Rather brave to believe that you’ll have a product, an engineering departement, a marketing departement, a support departement or any employees in your startup.

That’s probably a mark of an actually good programmer.

That’s just being good at programming

Both parties are bad but the magnitude is totally different.

Might be a good idea to take a look at imdb episode ratings and just ignore all <7.5 episodes, unless the synopsis sounds interesting. Unless you have time to just watch everything of course.

Dax is the “soul”, Jadzia or Curzon are the bodies. Thus it seems that the gender of Jadzia Dax / Curzon Dax is entirely defined (or perhaps not defined at all?) by the body Dax is residing in. Whereas trans people in real world believe in a gendered soul that is independent of the body they are in… right?

But it’s not like I oppose some other interpretation of it.

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Is it so that there is usually no competition for health insurance providers in the US? I don’t know that system too well.

Do you think of the fire department as “some sort of public insurance”?

Yes, it can be viewed as such! Things can be viewed from many angles. Another one that’re not called insurance but kinda are, are flat prices for things whose price actually varies. Like electricity prices: they’re often based on a spot price in an power exchange, so if you as a consumer choose to get a flat price, you’re essentially paying a premium.

Insurance is a pretty great industry and good fit for markets if only there’s healthy competition. If there’s no fertile ground for competition, it’s one signal that perhaps the public sector should handle that one.

Seems like a somewhat healthier race than corgi. Average age 15 years versus Corgi’s 12 years 3 months.

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Yes, exactly. Healthcare via taxation can be viewed as a some sort of public insurance. The problem there is that the level of resources needed has to be decided manually instead of letting the markets handle it “magically”.

What is confusing to me is why would it matter to Putin if Trump lied here? The Russian mode of government is lying and deception after all.

Does he actually think that his voters want Ukraine to lose? Oh fuck, do his voters actually want Ukraine to lose?

Where do you find Insurance like this?

Literally all the insurances are like this. If yours isn’t, why are you paying for it?

I broke my arm last year here in Finland. I think the whole bill for an overnight stay and surgery and all the medications was… around 50 euros.

Finland is famously having major problems with public healthcare currently because the costs versus clients relation is too low.

Healthcare provided publically can be thought of as nonprofit insurance.

If you live long enough, it will be costly.

This is why if you start paying for a healthcare insurance at an older age, your premiums will be higher. They are pretty good with the math there, and it’s not even very advanced math.

Pooling everybody’s money so that the ones who are unfortunate get money to help with their situation definitely is a product. Just because you don’t understand something doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist.

Trump also ordered the Pentagon, against Mattis’s recommendation, to come up with a plan to withdraw approximately half of the American troops deployed to Afghanistan, a move that military officials have warned could plunge the nation into chaos.

via https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trump-announces-mattis-will-leave-as-defense-secretary-at-the-end-of-february/2018/12/20/e1a846ee-e147-11e8-ab2c-b31dcd53ca6b_story.html

Mattis even resigned due to not being able to comply with Trump’s idiotic plans.

I guess it’s possible that Biden could have just scrapped the whole plan and do something else. But most of the damage was already done by then.

My iPhone is repairable and supported until 2028.