a hospital, you will never know exactly how the bill is and you will be chasing to find out who to pay when at many times. I am not even talking about the outrageous cost yet.
And I only discovered it indirectly through Gruber: reading about ML Super Resolution on Daring Fireball intrigued me enough to go check out the price on Pro.

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2020/11/19/pixelmator-pro-...
Thank you! Right now LinkedIn results show you what you'd see from a timeboxed google search, like "ryanr site:linkedin.com", but this will change once I have either 1) time to implement deep native polling, or 2) a service that does it for me (high confidence in 2 becoming available soon).
Reading all the "improvement" table of content reminds me why I left Linux.

> Here’s my guide for how to improve the Linux desktop experience: Distro, Battery life, Scaling, Mouse, CTRL Key, Shortcuts, Multitouch Gestures, Gifs and screenshots (peek and flameshot), Emoji Keyboard, Clipboard Manager, Password Manager, xournal

Tbh, at this point, I don't know why on earth I would switch away from Windows and macOS. Ya I know the stupid macOS things that Apple is doing. But hey, at least the scaling and mouse work out of the box!
A pity. I still remember receiving a bottle of Dom Perignon from them after signing on to a new job. They gave me $2000 as well, but the high-quality champagne was much more memorable.
Don't almost 90% of people in Germany have public insurance with only a bit over 10% having private insurance?
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Very big risk, yes.

There are a lot of differences between BC and the other provinces. The NDP is only one fraction of those differences.
> I've tried to say these sorts of views on reddit, but just get called a troll or a liar.

Just in this thread people are downvoting anyone praising the US system and talking about the shortcomings of the Canadian one. I've had a Canadian doctor tell me first hand that the US healthcare system is far superior provided you have insurance.
Thanks.

A couple questions:

1. I can't help but notice the weak copyleft Mozilla Public License v2 license. Why not Apache v2 (permissive copyright) or why not GPL v3 (strong copyleft)?

2. Usually, companies with successful revenue streams open-source their product's complements [0] because open sourcing the core product itself has proven pretty detrimental otherwise [1]. Why open source (versus source available / open core) what I presume is your core product, as if to defy reality?

3. Where do you later plan to post about the project? I'd like to subscribe to it.

[0] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/06/12/strategy-letter-v/

[1] https://www.heavybit.com/library/video/commercial-open-sourc...
NDP has been in power since 2017. From 2001 to 2017, Liberals were in power. Do you have any evidence that the quality of care has gotten worse in the past three years?

I am sure things are bad now because of the COVID-19 lock-downs, but I do not believe, ignoring the COVID-19 disruptions, quality of medical services are bad in BC or have gotten worse in the past three years.
If I remember correctly, everyone in the company was super excited...then they came out of the prototype room and immediately canceled it.

I think it might have made people sick.
Sure, but to what end in this case? This is specifically about lockdowns. Leader is hypocritical about lockdowns, therefore he shouldn't behave that way? Or Leader is hypocritical about lockdowns, therefore we shouldn't have lockdowns?

Generally speaking, charges of hypocrisy can often be lazy like this. Someone pointing out hypocrisy should be clear about what behavior they are actually in favor of - the value without the hypocritical action, or, the action without the stated value?
Proposed (dis)proofs of the Riemann Hypothesis
I use that nginx image too, and it's the one thing that keeps me using docker for some small single-node setups. For basically everything else, Podman is a better experience. Now that I've discovered Podman can run K8s Pods (and now Deployments) I use it all the time. I don't know how I lived without it!
The joke in the release notes here asking developers not to publish Fibonacci computations in the type system to npm is not entirely a joke.
That's not how Japanese works. Yes Japanese uses Chinese characters that's only a subset of Japanese. Japanese sentences are typically a bit longer than English in terms of syllables and written length - their main reduction technique at the language level is omission, rarely efficiency improvement.

- Why's it so hot today? = 6 syllables

- Nande konna ni atsui no kyou? = 10 syllables (spoken colloquially)

What about written length? You can see the Japanese sentence is a little longer here (when the English uses a non-monospaced font). It's also enough to demonstrates the why using kanji doesn't always provide the huge reduction/compression that you're expecting.

