Part of why it’s this way is the expense of getting anything approved! I blame our bureaucracy as much as I blame those types

Maybe not the mainstream news_papers_ of today, but likely much of the news

Yes, that’s what I’m suggesting. Keep in mind that in most other countries where insurance has less of a role, these are vastly cheaper than they are here. I expect more people will ultimately go then, especially the uninsured, because prices would no longer be artificially inflated by bureaucracy and for the purposes of negotiation with insurance.

The hard problem, the way I see it, would be taking us from here to there with minimal suffering during such a transition.

We could also go the opposite direction towards single-payer healthcare. That also can be more efficient than what we have if politicians don’t sabotage it, but I am concerned that here, they will, and we’ll end up with something like the U.K. NHS. Therefore, for the U.S. specifically, I don’t see this as a good option due to instability.

What we have now is a compromise that works for nobody.

Well, most insurance is only for emergencies, and it is priced accordingly. For example, when I drove a car, I didn’t have to deal with my auto insurance plan at all while getting gas or normal maintenance. However, when I got into a few bad accidents, the car insurance was vital for continuing to have a car, and it paid towards helping me get it fixed. Car insurance is insurance against something catastrophic happening to a vital part of life in most of America, not something to use everyday, and is priced accordingly.

Health insurance here is very different from car insurance. Rather than an emergency contingency, health insurance is woven into most healthcare purchases in the U.S. Accordingly, it is very expensive, limiting, and inefficient. Due to the dynamics of the system it creates, Americans must usually pay through the nose for even everyday healthcare without insurance.

If health insurance was operated more like car insurance, except of course that a human life should never be “totaled out,” the system would eventually adjust and normalize.

I was in Austin, TX not long ago, and they were swarming the whole city. I think people just made less of a deal about it there.

Yeah, I wish health insurance was just “you’ll never pay more than 20k a year on medical bills” or something like that. Let me find my own damn doctor

Wouldn’t it make more sense for the clock to have just 3 rows or columns? Hour/minute/second.

They’re never getting those integrations back though, e.g. Spotify. Those are usually implemented in each company’s servers rather than something that can be brokered locally through an API. That needs to change

Wow, it’s not a joke

I like to edit configs, which can break apt, and build projects from source, which requires bleeding-edge versions of many libraries that most distros don’t ship with, which also tends to break apt when I manually install them.

Arch’s pacman gracefully handled modified configs and the Arch repos ship very new packages, so I don’t find myself fighting the OS.

For me it’s been Arch for the last several years. It’s the only distro that can deal with the weird things I do while still working well for daily use.

No, then you fix the code to work with your current system libraries and upstream the patch and version bump. This happens less on Arch, BTW ;-)

Not so much nowadays, but we remember!

Projects are not their authors. Please give the politics a rest. I’ve had enough of politics lately.

This is typically for insurance. Some don’t insure against pet damage, but even a well-qualified tenant’s pet can cause damage that the tenant themselves would be unlikely to, and this can easily exceed the deposit. This type of liquid damage is typically not covered by rental property insurance and can be very stubborn (think, odor).

Have you tried any form of Chinese?

That particular network could never put up a good argument. At best, it might estimate, or predict numbers or 1-2 discrete binary states.

This was a really good read! Deep and well-written

So, the exurbs?

I think the issue people have with “tech” is that much of the software and devices sold take up too much space and do things people don’t want them to do, without offering choice, configurability, and options for full control