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U.S. Government Database of Dad Jokes

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Post by willcipriano »

analog31 wrote: post #68
hattmall wrote: post #52

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What a change, now the government penalizes marriage through the ACA. I wonder why the shift from promoting to penalizing marriage.

ACA was a bag of compromises intended to increase health care access without disrupting the insurance industry. It succeeded on both counts.

Remember when we were told that insurance companies would go bankrupt without the individual mandate and then it was ruled unconstitutional and not implemented after the first few years and insurance companies made more money than ever?

The insurance industry could've tolerated quite a bit of disruption. The ACA was successful in ensuring the donor class got to keep the profit levels they are accustomed to, the only thing it was ever designed to do.

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Post by EE84M3i »

yftsui wrote: post #62
hgschmie wrote: post #47

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% host -t a fatherhood.gov fatherhood.gov has address 15.197.252.44 fatherhood.gov has address 3.33.237.102 % host -t ptr 44.252.197.15.in-addr.arpa 44.252.197.15.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer a05e7be9b6fd75377.awsglobalaccelerator.com. % host -t ptr 102.237.33.3.in-addr.arpa 102.237.33.3.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer a05e7be9b6fd75377.awsglobalaccelerator.com. It is on AWS.

Isn't AWS Global Accelerator just the edge CDN (like Cloudflare) here? When the actual web server went down it will not able to cover it, looks like AWS Global Accelerator lacks the Cloudflare feature of showing you the last cached result.

Global accelerator is an anycast solution that routes your traffic to an specific AWS region (an EC2 instance or load balancer) via AWS's backbone network. It improves latency mostly, but can also be used for cases where a static IP is required (zero-rated billing, customers using egress firewall rules, etc)

CloudFront is the AWS CDN offering.

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Post by eru »

cdot2 wrote: post #76
eru wrote: post #33

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On those grounds, you can probably argue that any spending anywhere reduces the deficit in the long run. EDIT: to clarify, an argument that providing dad-jokes leads to less single motherhood (which then leads to less spending) is so tenuous, that if you accept it, you can accept almost any kind of mental gymnastics. I agree that reducing single motherhood would probably lead to less spending. It's the connection to…

My comment was in response to the comment above mine. Not to the article directly.

Oh, I wasn't even complaining about using government money for dad jokes.

I don't know whether it's a good use of tax money (probably not), but it's such a minuscule amount in the grand scheme of things, that it doesn't really matter.

Eg repealing the Jones act would do a lot more, if one wanted to get riled up about something. It's basically a very inefficient re-distribution from Hawaiians to a few domestic ship owners.

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Post by segfaltnh »

alchemist1e9 wrote: post #75
kube-system wrote: post #58

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Yes, it is: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2019/12/12/u-s-child... It may seem silly on the surface, but solving issues at the root is often way more effective than treating the symptoms. In plain words: we're better off solving crime by having a kid grow up in a healthy household, rather than throwing that kid in prison after they commit a crime, who may in turn have a kid who grows up in an unhealthy house…

Just so I’m clear - you are then saying that Federal government spending on this is something you support?

I do. I doubt it cost much in relative terms, and it's drawn a lot of attention to the issue of fatherhood and spawned a lot of debate.

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Post by kube-system »

alchemist1e9 wrote: post #75
kube-system wrote: post #58

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Yes, it is: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2019/12/12/u-s-child... It may seem silly on the surface, but solving issues at the root is often way more effective than treating the symptoms. In plain words: we're better off solving crime by having a kid grow up in a healthy household, rather than throwing that kid in prison after they commit a crime, who may in turn have a kid who grows up in an unhealthy house…

Just so I’m clear - you are then saying that Federal government spending on this is something you support?

Yes, and I wish we spent 100x on initiatives like this, that attempt to influence behavior for the better.

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Post by jdewerd »

gottorf wrote: post #78
julesallen wrote: post #45

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Redesigned the FDIC's online deposit insurance calculator to be 100% client side just before WAMU fell over and the crash that followed. Before the three-step one pager it was a UX that only a mother could love on payday. The bigger problem was every time it would end up on somewhere like Yahoo finance (don't laugh, this was 2007 and earlier) it would fall over like this database. The key to scaling it seems pretty o…

Sounds like you're in a good position to make a lot of people's dreams come true: could you make the TreasuryDirect webapp not so terrible to use? :-)

My prayers were answered when they removed the infernal virtual password keyboard.

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Post by tzs »

willcipriano wrote: post #81
analog31 wrote: post #68

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ACA was a bag of compromises intended to increase health care access without disrupting the insurance industry. It succeeded on both counts.

Remember when we were told that insurance companies would go bankrupt without the individual mandate and then it was ruled unconstitutional and not implemented after the first few years and insurance companies made more money than ever? The insurance industry could've tolerated quite a bit of disruption. The ACA was successful in ensuring the donor class got to keep the profit levels they are accustomed to, the only…

> The ACA was successful in ensuring the donor class got to keep the profit levels they are accustomed to, the only thing it was ever designed to do.

So it reducing the number of uninsured by many millions was just an unintentional consequence, or what?

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