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> If you're unable to set a consistent cookie across your user's many sessions (especially for a high retention business like e-commerce), or your javascript conversion events (Goo…

Of course people have different risk appetites, including poor people. The point isn't so much about "risk" per se, it's about whether or not there's a viable Plan B. If I'm workin…

Just playing devil's advocate a bit, but what would be the downside of just drawing a bright line that owning stock in your employer is inherently a conflict of interest?

"continuous delivery" != "test in production" But even if it were, why do you think continuous delivery is the appropriate choice of workflow when you don't actually control the "d…

Presumably they are doing something during that week; namely code reviewing all the patches in front of yours in the queue. Don't get me wrong. I, too, wish that other developers w…

So capture dozens of messages. Better yet, capture dozens of symlinks to make it trivial for me to review the messages in the original context. The point is, I've already had a lon…

It should be as invisible as possible. I discuss an issue with someone on Slack or over email or whatever. I can invoke some magic command in band to capture the surrounding conver…

My wife owns and operates a private medical practice (she's an audiologist), and it's insane the way she has to do billing and accounts receivable. When a patient asks about prices…

Power plant doesn't just mean fixed electrical generation plant. There's probably a gas-fired power plant in your car, for example. And you're correct that the main place fuel oil …

That's exactly backwards. Cheaper oil will lower the operating costs of power plants that use oil as a fuel, which raises the bar that newer technologies will have to clear to be c…

It does. There's no free market for soup kitchens for the homeless, for example. There exist entities who are willing to provide soup kitchen services below operating costs in perp…

> This kind of system is more or less impossible in the US and it would be extremely expensive. That's literally how Social Security works, and the fact that more guest workers pay…

As I understand it, we have a relatively small number of people with serious or chronic illnesses whose normal, predictable healthcare expenses will drastically and permanently out…

True, but that's subtly different than the point I'm trying to make. Imagine your hypothetical were reversed. Imagine we already had a network toll roads priced at an average of $5…

I don't dispute that the current status quo emerged as a direct result of government intervention. Again, I agree with you that it can be traced back to WWII era wage controls. My …

We can't say the prisoners chose to enter the gulags of their own free will, though. Since freedom of contract requires all parties to enter into the agreement consentually, that m…

"Compared to these, the effects you described are negligible" is also a positive claim, and I did at least as much work sketching out why I believe my claim as you did sketching ou…

If maximizing profits (or, more precisely, maximizing expected value) isn't a terminal goal for all involved parties then it isn't a free market.

> Offering insurance as compensation started during WWII when wages were frozen by the government. Absolutely true, and those regulations haven't been in effect for the better part…

A) Right. We have universal single payer food insurance , also known as taxpayer funded welfare for the poor. We're in essence covered by, and paying premiums to, a mandatory State…

A) We do have socialized food insurance. That's literally what EBT is. B) I'm not going to wake up in the morning to discover that my expected annual food costs have suddenly incre…

It doesn't always have to work out, it just has to work out in the aggregate . The bar that the existing private insurance regime has set for discouraging wasteful medical tests is…

Gee, that sure does sound like a private dispute between you and your employer to me. If you want to opt out of your company's health care plan then you're more than welcome to go …

This works reasonably well for things like vision care because they're entirely opt-in. Patients who aren't satisfied with the prices they're being quoted can realistically choose …

> We do not have a free market. Most people get their health insurance from their employer - you cannot reasonably get insurance elsewhere What you are describing are in fact the f…