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  1. Re:how do you manage -- Very Well Overall! on Hospital Prices Are About To Go Public in the US (ajc.com) · · Score: 1

    Off topic. The Toyota is a much better car.

    Better at what? Pulling mercenary birds? Buy the Bentley. Getting from point A to B. Buy the Toyota.

    Argument by analogy doesn't really work. What is analogous medicine to English cars? Expensive, unreliable but looks good sitting there leaking oil? Where's Locas Electrics?

  2. Re:OMG WTF!! on Hospital Prices Are About To Go Public in the US (ajc.com) · · Score: 1

    In Canada it is now legal to pay for your own healthcare out of system.

    Because it is a human right to pay, rather than just die.

    You need to argue with the Canadian courts, they say you are full of shit.

  3. Re:Single-Payer National Health Care on Hospital Prices Are About To Go Public in the US (ajc.com) · · Score: 1

    You post lies (Germany and Japan require citizens to buy insurance), then cite a blog?

  4. Re:how do you manage? on Hospital Prices Are About To Go Public in the US (ajc.com) · · Score: 1

    Medicare gets its cost advantage by shifting those costs to younger patents. That's a hidden tax.

    If everybody got 'medicare price' that price would rise. It doesn't typically cover costs.

  5. Re:how do you manage? on Hospital Prices Are About To Go Public in the US (ajc.com) · · Score: 1

    Why the tax advantage?

    It's not a good thing, it sucks. The last thing anybody needs when changing jobs is dealing with insurance changes. Granting the way you can retroactively buy COBRA (if you get sick in the three month period) is subject to scams.

  6. Re:how do you manage? on Hospital Prices Are About To Go Public in the US (ajc.com) · · Score: 1

    America wasn't alone in the room with Germany after WWII.

    What you describe was mostly the Ruskies and Frogs.

    It's been a long time, nobody complained about keeping Stalin out. Europe was trashed, we understood, Europe needed adult supervision.

    It's coming up on 100 years of 'Pax Americana' in Europe. Time to start guarding your own borders.

  7. Re:Extra charges on Hospital Prices Are About To Go Public in the US (ajc.com) · · Score: 1

    Obamacare made reasonable (catastrophic) health insurance illegal. 'They' tell me that's a good thing.

    We're stuck running our 'oil changes' through our car insurance, and paying $500 a quart for low grade oil made by the insurers cousin.

  8. Re:Intelligence requires motivation on Artificial General Intelligence is Nowhere Close To Being a Reality (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    That's a tinny word.

  9. Children are, by any reasonable adult standard, _insane_.

    Para: WKRP

  10. You can fit any data to an 'exponential curve', if you torture it long enough.

    If you torture the data long enough, you can make it tell you anything you want.

  11. Heat death of the universe. Ergo: Fuck it, hookers and blow.

  12. Re:Not sure why anyone stays in places where on Two Miles From Facebook's Headquarters, Working Poor Live In Trailers (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    CA is the same. Run by and for LA and SF areas, with a bone thrown to San Diego once in a while.

  13. Eh, I've been paid 'enough' for decades now. But it's a good way to keep score.

    How much you keep more than how much you earn, certainly NOT how much you spend.

  14. Re:Cause and effect, not fault. on Two Miles From Facebook's Headquarters, Working Poor Live In Trailers (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    If a dog licks you it's kissing you. If a cat licks you it's tasting you.

    My dogs begged and begged, eventually I got them a cat all their own.

  15. Antioch.

  16. Re:Cause and effect, not fault. on Two Miles From Facebook's Headquarters, Working Poor Live In Trailers (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    Neither are cats.

  17. East Palo Alto is gentrifying fast.

  18. That's not how prop 13 works. New owners pay tax on full value, but valuations can only grow at 1%/year.

    I've got six cars+ worth of garages because if I added 'livable space' it would trigger a revaluation. I kind of live in the workshop.

    You don't have to speculate on how it works absent prop 13. Look at any of the high cost states on the east coast.

  19. What color is the sky on your planet? You're clearly not living on earth.

  20. Re:Am I missing something? on Facebook's WhatsApp Has an Encrypted Child Porn Problem (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    I bet I could find a burner phone inside 24 hours in Switzerland, knowing only English and some German. I might have to step across a border, but I'd have one inside a day. Yes, I know, you are all a bunch of law abiders. The first Swiss person I asked would rat me out for sure...I won't ask any Swiss people.

    I the USA, you get a prepaid credit card for cash, then buy and activate a prepaid phone 'plan' with that.

    You can bet these groups are already infiltrated. Good, the internet _busts_ another bunch of pedos.

  21. Get a Tesla and find a highway off ramp with a drop-off instead of a concrete wall.

  22. Re:Meh.... Two giants bickering on Oracle's CTO: No Way a 'Normal' Person Would Move To AWS (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    So, yeah, if you're trying to join the same table to itself 7 times

    I worked with that dude! He wrote his master's thesis on SQL query optimization. Didn't know what a query plan was. That's not 'competent' anywhere.

    BTW 'You're holding it wrong' is the wrong answer for data warehouses. Relational databases are OLD tech, nobody wants everything different. Many coders are familiar with the options. Keeping copies or summaries of data in memory isn't new. They did that with CICS and COBOL, 'middleware', pinned views, stored procedures, OLAP cubes. So they're calling it 'windowing functions' now? Nice. What's the new word for index? table?

  23. Re:Not dealing with Oracle = big win on Oracle's CTO: No Way a 'Normal' Person Would Move To AWS (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    If your load grows huge AND interdependent, you _might_ need Oracle clustering.

    So just lube up now and call Oracle marketing?

  24. Re: Not dealing with Oracle = big win on Oracle's CTO: No Way a 'Normal' Person Would Move To AWS (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    In what way is supporting two database engines superior to one?

    It's not like MySQL does anything every other SQL relational database doesn't also do. Just avoid the whole swamp, pick one SQL database flavor. Not Oracle, but not some overgrown toy either.

    Besides, MySQL will have your analytic staff learning all sorts of bad habits and non standard SQL.

  25. Re: Not dealing with Oracle = big win on Oracle's CTO: No Way a 'Normal' Person Would Move To AWS (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Not with the fast ISAM.