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As a young man, can I opt into Medicare since I'm opted in to paying for it?

I ran it by Gemini, and it says that the top 10% earn more than $78,800 annually. I believe your experience is with the top end of the distribution.

How much do they make?

This sounds like private equity, except they'd also demand that the goose increase egg production by 10% per quarter.

> Waymo is nicer Just wait till Google spins it off to private equity; it'll be barley running bits of vehicles patched together by the cheapest mechanics they can find. Enjoy it w…

> rural red states where they welcome the construction The state legislatures might be all for it, but I can say as someone who lives in South Texas, the actual communities are up …

How do you plan that? Particularly for an age 45 retirement?

> you can retire at 45 Kinda hard to do that when you've locked all your money up in a retirement vehicle that doesn't let you withdraw until age 59.5.

arbeit macht frei

Anything in production is legacy; I'm pretty sure it happens as soon as the code is shipped regardless of who wrote it.

If multiple services are affected, it's probably some underlying infrastructure issue.

I'm quite capable of snark and I wouldn't say that I was being particularly so, but maybe something adjacent to it. Mostly I think this is amusingly naive. America has a history of…

Will you allow illegal aliens in your new city?

Does it recommend taking a break? Mostly I've seen it ask if I'm still watching. I've always assumed this is not for user benefit, but in order to not spend bandwidth on a screen t…

> For the same reason I don't keep a giant gas tank in my garage Do you keep a car in your garage?

I think my favorite interaction with a dev around this was when I was explaining how his java program looked like a big juicy target for the OOM killer and it had killed it in orde…

> JP Doherty did not want to sign the email. But he knew he didn’t have a choice. His son, Rhys, was scheduled to have strabismus surgery in January, correcting an eye issue that m…

Aren't they required to obey chain-of-command? And doesn't their pay and their family's healthcare depend on them remaining employed?

The hip seems like such a bad example to me. First of all, who do you think needs hip replacements? It's not young people; surgeons don't even like to do them on young people (and …

I gained insurance overnight because of the ACA after not being able to afford it.

I got a junk Precision workstation last year as a "polite" home server (it's quiet and doesn't look like industrial equipment, but still has some server-like qualities, particularl…

> Hence, the "on average". For any 10 couples, they should have 21 children. If some have fewer, the rest have to have more. This would seem to agree with "not everyone has to have…

The math has a few problems then, because it seems rather difficult for me to have .1 child. Actually, it's impossible for me to have any children because I am a single man and it …

> They really are just that up their own asses. I remember perhaps a decade ago, a coworker and I were watching a clip of Zuckerberg walking up to a group of employees and they sta…

Eventually human civilization breaks down to the point where we can no longer sustain the industry to extract the fossil fuels.