OAuth 1a was simpler or at least straightforward.

It doesn’t seem that way on the surface. But once your finished with out of band callback validation, localhost, refresh tokens, and PKCE, you realize what a monster OAuth 2 actually is.

And you don't see a difference between detaining visitors versus invading other nations?

They are quite literally opposites.

Of course there’s a difference. I’m not sure I understand your point.

> There are a multitude of current examples to the contrary.

I see negative opinions of government officials constantly.

It's basically all I see whenever I have the misfortune of turning on the TV.

Have you tried OAN or Fox News?

Many many such negative opinions.

The only difference between channels is which government official is criticized.

If you accept that cancer is a death sentence, it’s not absurd to “self fund” your insurance with a nest egg.

You can shop around quite a bit for non urgent care, and get good cash discount.

If you accept cancer as a death sentence, you're an idiot. I had cancer at age 41. If I left it untreated, sure I'd be dead, probably by age 43. But I'm not an idiot, I had good health insurance, I was treated, and now that health event is over twenty years in the past.

Had I self-funded with a (non-existent) nest egg, I would still be in debt over $600k. Instead, my insurance had to deal with that...

Are you really suggesting that a family should not have insurance at all and save the money?

I have been working for 30 years and have never once paid more than $10K a year for insurance across 10 jobs 15 of those years were a family plan.

Hell one of those jobs was with Amazon - the company with the shittiest benefit package in all of BigTech and even then I only $12K with a family plan. Right now we pay around $10K - my wife myself and my adult but under 26 (step)son

You've likely paid at least $18k if not more like $25k for that insurance in the form of wage income moved to benefit income. The government's tax and regulatory environment post WWII just ensures that unless you choose to take it as 1099 income, your potential 1099 income gets reflected in reduced W2 wages that are paid out in benefits.

You might claim that if your employer didn't offer that benefit they'd just pay nothing, but required health benefits function much as payroll taxes which economists have showed are largely reflected in the form of reduced incomes. That is, you are paying it ~all one way or another.

We know exactly how much your employer pays for their share of your health benefits. That was also part of the ACA to disclose it to employees.

You’re not wrong - I think it’s around 2/3rds so for me it would be around $36K a year all in if I had to do COBRA.

My annual premium for insurance was roughly $2400/year. Since then, it's gone to about $6k per annum. Even compounded at whatever the S&P500 returns for a 40 year interval, I'm pretty sure I'm ahead of the game. If you think I've lost $600K by having work provided insurance, we're not dealing with the same level of reality.

I stopped cataloging the invoices after it hit $1.6M. Granted that's what the providers would bill my insurance, and we all know those are funny numbers, and while I'm sure that a concentrated effort to negotiate cheaper cash prices might have been productive, there's still the fact that I would have had to have $600k or so readily available. HYSA yields were pretty low for most of this time period, and if I had kept that kind of money in a stock portfolio, taxes would have killed me.

And it's beside the point. 99% of Americans can't afford to build a $600k nest egg just to cover medical expenses. THAT'S WHAT INSURANCE IS FOR!

Also, I wonder if this is skewed by more affordable treatments for things like basal cell carcinoma or prostate cancer that doesn't require surgical intervention. In my case, I had full on chemo, rad treatment, surgery, and more chemo. Wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy, but I'm sure as hell glad I had good insurance. Dealing with the medical side was traumatic enough, I don't think I or anyone in my family had the bandwidth to deal with negotiating cash deals with multiple providers.

How much of a nest egg do you think would let you afford a major operation like heart surgery or cancer care?

Read the qualifier.

And heart surgery is ~$60k. [1]

That's <36 months of insurance premiums according to the earlier poster.

[1] https://cost.sidecarhealth.com/ts/heart-bypass-surgery-cost-...

It cost $30k for a loved one just to go to the hospital when their heart "felt weird" but absolutely nothing turned out to be wrong and all they did was run a couple quick scans and tests. I do agree with the overall idea of what you're saying that usually the premiums are way more than what you could get care for if you just saved the money, but the numbers on the website seem very wrong. I realize it's a total anecdote but from loved one's bills it is $20-30k just to get in the door and that is if actually nothing is wrong and there is no heart attack yet they're quoting $30k for an actual heart attack care.

That's the pricing when you have insurance. It is cheaper if you don't.

This is one of the most insane things that I have realized... I have terrible insurance (in case), but I generally don't present it as it is much cheaper and faster to pay cash...

I think we can all agree that the current system is just... ridiculous

I used to be fearful of health concerns, but now I'm a carnivore and just feel great.

I have never in my 30 year career paid more than $10K a year for health care across 10 jobs and that’s including working at Amazon with their shitty benefit package

In my 15 year career, I have never paid less than $10k per year for just me and my wife for health insurance. And I basically try to pick the most sensible and affordable option, not luxury plans.

In the last 15 years I’ve worked for: General Electric when it was still a F10 company and more recently Amazon along with a 60 person startup where the family plan was $150 a month. (2018-2020) and two mid size companies in between and now I work for a mid size 1000+ person consulting company

And if you want data instead of anecdotes

https://www.business.com/articles/health-insurance-costs-thi...

Makes sense, I have never worked for a company with more than 200 employees or so. NYC area.

Even a minor one.

What are you smoking? My parents are in their 80s, both 15+ and 20+ years cancer free. At least in my mom's case (colon), not having surgery + chemo probably WOULD have been a death sentence. In Canada, their total out-of-pocket costs (other than transportation to/from the hospital) was like $15 for some painkillers.

It’s analogous to the US, where you put money into social security and then withdraw later.

The only question is whether the fund is running at a surplus or not.

The US has raided its fund to finance other government programs, and then will have to pay it back via tax revenues.

Well eventually there are no galaxies just a bunch of cosmic rays. Some clusters of matter will last longer.

I think for this to work, either life would have to plentiful near the end, or you’d need FTL travel.

That exists in the form of domain names.

Which for reputable TLDs is permanent, outside illegal activities.

Country code TLDs are also reputable, but you might lose access if you move or if something happens to the country.

I don’t see the relevance of special GC.

But yes you need immutable data structures designed for amortized efficient copy.

You can publish with any dependency including non existent ones.

There’s not a lot of restrictions npm puts on what you can upload.

> claiming there is no law against it

Is there a law against it?

No, that's the entire point.

There's a strong hint that something's wrong, and that good corporate citizens would change course and try to become positive forces for the world.

Or else.

Ah is sounded like it was claimed but incorrect