The content host blocks IPs based on reputation (VPN exits are well-known) but so many people have done the exit through a VPS that those IP blocks are poisoned and could go at any moment. A true residential IP can't be blocked because those are legitimate customers
TorGuard's exit nodes are only in the US, so doesn't solve the problem
OxyLabs seems to block Streaming in their TOS
BrightData doesn't block streaming, so I'll dig into that one. Thanks for the suggestion!
IMO, Tor should be reserved for escaping repressive regimes and avoiding nation-state level content blocks. Plugging up the network with baseball streaming doesn't seem like a fair or reasonable use of public resources
Reuters and The Associated Press are news feeds. Strictly “event happened, here are the facts”. They’re intentionally objective and they run the wire services for other publications.
Beyond that, understanding the difference between the news desk and the opinion desk can help you know what’s fact vs. someone’s opinion (not necessarily the publication’s opinion!)
Then look at who is good at what type of reporting. The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg have great US and world business news, and even how the business world is responding to political events… but they’re less wonky than what the Washington post used to be on the details of the political machinations. NYT does good investigative journalism.
independent journalism can be good, but you have to reallY understand the events and broader context to know if they’re right, accurate and correct.
I would also recommend reading many different perspectives to get a full sense of the situation rather than only one publication
the early part of the article is about change management. It WOULD be highly disruptive to a large part of the economy:
But doing away with an entire industry would also be profoundly disruptive. The private health insurance business employs at least a half a million people, covers about 250 million Americans, and generates roughly a trillion dollars in revenues. Its companies’ stocks are a staple of the mutual funds that make up millions of Americans’ retirement savings.
Such a change would shake the entire health care system, which makes up a fifth of the United States economy, as hospitals, doctors, nursing homes and pharmaceutical companies would have to adapt to a new set of rules. Most Americans would have a new insurer — the federal government — and many would find the health insurance stocks in their retirement portfolios much less valuable.
But removing the industry that increases costs and extracts rents (to benefit investors and creates worse healthcare outcomes) is kind of the Point…
Many supporters of this approach see elimination of private insurance as a key feature, not a bug, meant to improve the program’s efficiency and equity by streamlining the health care system and weakening profit motives. With a single insurer covering every patient, hospitals and doctors could spend less time and money complying with differing policies, negotiating contracts, and filing forms to get paid.
“It’s worth it,” said Adam Gaffney, the president of Physicians for a National Health Program, which supports single-payer health care and helped design Ms. Jayapal’s bill. “Because we are not going to get to true universal health care without the greater efficiency of a single-payer system.”
I think the commentary is fair throughout the first half of the article… but then there’s some real lack of critical thinking (emphasis added):
Their plans would include nearly every doctor and hospital in the United States and provide generous benefits, including dental care and hearing aids, and would not require patients to pay any out-of-pocket cost to see a doctor. The federal government, of course, would have to cover those benefits, and would need to raise taxes to pay for them.
“Raising taxes” is present as a boogeyman here… taxes bad (they do poll poorly in general) but the key advantage of a single payer system is less bureaucracy (I don’t have n-teams to support doing the same job differently) and more streamlined rules. I don’t have to have more administrators than medical providers in hospital systems. They can focus on care instead of negotiating prices
Gnomon by Nick Harkaway is one of my favorite weird books. On its surface, it’s about a detective digging into a wrongful death at the hands of a state interrogator… but as it progresses, you realize things are not quite what they seem.
Wow what a throwback. Haven’t thought about Joey (or QC) in a long time. But scenes from that book stick in my brain decades later. One of my first real exposures to really different genderqueer experiences
It’s a sprawling western. More about the characters and the journey than anything else.
New kid Kalin March “steals” two horses and takes them on a journey through the Utah valley to release them. The owners of the horses are an affluent family who are more interested in power and its trappings than in the actual value of the horses. Kalin’s friend’s sister Landry is from the rival affluent family (they’d been feuding for over a hundred years) and she joins Kalin on the journey.
it’s not the weird meta fictional style novel like House of Leaves, which admittedly I have not read, but it is sprawling with a lot of characters and overlapping perspectives and retrospective comments on the events from years in the future.
This is my own bad take: I feel the same about ticket to ride. I do not want to count individual train cars to get my points or validate I did the route or that I have the longest train.
Me draw card. Me place car. You give score. That’s about as much as my caveman brain can handle
NEOS (New England over shoes). Think of them as waterproof socks over your normal shoes / boots. I’ve worn mine over my leather moccasins house slippers. I’ve had my pair for over a decade in a cold / wet / northern climate and they’re beat up but still waterproof
XTRATUF rubber boots. Particularly if it’s not super cold. I have a pair that go to my knees for working in the mud and muck, but I used them while snow blowing last year and they were dry, grippy and warm
It’s also 180K for a 15-20 year refresh cycle. These are commercial units that are used in harsh environments… not a cabinet you buy once and it sits in your bedroom.
