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> regulatory capture precludes a market from being free.

Yes, and healthcare is a good thing to regulate, you know, cause of all those pesky ethics and morals that get involved with human life.

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> Capitalism can't work its magic because healthcare is not a free market.

That's exactly my argument, regulatory capture precludes a market from being free.

> It has a unique set of constraints
>> I fail to see how the points you list make it unique.

If you can't seen why healthcare a specifically constrained market, you're being either intentionally obtuse or incredibly naive.

> I live in Japan, I choose the hospital/clinic/doctor that I see, for everything.

Yeah, I choose my dentist, too dawg, doesn't mean that I can choose what E.R. I get dropped off at when I get in a car wreck. I can't shop around for prices on concussion doctors when I'm unconscious in a gurney. Don't be obtuse. Sure, emergency services are only a small part of the pie, but they're the ones that bankrupt people. No one went bankrupt getting their contacts done, and dental and vision are frequently separated _for the exact reason_ that they're not ever medical emergencies, and when they are, they send you to a specialist anyway.

> high barrier to entry
>> For whom at with what?

This is starting to border on bad-faith. I'm not going to spell out every piece of my argument here. If you can't accept the premise that healthcare is a high barrier to entry market, then you're not familiar with the problem.

> constantly changing regulatory environment
>> Yes, so deregulate and move towards a freer market.

You can't just deregulate things and hope it'll fix it. de-regulate _what_? You haven't even proposed a solution here, you've just yelled "Free market!" and "Deregulate healthcare!" But all that will do is worsen the quality that we see and encourage a bunch of snake oil companies to become even more common.

> The reason single payer systems work
>> Do they?

Yes, the evidence says a resounding yes in basically every country, including the U.K., even when the NHS is underfunded. Like another poster pointed out, basically any base-line metric puts the U.S. in ranks with most third-world countries. It's embarrassing.
How to remove a competitor on the app store:

- pay $20 to buy them fake reviews without their knowledge

- complain that they are scammers and have fake reviews

Ironically the guy in the article complains that his competitor is a scammer but I went to check his own app reviews:

- Jan 18 '...very deceptive'

- Jan 16 'scam!'

- Jan 14 'cheated I want a refund of my money...'

- Jan 14 'They change for the app to download then charge 3.99
to unlock features. Terrible'

- Jan 12 'Horrible i payed to get the app just for me to pay $4 dollars more to unlock the feature of using the keyboard'

I guess his app is another example of the scam apps he complains about?
It could be a skydiver who had a snack in the plane before jumping.
Consider studies done on penguins:
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> Some homosexually displaying males eventually paired with females, but such males were significantly slower in heterosexual pairing than males that did not display homosexually. In two extraordinary cases, same-sex pairs learned each other’s calls, an essential step in the pairing process. The frequency of such pairs was much lower than among displaying couples, significantly so for males. Finally, the frequency of homosexually displaying pairs was significantly lower than expected from random assortment of displaying birds, for both males and females. We examined possible explanations for same-sex display and its biological significance. A population sex-ratio bias in favor of males and high concentration of male sex hormones may help to explain non-reproductive homosexually displaying pairs.
No, the renderings are very clearly solid wingsails. People have tried schemes like you suggest with propeller hybrids, but it's much less efficient than just a sail, and a solid wing is about 3x more efficient than a simple sail at the same area. Don't underestimate how much force can be generated by a couple 100 square meters worth of wing.
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I guess that depends on what your political views are.
Authentication is webdev 101. If you can't roll your own you're in the wrong industry.

I really can't think of any good reason to hand crucial control of a site over to any third party, much less user authentication where one breach will potentially cost you millions and land you in jail.

The whole business model seems to revolve around being a crutch for people not capable or competent of running their own services.
The argument was never about whether a story like that was news worthy or not. The argument was - if your article is saying/implying that the then former VP was complicit in a financial scheme to benefit him after publicly saying he wasn't, then you should show proof and not innuendos (leave innuendos to tabloids). Or if you are saying journalists are choosing to ignore the story, then show how
The prosecutor doesn't see it that way. They see it as just "knowing" the guy is "definitely guilty". It's just like, a feeling you know? And a win will look great when they go for re-election (why is that even a thing?).

Presuming rational actors in this case is missing the general problem with the system: people very easily convince themselves they know the truth despite how the validity of the evidence changes. Whatever it said initially, that must be right - it's misinformation 101. Once a belief is established it is much harder to change.
AS far as I can tell, it wasn’t even a news story. It was a tweet. And then later clarified after brought to her attention. I find it hard to believe that it justifies this long blog.

