thesmallestcat

> the controversy arising

Could you be more specific? Are you talking about a Hacker News thread or something else?

You shouldn't have replied. You and the other guy are both out of your gourds, and you don't understand how crazy you look.

I sort of doubt that. In practice, it seems to incentivize influencing policy to drive up healthcare costs, with little regard for patient outcomes.

Before the tire fire that is rvm became "standard", it was normal to just download the version you needed and build it from source. There's nothing forcing us to use crappy, obscure tools like rvm and rbenv. And I agree with you on all points.

Forget public healthcare, I'd gladly live in Canada for this protection!

Great advice! I'd venture that managing large files is an unsolved problem. It's a hack in most version control systems, and uploading/downloading files from a host, even S3, is a slow, serial process. Same for checksumming. Network speeds have more than caught up, and large files are a frequent process bottleneck. Something that makes it easy to manage and consume large files could be a big deal. It probably would require a new application protocol, maybe even a new filesystem similar to XFS.

Static website generators.