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the State does in fact provide a reinsurance scheme of sorts - disaster designations and the release of funds...the Federal government provides a reinsurance scheme under that when they designate Federal disasters and release funds

not sure the State is equipped to take over the first level of insurance...go to the DMV some time and ask if that is who you want to deal with when you have roof damage from hail etc

years back, some insurers wanted to stop issuing home policies for people near the Santa Cruz Mountains due to fire risk. Dianne Feinstein applied pressure in the Senate and with some concessions, it all went away.

this is just State Farm looking for concessions.

that general region has lots of land for sale and its CHEAP

there is at least one county out there that doesn't have ANY building codes...you can build whatever you want

forewarned, it is expensive to get anything done in the middle of nowhere

its simple - they can push Biden to the brink, and if things break, people blame the President

less than 10% of Americans even know who McCarthy is, no one will blame him

it isn't ignorance, he's right

there is no external context for a buyer of debt to assess value outside of sovereign currencies, which are basically ALL junk for G7 nations

the other G7 nations with worse stats all have AAA...its meaningless...if you want to buy G7 debt, you MUST buy toxic waste

maybe one day Mars will issue high-quality debt backed by hard assets...until then...

downvoted because HN readers still believe they are part of society's elite that will always land on the favorable side of the inequality debate

not true but I guess you'll just have to live your lives and figure it out

> The US is not getting poorer

then why am I being asked to bail out a generation's college loans?

then why is food bank use at an all time high?

then why are more six-figure earners reporting to be living paycheck-to-paycheck?

then why is personal credit card debt at an all time high?

stagflation...its in Germany, coming to the US...there is only one way out: we get poorer

literal LOL

the US dollar is beyond the power of a rating agency

the fact that all of the industrial economies have generated so much debt in the last generation and still get AAA ratings tells you how pointless these ratings are for currencies-that-matter

Canada has the highest debt-to-GDP ratio in the G7 now and it also has AAA rating

until someone sells Martian government bonds backed by hard assets and yearly balanced budgets...buyers have no choice but to buy toxic assets

when governments inflate, they pay back debt with less worthy currency...so the US and everyone else is basically slow-motion defaulting over time anyway

unlikely...they are still Russian nationals and Putin can take action against their families if they try to grow brains (another tactic borrowed from Stalin)

in any case they wouldn't get far...who is supplying them with ammo and fuel on the road to Moscow? the US? Putin would empty the silos

Wagner are mercenaries...who is paying them to invade Russia?

Putin is using them as a battering ram, and is presumably not bothered by leaving their corpses in a burn pit to preserve the Russian Army

Putin is not too different than Stalin...the penal units Stalin forced to walk into German minefields had a 90% loss rate...but they weren't regular Red Army so who cares?

he's clearly in a feud with the Russian DoD, but he's way off thinking that failing to commit the children of the elites' to combat will result in a "revolution"

in fact its the opposite...look closer to home

no one on the Harvard or Yale rowing teams died in the Civil War...they didn't even put on uniforms (and if anyone asked them to, they could pay someone else to go in their place)

fast forward to Vietnam when we decided the elite should fight too...the nation ripped itself apart

fast forward again to the pointless quagmire of Afghanistan...all volunteers, mostly from poor backgrounds...no meaningful public dissent for twenty years

back to Russia, they already have 500k fresh recruits who will soon be ready to deploy...no riots so far

simple - this market is a bunch of sideways and capital is looking for any positive "port in a storm"

all the major techs are massively overbought because its become a safety trade

kick who out of what? foreign workers wouldn't be in, or care about, your union

bailing out student loans is about paying banks, not schools or teachers...they already got paid

Wintel is dying

Microsoft doesn't care, they moved on to Azure and AI

Intel kinda cares, but they are moving on to being a fab provider

Dell, Lenovo, Acer...they're screwed...they have no other play but Wintel

loan forgiveness is tantamount to asking me to participate in buying out someone else's loan

a loan used to buy a degree

a degree which isn't generating enough income to pay off the loan

why do I want your underperforming asset? I already have a degree, but thanks!

Good luck...the "scabs" crossing your picket line all WFH and you'll never even know who they are.

WFH means work-from-anywhere, which dooms the leverage of a union

vendoring is a bit of project smell, but for large teams it removes the confusion of who has what version of a dependency

unfortunately most teams don't schedule a periodic `go mod tidy` so you just end up with ancient deps

most people never read the code of the deps they pull in, so I don't think vendoring provides any security assurances

> Loop variables with closures

indeed a brutal footgun but will be fixed soon

HN loves playing "obligatory contrarian" so often commenters will go to lengths to find faults

there is nothing wrong with Go; it delivers on its promise, you don't need to be a genius to use it, has good community support, and you can get access to a large and decent job market

Rust is a great tool but isn't as purpose-suited to network services as Go

Zig is even less purpose-suited to writing network services and won't be at Go's level of maturity for years, if ever

If a backend dev could only know one language in 2023, it would be hard to go wrong with Go

no there are no "ceramic guns" you can buy in the US, and unless you can tell me of one that is actually manufactured (including the barrel), they don't even exist

and there is no fully plastic gun, even polymer striker-fired guns have metal components (notably, barrel, slide)

please provide links

> I'm also not sure how many guns are ceramic.

none

the largest expansion of the "five eyes" program, and the high-profile fallout of Assange and Snowden, all happened during the Obama presidency

on a long enough timeline, all cars will be manufactured in Mexico

The very last thing shut-in men in Japan need is a SaaS virtual girlfriend

HN is so schizo on government overreach....

we're fining Google!

Yay!

...and also banning end to end encryption!

Boo!

HN hasn't figured out the simple truth that arbitrary power corrupts

Keep searching for the benevolent dictator...

Lol, just tell people you'll do things like bail out their student loans and they'll easily overlook stuff like this

summaries are to real reading what porn is to good sex

refute me then, with facts, I'll even accept Wikipedia links

here's an appetizer for you: the Brusilov Offensive in WW1 was only a strategic operation inside a single war and Russia lost more men in that alone than have ever died on behalf of the US in all wars