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I wonder how much of the mechanical keyboard popularity is just gaming marketing? I also prefer lower key travel and quieter keys. It is just lest straining.

Take for example expensive gaming chairs that look like race car chairs. The side support makes no sense since gamers do not experience high g-forces. The side support lowers mobility which is actually really bad for your back.
Just like the invasion of Afghanistan, this was all driven by the need to "do something" after 9/11. Now the US has finally left, a decade after assasinating Bin Laden in Pakistan, maybe the domestic security theatre can be dismantled too. The salience of terrorism in the air has vanished when mobs fight each other in the street and the US loses a 9/11 worth of COVID deaths every two days.

It also seems odd that mandatory groping never received as much pushback as, say, mandatory facemasks.
Wanting by Luke Burgis talks a lot about the change of attitude toward victims being a recent phenomenon
> But many facilities will require those who have insurance to use it — knowing they can bill higher prices that way.

And therein lies the problem.. It's been said over and over but there is still no getting around the fact that most people in the US literally can't afford to get sick or have an accident.
"Both the physicians and the hospital are part of companies recently taken over by private-equity investors."
Nope. Requiring your neighbor to read and therefore light their lamp is a different story though.
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That's the influence of Christianity.

In paganism, victims were perceived as losers, who, if not deserved what they got, at least where weak and couldn't prevent it, so not as good as a strong person.

The change in perception, is, in many aspects an improvement.

(And yes, it didn't always hold under Christianity either, for reasons of rationalization -those aren't victims, they're offenders we must punish-, hypocrisy, etc - and basically because no doctrine applied by humans is applied perfectly. But ideologically, it was the Christian mindset in favor of the victim that eventually caught on. That's also where people from Nietctze to Marx ascribed contemporary concerns for "human rights" and so on).
> The idea that cost determines value is literally Marxism

Nope, in Marxism value determines cost and is equal to the social labor needed for the production of a good.
A free market wouldn’t be dumb enough to give a teenager a loan for 100k. That idiocy is reserved for the government.
When was it outlawed and by whom?
Damn this is costly. I am an outsider from a developing nation in the east looking into this. Here that treatment wouldn't have costed more than 10$ in a very good hospital maybe. I have two questions for US citizens:
1. How are the prices so high(ELI5)?
2. What happens if someone doesn't pay the entire amount of the their medical bills?

Edit:
Another question I want to ask after reading some of the other comments.
3. Doesn't big companies in the US keep medical staff for basic medical emergencies like this? That would be free of cost for the employees if things are similar to how it is here.
If you have 4 billion of them generated there’s another 1/4billionth chance you’ll generate a duplicate.

On top of that you would not only need to generate the same ID, you would need to USE it in the same system where that is could have some semantics to not cause an error.
Question from a welfare country and complete ignorance: what exactly are the steps necessary to change this and why is it so difficult for the USA to take them?
The hero of the first book is a union man.
You can create your own smart contract though.
Covid-19: stigmatising the unvaccinated is not justified
Nice website and account. This sort of basic ROM manipulation was a huge gateway into low-level programming for me and many others. For an aspiring teenage programmer, it is immensely satisfying to be able to open a ROM in a hex editor and get Marin to greet Link by saying your crass phrases of choice at the start of Link's Awakening.

Surprised the start of the article neglects to mention the biggest hidden feature of the game, though: the fact that it also contains a hidden port of "The Lost Levels" (unlocked after getting a high enough score in the main game, IIRC). Super Mario Bros Deluxe is a stellar example of a great port; it's clear that a huge amount of thought and effort went into making a high quality version for the GBC. Glad to see it getting a bit of attention in this day when ports of old games are used as lazy cash grabs, inferior to the original releases.
There's a Sony Walkman model running on Android, NW-A105 I think.
Yeah. Then these geniuses get bitten by Spectre/Meltdown because they were too scared of running the microcode update. For real.

I agree, if that's the position of Guix, I don't want it in my machine.
Please let's not "both sides" this. It's the maga crowd who have fallen into a cult of personality and are excusing those personalities for their incompetence and its results. Until that appears from another vector it is dishonest and misleading to project this on any other group.
That's exactly why the author sends back a whole small town (with libraries etc), instead of just a single smart person.
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Cog VM, the fast virtual machine that powers open source Smalltalk implementations like Pharo and Squeak. Mostly a labor of love by Eliot Miranda and Clement Bera.
It's not. Physician reimbursement has been going down year over year since the late 90s. Each unit of physician work (relative value units, RVUs) is worth 50% of what it was in 1998 for Medicare at least, and most insurers peg their reimbursement at a specific multiple of the Medicare rate. Sorry, the insurance companies, PBMs, and hospital administration is to blame for the high cost of care, not the physicians who don't control how much they are reimbursed for each office visit or procedure.
Oh I'm fully aware. This scene has been going on far longer than the current wave of mechanical keyboard craze (and it often doesn't emphasize switches as much either). I consider the two groups completely distinct.
I was about to buy mini, but compared to se 2020 it has no borders and a better camera. Camera I don’t care of, and no borders is actually a downgrade for me.

