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RunawayGalaxy··on UnitedHealth overcharged cancer patients for drugs by over 1,000%
> If anything it’s the providers who are screwing over patients by gaming insurance and taking more than is necessary from the shared insurance pool of money.

If the 85% gets larger, so does the 15%. Both sides gain when the cost increases.

RunawayGalaxy··on Math is running out of problems
The title is far more general than what you actually mean. What's the reason for that if not click bait?
RunawayGalaxy··on Why time seems to pass faster as we age
The concept of tolerance is most often used in the context of drugs, but it applies here too.
RunawayGalaxy··on Carta to exit secondary trading business
Does that go for Carta Marketplace also? Asking because it seems to be a separate business.
RunawayGalaxy··on Apple Cancelled Jon Stewart Because Tech Executives Were Afraid of the Truth
Do you have any evidence at all to this assertion?
RunawayGalaxy··on Why Tailwind CSS Won
Where are these people learning tailwind without learning css?
RunawayGalaxy··on Tailwind is a leaky abstraction
> ...it isn't an abstraction. It's a only a special syntax for applying predefined blocks of CSS to HTML elements.

How would you define abstraction then?

RunawayGalaxy··on Weird Al had 100 gigs of RAM
> especially likely, because he's talking about *defragging a hard drive*

Can someone explain why this is incorrect? I thought a hard drive is typically what one would defrag

RunawayGalaxy··on Who owns Einstein? The battle for the world’s most famous face
It's crazy how much energy is spent trying to constrain free information flow.
RunawayGalaxy··on MVC frameworks aren't dinosaurs but sharks
Is the argument that because it's a shark, we should accept that and avoid feeding any contenders?

Was the shark perfect at its inception or did it adapt as all things do?

Doesn't its shark-ness come by virtue of surviving against the best efforts of challengers through time?

Isn't that continual evolution at least in part dependent on a continuum of challengers?

Don't we implicitly give up on searching for something that could potentially overtake the shark by dogmatically accepting the shark's shark-ness?

RunawayGalaxy··on The ‘psychobiome': the gut bacteria that may alter how you think, feel, act
Free will is still a useful abstraction
RunawayGalaxy··on Postico: A Modern PostgreSQL Client for the Mac
It's all abstractions provided via interfaces, whether programmatic or graphical.
RunawayGalaxy··on Camp that imprisoned 7000 Japanese Americans could become National Historic Site
I think you missed the point about Japanese American internment.
RunawayGalaxy··on Snowtrack – a new version control software for graphic designers and 3D artists
What would a workflow look like with Figma?
RunawayGalaxy··on HTML and CSS techniques to reduce your JavaScript
Does anyone know if changing the display type of table elements (table, tr, td, etc.) to `block` or `flex` affect accessibility in any way? I would hope that the semantic structure of the tags would override changes on the styling level, but never been able to find a solid answer.
RunawayGalaxy··on Notion API – public beta
imho The primary value is their pared-down databases that mostly just work like you want them to.
RunawayGalaxy··on Google and Apple attacked on app store 'monopoly'
OR maybe that's just how markets work
RunawayGalaxy··on Google and Apple attacked on app store 'monopoly'
TBH this is reasonable. I'm not on the side of Apple, but the monopoly claim is ridiculous to me.
RunawayGalaxy··on Google and Apple attacked on app store 'monopoly'
> It does when you literally can’t operate your store in another mall.

Android exists

> I also don’t think this analogy scales very well since many stores operate both in and out of closed shopping centers. Including Apple’s stores.

How is the scalability of the analogy relevant?

RunawayGalaxy··on Google and Apple attacked on app store 'monopoly'
If I build a shopping center that gets tons of foot traffic, pay to build the amenities and security, and then charge stores rent, it doesn't suddenly become a monopoly when the tenants feel that the rent is too high.
RunawayGalaxy··on Tell HN: Billionaires have to suffer same web as us
They are the winners in a corrupt game, and it's easier to hate the player than the game.
RunawayGalaxy··on Connectors That Changed the World
Thanks for the share!
RunawayGalaxy··on Show HN: Perfect Pitch Ear Training
Rick Beato has some great videos on this subject

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXivZlPu0ms

RunawayGalaxy··on Removing Holocaust Denial Content
To me that seems like three very different positions to be bucketed together?
RunawayGalaxy··on The software industry is going through the “disposable plastic” crisis
It's more like fossil remains from the Mesozoic than litter.
RunawayGalaxy··on USPS Files Patent for a Blockchain-Based Voting System
Prove that your blockchain hasn't been compromised by a sophisticated 51% attack.
RunawayGalaxy··on Google announces Pixel 5, Pixel 4A 5G, and Pixel 4A
This started with the 3, which I returned for that reason, opting to stick with my Pixel 2 XL. I bought it at launch, and it still lasts me over a day with full charge.
RunawayGalaxy··on Show HN: UI Playbook – A documented collection of UI components
It's not a design system. It's documentation/best practices around common UI components that you'd find in most design systems.
RunawayGalaxy··on I Got a Job Two Weeks After My Coding Bootcamp
> The concept is very simple. A junior dev graduating from a bootcamp can create UI's, CRUD, etc. but should not be expected to have expertise in algorithms.

I find the idea that "you should expect less out of bootcamp grads" more harmful than helpful. The stigma of coming from a bootcamp is real in software, and this reinforces it. In my experience, there are certainly bootcamp grads out there who have strong algorithm skills.

RunawayGalaxy··on Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultaneous attack
To what end?
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