JudgeWapner

Absolutey irrelevant to my point. Why do so many of your comments in your post history denigrate women and minorities?

it's reddit-ization of the comments. Reddit -> facebook. HN -> reddit

what's happening here is reddit-style comments have been slowly but steadily creeping in. I dont blame the mods directly, but indirectly they should have just capped membership once the tone lost its tech edge and comments began to drift to "me too!/relevant username/orange man bad/etc" about 30-40% (by my estimation) of HN comments are what reddit comments were a few years ago. The only way to fix that is to throttle membership.

YES! Uber should be personally responsible for reimbursing all costs. I'm glad you get it.

When microseconds/frame rates/audio buffers count, you're only one garbage collection away from a complete thread lockup. Those gigabytes of heap aren't going to clean up themselves!

My Android device that runs slower after each "update"?

there's a charitable way to read that, which is that they did ample statistical modelling/risk analysis of CDS and "concluded" they were safe enough to bundle mortgage debt under. Then you could sort of "blame math" (or the abuse thereof) in that circumstance. I know CDS is only like 1/10 chapters of the whole crisis, however.

Biglaw pays 200k in high CoL areas where Big-N tech workers start out at 200k.

just be sure to allocate enough swap space for the gigabytes of bloat.

and we'd be better off if x+1 planes had improved quality/security software than x.

If there's one thing you should absorb from the Bible it's to learn some basic principles about kindness and love. Because nearly all your comments are tainted with hostility, snark, and utter rudeness. No wonder you can't hold down a job. Who would hire someone like you?

I meant specifically in the US market where one aspirin pill is billed to the patient as a $30 expense. Not in a country with free healthcare.

They have that last part. It's called the count.

The fact that patients get infected doesn't mean the hospital rejects "germ theory".

There wasn't a nursing shortage back when the county ran the hospital in my area. But you know the laws of supply and demand: corporations have to manufacture scarcity to drive up KPIs

The nursing shortage could be solved by hiring more. They overwork the few they hire so the MBA execs can buy nice things

Do you shelter your money into "tax havens" ? If so, why do you cheat the system this way (note: I didn't ask the question "is this legal", so please don't bake that affirmation into your response).

Uranium One is exactly the type of company Hillary Clinton loves. Solyndra is exactly the kind of guy Obama loves. Both parties are the same.

they should be sued based on the number of breached records, period. let their insurance company dictate what hash algorithm to use. Damages would be automatically awarded to plaintiffs based on what data was breached. Just like a car accident: you destroyed my rear bumper, tail light, and window, the damages were $3200. Pay up.

People act differently when they know they're being watched. The government does not have the right to alter my behavior that way.

Next reason is that their laws aren't enforced equally. This tech is more likely to be used for small time crooks (and disproportionately, minorities) than used to stop CEOs or Epstein's, or cops that strangle handcuffed suspects of nonviolent offenses

They had tablets in the 90's. They never took off so it's obviously not a viable product.

I heard about that. Local news interviewed a 7-11 owner who said he's toast because they're so low-margin to begin with, and shoplifting is already high. Maybe one good thing that could come from this: stores move to either online-pickup only, or browse large posters/catalogs in the store and scan what you want, then pick up from the cashier. Products are located in a warehouse divided from customers and they pack your bags for you. 0 shoplifting loss (yes employees could steal), but the benefit for me is more efficient shopping.

Steal from Grandmas porch: labelled a "porch pirate", told by police "we don't respond to property crimes, fill out a police report online".

Steal from the richest man in the world: FBI is on the case with military-grade weapons, tactics and surveillance.

you keep backpedaling about bureaus, ignoring how 99% of the law in this nation is enforced. we can't have a conversation if you do contortions by reading the most implausible interpretation of everything I say.

> Seeing a GP isn't necessarily a guarantee that you will get diagnosed properly.

so, because even the best make mistakes, that's a good reason to let under-trained (relative to an MD) people with even less skill make mistakes? Not following your logic here.

> the physicians who treat garden-variety diseases can be trained much less expensively.

So, how do you make sure that only garden variety patients see the medical assistant, while seriously sick ones or those who have only telltale signs of a 1-10k illness see the real doctor? If those rare ones don't get to the doc they die.

Even with cigarettes, a product that kills its consumer even when used exactly as designed, congress wont' ban them because that would negatively impact a corporation. But you seem to think that corporations don't need to abide by clear-cut rules. they need some kind of "bureau" so that there can be a constant back-and-forth, give-and-take, so that we don't impact that poor, tender corporation. Why is that required, but we don't need a "domestic violence bureau" ? Clear-cut laws seem to work fine for poor people. Why won't they work for corporations?

> your neighborhood doctor is likely a scam artist.

I don't blame a Dr for trying to charge 7x the actual value of their time if 6/7 people don't pay them at all (the case in ERs). They're employing the same practice as insurance companies. But when a Dr does it he's a scam artist?

you misunderstand how enforcement works. It's done via law enforcement agencies that exist already. It doesn't need a special new "bureau" for each type of rule. If you don't believe me that there are law enforcement agencies, I can show you how to summon them very easily.

Now, the question is, why don't these agencies enforce the same laws against corporations? That's the premise of my initial comment, which you also misunderstood.

teach them to shaft Bernie next time!