Usually when I hear about health insurance being unreasonable, it's the united States. However, denying health insurance for a pre existing condition is illegal in the United States under the affordable care act, and I'm not aware of any exception to this that would explain your situation.
I would be a lot more interested in Proton Mail if it had a better way to do compatibility with Thunderbird (i.e., without a local SMTP daemon, and without fees to access this; I am aware of the technical trade-offs in why this solution may be chosen) and had working notifications on degoogled android. Lacking the latter is especially shocking for a privacy-focused company. You can even get working notifications with Gmail on degoogled android via an app like fair email.
Kia trucks and similiar classes of products (cheap, robust, no fancy features, intensely practical) are very common in some places (notably some parts of Asia) but are also extremely hard to find in the US, primarily due to regulatory reasons. BYD cars are also often cheaper than US options, but are also not available in the US.
Regulatory capture (occasionally outright banning a superior product, but usually just raising the cost of competition) as well as anti-competition wrapped up in acquisition culture severely impair this.
Namely, these and monopolies are the end-stage of unregulated Capitalism. The big guy becomes evil and makes it so no small guy can ever enter the stage again.
It’s a major part of why we have anti-trust law, because the country knew where it would all go.
> The big guy becomes evil and makes it so no small guy can ever enter the stage again.
If you look at the top 10 companies by market cap every decade, you'll see the churn in them. The lineup in 1910:
• United States Steel Corporation
• Standard Oil Company
• American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T)
• Union Pacific Railroad / Pennsylvania Railroad
• International Mercantile Marine Co.
• American Tobacco Company
• U.S. Rubber Co.
• Central Leather Company
• Amalgamated Copper Mining Company
And today:
1. Nvidia – ~$4.57 trillion
2. Apple Inc. (AAPL) – ~$4.04 trillion
3. Alphabet Inc. (GOOGL / GOOG) – ~$3.79 trillion
4. Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) – ~$3.63 trillion
5. Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN) – ~$2.70 trillion
6. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC / 2330.TW) – ~$2.14 trillion
7. Meta Platforms Inc. (META) – ~$1.81 trillion
8. Broadcom Inc. (AVGO) – ~$1.57 trillion
9. Tesla Inc. (TSLA) – ~$1.40 trillion
10. Eli Lilly and Co. (LLY) – ~$1.18 trillion
I have found that Dark Reader works much better than this.
(I use Firefox generally, but my employer forces Chrome for many work tasks, and is also very concerned about data security from 3rd party extensions, so Dark Reader is not readily accessible. I use Dark Reader with Firefox at home, and find that it much more frequently has a reasonable result. Another issue with teh Chrome flag is that it is inconvenient to toggle when encountering such a broken website, or when you want light mode.)
Who else has a plan like OpenCode Go for subsidized access to cheap models? I've been using Qwen 3.7 Plus on it and having great results for $10 per month with my personal usage. I'm not aware of any other options with nearly that value, but I am interested in switching because OpenCode isn't so trustworthy, it seems. This is the second issue that I've seen.
OpenCode Go is the best thing they have going. Pi is the way to go for coding harnesses, IMHO. But despite all the BS messaging, something like glm-5.3-flash on $10/month OpenCode Go plan is a great deal if they have a Come to Jesus moment about security and do a bit of team attitude adjustment.
No, Console is different from Zen (and from Go). But you are reasonable in asking about it. The opencode team has done a horrible job of communicating what's actually going on. They have suffered real brand damage from this, and they deserve it.
I agree with the points about wanting to have access to a full disconnect. Reading your message also concerns me about such things becoming socially unacceptable, analogously to what happened with cell phones making disconnection already less socially acceptable than it once was.
However, at the same time, when I am explicitly doing work, I may find it to be preferable to do so in a very physically comfortable environment, like a bed, so I see value in such workflows. However, from conversations about this preference with others, it isn't a common one it seems.
This model assumes that the number of positions is fixed at any given time, but that is not true. Instead, it will fluctuate based on what must be paid. So, to extend your example, without H1B or a similiar program or de-facto state that does the same thing, then we'd get roughly the 900 jobs that are willing to pay the most to be filled, while the rest are not worth the cost of employing someone in this hypothetical market. The result, then, is a higher wage for those 900 citizens.
This is not to say that such programs are bad. To consider that, we must ask questions like:
- Is citizens being able to make much more than non-citizens a desirable outcome? (it's electorally incentivized, since citizens can vote in the relevant elections but non-citizens can not but that is not the same as being desirable in a more broad sense)
- How big is this effect?
- How badly do we (meaning society at large) want these final 100 jobs done?
- How will this affect competition with other countries?
- What about outsourcing?
A labor shortage has a temporary effect of creating an upward pressure on the 900 jobs, but there’s a ceiling and the long term effects are complex. I may have to pay 900 jobs 1.5x to attract and retain the talent as a business, but that cost will be eaten by other functions where there’s a surplus. Or long term, the businesses will find ways to either automate or ship the jobs away.
Additionally there will be a loss in productivity for business and the 900 jobs will have more work on their plates, so in a way they could be underpaid for the job they do. This is just scratching the surface, but I assume there’d be a lot of second order effects.
> the businesses will find ways to either automate or ship the jobs away
Both are acceptable terms for me compared to importing cheap labor. If they automate, then at least it creates new high end jobs, and if they ship jobs away then they now have to deal with foreign cultures, foreign courts and legal system, etc that will hamper their business.
That’s because you’re automatically assigning “cheap labor” tag to all workers on visa. Which in itself is not accurate. But these same workers after following the above process become permanent residents and citizens. (Which implies these are the people companies want to retain and move them off a visa by sinking 10s of thousands of dollars) The reality is much more nuanced.
The business won't be hampered much by hiring in other countries because EOR companies have streamlined the process. And your username is very much on point.
Usually when I hear about health insurance being unreasonable, it's the united States. However, denying health insurance for a pre existing condition is illegal in the United States under the affordable care act, and I'm not aware of any exception to this that would explain your situation.
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