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It's an article on "Forbes sites", though. It's the equivalent of sort-of-trusted bloggers. Seems Forbes really don't care about their online brand anymore.

> However, if I need open heart surgery, $8k is fair.

A "one-off" treatment such as this is one thing, but the co-pay system really breaks down for the individual once you start talking chronic conditions that require regular treatments for life.

In that case your insurance company may start to see you as a liability and raise the co-pay until treatment is no longer econically viable for the patient.

Plenty of people in the US do not have health care either.

Meanwhile, Cuba actually has a very high number of doctors per capita.

It's quite a leap from having an ISP (unusually) shut down its service in an area to concluding that internet connectivity should be a public utility. Surely there must be some middle ground.

In what way?

And my kids are now playing with the sets I played with 35 years ago. It’s incredibly durable.

I remember those! Incredibly accessible. Also remember writing Den(e?)thor as an insecure, new-to-the-internet 16-year old asking whether more tutorials were in production. Never received an answer, unfortunately.

Wonder what he (?) is doing today.

That's interesting. I thought the system was way more "low-tech", ie that the phyisical, printed receipt worked as a lottery ticket, and whoever holds it may be the winner.

I'm saddened to hear that it actually sounds like centralized, authenticated registration of all purchases.

Don’t know about Portugal, but I saw this system in Taiwan about 10 years ago. Apparently the effect was quite good.

Book one is a bit tough to get through, but books two and three make it all worth it.

Wow, it's like a weird combination of Albert Speer and Japanese forms.

Let’s not forget to include Belkin among the companies that have attempted variations of this. In this case, it was their wireless router which would grab a random out-going request and serve up advertisements instead. Imagine being in the middle of buying plane tickets and suddenly finding yourself at a random advertisement.

https://www.geek.com/news/belkin-routers-misdirect-users-to-...

Markdown cheat sheet: https://github.com/TobseF/boostnote-markdown-cheatsheet/blob...

I’m a pretty satisfied boostnote (https://boostnote.io/) user. Has the added benefit of being free and open source.

MacOS is the only thing keeping me on Apple hardware. There are so many laptops of great build that I’ve been ogling in the past few years. I’d prefer to not go back to windows, though.

One option is to go through the security stackexchange and/or the cryptography one. Pick a tag, sort by votes and go through the questions and responses.

https://security.stackexchange.com/

https://crypto.stackexchange.com/

Cool project! Are you considering any kind of vetting mechanism for sorting the great stuff from the less great stuff, e.g. user voting or similar?

Can't really call it an "interview", though, when there is only one participant.

For what it's worth, I find that approach humiliating to the interviewee. It's a subtle way to tell him that they do not value his time as highly as their own.

Preferably one with low fees, finality and a high transaction capacity, though. Things that doesn't seem to exist in any of the common cryptocurrencies, yet.

https://cosmos.network/ will also have an Ethereum bridge, as well as proof-of-stake.

The location of the md files is configurable, so it can be synced with any platform. Personally, I’m using Dropbox.

I’m currently working on adopting The Archive (https://www.cultofmac.com/535825/the-archive-is-the-best-pla...) into my workflow.

It ticks a lot of the boxes other people mention in this thread: markdown for interoperability, filebased and quick searches.

Related, but this article is more of a background-piece on the divers.

We can also attribute the quote "Child pornography is great" to Mr Schlüter. Overall nasty guy.

https://falkvinge.net/2012/05/23/cynicism-redefined-why-the-...

“My friends,” Schlüter said. “We must filter the Internet to win over online file sharing. But politicians don’t understand that file sharing is bad, and this is a problem for us. Therefore, we must associate file sharing with child pornography. Because that’s something the politicians understand, and something they want to filter off the Internet.”

> Mr. Brandes writes that in some languages, 40 means “a lot.”

Funnily enough, the author notes exactly that, without making the connection that it was probably also what was meant in the bible.

Wasn't that the peace prize, though?

You might find some interesting answers at https://stackshare.io/stacks

I believe the one for https://cosmos.network/ was legitimate, and that they’re on the verge of launching the platform they promised. Pretty interesting, actually.

How close does it come to document databases when it comes to changing the JSON? Is it easy to increment a field, for example? Or add a property to an object?

Sounds like it's because he has seen the polar opposite, and is frustrated that the resources Marcos is spending on gold-framed Picassos and shoes are not used to improve the existence of the vast number of poor people in the region.