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> It seems so right from an Adam Smith invisible hand point of view: offer choice, allow people to shop around, and costs will go down, right?

> The US has already been running this experiment—the results are in, and it's a huge loser.

No, we've really not been running that experiment: we don't offer much choice, we don't really allow people to shop around, and most importantly, the vast majority of people aren't paying directly for their own care.

The U.S. most definitely does not have a free market in health care, and hasn't for decades.
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Not totally... They only say you'll see 'fewer' ads. I'm in a similar boat... I'd like to set my monthly amount and that amount be split up among my most used sites, because I do want to support them, but I'm going to continue using uBlock. The entire point is to get rid of ads in favor of something else.

What would rock is if uBlock or Adblock had a subscription service for exactly this.
That's such a weird case. IMO, the leap in rating is nothing more than critics finally catching up and understanding what they were doing. If the RAM master tapes got magically timetravelled back to 2006 they would have gotten the same middling ratings.

Conversely, I'd argue that the most disappointing album was also a product of critic quirks more than anything - they vastly overrated the mopey indie rock of The Antlers during the last years where that was fashionable.
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"It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer." Albert Einstein
Which is no doubt why companies want to switch from sales to rentals. If I rent you a toaster (or rent software, or rent an e-book), then there's no sale, and I can keep my interest.
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> Cancer and heart disease outcomes are the best proxy for how well a health care system operates.

Maybe for you. There are plenty of other fundamental measures of health care quality, like infant mortality rate.
the problem with transaction taxes is, if they are high, they reduce trading and liquidity. When you go to buy and sell stocks, or futures or govt bonds, what do you think is the process that keeps the difference between bid ( buy ) price and ask ( sell price ) relatively narrow ? it's the frequent trading process that does it
Some of those cheap USB foot pedal switches have a disturbingly custom software architecture. When I bought one off Amazon, it turned out to not even be HID - it needed special drivers and everything. Even the ones that are HID-compliant usually demand some custom software for initial setup ("which key do you want me to pretend to be?") that invariably only speaks windows. Which is annoying, because this really should be just a full-hardware solution that speaks USB HID and uses a set of DIP switches on the back for the desired scancode.
Atul Gawande's "Being Mortal" has a chapter or two on expectation gap, the realisation of how large it was made my stomach drop.

And do so once more when Gawande described how the expectation gap still existed when doctors become patient (both he and his father are doctors, after his father fell with cancer he first succumbed to the expectation gap as he was preparing a book on the subject).

It's a great, eye-opening book.

edit: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/health-science-techn... covers some of it
Sorry, I was wrong. It seem that they cannot start with a number but you can use a number in them so long as your class start with a valid character. I'm however worried at the use of the : character.

The style definition might be ignored in some browsers. Some other might break when they see an invalid character and stop parsing your styles.

That being said, most modern browser will be able to parse the CSS without you needing to escape any characters.
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> I was horrified at the "taylorism gone wild" in the article where one surgeon used twice the bandages as the other, and therefore is bad.

It didn't say that it was bad; it just noted it as a fact. Perhaps Dr. Jones's patients need more bandages because of the types of patient he sees (which might indicate that he's really good at what he does); perhaps his incisions are larger (which would be bad); perhaps he just wastes bandages (which is also bad). All measurements can do is demonstrate a difference: good management is required to discern the reason for the disparity, and determine if it's a positive or negative indicator.
That's a valid concern, actually, my last name is fairly rare, especially in the United States.
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For most people, "online" means "the web", so roughly two decades of online services (1975-95) have ceased to exist. This includes FidoNet, Usenet, Prestel, Teletel, CompuServe, AOL, Prodigy and too many others to mention.

Of those, only AOL still seems to have any mind-share, and that's probably because it eventually provided internet email and browser-based web connections.
There is simply not enough empirical evidence to support your assertions. Every time I've asked for evidence to support similar assertions, I've gotten nothing but vague anecdotes or historical examples that have been debunked.

This is unfortunate, because there are plenty of empirical studies showing the benefits and costs of patents (search ssrn.com for "patents" and focus on the studies that use economic data). The upshot is, to date nobody has been able to say the one outweighs the other largely because they are not directly comparable.
This is absolutely true. But the question is why are they stuck at that rudimentary level?

My wife is at the center of this. She recently left a job as "Director of Budget and Reimbursement", and now works as "Directory for Regulatory Affairs" for a healthcare financial consultancy. So she's been the one directly responsible for the way the hospital accounts for its costs (or fails to do so).