This is the first thing I’ve seen him wrote in years. And it is horrible.
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Is this hosted on your own backend? Should the time or need arise if available, what are some recommended steps to migrate off if needed?
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The "Stasi-like" remark was "Stasi-like citizen surveillance". The latter was conveniently omitted upthread. No one is arguing that this is Stasi-like in that the outcome was arrest.

> They arrested political dissenters by the thousands. Andreesen is a billionaire who would, at worst, have to apologize on twitter and continue his life of total freedom.

These kinds of arguments would crop up in the cancel culture debates, and the same rebuttal applies: that a billionaire is able to survive some particular injustice doesn't lessen the injustice. Notably, the overwhelming majority of people who are cancelled are not famous billionaires (and thus you don't hear about them and there is probably no outcry to right the wrong, although there are exceptions).
Self Promotion: You can use GitJournal [0][1] to manage the blog posts from your mobile. It's just a convenient git + markdown client on mobile.

I'd built this for managing notes, but it seems that many many people use it for their websites. (Including me)

[0] https://gitjournal.io

[1] https://github.com/GitJournal/GitJournal
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I was referring purely to the text pitch here on HN.
I tried to zoom in, and it only went a few clicks.. I was like cool. Then I started zooming out and out and out. The scale is just insane.. Im sure if we had a better camera and a medium to store the pixels, it would be like a Mandelbrot basically.
(Do I really have to explicitly mark sarcasm these days? I went to great lengths to make my comment drip with flowery language like "among all the various fields Google has entered" on my way towards reaching a conclusion that would indicate Google is somehow better at chat than search, and yet I still got a response "is this sarcasm?" :/.)
Apparently, it's from Latin "soldarius", so it's pretty much the same in all European languages :)

[1]https://www.etymonline.com/word/soldier
Funny! I remember getting a taste of a few really good ones, in my case some of the PNW high-graphics BBSes in '95 or so, and then not being able to get through again for days...a frustrating experience. Same with download quotas for new users. :-)
The "willingness to take risks" is probably also "willingness to take crap" by an unemployed or underemployed person. A gainfully employed person may move on when the pseudoscientific video games come up during the screening interview. It is a risk to go work for such companies.
I was prepared for that and expecting it. I also didn't start at the very lowest rung of pay for this role: they took into account my years of building up knowledge about our product and other non-programming skills like communication and design in determining my new salary.
The 'American thing' is putting keywords in white text on a white background.

This is just normal stuff.

I get people hitting me up on Linked In for tech that I outgrew 10 years ago. I can either take them off entirely (making me look very 1 dimensional) or counterbalance that with things I'd love for someone to pay me to learn.

I haven't made any decisions so far so the status continues to remain quo.
Jekyll would probably handle that in a few seconds.

But, once you approach two to four or five hundreds, it can quickly add up to a minute or two, making it impractical to say the least.

One solution is to run `jekyll build`, which will just build HTML to a directory, and then just removing old Markdowns and serving those generated HTMLs directly via nginx or something.

I've honestly given up and switched to Ghost, where I don't have to worry about that sort of stuff.
The question becomes; where is your company incorporated, where are your servers located. I was looking around on your website and it's very light on such details.
No. You give a reasonable amount of time. What if he asked for 100 years?
He was writing essentially the same articles defending Al-Qaeda and ISIS supporters from overreaching prosecution and media histrionics. It's shocking how he has free time to report on Bolsonaro if he's simultaneously a Nazi, ISIS and Al-Qaeda guy.
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"Do what you love" is advice that comes from the enormous privilege some people have to make money doing what they love. I'm one of those people, so I get it, but many, many people don't love computer programming or something else profitable.

So yes, "learn to love what you do" is much, much better advice.

I've watched people (younger than I am) struggle with being in jobs they didn't love, as if they were failing. The jobs may have been failing them, but they weren't failing the jobs.

If you're lucky--as I am, as Sam Altman is--then you can do what you love. Otherwise, you have to do what pays the bills and leaves you enough free time to pursue what you love.
In fact, Palm Pilot didn't have proper non-volatile memory, instead, it had static RAM, which would preserve data for some time even if you swapped the batteries.
Horrible take.
The article starts by equating temporary pandemic lockdowns with an encroachment on fundamental rights:

> Is it just me, or are there business owners who want to open, and customers that want to get the hell out of their homes and pay for goods and services, who are primarily driving the pushback against a state that’s encroaching on our rights?

It then goes on to imply that the "sharing economy" is somehow anti-capitalism. Which is very weird because the "sharing economy" seems to be primarily about eroding worker rights in order to extract more profits.

