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xhgdvjky··on When Medical Debt Collectors Decide Who Gets Arrested
It's easy to forget the importance of compromise during a primary. Sometimes it feels like a positive feedback loop.
xhgdvjky··on When Medical Debt Collectors Decide Who Gets Arrested
I mostly agree with what you're saying. however I am concerned that sudden and large changes to critical components of America will 1) be hard to do right and 2) create a lot of dissent from people who think differently.

remember healthcare.gov? we were pretty glad we had other redundancies from day 1! it takes time to build a system and in my (granted unrelated) experience, big changes are best done in small steps

xhgdvjky··on When Medical Debt Collectors Decide Who Gets Arrested
Why Medicare for all vs other reforms
xhgdvjky··on No Overview Available: A Survey of Apple Developer Documentation
I have worked on native Windows and Mac UI, and in my experience, Apple does document most symbols. It just does it really poorly. So percent of symbols documented is not a good metric.

MSDN is much much more thorough. MSDN usually tells you everything you need to confidently call a function... Apple docs tell you enough to start experimenting.

Apple tends to have good textbook style documentation that doesn't directly explain a symbol per se, but rather explains a topic e.g. how to write network code on a Mac. But these pages are usually outdated... like 10+ years outdated.

xhgdvjky··on D at 20: Hits and Misses, and what I learned along the way
the audio quality ruins this
xhgdvjky··on DoNotPay app waits on hold for you
I have tried this a few times and always been spooked by being asked up front to enter too much information including passwords(!!!????) for some products
xhgdvjky··on How Can a Star Be Older Than the Universe?
crashed my mobile browser
xhgdvjky··on Ask HN: Where can I work as a software engineer to combat large global problems?
they have this one guy who does most of it
xhgdvjky··on $100k/year still might not be enough to buy a home
in fact I think living on wall St is becoming more affordable
xhgdvjky··on $100k/year still might not be enough to buy a home
too lazy to go around the paywall, but I also wondered how inflation factors into this. seems normal that "a record number of six figure earners" would rent
xhgdvjky··on The 'glass floor' keeps the children of the rich at the top
maybe they wouldn't be idiots if the top schools took more rich kids!

(scarcasm... cue downvotes)

xhgdvjky··on The 'glass floor' keeps the children of the rich at the top
not sure if that's better or worse but I didn't notice that myself. ty
xhgdvjky··on The 'glass floor' keeps the children of the rich at the top
potentially OT: I wonder how they put music on a law resume

edit.. and for that matter sports... uni groups maybe?

xhgdvjky··on The 'glass floor' keeps the children of the rich at the top
No doubt inequality is an issue, but this seems pretty harsh on Zach Dell. His ventures failed... most do. So he tried something else and got what sounds like a pretty reasonable job... 22 year old analyst at a big Corp... not that crazy. I know a few ex-founders who have gone to companies after their ventures failed (and they aren't heirs to bns). the tone of the article sounds like they want to see him go to debtors prison!

also... yes... top schools are pandering to the rich. but how else do they offer scholarships? American gov't stays out of this (mostly), so it's up to the schools to make ends meet. the schools want to pay for many families, but to do so they need donors. I actually think that's better than only letting rich people attend (and not having scholarships). it's not a final solution, but in the big picture, it's a step forward.

xhgdvjky··on My Vision of D’s Future
I work in c++ and D was designed in part to address a lot of c++ complaints. so I find myself with very few issues while writing D. it's just a very enjoyable experience (subjective ik)

the meta programming is very cool also

xhgdvjky··on New rules for contractors have unexpected consequences for strip clubs
I am not an expert but I think they officially offer very basic services and anything extra is at the dancer's discretion. but since nothing extra is officially offered, it's hard to make claims about it
xhgdvjky··on Ask HN: Need help with this startup idea regarding decentralized/blockchain bank
In the US (where I am), this would be very difficult because of regulation. But maybe where you are it's easier?

It would be easy to simply make a nice UI around Bitcoin and speed up the transactions where possible with cash

xhgdvjky··on Restricting Manhattan’s 14th street to buses has been a success
it would be a very slow re allocation
xhgdvjky··on How to make Linux run fast again on Intel CPUs
you could get two machines
xhgdvjky··on Python is not a great programming language
even if you can see, it's harder to copy paste. which could be a feature or a bug
xhgdvjky··on Credit Suisse scandal shakes Zurich’s elite
Long term, I'm not sure. But short term I think they have a very very nice future for themselves.

The biggest problem the Swiss have is that everywhere else seems really dirty in comparison.

xhgdvjky··on [dead]
this is getting out of hand
xhgdvjky··on Ken Thompson's Unix Password
I'd recommend finding a mailing list conversation about a topic you know and then hitting all the buttons (there are only a few). you should be able to figure out the links from context
xhgdvjky··on Street by Street, Amsterdam Is Cutting Cars Out of the Picture
often the pedestrians don't cause traffic as much as other cars (my perspective as a lay person)
xhgdvjky··on Unbabel (YC W14) raises $60M Series C to become the world’s translation layer
there are already excellent suctions to this problem... why is this better?

and why do you need/want ai to be involved?

xhgdvjky··on Tmux Tutorial
OT:

How can I use my Mac's mouse to switch the active window in tmux? I have tried Googling this and the .conf setting everyone says to use doesn't work.

xhgdvjky··on Wikipedia's JavaScript Initialisation on a Budget
who cares. look at the numbers. continue with your life... it's not like the text claims something that isn't true
xhgdvjky··on Challenges in Implementing a Full-Text-Search Engine
I agree that FTS is not optimal, but it uses core CS tricks so I think it's worth learning. Word vectors are also intersting as a concept on their own.
xhgdvjky··on Ask HN: How you dealt with YouTube/social media addiction?
mostly I don't, but I've found that most of the time I mess up is when I have more than 30 min of unstructured time at home with energy.
xhgdvjky··on Memcached 1.5.18 can now recover its cache between restarts
I think they use the system clock to determine the time after the restart
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