The primary problem, at least from her perspective, is that they're effectively forced to do it this way. Medicare, and Medicaid which largely rides on many of -care's definitional coattails, is a monopsony player in the market. When you hear people claim that Medicare is more efficient than conventional commercial insurance, that's significantly because they offload much of their administrative burden onto the healthcare providers. Every hospital has a department of several FTEs whose job it is to track a defined set of metrics, including various cost parameters, patient demographics, etc., and report them to the government (the so-called "Medicare Cost Report" that my wife and her department spent a month or so on every year). That is, getting paid by the source of the largest part of the hospital's revenue entails tracking and reporting the way Medicare wants you to do it.

So that right there forces hospitals into watching their costs according to a scheme effectively mandated by the government. Thus, they're not tracking the data in a way that would give relevant cost accounting data in the way you expect it.

There's your proximate cause. But it still begs the question, "why don't they also track costs in a rational fashion, actually reflecting reality?". Part of the answer is that their margins are so low that they simply can't afford a second set of accountants and the procedural overhead that it would require.

That's not a wholly satisfying answer, because hospitals are the only industry I'm aware of that still makes extensive use of secretaries. You'd think that if they need to be so conscious of costs, they'd be looking at the kind of personnel expenses that most of private industry has figured out how to streamline. Conversation with my wife hasn't yielded any insight beyond that.
>> As long as Arate + Brate > costs, they are fine with it.

I've been advocating that we require them to charge the same price for a given service to all patients regardless of insurance or anything else. To clarify, we should not dictate the price, just that one provider charge the same price to all its patients. I never would have thought they couldn't even figure out what those prices need to be.

Any business that doesn't even have a clue about these things is clearly rolling in dough and probably corruption.
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I've always wanted something like this as well. I saw an article a while ago where a guy had a Heroku app (i believe) and pointed his kindle browser to the app and was using it as a word processor. Latency wasn't too bad either.
It just uses the provided malloc & free implementations from the underlying C standard library.
Obligatory complaint about Blogspot breaking back-button functionality; cmd-[left arrow] does nothing, cmd-[right arrow] takes me to the next article.

Who thought this was a good idea?
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You can create more arrangements if you treat the bridge like two pieces, which it is.
I have always thought Daft Punk was an acquired taste. RAM was very much a 70's disco throwback, which probably threw a lot of their EDM fans for a loop.

I agree though, overall the album was not that good. They were all over the map on this one.
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"The problem with asking patients to shop based on price is that the penalty for making the wrong choice is much more devastating than with just about any other good or service."

Yet we do it with our sight when choosing laser surgery. I get the feeling that better institutions would win out and care would improve.

I think preventative care is a separate issue. The government, instead of passing that horrible bill (and yes, I read every page and cussed at every will be decided later line) could have just subsidized a yearly examination, 2 teeth cleanings, expanded health saving accounts, and attached a "disaster clause" to all insurance where the government picks up any cost for an incident over $100,000 (changes the cost of insurance by providing a cap).
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What if you moved somewhere with lower cancer rates in the first place?
If you turned the tables on your "free market" anecdote, what is the market value of that ER doctor or radiologist as a software developer? I'm not even sure how to account for emotions, I'm pretty dispassionate about unit testing frameworks, but if my daughter might be crippled for life I'm fairly certain I wouldn't be a rational market participant. Its highly likely that your trying to practice medicine without a license holds the same market value as a doc trying to be a software dev, that being somewhere between 0 and a modest negative number.

You could extend the analogy by taking printouts of the pricing plans for github(tm) and visual source safe(tm) and waving them in front of the er doc to ensure the er doc makes the wisest possible free market decision when selecting a source code repository. This is only a fair analogy if the ER doc knows absolutely nothing about software development other than if he gets the decision wrong his life will be ruined.

As a somewhat more neutral analogy, waving prices for github vs VSS in front of my mother quite frankly holds negative value for all participants, its a Potemkin show that merely wastes labor hours. Pretending to provide a market where none can possibly exist is wasting labor time putting on a show. My mom has some skill in real estate law so she should be making decisions in her area of expertise, and software professionals should be making decisions in their areas of expertise. My mom does not walk up to random people on the street and insist they make life changing decisions in minutes about the right legal strategy to provide clear title to real estate or WTF exactly she did before she retired, "well in that county a title search costs $X but title insurance and hoping for the best costs $Y unless we take it to court then it costs $Z..." etc.

