I have a very simple and easy solution: allow any person with any medical education from any country around the world to practice medicine in their field of study, and relieve them from any medical malpractice responsibility (apart from criminal). Let them prescribe medicine, no paperwork, no regulation.
Anybody can choose to which hospital they go, the “state-licensed” crazy expensive one or the “unlicensed” one for 50 dollars a visit.
As far as I understand, currently the pool of people in the US who are allowed to do medical work is artificially limited, and doctors’ salaries are inflated. Just look around the world, there’s a huge supply of doctors with no student debt who would be happy to work for 60k a year. Also tens of thousands of US citizens will just go get a cheap medical degree from other countries, come back, and open private practice.
Design (output of designers) and copy (output of copywriters) are subject to the same copyright law as code (output of programmers). Programmers are not the only people whose intellectual property is protected.
That’s kinda my point. We don’t have usage caps not because they are technically hard or impossible to implement (they’re not). It’s because the leadership thinks (likely correctly) that implementing them would just hurt company’s bottom line.
I am very sure what you’re saying is not true. It’s a viable-looking technical excuse, but you can easily understand that it’s false.
Let’s make a thought experiment.
CEO of Cloudflare introduces hard billing caps at a _business_ (not technical) level. Your organization will never be billed more than the level you set. Your app may stop, or may continue running, but above the monthly cap it’s free for you, it becomes Cloudflare’s expense if they didn’t pause the services.
I guarantee you that in this case, all technical issues you’re talking about would be solved in three weeks, and your service would go down within 3 seconds after hitting the cap.
If CEO decision were that any over-usage above the cap is deducted from employee bonuses from the specific product division that didn’t stop spending in time — all technical challenges would be solved in 48 hours.
Currently, there are literally zero organizational incentives for CloudFlare to develop any usage caps
About three weeks ago I was seduced by people singing praise to OpenClaw, and also by the fact that OpenClaw team burns millions of dollars of tokens per month on developing it — surely it must be good.
It turned out to be probably the crappiest, glitchiest piece of software I’ve used in the past few years. Its basic onboarding workflow was completely broken, GUI was a hallucinated mess.
Also it turned out that not a single person I know who dedicated time to configuring it, ever achieved anything remotely interesting as a result.
They don't force anybody though. People who think that the renting is too expensive and is not worth paying, are free to either 1) move to a place that has cheaper rent, or 2) build a new house from scratch since it's cheaper than renting.
Price of rent increasing in desirable locations is not due to greed or collusion of bad actors (as long as government prevents monopolies), it's due to more people competing to live in a place that can house only a limited number. Of course everybody wants to live in big cities in the US. But rent is very cheap in dying small towns in the middle of nowhere.
> people like AOC who are working in the interest of society
People like AOC just pander to uneducated populace who'd prefer to use force to take free stuff of other people who work instead of working themselves.
Very easy to keep electing such politicians — just continue giving out more free stuff, so that people think it's the norm, and working is not required, just always taking is fine. People will vote accordingly
> Instead of doing that, the effort should go into making all companies act that way.
That's because creating a business is a lot of hard work and risk, and surely you'd instead better virtue signal in your free time to look better to other people who are also lazy.
> A more equitable distribution of company profits does not imply the company loses money. It does not imply useless make-work jobs.
I fully agree, and remind you it's completely legal and simple for you to go and start a company that does equitable distribution of company profits. More people should do it instead of complaining that few people do.
As I understand, earlier forms of life used RNAs as building blocks (instead of proteins encoded in DNA->RNA), so protein-based life _was_ a completely different form of life.
Some of the oldest replication machinery in our cells still uses the good old rusty RNA building blocks at its core (however nowadays they're propped up with proteins), and the newer machinery is almost entirely "high tech" proteins.
So you could say that in the billions of years, entirely new life forms were created, and they just completely displaced the older, less effecient ones. Probably pure-RNA life forms were not even the first ones, and they completely displaced even more primitive prior biotechnology when they appeared.
I feel like people who program in JavaScript or whose projects pull megabytes of dependencies, don’t get a moral right to complain about this. You guys just sit and calm down this time, you already said what you could.
Your app takes 20 seconds to load, pulling 50 megabytes of minified JS. Your backend is a mess of 20 Rust microservices, 300 megabytes docker image each.
Nobody has actually been reading and understanding code in your org for the past 15 years. And nobody has ever been responsible, everybody has just been job hopping for a 15% total comp bump.