@dyasny said in Top Ten Happiest Places on Earth in 2019:

@Mike-Davis said in Top Ten Happiest Places on Earth in 2019:

I like the Dutch system of health care vouchers. It gives everyone coverage, but is competitive because private companies compete for the voucher money.

It's like that in Israel - there are several private companies competing for customers, each has hospitals and clinics and whatnot. They aren't paid by the customers though, but by the portion of health taxes collected, relevant to their portion of the overall taxpaying population. If they want people subscribing to them, they have to provide good service, so there's healthy competition, and yet as a patient, I'm not paying any premiums, it's all in the tax. The only problem is, in Israel the taxes are insanely high (I was paying 56%) and could be much lower, but the system itself seems to work very well

Clearly it doesn't though - taxes are to high - likely due to corruption.

@Nic said in Top Ten Happiest Places on Earth in 2019:

Doesn't matter how much or how little you pay in taxes when a major medical problem will guarantee you go bankrupt in the US. All that money you saved on taxes goes out the window, plus your house, your truck, and your savings.

I know Scott believes in the public healthcare solution - I just have a hard time paying for everyone else's lack of giving a shit about their health that leads to huge health care costs. if we could hold people accountable for their expenses (not counting things like accidents against them) I think that would make me 'feel' better.

I see the value in some public services - law enforcement/roads/national defense, but I still have a hard time seeing public healthcare as a public good.

I suppose if there is proof that public healthcare raises the quality of life of it's citizens more than it costs those citizen, that would go a long way to convincing me.

@JaredBusch said in Top Ten Happiest Places on Earth in 2019:

@Mike-Davis said in Top Ten Happiest Places on Earth in 2019:

I like the Dutch system of health care vouchers. It gives everyone coverage, but is competitive because private companies compete for the voucher money.

I may be too American, but I refuse to believe that privatized healthcare can ever actually be valid.

help me understand what you mean. America is basically all private healthcare - not saying that it's valid though.

@dyasny said in Top Ten Happiest Places on Earth in 2019:

• Free-ish medicare

You know this doesn't exist anywhere - right? If it's free - it's paid by taxes.. Now that said - I have no clue what the actual typical tax rate is in Europe say compared to the USA ( I know that my tax rate between state and Fed is around 17% - that doesn't seem right, but this is based on my actual pay, not the post standard deductions pay, which would clearly be much higher.

@scottalanmiller said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@dafyre said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

I mean VDI faces the same challenges.

No, hosted desktops over the WAN face those challenges. VDI does not. VDI doesn't imply a WAN connection.

This is an "all WAN" concept. But fundamentally.... why?

so you can play 'awesome' games on your phone.

@scottalanmiller said in Needs suggestion on email server/ control panel for Ubuntu to run erp, web n emails.:

@openit said in Needs suggestion on email server/ control panel for Ubuntu to run erp, web n emails.:

what if we run email server as well in pack and above are suggestions.

Does the company not have email at all yet? This is business email for actual workers?

This was kinda where I was going with my Email question - i.e. is this a greenfield company? never had email?

Are you looking for an email solution for your company as a whole? or just something for the ERP system to use?

@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:

A dev trained robots to generate “garbage” slot machine games—and made $50K

In 2013, duo walked away from a game-jam experiment, discovered it was up to $200/week.

This year's Game Developers Conference saw two game makers emerge with a possible chapter in a future dystopian sci-fi novel: the story of making money by letting robots do the work. In their case, that work was the procedural generation of smartphone games.

Interesting

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

ATP is "agentless", which means they define ATP as the cloud portion that can't "come to" macOS or whatever. So what we saw in the article has to be Defender, not ATP, or else that have to redefine what ATP is.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsforbusiness/windows-atp

I think it's more of a suite - a local client which also works with the cloud for the bulk of it's AI smarts.

I'm 99% sure this will not be free in any way for the mac.

@IRJ said in AV - should companies keep buying it?:

@Dashrender said in AV - should companies keep buying it?:

@scottalanmiller said in AV - should companies keep buying it?:

@Dashrender said in AV - should companies keep buying it?:

Well then - I guess most of the world is idiots

That should fall into the "well duh" category. Of course most of the world is idiots.

Along this line - the boss wants me to add to my duties - I now get to train our users on how to use a computer as well as how to be security minded. i.e. don't plug in random USB sticks into a computer, etc.

You aren't blocking USB drives today?

nope.
That was just one example.

Then there is the need to still use DVDs around here - that one I couldn't block.