Hacker News: RunawayGalaxy

New comment by RunawayGalaxy in "UnitedHealth overcharged cancer patients for drugs by over 1,000%"

RunawayGalaxy — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 21:56:18 +0000

> If anything it’s the providers who are screwing over patients by gaming insurance and taking more than is necessary from the shared insurance pool of money.

If the 85% gets larger, so does the 15%. Both sides gain when the cost increases.

New comment by RunawayGalaxy in "Math is running out of problems"

RunawayGalaxy — Tue, 16 Jul 2024 13:12:11 +0000

The title is far more general than what you actually mean. What's the reason for that if not click bait?

New comment by RunawayGalaxy in "Why time seems to pass faster as we age"

RunawayGalaxy — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 01:55:50 +0000

The concept of tolerance is most often used in the context of drugs, but it applies here too.

New comment by RunawayGalaxy in "Carta to exit secondary trading business"

RunawayGalaxy — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 02:58:40 +0000

Does that go for Carta Marketplace also? Asking because it seems to be a separate business.

New comment by RunawayGalaxy in "Apple Cancelled Jon Stewart Because Tech Executives Were Afraid of the Truth"

RunawayGalaxy — Tue, 24 Oct 2023 16:50:09 +0000

Do you have any evidence at all to this assertion?

New comment by RunawayGalaxy in "Why Tailwind CSS Won"

RunawayGalaxy — Wed, 16 Aug 2023 13:58:09 +0000

Where are these people learning tailwind without learning css?

New comment by RunawayGalaxy in "Tailwind is a leaky abstraction"

RunawayGalaxy — Wed, 30 Nov 2022 16:55:43 +0000

> ...it isn't an abstraction. It's a only a special syntax for applying predefined blocks of CSS to HTML elements.

How would you define abstraction then?

New comment by RunawayGalaxy in "Weird Al had 100 gigs of RAM"

RunawayGalaxy — Wed, 07 Sep 2022 02:44:59 +0000

> especially likely, because he's talking about *defragging a hard drive*

Can someone explain why this is incorrect? I thought a hard drive is typically what one would defrag

New comment by RunawayGalaxy in "Who owns Einstein? The battle for the world’s most famous face"

RunawayGalaxy — Fri, 20 May 2022 16:30:23 +0000

It's crazy how much energy is spent trying to constrain free information flow.

New comment by RunawayGalaxy in "MVC frameworks aren't dinosaurs but sharks"

RunawayGalaxy — Mon, 09 May 2022 17:36:25 +0000

Is the argument that because it's a shark, we should accept that and avoid feeding any contenders?

Was the shark perfect at its inception or did it adapt as all things do?

Doesn't its shark-ness come by virtue of surviving against the best efforts of challengers through time?

Isn't that continual evolution at least in part dependent on a continuum of challengers?

Don't we implicitly give up on searching for something that could potentially overtake the shark by dogmatically accepting the shark's shark-ness?

New comment by RunawayGalaxy in "The ‘psychobiome': the gut bacteria that may alter how you think, feel, act"

RunawayGalaxy — Thu, 21 Apr 2022 14:28:57 +0000

Free will is still a useful abstraction

New comment by RunawayGalaxy in "Postico: A Modern PostgreSQL Client for the Mac"

RunawayGalaxy — Sat, 26 Mar 2022 06:13:42 +0000

It's all abstractions provided via interfaces, whether programmatic or graphical.

New comment by RunawayGalaxy in "Camp that imprisoned 7000 Japanese Americans could become National Historic Site"

RunawayGalaxy — Mon, 21 Feb 2022 22:57:23 +0000

I think you missed the point about Japanese American internment.

New comment by RunawayGalaxy in "Snowtrack – a new version control software for graphic designers and 3D artists"

RunawayGalaxy — Tue, 08 Jun 2021 13:24:16 +0000

What would a workflow look like with Figma?

New comment by RunawayGalaxy in "HTML and CSS techniques to reduce your JavaScript"

RunawayGalaxy — Fri, 04 Jun 2021 14:29:26 +0000

Does anyone know if changing the display type of table elements (table, tr, td, etc.) to `block` or `flex` affect accessibility in any way? I would hope that the semantic structure of the tags would override changes on the styling level, but never been able to find a solid answer.

New comment by RunawayGalaxy in "Notion API – public beta"

RunawayGalaxy — Thu, 13 May 2021 18:52:46 +0000

imho The primary value is their pared-down databases that mostly just work like you want them to.

New comment by RunawayGalaxy in "Google and Apple attacked on app store 'monopoly'"

RunawayGalaxy — Sat, 24 Apr 2021 01:30:30 +0000

OR maybe that's just how markets work

New comment by RunawayGalaxy in "Google and Apple attacked on app store 'monopoly'"

RunawayGalaxy — Sat, 24 Apr 2021 01:29:00 +0000

TBH this is reasonable. I'm not on the side of Apple, but the monopoly claim is ridiculous to me.

New comment by RunawayGalaxy in "Google and Apple attacked on app store 'monopoly'"

RunawayGalaxy — Sat, 24 Apr 2021 01:26:04 +0000

> It does when you literally can’t operate your store in another mall.

Android exists

> I also don’t think this analogy scales very well since many stores operate both in and out of closed shopping centers. Including Apple’s stores.

How is the scalability of the analogy relevant?

New comment by RunawayGalaxy in "Google and Apple attacked on app store 'monopoly'"

RunawayGalaxy — Sat, 24 Apr 2021 01:20:03 +0000

If I build a shopping center that gets tons of foot traffic, pay to build the amenities and security, and then charge stores rent, it doesn't suddenly become a monopoly when the tenants feel that the rent is too high.