- Why's it so hot today?

- なんでこんなに暑いの今日？
In what way?

Seriously, it's easy to crap on this stuff when you're willing to recommend boards that cost "just 20 dollars more", or have one-hundrenth the community because most of the end users are embedded engineers or the anything-but-a-pi sub crowd.

To me it just shows a lack of ability to consider requirements in evaluation. Even something as simple as the fact the rPI form factor has been fairly consistent for a while is a huge boon to people just trying to start with this stuff.

I could give my mom a rPI and a $20 starter kit and she could probably get to the point of a working PC.

I wouldn't dream of that with anything else. The fact it's Broadcom based is a little unfortunate but that ship has sailed and the ecosystem around it now trounces any benefit of alternatives for the actual people using them. Not embedded engineers who say it's crap because they wouldn't make a custom product based on that SoC.

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This is like when people point out that for half the price of an Arduino Uno you can get an STM32 board that will run circles around a dinky ATmega328.

It's not about the power or "objective goodness", even the header layout of the Uno lets beginners use an insane wealth of peripherals designed for it
That's an irrelevant point as I'd still be covered by private insurance companies while transitioning Visa.
And it's a Google website, which is to say painfully slow - I assumed that this was because I use Firefox right up until I used it on a chromebook and discovered that it still crawled.
This seems like the Holy Grail. Is it?
They were both important and at least for a while, Symbolics had the resources to fully indulge both. Do crappy Google docs assure their ubermenschitude? :)

It’s two different questions, to discuss the quality of their code and to discuss the value placed on it. It didn’t match the development and operational model of the tech world when they went into receivership, hence a low value.
I got a DTK and the app I said I would use it for still isn't ready; it just means that the process is complex for some apps.
I think part of the issue is that removing them from the streets requires two things which are pretty tough: 1) a very large investment to build shelters and 2) euthanizing many thousands of dogs to make more room when the shelters are full.
If you're still confused about this, check out what Orban is doing in Hungary in response to the pandemic. That's an authoritarian.
The message and skimpy page they serve here if you browse that url signed into gmail could be an object lesson in how to invite product failure.
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Honestly this is what many of the brands you are familiar with already are.

They don't design the stuff, they look at the clones in the showrooms or catalogs, check out what the reps bring to them, pick the ones they like and have a few customisations done.

Then they support that product.

Harbour Freight, D-Link, Wal-Mart oh I dunno, almost any brand which doesn't obviously have very unique/distinctive designs works this way.
Really productive comment. Thanks dude.
That's true, don't know why I didn't think of that to begin with, just saw them as "products" from two companies.
You (probably) need liveness and readiness probes
But if you are insured, does it matter how expensive it is?

Here in Germany we have public insurance and private insurance. If you have private insurance, you pay for health care yourself and then get the money back from the insurer later on. So you see what is actually being charged, and it is expensive.

If you are on public insurance, you never even see the bills. Often the private insurance actually has to pay for the public insurance, as health care businesses would be unable to survive without the extra money from the private insurance people.

Maybe if you see the bills because you are privately insured, they seem expensive. But perhaps they just reflect the actual real costs.
Isn't there private healthcare in Canada? Here in Greece, you can wait a few months for some tests if you want to use insurance and get them for free, or you can pay (or use private insurance, if you have it), to get them faster at a private clinic.
I think you may paint an overly rosy image of American health infrastructure. Where you live inside the U.S. has a huge impact on how "new" the available medical equipment is and how "knowledgeable" your local experts are.

What's more, most insurance is not generous. The insurer becomes the rationer of care by requiring value interventions before more expensive ones. Essentially any interest a state has in reducing costs an insurance company also already has. The main difference is that the insurance pool is probably healthier than the "everybody" pool.

