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  1. The single payer countries have better outcomes and nobody has to go bankrupt.

    The death panels thing is risible. In the US it's for profit insurance companies that decide what treatments you get, not independent panels of qualified professionals.

    The US healthcare system is a scandal and the government is abdicating its responsibility to its citizens by not doing it properly.

  2. Because it is much cheaper to finance healthcare using the single payer model. As an example, healthcare per person was something over $10k for each US citizen in 2015. In the UK it was closer to $3k and in the UK nobody has to go bankrupt and outcomes are better e.g. we have a higher life expectancy.

  3. Re:overcast on Apple Has Ruined Its Podcasts App (slate.com) · · Score: 2

    The Apple podcast app does not inject ads into the podcasts.

    However, it does suck in most other respects and has now become almost unusable.

  4. Re:Need to cut price by 50% on Tesla Proves To Be Too Pricey For Germany, Loses Tax Subsidies (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    If they haven't run out of money before 2019, the EV market will be very crowded by then and most of Tesla's competitors absolutely do know how to engineer a production line.

  5. Re:Need to cut price by 50% on Tesla Proves To Be Too Pricey For Germany, Loses Tax Subsidies (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Tesla is not Amazon. For every Amazon, there are ten start ups that went bankrupt. Do you remember the dot com crash? There were a lot of companies "like Amazon" that went bust.

  6. Re:"Pizza" tracker? on 'App Truthers' Question the Accuracy of the Domino's Pizza Tracker (foxnews.com) · · Score: 1

    When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that's amoré

    Americans have got a lot to answer for.

  7. The game is not free. If it were free, the company developing and running it would quickly go out of business since it must have at least some expenses.

    Presumably the game makes money through advertising or selling players' data. Either way, if nobody is playing the game because of all the cheaters, the company's revenue stream will dry up.

  8. Re:How hard can this be? on How Converting A C++ Game to JavaScript Gave Us WebAssembly (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    You forgot

            create_message_box_use_your_location()

  9. Re:I see the problem. on How Converting A C++ Game to JavaScript Gave Us WebAssembly (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    If only computer languages could be used for something other than games. Oh, wait, they can.

    The fact that this makes it possible to use languages other than Javascript in the browser should be a cause for rejoicing.

  10. Re:You all need to read the FAQ from the Boring Co on Elon Musk's Boring Company Bids On Chicago Airport Transit Link (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    they talk about very reasonable ways in which the cost of "digging a goddam tunnel" is greatly reduced.

    How many tunnels have they dug? Their FAQ seems to be full of handwaving and not much thought. Have they considered how small a train would be that could fit into a 14 foot tunnel? It certainly couldn't be anywhere near 14 foot in diameter. Then they also talk about the problems of existing TBMs that make tunnelling expensive, like not being able to tunnel continuously and going very slowly. It's not like there isn't considerable pressure on tunnelling cost doesn't already exist. If TBM's are not already using those "obvious" techniques to make tunnelling cheaper, there's probably a very good reason why not.

    The whole thing smacks of Dunning Kruger to me. Elon Musk has looked at the problem and declared he can solve it without understanding the engineering needed. It's the same reason why he can't build a production line to make relatively simple cars.

  11. Re:Electric skates on Elon Musk's Boring Company Bids On Chicago Airport Transit Link (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    1. Batteries are heavy. If you are using an electromagnet to hold the train off the ground, that means more current which means more energy loss. It also takes more energy to accelerate up to speed and to stop.

    2. I see you fail to address the environmental cost of disposing of spent batteries except with handwaving.

  12. Re: Did the cool-aid taste good? on Wondering Why Your Internal .dev Web App Has Stopped Working? (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Wait a minute. Are you suggesting that the proxy in the corporation in which I work is able to decrypt the traffic I send to https://google.com? Because I say bullshit. My browser would flag the invalid certificate that it presents to me.

  13. Re:S'all good man on Coinbase Ordered To Report 14,355 Users To the IRS (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    Since both earning and spending involve exchanging currency for something else, your assertion seems unlikely to be true.

  14. Re:Seems feasible on Is Elon Musk Greatly Exaggerating Tesla's Battery Technology? (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Here's a question. How many megawatts of generating capacity would such a charging station need to charge each truck in 30 minutes?

  15. Re:Happens all the time. on Computer Science GCSE in Disarray After Tasks Leaked Online (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    None of the teachers should have seen it either, unless it was for coursework, not the exam.

  16. Re:Information wants to be free!! on Computer Science GCSE in Disarray After Tasks Leaked Online (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    The assessment for many GCSE's is done in two parts. There are the formal examinations and there is course work. The formal examinations are done in invigilated conditions, the course work is done by the student during the time they are taking the course.

    What happens is that the exam board sets a task e.g. "write an algorithm to shuffle a deck of cards" or "write a simple pre-emptive multitasking operating system with a Posix compatibility layer". The student then goes away and posts the task on Stack Overflow. Somebody else answers by copy-pasting the Fisher Yates algorithm from Wikipedia.

  17. Wikipedia has 44 pages about discontinued Google services.

  18. Re:Movie Critics are Useless on DC Fans Angry Over Rotten Tomatoes 'Justice League' Ratings (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Critics want edgy, ground breaking artistic media because for the most part they watch way too many movies and are burnt out and cynical.

    How do you explain that the Marvel films as a rule get better reviews despite being a better time than the average recent DC film?

  19. Re:2021? Maybe. on Uber Expands Driverless-Car Push With Deal For 24,000 Volvos (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    If something goes wrong in an automated car e.g. sensor failure, the software has the option to pull over and stop, or, in extreme circumstances, just stop. Not an option on an aeroplane.

  20. Re:2021? Maybe. on Uber Expands Driverless-Car Push With Deal For 24,000 Volvos (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    If your reaction time is more than 1,500 milliseconds, please never get behind the wheel of a car.

  21. Re: Ha ha ha. on An Ethereum Startup Just Vanished After People Invested $374K (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Asking people to invest money for a new business and then pocketing it is fraud. Specifically, it is embezzlement.

    No question about it.

  22. Re:I got burned on An Ethereum Startup Just Vanished After People Invested $374K (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    No. If you can't afford to lose the money, do not invest in start ups at all. Start ups are inherently very risky - even when they are not scams. Most of the time, you will lose your money.

  23. Re:I went to college with two climate scientists on What They Don't Tell You About Climate Change (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    Somebody had Donald Trump. If only they had been more environmentally aware.

  24. Re:I went to college with two climate scientists on What They Don't Tell You About Climate Change (economist.com) · · Score: 2

    If the barbecue was a charcoal barbecue, it would have been carbon neutral.

    Except for the transportation costs, the energy cost to manufacture the barbecue, the energy costs of all the cars that people arrived in etc. But they're the same for all parties. So no more parties.

  25. Re:I'm not worried on What They Don't Tell You About Climate Change (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    When we have the technology to make Mars or Venus habitable, we'll also have the technology to keep the Earth habitable. The idea that we would have the technology to make habitable a planet with almost no atmosphere or a planet where it rains sulphuric acid but not be able to take the CO2 out of our own atmosphere is bonkers.