See you can "make a market" in a campy going-thru-the-motions sense by having a semi-monopoly provider declaring an arbitrary list of prices on a chalkboard then calling that a free market. But making a functioning efficient market is a whole nother kettle of fish that requires a calm rational meeting of equal minds at a similar level of training and education to dispassionately trade interchangeable identical commodities, with the goal of all participants minimizing the spread between price and value. That's pretty much the opposite of good medical care.
Your best bet is probably going for a Banana Pi board - they come with SATA to attach SSDs to. It's a close contender to the RaPi, but the software support isn't 100% though.

I've got one myself as an attempted NAS device. It worked 'ok', wouldn't advise it as full-time thing though, these things don't provide the AC nor CPU power to perform such tasks.
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> Are we sure that there's a misunderstanding that death is a likely outcome

There isn't a misunderstanding that death is a likely outcome, there commonly is a misunderstanding of survival time. Gawande's book covers the subject of differing expectation between doctors and patients when discussing harsh treatment, patients think it'll give them months or years, doctors think weeks.

If that isn't explicitly put on the table — and it usually isn't — you can get drawn-out "medical fights" where the patient's quality of life is more or less negative.

See also: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/health-science-techn...
Ok the linked[0] blog post from Check Point has more details into whats actually happening.

[0] http://blog.checkpoint.com/2015/09/08/whatsapp-maliciouscard...
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The Vox article lists his name as Oliver Lee. From his bio at the bottom plus an Atlantic article [1], it appears his full name might be Oliver Lee Bateman, an assistant professor at the University of Texas at Arlington [2].

[1] http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2014/06/the-cas...

[2] https://www.linkedin.com/in/oliverleebateman
I contacted one of the founders. The will regroup and solve it hopefully https://twitter.com/briancunnie/status/641258677429628928
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It's my understanding that the larger the insurance company is the better able they are to negotiate lower prices for health care. I can see why doctors might be opposed to that.
How so? If your goal is to create a loop, the two pieces must be joined together.
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So I'd have less chance of getting cancer because I smoked less and rode bikes more, but if I did get cancer (and in the end nearly everyone in industrialized world dies of heart disease or cancer), I'll have a significantly lower chance of surviving?

And what about breast cancer? The US kicks major arse in this regard, and breast cancer rates are pretty steady across countries.
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I do the same when interviewing. I came across this technique when looking at a Body Language course hosted by Vanessa Van Edwards. Most of it was superfluous but I thought the parts around 'reading' the truth from non verbal clues was very interesting.
I don't think there's anything invalid about the colon character in a classname. It's unusual sure, and probably not recommended (it has to be escaped in selectors, for one, which is a bit of a pain) but if it causes any tools to break, I think that's the fault of the tool.
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"Hopefully HoTT, or something very much like it, will narrow the gap between what people know and what machines know."

Yeah I was actually thinking along the same lines.

There seems to currently be a major disconnect in abstraction ability between humans and any AI approach I'm aware of. Humans seem to have an apparently unlimited ability to move between levels of abstraction while algorithms seem tied to the specific abstractions used in designing them. Or in other words it seems like AI algorithms are always stuck in some particular box while humans can always expand their box, or even jump to another one entirely.

Unfortunately my knowledge of these fields (type theory, algebraic topology, etc.) is so limited that I have no real idea of how HoTT could help with this, beyond the vague notion that it might.
Ignore the down voting - this is not a high school, where you have to be popular ;)

I was also down voted in this thread, so what. We are not here to care for everyone's feeling and sing kumbaya.
This is how I would imagine the 'fierce shark' being programmed:

1) The "fierce" plugin is installed and immediately run. It is targeted on the shark sprite.

2) "Fierce" is an evolutionary algorithm. It will create several hundred generations of a shark, mutating the shark sprite in some small way. The shark's fitness is based on how 'scary' the shark is, and the 'scariness' of the shark is calculated based on a dataset compiled by children that rated how scary colored pictures were from a scale of 1 to 10. The evolutionary algorithm's goal is to maximize the fitness of the shark.

3) The final shark (with the highest fitness) is outputted to the user. It will look very similar to a normal shark, with some minor variations in color to increase the scariness of the shark.

What these people are doing is not impossible. However, the potential for so-called "leaky abstractions"[0] messing up the development process is very high. Programmers will likely be necessary, if only to ensure the abstractions are functioning well enough for non-programmers to use.

[0]http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/LeakyAbstractions.htm...
So sorry everyone. I just posted this and fell asleep immediately. It was on a $5 DO server. Scaling up now...
I think both parent and grand-parent just haven't seen Vice enough to get the full picture. While I'll grant the fact that some of their channels err on the side of fluff, I do consider the fact that they routinely send journalists to war areas (ISIS, Ukraine) and report from there, or other inhospitable places (e.g. North Korea, central Africa, the Amazon) a display of something more than just a "surface approach to journalism". Or clickbait trash :-)

Edit: Tried to make my comment less harsh.
Sure, but you still shouldn't blame plain text for Outlook's failures.
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Indeed, hindsight does tend to clarify things significantly.

