* if available in your area or within your means of travel, which may include flying to another state

holy cow the nostalgia hit that just caused. I heard that comment.

i believe the parent comment was being sarcastic

I assume once the bubble bursts they'll be turned into power supplies for bitcoin miners

Hopefully not, but they expect that scenario. For those as ignorant as me, I started reading this https://cointelegraph.com/features/the-last-bitcoin-btc-mine

They expect transaction fees will overtake minting earnings.

I saw more than one video about datacenter noise that were clearly crypto mining. There are some questionable designs leveraging shipping containers and what sound like a lot of 120mm fans.

That's a textbook example of Goodhart's Law isn't it?

Starlink recently implemented new rules for satellites that travel more than 100mph. Service is deactivated unless they have a valid government ID and an aircraft's tail number attached to the account. While both can be faked, you could arguably correlated a provided tail number with ADS-B data because anyone with a Starlink is likely also broadcasting ADS-B. But it also provides a bit of 1:1 correlation on satellites and there is a finite number of tail numbers out there.

They also jacked up the subscription price which caused thousands of actual pilots to cancel their service. So expect a flood of used Starlink Minis to enter the market soon.

I thought Starlink doesn't allow you to move your terminal at all with the basic plan, and there's a premium plan where you can move it, but still can't use it, unless you stop?

You aren’t supposed to move the terminal on a residential plan, but there are plans for RVs, boats and planes that allow you to change location and/or use while in motion.

I had the RV plan when they said it would not work in motion, but it worked pretty well on the highway anyway.

you don't want to give up your DNS to visit the USA? /s

wow. quite literally the only ones in my area are surveilling the county park / community center. that's creepy. I'll just have to assume they're doing something creepier at the public library.

Saw two in my area on the map.

I drove out to investigate, ended up adding two more to the site.

the largest issue in American health care is private equity and middle men raising the cost of everything.

edit if doctor scarcity were the issue then doctors would have a lot more leverage in salary negotiations than they do, which is to say they don't have much. because the hiring practices are limited by what they can bill, which they have no power over.

Private Equity is the effect not the cause. We need them to create efficiency because of the shenanigans that the AMA guild did in limiting doctor supply. Just allow people to take an exam to get credentialed, we'd have foreign doctors flown in by the hundreds of thousands and care would be as cheap as it is in India.

private equity doesn't create efficiencies. The real world is not some MicroEcon 101 class.

> “As our investigation revealed, these financial entities are putting their own profits over patients, leading to health and safety violations, chronic understaffing, and hospital closures. Take private equity firm Leonard Green and hospital operator Prospect Medical Holdings: documents we obtained show they spent board meetings discussing profit maximization tactics—cost cutting, increasing patient volume, and managing labor expenses—with little to no discussion of patient outcomes or quality of care at their hospitals. And while Prospect Medical Holdings paid out $645 million in dividends and preferred stock redemption to its investors—$424 million of which went to Leonard Green shareholders—it took out hundreds of millions in loans that it eventually defaulted on. Private equity investors have pocketed millions while driving hospitals into the ground and then selling them off, leaving towns and communities to pick up the pieces.”

https://www.grassley.senate.gov/news/news-releases/private-e...

Private Equity does not create efficiency and we do not need them. What they do is to take debt to buy healthy companies, transfer debt onto them and then kill them.

None of that is efficiency in any reasonable sense.

That doesn’t make sense - private equity has done the same thing in completely orthogonal industries, like manufacturing.

People would have an opportunity to change their stance if you explain why they should hold a different one with evidence and persuasion. Berating them and then saying they are wrong without explaining why is not going to change anyone's mind.

I used to do that when HN was a more rational, thinking-man's place years ago.

It's been poisoned by the hysterical climate of US politics like everything else on the internet, so there are no thinking men left.

It's a lost cause. If I were to explain the situation rationally I would get downvoted for not cheering on the shooting of CEOs.

Upvote communities are all dead and dying. There are no more interesting conversations happening in them anymore.

:shrug: I'm an Atheist, I loved the series.