I like to 1) be able to hold my phone and not touch the screen by a “thumb butt”, 2) reading something with its bottom side sitting on my belly, where shirt or blanket folds may cover the screen if it’s full-height. No borders is just a designer’s delusion to me. I have a friend with mini and after every other telegram message he tries to record an audio because the record button is exactly at the bottom right of the case when the keyboard is hidden. If Apple stops making SEs, I’ll have to search for a special border extending case.
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But plumbers have to deal with a lot of nauseating stuff. "Amount of nauseating substances you have to deal with" should be a huge factor in pay rate.
The free market didn’t make your operation 75k. The government giving a blank check to hospitals and the lack of price transparency did that. Both are as far from the ‘free market’ as you can get.
Tesla does seem to attract drivers with more money than sense. First there are the reports of various crashes where the human driver was not paying attention and was fully trusting software to drive their car, and now you have people who are fully trusting their mobile phone to give them the ability to use their car.

If someone drops and breaks their phone, and that's the only way they have access to their car, they are stuck. And accidents like that happen, even when we're careful. Thus, leaving the house with the phone as your only point of access to the car is just playing a numbers game - eventually, you will get stuck. That failure point has nothing to do with Tesla at all.
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Found the toxic person. RTFM isn't really the best look and I love answering noob questions even if I've seen them a number of times.
I’m curious what your proposal is, in that case?
Hi USA. You are sick.

It is called "health care" and you are doing neither.

I live in a second world country called Poland and even here with all our failings and problems we are not afraid to go to ER when we need stitches.

Organizing medical help should be basic responsibility of a government the same way it should be to get its children to be educated and have good start for life.

Nation is a collection of people that work together so that they can prosper but, most importantly, fulfill their basic needs including a need for safety.

I can think of no large group of people that would say "Let's work together. But maybe let's decide we are not going to to deal with our life threatening problems that can hurt as sometimes completely at random.

When people talk about helping a third world country what are the first thing that are being mentioned? It is usually building schools and hospitals. Because educated and healthy people can take care of themselves. Why would USA decide to not provide free education and free healthcare is completely beyond me.
Can you elaborate on where you disagree with universal healthcare?

Your opinion sounds nuanced and, therefore, possibly interesting.
I don’t think it’s the rugged individualism that’s at fault, so much as an emergent, insane incentive structure that has grown out of control. The confluence of big insurance, big hospitals/ practices, and regulatory capture have given us a completely warped system.
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It does pose risks to others when it depletes social health resources.
You are actually proving my point. Incompetent doctors are incentivized to come to Texas because there is a low cap on malpractice. That makes healthcare worse. Also, the extra tests that are being run just to cover someone's liability in other states don't make outcomes better because they are overwhelmingly unnecessary. They just add extra cost to the medical system to avoid lawsuits outside of Texas.
In other professions if you make a bid and fail to capture required work, you eat it generally speaking.

Contractors, many of whom are small businesses or individuals, do this all the time. They also give estimates like "If we find mold behind the wall, it will be an extra ten thousand".

Medicine is also odd in that you have to pay for the doctors mistake. If the doctor prescribes a less effective drug, it has no effect and then after doing your own research find a better drug and get the doctor to prescribe that instead. You still have to pay for the first visit. If a plumber decides to go from plastic to copper pipe mid job, he doesn't get paid for the work he ripped out.

Multi billion dollar hospital groups, full of highly educated professionals apparently can't pull this off but the guy who poops in a bucket on the job site can.
This is the same in Canada. My wife is due to give birth in 3 months. The biggest bill we're concerned about is the parking lot. I think it's $20/day.

And if the parking fee was too much, I've heard that one can go talk to the reception desk and they'll open the gate for you.

I would rather pay very slightly higher taxes and let all of my fellow Canadians have this benefit than be very sightly richer and live in a society that doesn't have this.
This looks really neat. What kind of hardware does it need? How fast is it?

I looked at the benchmarks pages, but they don't mention hardware, and there are no units in the results tables.
It's not just possible the ubiquitous SAT was literally created by a white supremacist, Carl Brigham [0]. They are having a moment right now and trying to distance themselves from the racist part of their foundation.

> It's possible that standardized tests are biased. Then fix them!

