Kequc

Joined 13 years ago

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1,105
Submissions
551
Member since
Mar 4
JavaScript developer http://www.kequc.com
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Comment · 5 years ago
Not everyone is as stupid as you're projecting them to be. You're in a bubble you created yourself.
Comment · 5 years ago
Banning people from speaking doesn't change their mind. Every single tech site baffled.
Comment · 6 years ago
That's great, Apple can stop charging thousands of dollars for them.
Comment · 8 years ago
I didn't understand that part. If I remember right, the open street map website used to have a demo page of their own. In any case I'm very happy to see this.
Comment · 8 years ago
I didn't realise open street map had made so much progress, the demo page looks really nice. The satellite view is not very detailed where I was checking but other than that I'm very impressed with the offering.
Comment · 8 years ago
Really? What's the best Linux distro/toolset to use in order to get anything to show up in a usable way in HDPI? I don't think you can buy new monitors anymore that are at low enough a resolution to support modern Linux.
Comment · 8 years ago
Agreed. Lets just skip the whole thing next time. :)
Comment · 8 years ago
It's virtue signalling.
Comment · 8 years ago
It seems it wasn't a new release. It opened in Europe in 2017 to very low ratings, the film didn't cost very much to make (relatively speaking) and this stunt has brought more attention to the film than any advertisement could have on its own.

It has been available to torrent for some time. I can't think of a better candidate to try this experiment on. It worked fantastically. Beyond that I can't see this having gone unnoticed for 6 hours.

Comment · 8 years ago
Persisting an npm package to your project for 5 css rules is a far more egregious case of "you might not need..." than a simple css reset could ever be.
Comment · 8 years ago
Not true. For the small amount I am paying I am covered for one major surgery in a hospital per year. Hopefully I never have to use it. If I need two major surgeries in one year well then I'll pay for it. Sounds like I've got bigger issues.

More than one surgery per year I'm covered for surgery in the medical vehicle. So if I'm going beyond that, I think I'll take the extra 9220 that I'm saving every year and risk it! Call me crazy I think most of that money is going toward treating fat people and drug users.

Comment · 8 years ago
I've lived in countries that have socialized medicine and ones without and my experience was dramatically different. I was always taught that socialized medicine was better. However I never got half decent care until I bought private health insurance.

My whole life I've been on government healthcare plans, across various countries. Imagine my shock when the first time I called my private health insurance provider at 34, it worked well. They chose the clinic I would go to, when I arrived to my appointment I was immediately ushered in to meet a physician. The physician was able to diagnose many problems within a couple of minutes, and I was asked to call my insurance company back so they could approve a series of tests and treatments.

I waited half an hour for approval and I then immediately saw two different doctors and had an x-ray all before leaving the building.

The clinic is interested in actually treating me and giving me the best care possible so that I don't come back. This ensures they get repeat business from my insurance company. Socialized medicine never gave me that kind of care or expediency in my life. The problems were all fixed.

One of the problems I've had for 10 years. Doctors were never able to diagnose it properly or it was "come back in 2 weeks, try this medicine, try that, etc." They were not interested in treating me they were interested in seeing me again and again because they were getting paid by the state.

I'm sure there are anecdotes to the contrary but I am completely sold on private healthcare. It's also fantastically cheaper. In Germany for example I was paying 800/month for healthcare, half "paid by my employer", which would really be my money. My current private healthcare costs about 380/year.

Diagnosed immediately, immediate care. I can buy as much or as little as I want and don't have to subsidize others. I'm encouraged to stay in shape and healthy.

Comment · 8 years ago
I would like to isolate every website I visit into a container, such that cookies or other tracking mechanisms are unable to be effective while on other pages.
Comment · 8 years ago
So Twitter doesn't censor enough, dunno how much more time or money Twitter could have spent trying to control the narrative. So the lesson here is that it's never enough. If you had Twitter completely sanitized there'd be people who don't understand 'changing the channel' complaining about too many meat-eaters on the platform.

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