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Written by someone that doesn't have much of a grasp on tech or programming - and no, being a reporter covering tech doesn't mean you know anything about programming...sounds more like someone shilling for a consulting company licking their chops to get some laws passed to force companies to rewrite everything new from scratch. Not unlike the boondoggle that was Y2K, for those of you old enough to have been developers during that ridiculous exercise. Don't get me wrong - never made so much money in my life rewriting things that didn't need to be rewritten in the first place, but in many, many cases was completely unnecessary.

Is there technical debt in some old systems? yes. Is there technical debt in systems written 3 months ago? absolutely. They are both equally likely to have at least some technical debt - taking a system already running in production, perhaps written in cobol 20+/- years ago, even with some known problems - and paying someone to rewrite the entire thing in the newest framework de-jour, imo, is just (if not more) likely to introduce new bugs and new technical debt as it is to solve any problems with the old system.

Sure, if the system no longer meets your business needs, and no one can figure out how to fix or maintain it - then by all means, consider an upgrade - but if it is not (seriously) broke - don't fix it.

worse yet, there is a very vocal set of people (many on HN) that want to force you to develop your land in order to build more housing by imposing unaffordable land taxes on undeveloped land - very short sighted.

for example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38276883

Have a set of outside porch furniture as well - that my wife had at her parent's house even before she was born - so the set is at least 58 years old, and besides having weathered a bit in color - are as good as new.

yes, but you don't need 'billions' to have a safe car, or not working in a factory with dangerous equipment and/or environmental hazards.

I think personally, at ~$2.5-$3M and at least 1 paid off house, the diminishing returns really start to kick in.

At $5M level you are pretty much all set, and at $10M and up - unless you are a consumption freak, you are really talking about generational wealth - i.e. money that will likely get passed down to your kids unless you try to find ridiculous ways to spend it.

This all assumes your goal in life isn't keeping up with the Jones's - if you fall into that trap, no amount of money will ever be enough.

I find it funny at times to think about if Larry Ellison is jealous of Zuckerberg's money, and Zuckerberg is jealous of Bezo's money, and Bezo's is jealous of Musk's money and Musk possibly being jealous of Bernard Arnault's.

If that is your personality - then you will never be happy.

the vast majority of people don't, but I would say close to 100% of parents wish they could.

What parent doesn't want their kids to be at least equal to, if not better off then they were?

this just made it harder for them to hide it.

and yet strangely, there are no proposals to ban private jets or yachts - but there are proposals in at least a few places to ban gas stoves and even gas lawn mowers (and to implement congestion pricing which will disproportionately affect the working class)

The best way to get people to use public transport, is to improve public transport - cleaning it up, getting rid of the stabbings, assaults, murders, homeless people sleeping in the subway would be a good start, not to mention the stink of urine everyplace you go.

This plan just forces the people to whom $15/day is a burden to use the available crappy public transport options and allowing the wealthy to continue to do what they have always done, unaffected by the little people - as usual.

The same thinking that is used to propose that we should ban gas stoves, but not private jets or 500' yachts.

same here when I first got Starlink - I was paying more for a 3MB DSL line from Verizon, and for less money I got roughly 100X the speed from Starlink - I would have paid 10X as much for this if I needed to - a real game changer for folks that aren't served by better options (i.e. FTTH)

NYC has got to find someway to force the poor and middle class from taking up space on city roads that the rich want to use to get places quicker.

This is probably the most regressive form of taxation there is.

This article is hard to understand, and is all over the place - starts out talking about the inheritance that Millennials may someday get, and ends like this:

"Property, financial investments and cars were among the most significant sources of wealth, the Knight Frank study found.

Among smaller items, the report found that the market for secondhand bags had eased, while the fine wine market grew marginally and sales of watches at the three big auction houses totalled £488m in 2023, a slight increase on the year before.

At the high end, Canadian rapper Drake paid $1m for a ring formerly owned by the late Tupac Shakur at Sotheby’s hip-hop auction last July."

Cars, secondhand bags, fine wine and Tupac Shakur's former ring? What the actual h*ll? Did AI write this entire article and go completely off script?

Guess it must be an election year - politicians promising things they know have zero chance of ever becoming law.

They did manage to create a bunch of $200K jobs for the well connected activists.

It will be 10+ years of seeing a variation of the exact same type of scenarios that they have seen before - which is very different then getting education and training across all disciplines - which is my entire point.

Primary care NPs are good at what they do, but what they do is very limited - most of them will admit it. Anything they haven't seen before comes along, first thing they want to do is call an ambulance and send them to the hospital or a specialist - or they will pull in an actual MD to ask them what they should do.

So if an NP has 10 years of experience working in a primary care facility - what problem does it solve to somehow 'promote' them to an MD based on that experience? Will they magically now be able to see more patients per hour? How does that solve any systemic health care system issues? It doesn't - it simply allows them to get paid like a real MD, when they aren't - so if anything, drives up costs.

>>Be healthy.

This - obviously a lot of things are out of our control, but it is also absolutely true that the vast, vast majority of health problems Americans have are all self-inflicted by decades of poor diet and lifestyle - as an individual, if you are concerned about the kind of care you are going to get when you need it, the very best and easiest thing you can do, is take as many actions as you can to avoid needing it.

You can't control everything, but you can do your part to ensure a healthy life - if only for selfish reasons (i.e. that won't fix the healthcare problems in the country, but it will minimize your own need for it).