We know they are biased but everytime the solution it's brought the solution is to replace them with another biased test.

[0] https://www.teenvogue.com/story/the-history-of-the-sat-is-mi...
There already is a massive public healthcare system in America called Medicare and Medicaid which is the root of distorted prices. The lack of price transparency adds fuel to the fire and allows those prices to stay high without any upfront awareness given to the end consumer.
> The bulk of your time building serverless applications will not be spent writing the application logic or focusing on the parts of your code that are in fact the differentiated thing that you’re being paid to work on. It just flat out won’t. Instead you’ll spend most of your time figuring out how to mate these functions with other services from that cloud provider.

I completely disagree with this point, as it goes totally against the experience that I and my team have piled up after a couple of years of running a couple of serverless apps that rely heavily on a few AWS Lambdas. The API Gateway and ALB code was pretty much a one-and-done, with the bulk of the work consisting of setting up TLS termination, and the bulk of the work was on writing and testing all the business logic.

The only exception I've seen to this rule is if your serverless apps consists of a bunch of event handler from a large bunch of AWS services, like S3 triggers and message queues, that are not much than one-liners that don't do much beyond plumbing around events. Still, I don't feel it's right to describe this sort of application around lambdas that don't do much by design.

> I’m apparently atypical here! Folks don’t like to spend an order of magnitude more to monitor a system than the system itself costs to run. (...)

I also don't believe this point is fair or reasonable. It makes no sense to complain about serverless because it can be dirt-cheap (or even free to use) but your choice of monitoring service, coupled with the way you chose to use it, ends up costing more. You pick what you use and decide how you use it, and if your personal choices lead to a price tag greater than zero then that's the outcome of your own design decisions.

This complain is particularly eggregious given that AWS CloudWatch has a free tier that's very clear and included in basic intro to AWS tutorials.

> (...) It turns out that while it’s super easy to find folks who know WordPress, you’re in trouble if both of the freelance developers who understand serverless are out sick that day — not to mention that they cost roughly as much as an anesthesiologist.

Again, this is hardly a serverless issue. You'd experience the exact same problem if you ran a Spring monolith.
Your library may have a copy:

https://www.worldcat.org/title/never-pay-the-first-bill-and-...
There is a straight line flight path(if I'm reading this right)looking like a longitude correction, followed by a latitude correction (in the wrong place) for a landing at "BEDAX". Holding pattern waiting for radio comms? Then a ditch to the nearest open sea? Was someone spoofing GPS data? PS: if I am taking out of my hat, then please disregard. I am not a flier, and had to check which is lat and long!
CIOs across Europe add their VOICE to chorus of calls regulate cloud gatekeepers
Weird, just about every bank here in Portugal allows for that. The virtual "visa" card creation/management is handled through SIBS, the company that does all national card transactions.

I assumed due to convenience and safety that virtual cards were more widespread in Europe, not least because of the requirements such as 3DS for card payments.

At least fintech companies like Revolut and N26 should be available for most Europeans and they offer virtual cards, though with other limitations/costs.
The comparison to Wi-Fi is a bit strained, though.

Lamp light escaping out of the window does not hurt the neighbor at all. He isn't any better or worse off if the escaped rays of light serve someone else for reading or just inconvenience the local cats in heat.

If I hook to someone else's Wi-Fi, I am degrading his bandwidth. Depending on what I download/upload, possibly significantly so. And if I am unscrupulous enough to spread illegal content (such as child porn) over his Wi-Fi, I am setting him up for an unexpected rendezvous with SWAT.

That said, the article probably wants to conclude that employers should pay for utilities such as Internet connection when their employees work from home. I wholeheartedly agree, though a certain ceiling on the total cost should be in order (there is no need why a random accountant would need a 1 Gbps connection paid wholly by their employer).
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It's not stupid. The app could easily unlock the car using Bluetooth. Why does it need a server?
Just a footnote. Remember that copper sulfate are highly poisonous to molluscs, fishes and crustaceans, and could kill pets also, so if you have it, store the stuff and saturated solutions in a safe place and -don't- discard it in the sink.
Yeah, but that collision probably doesn’t matter because there’s a bunch of other variables that need to come together for it to be an issue at all.
If the ER was rewlly so busy, they'd hand out brochures for non-ER clinics instead of fleecing minor patients, because they'd be too busy for minor case patients.
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The US conducted the experiment to limit insurance companies' profits. A component of the ACA (Obamacare) was the 80/20 rule, where at least 80% of all premiums collected by health ins. companies had to be paid out for care. That was a failure. In the 10 years or so since that rule, premiums have increased dramatically.

