I don't know who these people are, but it's 99% certain they don't live in the same country as I do.

I can't see how reporting this to my local little police force will do anything.

Does it matter if I'm not in California? (or even the USA?)

I found another post [1] where someone was asking about account deletion and the linked part of the FAQ says:

We try not to delete entire account histories because that would gut the threads the account had participated in. However, we care about protecting individual users and take care of privacy requests every day, so if we can help, please email hn@ycombinator.com. We don't want anyone to get in trouble from anything they posted to HN. More here (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23623799)"

I think protecting my young family from DOXing is a pretty valid reason.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30430789

Can you provide links?

I've personally used the healthcare systems in Australia and Canada for two decades each, and also for a short time in the UK. I've never heard of this.

Yes, the systems in America favor the rich.

I work the least amount possible to make it happen.

When my parents were getting close to retirement Dad an I ran the numbers a hundred different ways. I think the experts said they’d need $100k a year, and no matter what we did we couldn’t get it over $60k. Now in retirement it’s less than $50k.

I don’t know how people spend so much

Socialized healthcare is not perfect.

But it is much, much better that what the US has now. Every other developed country spends vastly less and gets much better health outcomes. [1]

Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good. Adopt socialized healthcare now, even though it is imperfect, and then work on improving it as time goes on. That is the path to making stuff better.

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/life-expectancy-vs-health...

That is the worst possible "healthcare" situation I can imagine.

Dozens of countries have shown you pay a lot less and get much better outcomes [1] when you just provide healthcare to everyone all the time, the same way high school, roads and street lights are provided.

Why wouldn't you want that? Why on earth would you think flying to some foreign country is a better solution?

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Life_expectancy_vs_heal...

Actually at the very large ISP I worked at customers saw better performance because the back haul wasn’t congested with Netflix traffic.

I’m staggered how many Americans are steadfastly against socialized healthcare for all, but immediately turn to GoFundMe in desperation when their insurance tells them to take a hike.

I can’t help thinking “just do that for everyone”

[1] https://time.com/5516037/gofundme-medical-bills-one-third-ce...

[1] https://theguardian.com/sport/2022/oct/05/buffalo-bills-new-...

The way things are going I fear the day will come you’ll get downvoted for saying the earth is round or that men walked on the moon.

> just shy of 2 hours the level was at 5%

Ouch. That is unworkable for me, and would be very hard to deal with.

> For resolution via the laptop screen is 1366x768

Oh wow, that is a very low resolution, and wouldn't be good enough for editing photos and video.

> I always use the T430 plugged in.

I'm always shocked to see this. What is the point of a laptop you just use plugged in? Lower quality (and res) screen, bad thermals, lack of cheap expansion, and you're just tied to a desk anyway. It seems a basic desktop would run rings around it.

Which is exactly what Australia could do if it made a bunch of steel.

It means I'll never have a bill, and if I get too much credit (negative bill), I'll just get a used electric car. I'm not unhappy with that situation.