Lastly, even if it is true America's system features better cutting edge medicine, I really doubt making the system less profit motivated would affect global health innovation. Perhaps a bit but quickly governments would realize they are going to have to invest in research more rather than purchase innovations from the U.S. This may actually increase the value proposition of research because there would no longer be a single locus drawing all competition for specialized labor.
A couple of years later, Virtuality got roped into nearly releasing the Jaguar VR headset (with Atari) which moved the bar significantly:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WTWyKNN_Lgg
There's also the Pine64 stuff nobody seems to be mentioning.

Also, like the sibling said, just do it. If every option is ARM, there shouldn't really be much of a difference if you swap the underlying system.
> beastly 5G docker image

my beastly 12GB image that even includes Matlab wants a word with you
For context, here's another Twitter thread from Mr. Potter (the Cigna former CEO in question) regarding his and his industry's role in pushing narratives about the Canadian healthcare.

https://twitter.com/wendellpotter/status/1276158510955401216
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what do you think about this idea, which is very similar to yours?

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I'm actually happy to hear that more people are latching onto the religious and moral aspects related to their industries. Everything we do is religious even if we want to pretend otherwise. Let's end the artificial separation of work and morality and god once and for all. It only benefits the sinner class.
Really? Like what? I mean linux is the backbone of the internet. I think of it as extremely predictable and rock-solid. Describing it as an os where "so many things that regularly go wrong" seems like a totally foreign concept to me.
No, I just don't like people who pretend that wind/solar are actually going to solve the CO2 problem by pointing at some future technology or pricing model that is going to save us while stubbornly refusing to accept a 70 year old technology that is actually carbon free.

That is what got us were we are today. Because back in the 1970/80's people argued the exact same thing (no nukes, solar will save us). And what happened? We got more coal plants because they were way cheaper except in the few places that actually built nukes. The same argument happened in the 1990s/2000s and what did we get? A few percent of wind/solar, and a shift to NG due to fracking.

_TODAY_ if you want a competitive solution you build somewhere in the ballpark of 20-70% wind/solar and back it with NG.

Where will that put us in over the next 40 years?

Its going to create even more C02 because power utilization is going up. All that is going to do is slow the rate of increase, which is exactly what the current charts are showing. The rate of wind/solar rollout is barely exceeding the demand curve and in a lot of places its regressing, particularly in places where ancient nuke plants are being replaced by "green" technologies.

Yes, sure wind+NG is better than NG or coal, but its a shit solution. If batteries actually get cheap then we can do 2x wind+battery, but that isn't here today. What we have today are nuke plants, just like we did 40 years ago. If back then instead of waiting for the future to save us we were more pragmatic the ice caps wouldn't be melting.

My personal opinion is that in 40 years what is going to solve this problem is a giant war, because wishing for the future to save us hasn't worked yet.
Thanks nyellin - and for sure! If you used the onboarding flow or "result preview" functionality, you'll only see recent Twitter results. But if you create an alert for your personal blog and select "Custom" along with other platforms, you'll be notified whenever someone drops your link AND (important) it isn't shortened by something like bitly.
Probably, but that's still about 10 million people with private insurance, which is 1/3 of Canada's population. The point is, private insurance doesn't have to be a nightmare. That is not the only factor. Actually I think private insurance generally had the potential to be much better than public insurance. However there seem to be a number of additional factors that make US private insurance such a nightmare.
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Oddly this site doesn't show the italic variants of fonts, unlike https://www.programmingfonts.org which was on the front page some time ago iirc.
> false positive from following the advice

Is that accidentally not hiring someone who would have been a good fit?
Just spent the last two days messing up with Keycloak on kubernetes... I feel you.
It is because to build the image using docker requires the docker client to talk with a dockerd daemon, so one has to configure the client to access the dockerd which allow untrusted code to run as root in the host.

Docker-in-docker is a workaround to make docker work in CI.

Basically a security nightmare and bad design that podman doesn't have.
Docker has been supporting rootless mode since 19.03
I suppose it would be useful in a space ship, or in sea vessels smaller than current nuclear subs.
Apart from a terribly selfish attitude, I'd like to see proof of the wait for CT scans. Australia has mostly socialised healthcare and I've always had xrays same day and CT, Pet and MRI within a couple of days at most.

