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[–] fkn 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

The other answer is that it is better and has more features. I know... I know... it's a novel concept for many people.

But if you had said, in 2010, that you were going to make a 3d game that ran in all of the major browsers and handled device browsers... you would have been laughed out of the room or you had multiple millions of dollars backing... now a 10 year old can do it in an afternoon.

[–] fkn 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Actually there was a steam script that deleted your Linux root drive... that was a real thing.

I could also totally see a botched install script for win95 totally bricking a win98. Install...

[–] fkn 107 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Waaaaat? The Texas power grid is price gouging again?!? Who could have foreseen this??? After all that work they put into the power grid after the last time this happened? It's almost like someone should regulate this power grid or something.

[–] fkn 4 points 1 year ago

I think you misunderstand nominal voltage and fully charged voltage. 3.7v is the nominal voltage for a lipo battery. 4.2v is the standard fully charged voltage. However, phone batteries are rated at 4.3v.

[–] fkn 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Most phone batteries are rated for 4.3v

[–] fkn 1 points 1 year ago
[–] fkn 1 points 1 year ago

This is just such an obtuse view. A person should be fairly compensated for their property, regardless of kind.

If you don't believe in property ownership at all... then these positions are fundamentally at odds.

Rent extracted for property should be proportional to the property and the value an individual gains from the use of the property. I think we can agree to that. I also believe that reasonable profit can be expected for reasonable work / value.

To say that economic rent of all kinds is unethical and unproductive doesn't make sense to me.

If one person invests their capital into a house and someone else wants to make use of that property, they should pay rent. How is that transaction unethical? The rent is payment for use of the other persons capital.

There are arguments about housing specifically as a basic right / need that changes the dynamic... but in cases where these needs are exploited for financial gain, it's the exploitation that is unethical, not the basic premise of rent.

To explore the notion that rent should only be proportional to the value that the property produces, and frankly how insane that sounds... it only takes startup costs of the property to consider that those costs should also be included in the computation... again exploitation is the thing that is unethical, not the exchange for use of property fundamentally.

Is this wrong?

[–] fkn 2 points 1 year ago

I love the dank emojis. Bless the new generation for the new things you bring. Bless you.

[–] fkn 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This probably won't help you since you live in a small town.

Finding a doctor in the united states sucks. Literally the worst experience I have ever had was transitioning to a PPO insurance policy after being in a combine managed HMO / healthcare group.

People told me for years "oh, that health care provider sucks. You get sub par care and nobody ever knows your name." You know what else I got? Same day doctor visits and same day specialists, literally anytime I wanted or needed anything. I had reasonable medical care at a reasonable schedule for a reasonable price.

When my insurance switched to a PPO, people told me "oh, you will love this doctor! He is so great!" And... every... single... time... it is exactly as you described. "New patients are 6 months out." And when I finally got a primary care doctor, they would recommend specialist who were their friends also in private practices with 6 months waiting lists.

Private practice medical care is an absolute joke. It's another shitty system the boomers saw their parents use successfully that simply doesn't work today.

The solution was to find a high quality medical group in my city. It took me nearly a year to figure it out. Same day doctor visits? Done. Same week specialists? Done. Same system / in network urgent care at the same price as a regular doctors visit? Done.

I don't care which doctor I see, I just need medical care.

[–] fkn 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I didn't say JavaScript... and I certainly wouldn't choose TS for a personal project because I personally feel that its organization is terrible but I would choose TS over vanilla js for work projects because it does produce better group work and is easier to maintain long term because of the structure imposed on it.

[–] fkn 1 points 1 year ago

I'm in this really weird situation where I think fundamentally we do agree, but you keep saying things that I think are factually incorrect.

3rd parties don't force apple services on you like they do with Google (although it is becoming more common)... Apple forces 3rd parties to pay for the right to advertise or sell to its market share.

Apple is significantly more monopolistic than Google. Google is just bigger. Google has way less monopolistic actions and stances. It's just apparent that people don't understand the difference.

[–] fkn -1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Some people think better with typing information explicitly written out. Some people don't. In my opinion it is a creativity thing. Some people like to make art that is photo realistic, some people like to make abstract art.

I understand both viewpoints. In my free time I vastly prefer late bound, dynamically types languages with robust reflection engineers built into their interpreters. For work, I heavily prefer late bound, strictly typed with reflection optional or minimal.

Different people think differently.

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