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by vec 5y ago
> If you're unable to set a consistent cookie across your user's many sessions (especially for a high retention business like e-commerce), or your javascript conversion events (Google Tag Manager for example) are being blocked,
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by vec 7y ago
Of course people have different risk appetites, including poor people. The point isn't so much about "risk" per se, it's about whether or not there's a viable Plan B. If I'm working two jobs to barely keep a ro
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by vec 7y ago
Just playing devil's advocate a bit, but what would be the downside of just drawing a bright line that owning stock in your employer is inherently a conflict of interest?
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by vec 7y ago
"continuous delivery" != "test in production" But even if it were, why do you think continuous delivery is the appropriate choice of workflow when you don't actually control the "delivery" part?
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by vec 7y ago
Presumably they are doing something during that week; namely code reviewing all the patches in front of yours in the queue. Don't get me wrong. I, too, wish that other developers would drop whatever they're doing on demand to prio
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by vec 8y ago
So capture dozens of messages. Better yet, capture dozens of symlinks to make it trivial for me to review the messages in the original context. The point is, I've already had a long, sprawling, disjointed conversation with the interest
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by vec 8y ago
It should be as invisible as possible. I discuss an issue with someone on Slack or over email or whatever. I can invoke some magic command in band to capture the surrounding conversation and create a reference number. I can then cite that r
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by vec 8y ago
My wife owns and operates a private medical practice (she's an audiologist), and it's insane the way she has to do billing and accounts receivable. When a patient asks about prices she quotes them her standard price for the nece
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by vec 8y ago
Power plant doesn't just mean fixed electrical generation plant. There's probably a gas-fired power plant in your car, for example. And you're correct that the main place fuel oil is price-competitive is in transportation, bu
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by vec 8y ago
That's exactly backwards. Cheaper oil will lower the operating costs of power plants that use oil as a fuel, which raises the bar that newer technologies will have to clear to be comparatively more efficient, which will in turn slows t
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by vec 8y ago
It does. There's no free market for soup kitchens for the homeless, for example. There exist entities who are willing to provide soup kitchen services below operating costs in perpetuity (i.e. charitably, for free). The price for servi
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by vec 8y ago
> This kind of system is more or less impossible in the US and it would be extremely expensive. That's literally how Social Security works, and the fact that more guest workers pay payroll taxes into the system than are eligible to
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by vec 8y ago
As I understand it, we have a relatively small number of people with serious or chronic illnesses whose normal, predictable healthcare expenses will drastically and permanently outstrip their realistic ability to pay. The only way they will
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by vec 8y ago
True, but that's subtly different than the point I'm trying to make. Imagine your hypothetical were reversed. Imagine we already had a network toll roads priced at an average of $5/100 miles, and that we had a plan to build a
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by vec 8y ago
I don't dispute that the current status quo emerged as a direct result of government intervention. Again, I agree with you that it can be traced back to WWII era wage controls. My claim is that, once established, the resulting equilibr
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by vec 8y ago
We can't say the prisoners chose to enter the gulags of their own free will, though. Since freedom of contract requires all parties to enter into the agreement consentually, that means that the market for gulag laborers is not free. Th
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by vec 8y ago
"Compared to these, the effects you described are negligible" is also a positive claim, and I did at least as much work sketching out why I believe my claim as you did sketching out why you believe yours.
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by vec 8y ago
If maximizing profits (or, more precisely, maximizing expected value) isn't a terminal goal for all involved parties then it isn't a free market.
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by vec 8y ago
> Offering insurance as compensation started during WWII when wages were frozen by the government. Absolutely true, and those regulations haven't been in effect for the better part of a century now. If you want to argue that long-di
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by vec 8y ago
A) Right. We have universal single payer food insurance , also known as taxpayer funded welfare for the poor. We're in essence covered by, and paying premiums to, a mandatory State-run insurance policy such that if we ever can't
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by vec 8y ago
A) We do have socialized food insurance. That's literally what EBT is. B) I'm not going to wake up in the morning to discover that my expected annual food costs have suddenly increased by four or five orders of magnitude. There is
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by vec 8y ago
It doesn't always have to work out, it just has to work out in the aggregate . The bar that the existing private insurance regime has set for discouraging wasteful medical tests isn't exactly high, though. It's also worth
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by vec 8y ago
Gee, that sure does sound like a private dispute between you and your employer to me. If you want to opt out of your company's health care plan then you're more than welcome to go attempt to negotiate with your manager about raisi
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by vec 8y ago
This works reasonably well for things like vision care because they're entirely opt-in. Patients who aren't satisfied with the prices they're being quoted can realistically choose to keep wearing glasses instead. No one in th
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by vec 8y ago
> We do not have a free market. Most people get their health insurance from their employer - you cannot reasonably get insurance elsewhere What you are describing are in fact the freest parts of the health insurance market. Employers, qu
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by vec 8y ago
> If the private system provides value, it will likely survive. And if it doesn't survive, good ! Industries don't have an inherent right to keep existing if they don't fill some useful function. Refusing to implement an
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by vec 8y ago
Because it's not everyone paying for everyone's health care, it's one entity paying for everyone's health care (using funds they get from everyone). That one entity can unilaterally refuse to do business with abusive
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by vec 8y ago
Exhibit A for why "free market healthcare" is an oxymoron. I have yet to hear a coherent explanation for how anyone can reasonably expect for price discovery to even pretend to function in a market where the consumers can't e
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by vec 8y ago
People are scared of hosting their own SMTP server because hosting an SMTP server is woefully insufficient for actually having mass mailings reliably delivered. The hard part isn't actually sending the mail, the hard part is staying ab
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by vec 8y ago
> If we as a society are OK with qualified law enforcement looking the other way, then we're OK with passing the buck to the unqualified. You're excluding the admittedly somewhat bleak but still quite plausible third alternativ

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