polygotdomain

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by polygotdomain 1y ago
> if a private business with all the incentive in the world can't figure out how to lower healthcare costs What if their incentives aren't to lower cost? Insurance companies make more when the obfusicate pricing and payout less
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by polygotdomain 1y ago
Competition based on benefits really comes in at the low end and the top end of employment. If you're a tradesperson, just having insurance coverage is a big thing. It doesn't matter if it's not great, it's better than
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by polygotdomain 1y ago
I completely agree. While it's counter intuitive, many businesses want to maintain control of employee's healthcare. Some companies look at it as a way to compete by offering better benefits than their competitors. A lot of comp
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by polygotdomain 1y ago
To start, it was clear that many were Musk fan boys. I don't think "bright" was a driving force, but "young, with no prior experience" would be great if you wanted people to make decisions that have the potential to
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by polygotdomain 2y ago
I'm sorry, but I can't help myself with this one... https://youtu.be/dalNQF8NmIs?si=lHyKeTiCLDFczZk6
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by polygotdomain 2y ago
Psychopath? No. But it's also not insulting their intelligence by having that little catch up. You're asking someone for something that they don't have to do for you. Showing up in their inbox saying "Give me something
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by polygotdomain 2y ago
> Fixing healthcare costs will require a lot of people losing their job, and that wont be popular. Agreed, but I also don't think it _has_ to be this way. First and foremost, a switch to single payer would mean that a lot of the in
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by polygotdomain 2y ago
The thing that debt to GDP misses is the rates which need to be paid on that debt. For a while those rates were so low, it meant there was little reason to focus on paying down the debt, which is only going to keep that ratio relatively st
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by polygotdomain 2y ago
But why did the US lose their AAA rating? It has nothing to do with how much debt we have. It has far more to do with a non-functioning congress that simply decided it wasn't going to pay it. As has been said several times in this thr
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by polygotdomain 2y ago
This story is incredibly frustrating because it seems to throw a lot of numbers at things (which isn't a bad thing, it's just not super useful) as if that's going to change things politically. Debt is political and the funda
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by polygotdomain 2y ago
I think this quote misses that there can (and arguably should) be differences between your persistence model and your actual data structures. I'd argue that keeping things 1:1 with your underlying tables is incredibly restrictive and l
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by polygotdomain 2y ago
To give a slightly more technical answer, at a large insurance company I used to work for, the legal department had provided definitions on what conditions we would consider various components of PII a match. So between SSN, DoB, First Nam
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by polygotdomain 2y ago
This misses the mark for me completely. >My theory is that neither individuals nor organizations feel comfortable being frivolous or indulgent with their wealth anymore. I guess the author hasn't paid attention to the rise of the me
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by polygotdomain 3y ago
Having recently bought a metal lathe, and in general having a long time fascination with manufacturing, broaching is freaking mind blowing. Imparting form into metal by extremely strategic shaving off thousandths until you get to what you&
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by polygotdomain 3y ago
>It's hard to really understand why it matters that the previous rounds occurred at all It's not hard at all. Humans are not perfectly rational beings. It's not purely about odds, it's about emotions and psychology.
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by polygotdomain 3y ago
I love this, and it brings an interesting twist to an old favorite. What initially tripped me up is the cells at the points are considered a neighbor. Of course as I write that it makes perfect sense, but because of the irregular nature i
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by polygotdomain 3y ago
A few things you're missing. You're making a batch in your kitchen. They're making a significantly higher volume through an industrialized process. You probably throw things in a ziplock bag, then into the freezer. They ne
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by polygotdomain 3y ago
I'm not entirely sure that those were all Kubrick's tricks though. Classical music is used throughout the book as a way to humanize Alex playing on stereotypes that someone who would've been more refined and upstanding than
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by polygotdomain 3y ago
I think the most important aspect of "A Clockwork Orange" is it's use of language as a literary tool. It's also key to its misunderstanding, as it tends to lead towards secondary interpretations (i.e. Kubrick's fil
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by polygotdomain 3y ago
From OP's comment history, I'm going to assume this is about https://www.fretboardhacking.com/fretpro-app/ As a guitarist myself there is incredible saturation in the market right now for learning guitar, whe
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by polygotdomain 3y ago
Growing up my best friend and I loved The Far Side. In many ways it was the basis to the quirky humor we both shared, and would continue to explore throughout our youth. In elementary school we had countless Far Side books between us, and
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by polygotdomain 3y ago
The filling mechanism of the pen is what tends to dictate whether there is a shutoff valve, and there two mechanisms that have this feature; vacuum fillers, and Japanese eyedroppers. Vacuum fillers are generally higher end pens, but the bes
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by polygotdomain 3y ago
I don't disagree that those are potential cons, but it also highlights how much versatility you can have with a fountain pen. For instance, there are ones that travel very well with shutoff valves to prevent ink leakage. There are op
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by polygotdomain 3y ago
Paper that mentions that it's fountain pen friendly is usually helpful. My go to "cheap" paper is Black & Red Notebooks. I tend to use Rhodia a lot, but that may be pricier for some. In general, a lot of the Japanese p
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by polygotdomain 3y ago
I always feel that fountain pens should come with bigger caveats than they're typically presented with. I absolutely love them (more than you'd even guess), but if someone is just going to "pick up" a fountain pen and j
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by polygotdomain 3y ago
I can only speak of my experience having gone to school for Architecture. They told us that with each recession, the profession loses a generation of Architects. I was wrapping up grad school just before the Great Recession, and professors
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by polygotdomain 3y ago
The short answer is to write ANSI 92 SQL and understand the variances between different RDBMS based on which ones you encounter. The longer answer is that some RBDMS adhere closer to the standard than others. Generally the more open source
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by polygotdomain 3y ago
The challenge with UPSERTs is ambiguity, and the variety of syntax options you see on the page indicates different attempts to try to address that ambiguity while still keeping a simple syntax. Personally, I work with MSSQL which has skippe
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by polygotdomain 3y ago
While I agree that the housing market is significantly "planned", it's also not centrally planned. Zoning is determined by local citizens, which tend to have the opposite incentives to responsible growth, housing prices, and
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by polygotdomain 3y ago
>Data, information, doesn't rot... Can you tell me what hieroglyphics mean? What about a phrase of latin or another dead language? Information is only as "fresh" as our ability to interpret and understand it. Dead langu

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