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Comment Re:STOP KILLING OPERATING SYSTEMS (Score 0) 137

Win10 is a solid 10 years old.
Same as an Ubuntu LTS with a support subscription.

Honestly this is fair.

Operating system preservation is a dead argument. They aren't coming to your house and disabling it. It just probably shouldn't touch the internet anymore. You can still run it forever, you just can't on infinity manufacturer warranty support.

Comment Re:for profit healthcare needs to go and the docto (Score -1) 51

This is retarded.

1. It isn't for profit healthcare that is the problem, it's THIRD PARTY PAY.
2. I don't use third party pay, ever, for healthcare. I've been insured nonstop for over 30 years, and NEVER ONCE has my insurer paid my doctor.
3. Even when I've had emergencies, I still called around, negotiated a fair cash up front rate, paid cash up front, and billed it to my insurer. My cash up front rate was sometimes below any co-pay negotiated with my insurer, lol.

I just recently had some elective surgery that would have cost me about $2000 on my annual deductible, but I was able to cash pay a negotiated rate of $400 including a follow-up "free". I submitted the $400 to my insurer and they reimbursed me.

Third party insurance exists because YOU VOTERS demanded the HMO Act of the 1970s, which tied health care to employment, and then employers outsourced it to third parties.

Health care is remarkably cheap in the US (cash pay, negotiated) and I don't have to wait months to see a doctor when I call and say I am cash pay. They bump me up fast.

Comment Mistakes were made (Score 4, Insightful) 58

I am fully aware of the limitations that made node.js seem like a good idea.

I will get down voted hard, but the problems occured when somebody decided that they wanted to run javascript for a core piece of software. The fact other people piled onto it just compounded the problem.

If you need a thing - you write the software for it. Javascript is probably 30 years old now, but it is still a bad decision.

It is exactly equal to all things container. Sure the idea of a discrete blob that isolates a thing is great...but this is not how anybody is using it. The number of nooblets building environments with hundreds of containers orchestrated to do a certain task is startling. Nooblets that don't have any idea how to actually set up or run a server, multiplying bad practices by the hundreds.

Comment It isn't a harvest (Score 1) 10

It isn't a harvest that you have to wait for farmers. Other organizations have acted a little quicker.
Curious why they took longer.
Sure, Google was faster to report. But companies like the middle eastern branch of Coca-Cola and Chanel don't exactly strike me as quick business or cyber response teams.

Comment Re: trump take electricity (Score -1) 238

Nah.

Iâ(TM)m 51. Iâ(TM)ve had health insurance continuously for 35 years and have used it exactly ZERO TIMES.

I am self pay. For everything but true life threatening emergencies, which Iâ(TM)ve had zero.

Even the ER is cheaper when negotiated self pay.

My urologist is stunned that I pay $85 for his visits. Self pay. Including labs. My colleague goes to the same urologist and his insurance pays $550 for the same visit and naturally it comes out of his deductible lol.

Insurance is a scam. All insurance is legal gambling and gamblers never win.

Submission + - Moon-bound asteroid could cripple Earth's satellites, say astronomers (substack.com) 1

KentuckyFC writes: In DEcember last year, NASA's Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) picked up an 60-meter asteroid that appeared to be heading our way. Further observations quickly ruled out the possibility of a collision but in April, the agency announced that 2024 YR4 had a 4 per cent chance of hitting the moon instead. Now astronomers have calculated the likely consequences and say the impact would create a crater 1 km across and send 100 millions tonnes of ejecta hurtling into space and towards us. The risks to astronauts and satellite systems are clearly existential. The team say this kind of risk is not considered in planetary defence plans, which now urgently need to be updated.

Comment Least effort (Score 1) 30

I feel like they need to at least put forth the effort to restore its original blue/silver. White is pretty awful. Removing the white paint on an aluminum hull probably won't be easy, but any collector willing to shell out for it is probably going to be more interested if the thing at least superficially looks right.

Comment Re:Oh holy shit (Score 2, Interesting) 89

Everyone I know who makes my equivalent AGI, except for my household, has 1+ dogs, work crazy hours, and have been told that their dogs are lonely and depressed.

Not one or two people.

EVERYONE. Dozens upon dozens of my clients, colleagues, peers, friends from grade school, etc, have a dog or two, and then they have to have someone come spend time with said dog when they're putting 10+ hours away from them.

Wag/Rover/etc is part of their crazy consumer spending. I always am shocked to hear they're spending $1000 a month on their pets.

Americans are insane about their pets. Instead of buying a dog, I invest in corporate veterinary hospitals, because it's crazy profitable.

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