The top shareholders and the executives are. Hence Luigi.

The insurers are motivated to drive health care costs up by the so-called affordable care act, which caps their profits at a percentage of those costs. Since they're not the ones paying the bills, the insured are (and via APTC, the government is, which means the taxpayers are) they want those costs to go up because they get to collect more profit. You need to not ignore reality if you want it to make sense.

I think it ended in the 90s as a method for evaluation. The best way is to look at the work your programmers have done, but not all managers can do that. A lot of Agile managers use velocity as a proxy to make up for the fact they can't look at code and understand it. So get a lot of story points.

Every nation does this, they mock the failures of their adversaries. We do it constantly relating to China and Russia. So what?

Cool to see you admit to crime in public

Oh yes, but any experienced professional will have developed (consciously or subconsciously) methods for maxxing out whatever metric is being used to evaluate them. Lines of code, whatever. If you are evaluated on LoC I recommend double-spacing.

The difference between the "hacker" (MIT definition) and the professional is revealing. Each is trying to write code that maximizes the perceived requirement. The hacker making the code elegant (in this case, brief), and the professional maximizing LoC.

The search continues for a job that AI can do that will justify the price.

It is certainly not bookkeeping, that is a job that requires high accuracy, and is mostly automatable by traditional automation techniques.

That's an irritating way to say you disagree with him. Just give your counter-argument, don't insult him.

Are you trying to make the point that AI easily gives you high quality code reviews? It's not clear what your point is or why you don't like Linus.

No, not anyone can join the CCP, it's very selective and only a small percentage of Chinese citizens have that privilege.

Without freedom of speech, it doesn't matter how good their election system is, it's not a fair system.

The major advantage is being able to use an engine that's worthless for acceleration, e.g. Atkinson cycle. All ICEs are most efficient at a specific point on the torque/RPM chart so that's not the differentiator.

Regen braking is the biggest benefit in the city. It's essentially irrelevant everywhere else, but whether it matters most or not depends on where you're driving.

Nothing could be more compatible with American crony capitalism than just continually building retirement homes in SD and sending poor old people there to die. But they will need to find some way to give out some nursing degrees.

True, because they will never have any self-awareness in SD or any other flyover state. They will cry and complain about how they can't attract these professionals but they won't make any changes to the shitty society that drove those people away in the first place.

There are people who would prefer the weather there, but still won't move there because they don't want to deal with the provincial hicks in sticks bullshit. THAT is the non-starter, which as you said, is not going to change.

Wow, only $551/mo? I see silver premiums as high as $900 being paid for by APTC. It's a good thing we did obamacare instead of Medicare for all! Otherwise, how would those poor insurance company shareholders become richer?

What? Yes, of course they will.

You mean by raising salaries? Muppet.

Mouse buttons and config dialogs are both confusing to you but I'm getting worse?