vmception

which changes nothing about the user experience where some massive fraud decades ago resulted in an extra paragraph in the 30 pages of disclaimers and some regulator smugly sitting at their corner desk thinking "ah, in this moment, I am euphoric, consumers are protected"

> What about the people losing money?

try not to, as with everything else.

> Also, that statement implies that these are all honest efforts, not scams.

it doesn't imply that at all. it implies that its an individual discernment issue. anybody can still go blow it all on a casino or Reg CF securities offerings, unless they are richer, then they have a few additional choices to blow it all.

Permission to fail, granted

Which is what I like most about that ecosystem, just do it, accept the consequences, rapidly iterate to something more resilient

I’ll also chip in to say this was by design

I have 0 or negative AGI while sometimes having gross income/earnings/gains in the millions I got auto-sent several stimulus checks of the max size, because Congress wrote it based on having an “AGI of $75000 and lower” or similar number. AGI is after most tax deductions

Back to the by design part, the primary goal was to keep velocity in the economy high, and that means getting it to people with a high spend

Fairness is not a factor at all

Our economy works from velocity not whether one has money. Hoarding is worse than spending, not saying that poorer people would hoard just how its not a factor. It was designed to make maximum spending

Someone prewrote it for congress they knew what they were doing while congress was just scared

That is a lot of cosponsors, I was reading the page wrong

(Govtrack’s site and Congress houses have a slightly different format for showing sponsors and cosponsors together)

For your first paragraph, I’ve seen that alot.

My european friends from big economies there brag about their insurance coverage, some working in the states with some global coverage plan, and as soon as I ask about something seemingly basic: “oh thats elective or cosmetic, why would that be covered”

I think there is a way to make it work with American expectations, American resources, no equivalent tax burden.

this is your community forum

no but really, this is a good post, doesn't mean there aren't consequences

ha lol, one sponsor, in committee

yeah I don't consider this kind of thing news, but it did open a conversation that I wanted to have

as long as these plans can negotiate and also use their market power to reduce the prices that healthcare services charge to Americans, but starting within their jurisidction

a significant portion of the consensus failings have been because simply having insurance for all is just a bandaid, and this has been an accurate criticism of one party's tax and spend trend whether that seems like a conversation derailing political statement or not

interesting, such a weird way to describe it then. but I guess some people are more familiar with that problem.

> SQLite isn't just on the same machine as your application, but actually built into your application process.

How is that different than whats commonly happening? Android and iOS do this... right? ... but its still accessing the filesystem to use it.

Am I missing something or is what they are describing just completely commonplace that is only interesting to people that use microservices and never knew what was normal.

A tragedy

That needs to happen

The humanizing done about how its was something like an HBCU and weathered other calamities is sad, should also be a wakeup call to other organizations

that's interesting, fly.io is definitely winning

I'd be doing Netlify + Fly.io then

Heroku too antiquated in pricing and offerings, their free db addon is too small, but interesting idea about just making a bunch. on the db offering fly.io is very competitive and generous

DBAs are done. A certain level of database proficiency is demanded of all the other engineers and non-engineers. And if you are really working on a super-awesomely-complex system that needs super awesome scaling, then..... you make shitty queries anyway and just increase the size of the memory cache or the number of database server instances. What!??? Heresy! Well okay then, go find a bad query and improve it so you get a nice bonus later. See, look, still no DBA on staff.

Major products are released and operating right now with incredibly low performant queries and uses of databases. The infrastructure people and services keep the databases running.

anybody have a free database solution to go with my free netlify instance? otherwise I'll just pay Netlify for their analytics package and forget this ever exists

that is weird, I was able to view it without an account in the browser (chrome). oh well. hostile ux.

That was a very fascinating read, I'm not sure what it adds here. The US slave trade was color based. The colonies slave trade was through color. And anybody that studies north American slavery without being censored by their state is very aware that north american slavery morphed into a color based one in the 1600s. Every example I gave was 200 years after your example, far after this institution was enshrined as color based ones and extremists were trying to enshrine the US as a land for the white european race where possible. This level of enlightnment is unfortunately a distraction and deflection for what this land deals with now: 400 years of color based disenfranchisement that leaves a class-based disenfranchisements with a seemingly 90% correlation to color.