Your reply is well-stated. There isn't one single 'bad guy' in the US system; it's more a function of a bunch of little factors that nobody wants to change: the US has the best, highly trained doctors (expensive), best equipment/hospitals (expensive), subsidizes much of the drug development for the rest of the world (for better or worse), and a weird public/private system where the private insurers make up for lower payments from public insurance like Medicaid/Medicare.

In talking with a number of physicians, my biggest concern is that they're starting to feel like most of the 'reforms' and changes the US is making are impacting them the most. None of my physician friends recommend their children go into the profession, and many are leaving poorly-run hospital systems to focus on boutique, private practice (catering to the rich.) We have a huge healthcare provider shortage coming, and I'm terrified the system is straining hard as I get older and will need to start relying on it.
Agree, to me KDE is the best DE, especially for people coming off Windows. Snappy performance and sane defaults that even though are thoroughly configurable, I never have to touch after installation in order to have a usable experience even though it's not the most esthetically pleasing out of the box. No wonder Valve went with it for the Steam Deck.

Unfortunately, most of its warts stem from the KDE devs trying to work around the direction which the highly opinionated and inflexible GNOME leadership is pushing as the de facto standard for the Linux DE world that most of the industry is following due to the majority market share that GNOME enjoys.

This is the blessing and the curse of the current state of the Linux DE.
Upvoted for the Bloom County reference.
I don’t think that’s related. Apple goes through many iterations of something the market does not want before they axe it: Touch Bar, butterfly keys, USB-C only ports, etc. These could all have been axed after the first year and were not.

Personally I rather like the minis and hope they don’t kill it, though I’m afraid that I might be in a minority. But it appears they sell more than other companies flagships, so maybe the market for it is underrated.
The lake has some decently funny reviews on Google Maps.
Meatverse >> Metaverse.
Answer: because Android/Google phones need as much screen space as possible to display what little content is left still between the ads ;) Another reason I can see is that phablets tend to hit ground faster than small phones, thereby pouring demand into the feedback loop.

Seriously, there used to be decent Android phones fitting in a pocket but clearly the market seems to have sorted those out. It's one of the reasons I'm using an iPhone after having used Android phones all the time - can't stand precarious phablets. Missing Mobile FF with uBO, though it's not that much of a problem I thought it was given what little browsing I'm still doing, and Safari is working well enough to regain some privacy I guess.
> This is the kind of things that show how inviable is a market-led economy without proper regulation.

The medical industry is highly regulated. I can't just go open up a practice giving people stiches. I would need a whole slew of certifications in order to do so. That's why this situation in the US is so absurd. The market is regulated to limit the competition at the expense of the consumer.

In the U.S. the "free market" is mostly a myth.
Country and state are interchangeable terms. USA is a state that is a union of states. Or, as the federal level started to expand their influence the states aren't really states any longer, but for historical reasons they are still called states. But the original intention was to make the states self govern with high degree of autonomy, it was supposed to be a union and not a country.
> The important thing is that, in their fight to promote freedom, they meet obstacles. Those friction points reveal the lack of freedom. And so, although they don't reach freedom, they actually show that freedom is limited.

Well said. If problems are not openly demonstrated and complained about, things will not improve.
But that's exactly how a free market does work.

It's exactly what any rational person would expect from a corporate free-for-all designed for maximum extraction potential based on maximising political power differentials.

Good state-owned care smooths out the inequalities, so farmers in the middle of rural area will at least have affordable access to basic care, and more advanced care will be within easy travelling distance.

This ends up being far cheaper for everyone who needs medical care - which is basically everyone.

The only losers are profiteering shareholders.

Of course you still pay for it, but you don't pay as much. And you won't be bankrupted by bills for which you either have no cover at all, or limited insurance cover which still leaves you with a huge sum.
This doesn't make the ER scams acceptable.

It's like saying "Be more careful to avoid being mugged or raped."
Just spit-balling here, but it seems to me that you could probably get away with just using the endpoints and maybe the control points. There might be some odd cases where this falls apart, but in general I suspect it would work pretty well and in the edge cases it probably wouldn't be too confusing; you'd still get a point to rotate around in the vicinity of the curve at the centre of a line between the endpoints. If you included the control points, it would still end up roughly close to the centre of the visual curve.
Well, the US government has 1/4 but some tribes go down to 1/8. If the position / scholarship says decent the tribes have that documentation too. You can get a document that says you are not enrolled but are a descendent of the tribe. If you are talking about the COVID funding, I think some documentation from the tribe that you are 1/8 in would suffice. Also check the tribal constitution and minority business rules of your state.

I'm not going to comment on reverse racism, but if a position or grant was set aside for a Native American then claiming heritage one does not have is bs.