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If you change rules to make the PE business model unprofitable, since it's in many ways toxic to society, you can result in them then needing to sell, for much less than they'd like most likely, or adapt and become less toxic.


> you can result in them then needing to sell, for much less than they'd like most likely

I’m imagining harder. Forced divestiture. Good amount of the hospitals and nursing homes would be bought of out bankruptcy.

But they still need to be bought and funded. And I think nobody wants to have a conversation about how much that costs and who winds up paying for it, particularly with many of PE’s hospitals being in rural America.


Perhaps you need a tech person to partner with experienced bank people to create a new bank that isn't shit


What counts as "Wall Street" here. Is it any investment property? After some threshold of owning many homes? If so, how many? 10? 10,000? Something else? Is it net worth? Maximum number of beneficial owners? You must title them in a natural person's name instead of a corporate entity? Your service address for your corporation is on wall street in NYC?

Which option is being proposed vastly changes the merits and problems of this policy, so it's a poor choice that this isn't made abundantly clear.


Roku, when built-in to a TV, refuses to work as a dumb tv until you give it Internet access and sign in


I have a Roku tv. I never plugged it in or gave it internet access. It works fine.


It wasn't the case until iirc a few years ago. My guess is that you're on an old version of the software that didn't yet do this.


Rust has more features than just the borrow checker. For example, it has a a more featured type system than C or C++, which a good developer can use to detect some logic mistakes at compile time. This doesn't eliminate bugs, but it can catch some very early.


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> But unsafe Rust, which is generally more often used in low-level code, is more difficult than C and C++.

I think "is" is a bit too strong. "Can be", sure, but I'm rather skeptical that all uses of unsafe Rust will be more difficult than writing equivalent C/C++ code.


A guess: existing charging infrastructure is too slow/low power to charge this fast enough to be useful over currently standard batteries for car sized batteries


> New techniques are often behind proprietary gates, with shallow papers and slides that only give a hint of how things may work.

I've been able to implement techniques based on such things without too much trouble. Also, Unreal is source available, although I haven't used its source to learn, and haven't checked the license for risks with doing so.


I think that the person to whom you replied is speaking of outdoor installations, while you are speaking of controlled (maybe datacenter) installations. I have outdoor fiber running aerially between buildings on my property, in a region with massive seasonal temperature changes. Multiple local FTTH and Coaxial ISPs also run fiber on shared utility poles (the same ones that the electrical grid maintains) and when I look at the poles I see communications lines all in the same general area, often mere centimeters apart, if that.


> I feel there has to be something between "I heard about a thing 7th-hand" and "I actively watch political discourse / read scientific papers", but I'm no longer sure The News, as we currently know it, is it.

I have found that some Youtube channels and videos (non-comprehensive examples below (I have hundreds of subscribed channels), mostly not politics, but these things inform politics since politics is making decisions about other things) can fill this gap nicely. This is not a perfect choice, since journalism integrity and standards do not apply, but I find that this can be mitigated by watching a wide variety (for example, in the field of economics, I regularly watch creators who espouse everything from very free-market capitalism all the way to full on communism). There are likely other forms of new media that operate at this level of depth, but I haven't found htem.

https://www.youtube.com/@TechnologyConnections

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWUaS5a50DI

https://www.youtube.com/@HowMoneyWorks

https://www.youtube.com/@DiamondNestEgg

https://www.youtube.com/@TLDRnews (and associated channels)

https://www.youtube.com/@BennJordan (recent good example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vU1-uiUlHTo)


I started watching the full press releases and politicians interviews which are normally available on YouTube. It just changed how I view geopolitics. The media is extremely biased and absolutely does not report what people are actually saying. You really should never accept at face value what the news are reporting.


> I started watching the full press releases and politicians interviews which are normally available on YouTube.

Is this true for Australian politics? This is exactly what I'm looking for. Currently all my searching for recent events just results in summarised/paraphrased news reports with some footage, or shorts and clickbait.


Parliamentary question time is pretty good for that here in Australia, I'd recommend giving it a listen every now and again.


Yes and the Senate has a radio IIRC and you can listen to every discussion they have!


Thank you for these sources! Happy to see Benn Jordan, How Money Works and Technology Connections as grey links :-)


> I am tired of fighting my own OS.

People cite bugs or incompatible software on Linux as a reason to avoid it and use Windows, but they fail to recgonize that Windows actively fights you. I'd take something that's slightly and mistakenly broken on an utterly open platform where I can fix it if I care enough over a closed platform that's actively trying to screw me over.


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