Add in wiring plus the install costs and $180K seems like a good deal
Looks like you just took a picture of the carpet mate. I can’t tell that you did any work
Incidentally, have you read the Bobiverse series?
Fifth cousins. The Roosevelt family is / was a political dynasty alongside the Adams, Harrison and Bush families
That doesn’t unlock the long tail of MLB games. IPTV groups really only unlock 2-3 MLB network channels that don’t cover all games
The content host blocks IPs based on reputation (VPN exits are well-known) but so many people have done the exit through a VPS that those IP blocks are poisoned and could go at any moment. A true residential IP can't be blocked because those are legitimate customers
TorGuard's exit nodes are only in the US, so doesn't solve the problem OxyLabs seems to block Streaming in their TOS BrightData doesn't block streaming, so I'll dig into that one. Thanks for the suggestion!
IMO, Tor should be reserved for escaping repressive regimes and avoiding nation-state level content blocks. Plugging up the network with baseball streaming doesn't seem like a fair or reasonable use of public resources
Enteral Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem (GameCube)
Reuters and The Associated Press are news feeds. Strictly “event happened, here are the facts”. They’re intentionally objective and they run the wire services for other publications.
Beyond that, understanding the difference between the news desk and the opinion desk can help you know what’s fact vs. someone’s opinion (not necessarily the publication’s opinion!)
Then look at who is good at what type of reporting. The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg have great US and world business news, and even how the business world is responding to political events… but they’re less wonky than what the Washington post used to be on the details of the political machinations. NYT does good investigative journalism.
independent journalism can be good, but you have to reallY understand the events and broader context to know if they’re right, accurate and correct.
I would also recommend reading many different perspectives to get a full sense of the situation rather than only one publication
The private health insurance business employs at least a half a million people, covers about 250 million Americans
500K employees vs 250M insured
Here’s a gift link to the 2019 article.
the early part of the article is about change management. It WOULD be highly disruptive to a large part of the economy:
But removing the industry that increases costs and extracts rents (to benefit investors and creates worse healthcare outcomes) is kind of the Point…
I think the commentary is fair throughout the first half of the article… but then there’s some real lack of critical thinking (emphasis added):
“Raising taxes” is present as a boogeyman here… taxes bad (they do poll poorly in general) but the key advantage of a single payer system is less bureaucracy (I don’t have n-teams to support doing the same job differently) and more streamlined rules. I don’t have to have more administrators than medical providers in hospital systems. They can focus on care instead of negotiating prices
Gnomon by Nick Harkaway is one of my favorite weird books. On its surface, it’s about a detective digging into a wrongful death at the hands of a state interrogator… but as it progresses, you realize things are not quite what they seem.
Wow what a throwback. Haven’t thought about Joey (or QC) in a long time. But scenes from that book stick in my brain decades later. One of my first real exposures to really different genderqueer experiences
It’s a sprawling western. More about the characters and the journey than anything else.
New kid Kalin March “steals” two horses and takes them on a journey through the Utah valley to release them. The owners of the horses are an affluent family who are more interested in power and its trappings than in the actual value of the horses. Kalin’s friend’s sister Landry is from the rival affluent family (they’d been feuding for over a hundred years) and she joins Kalin on the journey.
it’s not the weird meta fictional style novel like House of Leaves, which admittedly I have not read, but it is sprawling with a lot of characters and overlapping perspectives and retrospective comments on the events from years in the future.
The bigger risk is when they start asking you to make them a cup
This is my own bad take: I feel the same about ticket to ride. I do not want to count individual train cars to get my points or validate I did the route or that I have the longest train.
Me draw card. Me place car. You give score. That’s about as much as my caveman brain can handle
Two options for you:
NEOS (New England over shoes). Think of them as waterproof socks over your normal shoes / boots. I’ve worn mine over my leather moccasins house slippers. I’ve had my pair for over a decade in a cold / wet / northern climate and they’re beat up but still waterproof
XTRATUF rubber boots. Particularly if it’s not super cold. I have a pair that go to my knees for working in the mud and muck, but I used them while snow blowing last year and they were dry, grippy and warm
I’m about a quarter of the way through Tom’s Crossing by Mark Z. Danielewski. He’s the guy who did House of Leaves
It’s an updated take on the western genre (I love McMurty, McCarthy and Michener…) set in the 80s. Fantastic writing.
Last week I finished:
Did you try turning the faucet off first to stop the water from rising while you were working?
It’s also 180K for a 15-20 year refresh cycle. These are commercial units that are used in harsh environments… not a cabinet you buy once and it sits in your bedroom.
Add in wiring plus the install costs and $180K seems like a good deal