The overall point seems to be that capitalism is the thing that will save us from... capitalism?
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I've lost my place quite a few times, i can't tell if it is by design due to navigating away or the websocket flaking out because of too many people.
And it was better 100 years ago?
Hmm, There is a conspiracy to form the one world government, and all the political leaders are colluding on it. The only ones that can save us are the rich and we need to clear the way to them making more money to make that possible.

I've heard it before on #chan and similar social media. Why am I reading it on HN now?
From his website, OP is in an area with yearly cold snowy winters. I live in an area with similar winters and walking unprepared is no fun at all. I nearly broke my tailbone in a fall once, and I'm healthy and generally careful, but maybe if I had read what OP said, "Definitely walk, but be aware that surprise slick spots are a thing, and you can do something about it," I could have avoided the fall.
Greenwald's argument is that the repercussions being discussed are not the result of genuine freedom of association. He thinks that there exists a powerful ideological movement in the media that is using its power to get people fired (or banned but at least punished) for reasons that are 1. unreasonable 2. have nothing to do with anything the general public cares about.

You seem to not understand (or not care) about that latter point and, as a result, I find your worldview shockingly amoral. To you, apparently the whole point of discourse is to destroy your ideological opponent in whatever ways are available. The only restrictions are legal. To regular people, it's simply below the belt to try to get someone fired because they said the word "retard". You might decline a dinner invitation over something like that but not e-mail the offender's boss.

> The whole point of Free Speech is to allow arguments/counter arguments and social repercussions and so forth to go round and round to try to inch towards truth without the boot of physical force freezing it all.

"Social repercussions" is doing a lot of work here. Is it just a coincidence that the "social repercussions" under discussion so often involve the targeted parties being less able to express their views? Also, your creepy use of "social repercussions" is certainly not any part of any defense of Free Speech I've ever heard.
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You missed the point. A Venezuelan stablecoin pegged to the bolivar would be useless to protect oneself from the country's hyper inflation
Saving us from what?
Or a game of Chutes & Ladders, during lunch, in a forest
Ok, we've put help in the title above.
> Are there any other independent journalists you would recommend?

I pay for Andrew Sullivan's Substack and reading his weekly column is always a highlight of my Friday.

He's not really a "journalist" but John McWhorter's Substack is excellent too.
Common use case is when you multiple apps that all require the same auth infrastructure. IE a suite of apps for a business.
parahrqph five before mentioning lisp and Psion. pretty restrained for Liam!
Facebook is finally banning vaccine misinformation
Not gonna lie, there's a lot to not like about this article.

I went in pretty skeptical, as I do on all articles touching on this subject matter, but when I saw that the authors link to "world leaders and other influentials" stating they wanted to change society was a quote from a British model, I lost all hope.

Please use better sources for fear mongering next time.
If you're implying that there's just no way to support their users then I'm going to disagree.

At Google's scale and profitability, saying you can't build an appeals process that supports your paying users is just ridiculous. And at this point the collateral damage to Stadia's already tenuous reputation is going to be a lot more than paying someone to vet him manually.
> It should be easy to differentiate between conspiracy theorists but lately

Society is nothing but conspiracies. The fact that you can see them indicates you've matured intellectually. You just don't realize the totality yet.

> Young generation seems to like these

Young people don't understand that Marxism is theft and moral corrosion. They will learn the hard way, as the Russian and mainland Chinese people have learned.

The best and most balanced source of news today is NTD media on Youtube. Click on their "Channels" page for related channels. How balanced are they? Youtube demonetized them as soon as Biden was sworn in.

https://www.youtube.com/user/NTDTV
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She was completely wrong about who used the word (their voices aren't even similar), and left out critical details about the context in which it was used (it was not used casually - the person who said it was quoting /r/wallstreetbets).

And when confronted on it, she said 'thanks for clarifying' and doubled down on the lack of context. No 'whoops, I was wrong', no apology, no retraction.

What part of that sounds like good journalism to you?
....no, it's not? It still works just fine as a static generator.
I'm thinking the military application for this is translucent drones.
I've found much the same. I hadn't touched my site in 2 years, and just started working on it again and was able to nearly seamlessly pick up where I left off thanks to it all being done in Markdown. The flip-side is that many of the resources I'd previously linked to are gone. I'm starting to take a more archival approach to source materials and references as I write about them in the future.
God I'm pretty lefty but "problematic" is becoming... problematic.

On top of that, just completely asinine tech reporting is becoming problematic.

Bloomberg supermicro? Never retracted, lead reporter on it is now BBG's cyber reporting czar.

