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trading is ok as long as the experience is convoluted and looks ugly? only people with a certain amount of wealth should be permitted to use aesthetically-pleasing interfaces? not sure what you're advocating for here.

we already went through this thought experiment with Sony.

> Note that this project was originally written using deno, but was rewritten in Rust to support Raspberry Pis.

A lot to unpack here.

My personal wet dream is that I can download any shady Photoshop torrent and Apple will block the ones that have trojans baked in. Given that Apple won't even open up their infrastructure to US law enforcement, I can't see them teaming up with IP lawyers anytime soon.

By this logic, HTTPS is "slow by design" and a nefarious plot by Big Certificate to siphon money away from tech companies.

having been bit by both reinventing the wheel and overly-relying on third party code, i find that my position on this varies from week to week.

Are you really free if Jack Dorsey gets to decide what you're allowed to tweet?

wow maybe they should start including this problem as part of their technical interviews

> This data has never been, would never be, and will never be sold/rented/etc. to advertisers.

I don't think first-order data access is really the problem here, but rather where that data is going in general and who is authorized to access it, for how long, etc., and the volume of data any one person has access to at one time.

Repeal the PAEA, pass a postal banking act, and fund the USPS with taxpayer dollars as is allowed by the Constitution. Seems like a no-brainer to me.

don't ventilators use intubation? how would this help in that case?

My assumption was that at least part of the reason for isolation measures is to prevent what happened with the Spanish Flu, where unfettered transmission created the conditions for a mutation that turned the U curve for mortality into a W curve.

Some of that could be due to versioning... Ansible's releases always have breaking changes, so you can get into trouble if your setup is vastly different from when the playbooks were created. I think this is part of the point of a dedicated control machine, but unfortunately the documentation (last I checked) seems to neglect the importance of it.

Along the same lines, there are also .cfg files and roles that can live outside the root directory.

I've been able to get decent reusability out of roles, but that's mostly because I can live with my servers all being deployed the same way (e.g. they all have the same nginx config with minimal customization points and share the same certificates).

I assumed that this was due to more products dropping vanity versioning in favor of semantic versioning. Is that not what's happening here?

Yep, like we're seeing now with insulin.

Because that's what they're worth. Live by the market, die by the market.

I don't think JS devs are the ones embedding JS interpreters into binaries.

I'm in the market for an SSG for documentation of a larger project (and therefore I'm looking for something quick and easy to maintain). Hoping to keep it within the JS ecosystem so that would rule out Hugo and Jeckyll. Is Next.js easier to use than Gatsby, or is there an even simpler alternative I haven't come across yet? Ideally I'd be able to point this library to a glob of .md files and generate HTML + RSS.

labor costs are not the root cause of skyrocketing drug prices

Market prices are currently set based on 1-3x multipliers of Medicare reimbursement, so by definition the government already handles health care at lower costs.

Commodifying health care has proven to be disastrous in the US because it's, in practice, impossible to "shop around" — not even including cases where the "customer" is unconscious or in a life-threatening situation where "shopping" would be ridiculous, the profit models of health care centers are forcing many to close, leaving people with few choices in their immediate area, exacerbated by the "network" coverage model of insurance companies where you may not even be able to go to certain hospitals or doctor's offices.

Interestingly, though, improvements in supply chain management are making it possible to centrally-plan commodities like clothing. Multinational companies like Wal-Mart and Amazon are doing this already, in fact.

No, multifactor authentication uses different forms of evidence (i.e., something you have, something you are, something you know), not just multiple accounts. Given password reuse, cookies, etc., e-mail is a terrible second factor.

Luckily it's git and you can just change the remote config of your local copies.

I mean, hopefully it's common knowledge now that it's impossible to combat climate change by working within markets.

Worth noting that the difference between neoliberal and left-wing wasn't really brought into focus until a few years ago. Also worth noting that Pelosi advocated for single-payer in the 90s then made a rightward turn.

A lot of social democrats start out as libertarians and then move left once they see the bigger picture of power dynamics beyond the individual.

The author's point is that the "hard work" line is a post-hoc rationalization for the differences between one's own social/material conditions and those considered beneath them. It's similar to the Dunning-Kruger effect — a worker reports their own relative performance without possibly knowing the performance of every other worker, yet believes it to be true based on outcome, despite the fact that things like familial wealth and outstanding debt are much better determining factors.

Optional chaining is moving through committee along with the "nullish coalescing operator" represented as `??`, which works like `||` except only falls through with `null` and `undefined`.

LA and Boston did this and now just have vacant high-rises to show for it. And, really, greedy homeowners are the least of our worries compared to real-estate developers and landlords.

I've seen the idea of a vacancy tax thrown around. Not sure how effective it would be, but might be worth trying.

Looking forward to purchasing real estate imported from Japan.

San Francisco has 100,000 vacant homes and 10,000 homeless people.

[1] https://sf.curbed.com/2019/3/21/18276227/vacancy-rate-san-jo...

[2] https://abc7news.com/society/homeless-population-history-in-...