If you're interested in this topic I would suggest continuing to study it.

Yes as your article mentions, the "Barbary" slave trade was briefly bigger than the transatlantic slave trade, so what happened? Why did the obsession with subsaharan Africans prevail?

wow! git too! with no warning that you might need to start a new terminal or command line session after install! truely 1984 /s

I met someone like that yesterday while merely trying to trouble a package that wouldnt compile on windows. Found the devs and they go on a tirade about windows (and also turns out it wasnt compatible and WSL2 would have too much of a performance hit) but the project didnt say so

People in the class kind of like this stereotype that @OverheardLA was making fun of the other day?

https://www.instagram.com/reel/Ccyfo9RBcSJ/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M...

I ran across a stream of a guy playing Euro Truck Simulator and it was hilarious

The host was hilarious and the commenters were all amused by how oddly therapeutic and also anxiety inducing it was

Have you seen the scale of leaks over the past decade?

The point is that nobody would know that a stolen/copied id was being used and everyone gets to pat themselves on the back that the financial system is safe from illicit actors when they would have no way of knowing.

and how do you act after no longer being newly moved to San Francisco?

that incident was imprinted in you, but how has it worked out for you since?

my guess: you failed to learn anything because of course that focused seminar doesn't teach anything related to the kind of mental health emergencies that occur on San Francisco streets, and so thats a decent crutch for you to lean on to not engage with them yourself, overriden by your own self preservation instincts. or are you now a mental health case worker that responds to these instead of the police? or do you know how to call those groups now so that you aren't the confused bystander like when you first moved?

"good vibes only"

"higher vibrations only"

right, which is why its the wrong word to describe the former.

I guess the sad part here is that many influential people promulgating the term "privilege" actually believe(d) that was relevant amorphously to all white people, who as a class theoretically enjoy(ed) some certain privileges (such as moving to Oregon, not being conscripted as a slave, access to credit), but as individuals did not necessarily become beneficiaries of them.

And as the relevance of those extreme explicitly codified exclusions disintegrated, it moved to hyperbole - an exaggerated reality that ignores class based inequality. But with such heavy segregation many people believe the exaggerations.

and finally, some academics are trying to retcon what the word "privilege" means by incorporating additional information that imposes a different interpretation on previously described events, retconning is typically used to facilitate a dramatic plot shift or account for an inconsistency.

how do we make this more obvious to people? I think there is a wide degree of support for programs that would disproportionately support disenfranchised people, as long as they are acknowledging its more of a class system now (and includes people of all race/ethnicities/colors in the program). And that's not the direction things currently are going, with the wrong words being used. Many would-be supporters are instead believing that there is an organized movement and threat to exclude them, as a form of payback, which is such an ironic and huge distraction, all from a failure to communicate. To that, I would just say its not organized.

Its just such a large potential population of support. "disproportionately affecting minorities" still leaves extremely large numbers of white people affected. whether its poverty, university admissions, dubious assaults and killings by law enforcement, domestic violence.

You don't need to invent fake people, just use the ID of a real one.

If someone opened a bank account with your ID and name, would you ever know? A checking account doesn't gain interest so there will be no tax filing about paltry amounts, and if they don't frame you or overdraft the account then or never use an institution that you'll ever use then what? Its not like the statements will ever come to your address.

I would say mildly disappointed, personally.

Agreed, this is an obtuse non-consensus definition that is conflated by disenfranchised, the beneficiaries of this phenomenon, activists, and casual onlookers.

Is there another word to convey this concept more universally?

okay. the reason we don't blame the affected person is because..

the reason we don't blame the victim is because it requires someone else to do a harmful action that wasn't necessary.

ebay's action and implementation is not necessary. this is a conversation about that.