NYT's NSA hacked Baltimore author? Came out with that smooth brained "Jetbrains == SolarWinds" story.

The wear and tear from a complex field only getting more complex, it governing a larger and growing share of our civil society, and already substantial roadblocks to explaining the layman "how to HTML," is really, really, really showing these days.

Sorry for the rant. I work in infosec, and this dynamic has been brewing for a while. Once the "r/WSB, a sometimes alt-right subreddit for stock trading" stories started hitting from all the otherwise top tier news outlets, I lost it finally.

I'm not barking up a MSM tree, but legitimately when and how does this dynamic start to change? It's getting absurd.
When I was 8 I won a 72 pound pumpkin by randomly guessing "72" in a "guess how much this pumpkin weighs" contest. I vaguely remember pumpkin things for a long time thereafter. Not sure how my mother felt about it.
Yannic Kilcher's paper explained series covers this pretty paper well. I feel like I have a decent understanding of it just after watching the video with a few pauses/rewinds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahRPdiCop3E
This is a miserable take. You think the rich care about your rights? Other than your right to spend your money on their shit, they don't care.
I think the joke is that the automated scanners weeding out resumes as in the article posted look for keywords like "React" or "Machine Learning" but without context, so when they see "Machine Learning" on a CV, they are more inclined to accept it, not knowing the context. As an interviewer you can simply play dumb on that aspect.
An interesting finding is the fraternal birth order effect. The more older brothers you have, the more likely you are to be homosexual (for men). Seems to indicate in-utero mechanisms are involved.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraternal_birth_order_and_male...
Not even close. A perfect refrigerator will use vastly more than 1J to remove 1J from a 4.2K device. Look up Carnot’s theorem.
I am mostly responding here because I saw a critical typo in my comment I wanted to leave a fix for somewhere: in "shouldn't be a PDF file" I wanted to say it SHOULD be a PDF file, as PDF files are great for supporting both slide scrolling and page-by-page scrolling.

That aside, I'll note that if someone wants a slide deck of thoughts somehow, this is still the wrong storage format for this information: having all the slides one after another on the page would provide the same enforced thought clumping while allowing more random access to the content.
- Too many people on the internet who just want it to be about them. Me Me Me. Look at me. I try not to be that guy but I am sure I have been there too. Look at facebook. It is mostly a bunch of family/friends showing their latest vacation pics, or their kids doing some stuff (guilty as charged here) or whatever. It is mostly about THEM. Look at me. Me me me. Instagram. Need I say anything ? Twitter: A bunch of people who have opinions and if they are famous, everyone listens in. Like ok, who cares but people do. When someone "less fortunate" sees all that stuff, they get depressed/jealous/sad whatever. Why can't I have those things ? Why can't I go to that great vacation ? Oh, look at THAT family. How perfect they are. My life sucks.

- People are really becoming too reserved and within their own circles. Internet has made it much easier contrary to what we may have thought when internet started. Now you don't need to worry about socializing or getting to know your neighbor. You can literally get/do anything online these days which also means you create your own echo chambers. For example, why participate in a debate with a fellow neighbor/friend when I can go on reddit (anonymized) and write whatever I want for the most part. I was talking to someone few days ago and they mentioned "We used to almost know everyone in my neighborhood 15 years ago and now in the same neighborhood, I only know a handful"

I wouldn't say most commenters online are depressed. I think it is more because of how our society has become.
Depending on what you think of as "the bare minimum", I'd think Jekyll or Hugo would work.

E.g. the Hugo quick start guide is pretty much just "install Hugo, pick a theme, add your content" and gets you a barebones sequence-of-posts blog: https://gohugo.io/getting-started/quick-start/
> would you trust a more established company like Auth0 or Firebase?

Auth0 maybe. Firebase is created by an advertising agency, so no.
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Keep in mind a solid/3d airfoil is about 3x more efficient than a bermuda rig, so it's going to be dramatically more efficient than a square rigged tall ship, particularly upwind.
Well, if you look at how many sites break auth, or something in the login flow... This is clearly not the case for most companies. Auth is definitely simpler than most problems, but plenty of teams get it wrong.
Gold, and any other commodity for that matter, doesn't generate income and is a poor currency
> I just can't seem to find a decent static site generator.

Maybe you and I have very different ideas of what is required to write a blog, but it sounds like you should be able to use Hugo + the theme of your choice and just go with it. It's /very/ easy, and posts are all written in Markdown.
Really depends upon what you're doing. A lot of these benchmarks get a lot closer together depending upon that. E.g. compare "fortunes" to "multiple query".