American is outraged that she has to spend $6,000 on healthcare costs for her deductible before her insurance pays anything, despite paying every month for full health insurance This is a scam “I'm sorry. What's the point of health insurance if you have to pay full price until you meet a deductible? My deductible is $6,000. I have to spend $6,000 in medical expenses before everything is taken care of. And there's no co pays, but yet I pay for that insurance. I pay $350 a month for that insurance” “What? I'm sorry. Make that make sense. That makes absolutely no sense in my head. I have to pay full price for all medical expenses, which every year I'm not going to spend. $6,000.”

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I support a $30 minimum wage. But let’s stop pretending there aren’t serious consequences that need to be addressed. If Target pays $30 an hour before small businesses can… workers will leave small businesses. If minimum wage becomes $30… why would anyone take a stressful public service job making $27? If skilled labor tops out at $40… what exactly are we saying responsibility is worth? Raising the minimum wage without raising skilled labor wages creates wage compression. That means the system collapses from the middle. So yes — raise the floor. But if the floor rises, the entire structure must rise with it. City workers. Transit workers. Public servants. Skilled labor. And small businesses better not get left behind. Because raising the minimum wage is not the full solution. It’s only the beginning of the conversation. #mta #ny #nyc #fyp

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I've said this before and I'll say it again: Software engineering is not going anywhere as a profession. I have been in technology consulting for decades, and I led the development team for an early SaaS startup which had a successful exit. First: Anyone who has been part of a development team knows that the demand for new applications and features NEVER ends. It generally keeps getting bigger. Once you finish a task, three take its place. As more people use your software, more requests come in to make it better. If it ever reaches full maturity, chances are that's around the time they start looking at replacing that "legacy" code with something more modern. Any productivity gains are immediately absorbed, and may even raise the expectations of the users on what they can ask for, because now it doesn't take as long or cost as much to change the software. Second: The most difficult part of software development is gathering and specifying how the system should behave. For any system with lots of users, this means having conversations with PEOPLE. Asking follow up questions. Asking what if questions that the users didn't think of. Questioning whether what they are asking for makes sense. Explaining why something can't be done, or should be done differently. Computers (and LLMs) are not good at this. They are great at doing what you tell it to do, but not at noticing the dog not barking. People who develop these skills are much better at it, because a lot of it is intuition about what questions to ask. Once the new system or new feature is fully specified and agreed on, the actual coding is much easier. It's just translating those requirements into code. But there is another part of that which the best software engineers are still better at than any LLM: Designing complex architectures. I have given a long list of requirements to my development team, but only one of them could design the architecture that tied it all together. It was amazing to watch him think. He clearly had a model of the entire system IN HIS HEAD, and could envision each part and all the relationships. His architecture was a work of art. And even so, at a certain point our system hit a performance wall and we had to re-architect the entire system from scratch to make it scale. And he knew the system so well and what was causing the bottlenecks, that he knew what needed to happen. These types of skills are the future of software engineering. Because they are not just a science, they are an art form. They are creative. They require advanced abstract thinking. Agentic AI coding can help, especially with the repetitive, tedious, easy parts of coding. But they cannot replace the requirements analyst or the software architect roles. What has changed is that the cost to produce value with software has gone down. And that means things that used to be not worth doing are now worth doing. And that means demand for software engineering has gone up.

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EXCLUSIVE: Sean Duffy will announce expedited plans to build a nuclear reactor on the moon, his first major action as interim NASA administrator. ow.ly/AWEI50WzIwL