Just to provide a counter point to all the anti-UHC complaints here - some of which may be legit - my last job had UHC insurance, without question the absolutely best insurance I have ever had in my life - literally everything was covered, no denials, no referrals needed, very reasonable co-pays and honestly felt like I had a truly gold-plated health coverage.

Now I switched to a new job, with a much small regional health insurance provided by new employer- and it sucks. Higher copays, more hoops to jump thru, penalized for going out of network (and that network is much smaller than UHCs) etc.

I for one don't care how big UHC is, how many additional related businesses they own including pharmacies etc, especially if it allows them to control costs better up and down the delivery chain - if, as a consumer, that gives me excellent service and limits my out-of-pocket expenses, I see that as a good thing, so I am all for it.

The problem I see with that is, a typical medical student is going to have to do study and clinical rotations across all disciplines - even ones they don't end up practicing - i.e. pysch, derm, emergency medicine, surgery, ortho etc - i.e., they will get training in all those areas.

Compare that to an NP that went from their 18 month NP class, to work in primary medicine/family practice office - and lets say they work there for 10 years, so great, now they are an experienced NP in family medicine (and someone I for one would be perfectly happy to see as a patient for most routine things) - but what they don't have is the experience in all those other areas that matter - even if they are not practicing it.

There is just no shortcut without putting in the time - thousands and thousands of hours of study and patient facing experience under the supervision of an experienced MD.

There is nothing wrong with being an experienced NP seeing patients (and that is mostly who I end up seeing) - but there is simply no reason to somehow 'promote' those people to doctors - they don't have the same skills or the same experience, and doing so doesn't solve any problem.

I for one am glad we don't just let foreign doctors transfer their credentials - the education and standards are not always the same, and not really sure I want to go see a doctor that moved here after taking a accelerated/minimal set of courses at whatever country happens to have the easiest/cheapest graduation requirements. Certainly there are some countries that probably have similar course of study and requirements as the USA, but I think you would need to approve transfer's very carefully after serious review of the sending countries education and training requirements.

NP vs MD education is not even close to being similar - that is why their is no easy path from one to the other - a typical NP will graduate having done ~600 to 700 hours of patient care hours. A typical MD will have had 12,000 to 16,000 hours of patient care experience before they start practicing - there are plenty of things were seeing an NP is more than enough - but you can't just give a few months of extra training to bump an NP to an MD - their education and knowledge is not even close to comparable.

There is a place for both in our health care system - but they are not the same job.

Not always - 3 of my kids got awards that paid for their entire 'tuition' at a good state school in New England (USA). The 'tuition' was $1800/year - the fees added on another $14K, and then the housing and food added another $10K on top of that -

The state kept advertising how kids could get 'free tuition' if the met the academic requirements (combination of testing high enough and overall GPA) - but in reality, it worked out to less than 10% of the actual cost of attending this in-state, public university.

Was still nice to get the $1,800 off the bill, but it was hardly 'free tuition'.

PS: Not criticizing this medical school plan - just pointing out that the definition of tuition can, and does, vary - even in the USA.

Not exactly - they Can do that, but they don't need to match - using cloudfront in front of your s3 website and then the site can be served from any bucket or folder within a bucket.

I have dozens of s3 static websites served from a single s3 bucket, all with unique top-level domains, each in its own folder within that single bucket - much easier this way.

Given anyone can create a bucket with any name (if its not already in use), you can't count on getting the bucket name that matches your domain name.

No, carbon credits are like beating your wife and then donating money each month to a battered women's shelter - virtue signaling at its worst.

No matter how many credits they buy, they are still disproportionately polluting the environment - donating money so that 'maybe' somebody else doesn't pollute as much, hardly undos the damage.

I don't personally care about wealth inequality (or more specifically, I don't care that Jeff Bezos has more money than me - if he suddenly became poor, my standard of living wouldn't change).

For me the bigger issue is not that the elite have so much money, its that they have egregious carbon footprints, while telling the little people they need to sacrifice their standard of living to save the planet.

Read the other day, Jeff Bezos yacht, even if it is sitting idle for the entire year, has a bigger carbon footprint than 80,000 people using a gas mower to mow their lawn for a season. And of course, it doesn't sit idle all year, so the carbon generated could be multiple times more than that.

Until the elites and politicians actually start sacrificing, they have no right to lecture me on what I need to give up. I already have a carbon footprint 100's of times smaller than Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, Bill Gates Jeff Bezos - they can all go pound sand if they want to tell me I need to dump my propane stove or gas lawnmower to save the planet.

yea, because destroying famous works of art and blocking traffic, really helps bring people over to your side....

Big pharma company by any chance?

I fear that someday I will die and my wife will sell off all my stuff for what I said I paid for it.

(not really, but it is a joke I read someplace and I think it applies to a lot of couples).

Wow. I guess if you always lived there, you accept it as normal, but being from USA that is hard to relate to.

which part can't you do? Just the fence? or did you mean something else?

Is it really true that nobody in Germany is allowed to fence their property?

I still can't believe a scrum master is an actual FT job - last company I worked for had one FT scrum master for each project - so they ran the meetings and as far as I can tell, did nothing else - what the heck do they pretend to do for the rest of the week?

I went to all the same meetings, and was still supposed to actually develop software in between them all.

As someone who has never even tried to monetize youtube, I am shocked that having that sized audience still can't make a go at it as a FT job. Guess I will stick to programming.