Also all those scans have been completely free.
I think this is overly optimistic. Lots of interesting numbers in the link below, but in particular a couple of stats stand out.

https://spendmenot.com/blog/medical-bankruptcy-statistics/

Medical bankruptcies represent 62% of all personal bankruptcies.

39% of those who have issues with medical bill payments already have employer insurance

I think you're right that if you have good insurance and you're wealthy you do ok, but it's easy to have employer medical insurance, have a serious illness, and have serious issues being able pay or expending a significant amount of personal wealth during that serious illness.
Exactly - every detail of insurance plans are a scam, and that’s not even enough so they’ll just deny valid claims and make you work for it.

An MRI might be “covered” but what if you have to spend 2 hours getting it approved beforehand and then 2 hours after proving that they said they’d cover it? Every time? For 4 MRIs?
Not exactly. No US cities have the abundance of stray cats roaming around, even though LA, SF, NYC, Boston, etc. are all up against the water and ports. Elsewhere outside the US, Tbilisi, Georgia isn't very close to the sea and yet it's also filled with stray cats and dogs.
I found the same in Sofia, Bulgaria. It's alright in the heavily populated areas, but the area I was staying in had large packs of stray dogs and the nearby park was full of them.
Yeah. Per capita healthcare spending in BC is more than 6000 CAD per year.

https://bc.ctvnews.ca/b-c-is-the-province-with-the-lowest-he...
Podman already supports `podman volume create`, though it doesn't support volume plugins.
Okay, I want to build a container image using gitlab CI, which runs builds in docker. How would you like me to build an image without using docker in docker, or buildah in docker?
I am pretty sure you could write the same article with the roles reversed.

That in itself does of course not take away from the article, but I am catching some negative undertones how Japan is "behind" or "unable to change" because of their society. I guess you could even open the bottomless barell of a discussion about racism, but my point is just this:

Seeing "them" as "behind" is a bad way to think about it and prevents true understanding.

Family staffed restaurants which revenues are 90% regulars remake their website and the agency slabs a 4MB hero image on their "landing page". They of course don't need any of that. Only clicks the website gets are people checking the opening times or showing their friends how grass-roots it is. To literally quote the article "Once a precedent has been set for things looking or behaving a certain way then everybody follows it, regardless of whether there is a better solution."

Consider the memes about the weird distorted discolored vector graphics everything tech now has [0]. Consider JIRA managers talking about a 4 second loading target for web pages. We are actually subconsciously aware that "our way" is just as random, weird and wrong, we just like to default to "ours=the way".

Fun article - definitely made me think - but IMO the real takeaway is: The Overton window of design is arbitrary and way more influenced by what $IMPORTANT_PERSON said in 2003 than by logic or sense, and we are not there yet.

[0] https://old.reddit.com/r/starterpacks/comments/jwsagt/big_te...
I use it as a daily driver and have no issues like you mention. Hangouts dialer on the other hand would frequently have call quality issues for me.
As healthcare networks expand, the US developing most of the attributes used to criticize national systems.

In my region, 5-6 hospital networks in 2000 have boiled down to 2 in 2020. Practices get gobbled up by the networks or form their own little cartels. For example, in my region a single nephrology practice controls 90% of the business in that speciality.
I don't think anyone doubts that American healthcare is technically of good quality. Its the insurance system that is broken.
They're not technically lying, but you're better off thinking of it as 90% their iphone/ipad chip with a few tweaks for mac rather than a completely new design.
When would you want to have an interface such that nothing about the return type of a function is known to the outside world? I'm genuinely asking; I just don't understand the utility of this concept.
Heavy compose user here, and when I tried the podman equivalent of compose was missing some functionality that made me move back.
I know there are a lot of people here who are self employed. Just curious: how much do you pay per month for health insurance?
Have only had a quick look at the examples and docs but there doesn't seem to be any support for reordered chunks? (ie. there's no weaving involved.)
Last time I tried podman it looked very cool being rootless and daemonless, except that since it's rootless I couldn't create the necessary network interfaces... making it pretty much worthless.