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Nobody works harder than a Japanese worker. And Japan has government-administered “universal” healthcare. The idea that access to affordable healthcare makes people lazy requires mental gymnastics and total ignorance.

This speaks more to your country of origin than it does to universal healthcare.

It’s funny, I live in Japan where contrary to my experience in the states, I can go see a doctor any time - just walk in. No need for specialist referrals either. If doc says I need to see a specialist, I just walk in.

US politics, specifically from the right, lobbies pretty hard and uses fearmongering to the max. Lower standard of care? What’s that? Wait times? Sure, you may wait a bit longer that one day, but someone will see you. I remember when my wife needed to see a therapist for her depression, we had to wait 2 weeks to see someone “in network” in CA. This was with good insurance. Here, walk in, wait, see doc, walk out. My fellow Americans need to wake up to reality and try to understand that powerful interests are lobbying against you and using fear as primary means for arguing against “universal” healthcare. Let me be clear, I still pay a monthly premium and I still have co-payments, but one this is for sure - it’s practically impossible for me to go bankrupt due to a medical issue.

More info? What’s your role in it?

Innovation takes time. We have little time.

Any ideas for organizing at scale?

And if I run a 10,000 bot network - should my speech be free?

The problem is time. Or lack of it. We cannot afford for the markets to work things out for us. Sure, you can shift culture and behavior but that takes time that we do not have. It’s time for drastic policy change and swift global action.

Could be his attitude. The older we get, the more rigid we come across. I know I personally put up with a lot less shit than I used to, hence why I doubt many would want to work with me - and that’s fine by me.

Popular with dads? Really? I'd love to see some evidence. I actually though Pinterest died off because I haven't heard anything about it in a long time. There were times long ago where I'd search for some project inspiration, but Pinterest image results felt like a cancer that needed to be removed from existence.

My own observations of women around me seems to indicate as much. Many smaller purchases while I empty our accounts :)

YouTube recommendations feel like a direct impediment to democracy. When your recommendations consist of the same crap all the time, it may seem as though that stuff carries more weight than it really does.

I wonder to what degree YouTube is responsible for the current political climate.

The same with Twitter really. When you only follow and see posts from people you choose, how are you supposed to give important issues a fair shake and debate viewpoints that different from yours.

So many questions:

1. How did they get 150 satellites into low orbit?

2. Is it becoming a hazard to have all the satellites and space junk possibly making it difficult to launch anything down the road?

3. Aside from tracking the objects, has anyone made any calculations as to when these things will become a hazard?

Same here. It seems the websites that show up top are become more and more spammy and less relevant to my query. I keep seeing all sorts of one sentence hipster 2.0 sites that want me to believe they are a credible source of information.

Sigh. Sometimes I wonder where we diverged into another reality. The nonsense that's happening now is painful to witness.

The transformed version looks way better. They should hire that guy to do the whole movie!

Too bad anyone can access your stamp if you simply lose it. When I first saw the stamp thing for myself, I couldn't fathom how anyone would consider that secure. Better than a signature? Maybe. But easily reproducible and too tangible to consider safe.

I was 200 lbs when I cut out sugar and complex carbs from my diet - no more pasta, potatoes, also no bread. I lost 20 lbs fairly quickly. For carbs I still ate sweet potatoes and brown rice. To fill some of the hunger from lower carbs intake I ate high fat avocados. Fastest weight I ever lost. Dairy was fair game though. It's amazing how bloated bread makes your body. Once I cut bread I never again felt bloated.

I was once told by someone who owns lots of guns that every time there is a mass shooting in US of A, the sales of weapons go through the roof. Apparently the fear of regulation triggers a buying spree. True or not, I found it interesting and somewhat ironic how these shootings could be helping gun sales.

Whatever your opinion of college is, last I checked people are still treating it as an investment in themselves.

These are hilarious and bring back so many memories of my time in IT. But as another commenter said, it helps to be extra respectful of people who are not too tech savvy. I've had many of those examples play out and the people involved usually felt very stupid and awkward. I always tried to go to great lengths to reassure them that it has happened more times to more people than they suspect, even if it weren't true, just so they didn't feel shitty and stupid. I'd also try to tell them about the stupid things I'd done to lighten the situation which always seemed to help.

I worked as an IT tech in a school district with 9 buildings, each connected by directional antenna. The speed wasn't great but certainly usable enough, even for video. This was back in 2000 and the guy maintaining the network learned it all on his own as far as I can tell. Weather was a problem for the network as outages were fairly common. We had an outside tech who would come out to fix the radios once in a while. Overall it got the job done, but eventually the district ponied up for a fiber connection to at least a few of the larger buildings. I helped lay new wiring for most of the buildings.

I predict that one day you'll be able to input your content, specify some site layouts you like and press a button to generate a completely ujique website based on your content, fully designed and coded. The first person to make that is going to be very rich.

My wife didn't marry me because Japanese guys are shitty, she was far too young to know better when we met. This is coming from a person who interacts with married women living in Japan. Her personal opinion of Japanese guys was not formed until after interactions with these women. Even then, you could argue she is biased just by the company she keeps. I'm just telling you what I hear from my sources.

The word "pledge" has been ruined for me for good. Emotions of unpleasant kind are evoked when I hear it.

Our DirecTV subscription in the late 90's was specifically catered to people who didn't want ads. Then some time later they started advertising and adding a bunch of nonsense channels. This was back when the history channel was actually about history, discovery was about animals and amc about Western movies.

The concept is called visual fluency and is applied in advertising terms to hack your mind to remember the ad offer. The more they show the ads, the more they are suppose to resonate. They then combine that with catchy songs and provocative imagery to pull on your primal reactions and emotional strings.

There is a science to all of it, and it’s very effective, even if we’d like to think we’re immune to advertising.

Oh man I can relate to this. Tried watching a murder show on Netflix and I swear half the content was just rehashing of the other half. Come to think of it, this is how most books are written - 10% value, -90% filler.

I misread the parent comment. That said, I’m curious how you’d apply an automatic teriff? Who would enforce it?

Pressure your government?