Frankly, don't you think the better solution might have been to cue in on your doctor's hint that the additional testing wasn't needed?

Maybe costs would have clarified things. Maybe cost isn't a meaningful proxy for medical judgment.
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You do make a fair point and to be completely honest I think I was only really picturing the non-obtrusive CPM forms of advertising where a view is enough to get however many fractions of a penny it's worth rather than clicks. I guess in that sense really thinking about it I also believe ads are worthless too.. Just to clarify my post was not the best written at all, I've got no real problem with ad blockers and I do use one myself in a blacklist fashion for those really terrible ads that (in the case of my local newspaper's site) rip the page in half and really try to get in the way so you'll pay attention to them.

In the ideal world something like flattr would be the best model for current ad-based revenue sites, easily better would be selling something directly that people actually want as a service or product
I agree what you say should be true, but companies are trying to change the First-Sale Doctrine. Companies like John Deer say you are licensing the tech, not buying it, thus you do not own everything in the vehicle you 'bought'. Software companies have used this logic for years and it's beginning to bleed over into hardware. Companies want you to license things and do away with ownership. I'm on your side though, I believe in the First-Sale Doctrine and do not want to see it undermined, but there's a financial incentive for companies to do away with it and they will keep trying unless we make hard rulings in cases like this one against Lexmark. Look at what Nintendo tried to do with the resale market of their game discs and cartridges.
It's very easy to do actually, you just need one lock actually. It's called key impressioning, and basically you put a blank in a lock, look for the scratches on it, file it down a bit, rinse/repeat.
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Laser eye surgery is a completely elective procedure. It can't be compared at all to the non-elective procedures that contribute most to healthcare costs.
In short yes but the approach I've seen work is less 'science' and more about judgement calls when analysing micro expressions. Without the base-line, it's hard to work out what a normal reaction is and what could potentially be a tell.
I've never heard that album but looking it up, I never realised that Spock's Beard's drummer had a hand in it, and Ray Wilson. Wow, never knew that thanks!

I think I have a couple of Ray Wilson albums he brought out on the Inside Out label before it went bust in Germany - there was a rerecording of "Inside" on it but I can't remember any of the other songs because they start, introduce a verse and then end without any instrumental breaks, which I was hoping for...
Wouldn't infant mortality rates have a lot more to do with prenatal care in industrialized nations? I doubt more kids in the US are dying because of a lower standard of care and more likely because of more drug addicted/alcoholic/poorer nourished moms. Using infant mortality as a proxy in an industrialized nation is just hacking the stats.

If you don't think such things matter, then explain how Hispanic women on the west coast have both the lowest access to health care and also the lowest death rate from cancer? DNA? Diet? Low stress? Could be. But either way, their exceptionally low cancer rates don't reflect upon the US health care system.
In my opinion it is better since having the two classes allow you, amongst other things, to use advanced selectors.

Here is an horrible example from the top of my mind:

<nav class="menu">...</nav>

<div class="alert alert-<?php echo $alert-type; ?>">...</div>

.alert { border: 1px solid #ccc; } // Basic alert style

.alert-success { border-color: green; } // Success alert are green

.alert-warning { border-color: yellow; } // Warning alert are yellow

.alert-danger { border: 3px dashed red; } // Danger alert are red !!and have a bigger border!!

.menu { margin-bottom: 14px; } // The menu has a margin of 14px under it so nothing can get close

.menu + .alert { margin-top: -14px; } // Alert following the menu need to ignore the menu's margin

.menu + .alert-danger { margin-top: -16px; } // However, the borders of alert-danger are bigger than the regular alerts
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What kinds of installations do you use these in for clients? Automation? Communication? As a small server?

I have a RPi sitting here and I'm not sure what to do with it!
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I'm still trying to figure out what happened to them. I guess a multitude of bad things happening all the same time?

After Jason left, and St. Anger came out, I just checked out. At the time there were so many other great metal bands to see and hear which completely eclipsed them.
It's not "acrimonious", it's just wrong.

Liquidity keeps spreads narrow. Wide spreads are a tax paid by retail investors to a cabal of sell-side firms.
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The USA abandoned the Civil Service Exam in the 70s and it's mostly since that time the popular understanding has developed that government agencies are invariably slow, wasteful, and ineffectual.