But there would be other consequences too, just consider the philanthropic organizations that Larry Ellison supports! Like the Ellison Medical Foundation, a non profit whose sole purpose is to keep Larry Ellison alive as long as possible!
Larry Ellison owns 40% of Oracle ($625B market cap) as of today. So even if Oracle tanks and becomes a $60B company (10% of what is worth today), Larry will still be a billionaire worth $25B. He will keep his private islands and yachts.
Please stop. This kind of rage-posting is not what HN is for. It's fine to think whatever you want about Mr Ellison or any other tech luminaries, and criticize them for whatever you like. But commenting in this style does nothing to harm Ellison, whilst making HN a dismal place for your fellow community members who do actually read what you post.
> GPU acceleration driven by the WebGL renderer is enabled in the terminal by default. This helps the terminal work faster and display at a high FPS by significantly reducing the time the CPU spends rendering each frame
Wow, it's true--Terminal is <canvas>, while the editor is DOM elements (for now). I'm impressed that I use both every day and never noticed any difference.
> Giant GDP boosts are always just one deregulation away, hm?
Honestly, reducing the complexity of incorporating and paying taxes in Germany would quickly improve the dire situation of startups here. It's so bad right now that a tax advisor straight up told me to move to a less business-hostile country.
Totally agree!! But you never see anything remotely close to proposals like that from the people claiming they want less bureaucracy.
When they say less bureaucracy / deregulation, they just talk about tax cuts, less consumer protections and at worst artificially boosting large companies that are not innovating.
What is desperately needed is making the system less cumbersome and convoluted
They should just copy Polish laws. They are far from perfect, and yet they provided Poland with almost 30 years of stable, few percent growth, regardless of global and European economic struggles. When you plot the chart of Polish GDP even such a significant event as entering EU doesn't even register in the shape of the growth.
It recently had a bit of tax law upheaval, but things settled down since then. As for other issues it's politically stable, by which I mean consistently politically crappy.
True but Poland did come from a really really deep hole under the thumb of the Soviets. They were very thoroughly screwed over. I guess this is why Poland is the most anti russian country in the EU now (and rightly so)
Just saying that growth is pretty easy starting off from zero.
> reducing the complexity of incorporating and paying taxes in Germany would quickly improve
I believe german citizens are actually against it. I may be wrong, but this is my personal observations. Source: I have tried to incorporate in Germany and I have incorporated in Poland.
As a patient, I'm not sure if I'd be comfortable with the doctor operating on me doing a speedrun.
Full sterilization before each surgery is a good thing. Better safe than sorry. Same for only having one patient in the operating room - reduced risk of contamination and human error.
It's not a binary choice between a civil war surgeon's saw and an immaculate cleanroom, safety exists on a spectrum. Better safe enough than so incomprehensibly safe that the procedure is unaffordable and the doctor has 1/10th the experience and 100x as much paperwork!
Imagine, for a minute, that there's a physical lever at the FDA that controls the amount of cost, bureaucracy, and triple-checks that occur in hospitals. Think one of those steam engine throttles, with the big pawl release lever, it's set in front of an angle gauge with colors from red to green. One side is marked "Anarchy" and the other is marked "Better safe than sorry". Right now, that lever (or the metaphorical regulatory lever, the physical lever doesn't actually exist AFAIK) is as far over to the "safe" side as I can imagine it possibly being. The US lags behind on many modern medications and procedures, health care is unaffordable for somewhere between many and most, it's so miserably difficult to enter the field that we're not educating and training enough people, and the people that we do have trained are spending too much of their time doing paperwork and fighting the insurance system to take care of people. If you or a loved one have ever gotten a refusal of treatment or needed to wait for your disease to get worse before you can get care, you know how real this lever is.
If you ever get access to that lever, please, bring it at least one click back off the limiter. Maybe two. The potential harms that you imagine could caused by contamination and human error, at the moment, are less than the actual harms that are happening right now due to lack of affordable access.
People are going blind, in pain, or dying right now because it's too far towards the "better safe than sorry" side. If you were on a fixed income and found yourself unable to afford a $8000 cataract surgery as the world slowly grew dim, you'd wish you could visit an efficient practice and get it done for $150, even if that meant there was another patient on the other side of the OR.
That's fair, except that sometimes there aren't enough resources (qualified surgeons, facilities, etc) for everyone to get that kind of care. I'd rather cheap care that is 95% good enough than none at all. (For things I really need - I think a majority of what the healthcare industry does is counterproductive but there is also plenty of stuff that's good like cataract surgery for example.)
This one is a tough sell, in that regime the doctors will have a significantly higher amount of practice which might translate into mastery. On the other hand I would expect post-procedure tracking and reporting be significantly better in the west.
We're already at a point where more often than not people want to quit using online apps. I wonder if at some point we'll end up with the internet being completely abandoned because we did nothing to keep it usable?
Similar scenario to what might likely happen to our planet, now that I think of it.
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