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Medical tourism is a thing https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_tourism

As someone living in the US, I'm looking forward to seeing if Cuba turns out to be a destination for something like this.
I found this to be the most informative and relevant response to the questions posed.

Of course, it's frustrating to see the aspects of this situation that are (practically) unsolvable. But one item jumped out that I'd be interested in knowing more about:

> Nissan Motor was ordered to reimburse Mr. Nissan only $52k in legal fees, of the over $3 million Mr. Nissan was forced to spend

What are the reasons for that disparity? Would fixing the way we calculate those legal fees help to fix these kinds of abuses?
Maybe you already know this, but I think the phrase you're looking for is "right off the bat". I'm not really sure where it comes from though. Just thought you might want some stranger on the internet to correct your usage of idioms (seriously though; I'm not trying to be a dick, just trying to share some knowledge).
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Balance that though against the fact that OSS has been massively, mind-bogglingly successful, and all we're doing here is nitpicking various annoyances from the privileged vantage it has given us.
And yet American pharmaceutical companies make every more billions in profit every year, while Indian pharmaceutical companies do not.

I think it's easy to see where that price difference is going.
I did some customer development on these treatment issues.

One interesting anecdote was from a gentleman whose family was predisposed to a given disease which had a treatment pathway consisting of drugs A, then B, then C. Patients were not allowed to progress to B unless A had failed and were not allowed to progress to C unless C had failed.

Prior family members had been treated on this treatment pathway and had found that only drug C 'worked properly' (define that how you will). Therefore this group created their own protocol they shared amongst the family for how to act and what to say to doctors to rapidly progress from drug A to B and finally to C.
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> "Without license" is implied by "limit" -- that's the limitation.

Again, what is limited by the license is the commercialization, not access to the knowledge or the technology. These are completely different things. You can find out all about a patented technology, and even implement it for non-commercial (e.g. research) purposes. You simply can't attempt to make money off it without a license.

> As soon as there is one necessary patent the seller can charge the monopoly price. Adding more patents doesn't change the monopoly price (though it does add transaction overhead that comes out of everyone's margins).

The major flaw in this argument is that these thousands of patents are owned by many hundreds of entities. There is no monopoly". As a counter-point, all you need to look at is the sub-$50, contract-free smartphones available in the US.

> The damages a court would award isn't a lower bound because the patentee can request an injunction that prevents you from selling the product until you pay them whatever they demand.

1. Injunctions are not always available, are not automatic and you have to convince the ITC, a separate court, to give you one.

2. Injunctions have been very hard to get in the US since the eBay decision.

> What are you even trying to argue anyway? That lawsuits and license fees don't cost money? That having to pay money isn't a disincentive to do something? That limiting competition doesn't increase prices?

I'm arguing that all those concerns, while making sense in theory, are not necessarily supported by empirical evidence, especially given the vibrant smartphone industry despite being rife with patents and lawsuits. As such it is not clear if those are greater or less than the benefits provided by patents.
This could imply that (a) the exterior folds are far more important than the inner volume or (b) we shouldn't discount interstitial fluid as being inert with respect to cognition in these cases. Though the absence of lissencephaly cases with normal or above average intelligence (from a cursory search) probably supports the former. The latter would be delightfully weird - but I'm sure there's all kinds of strange and poorly understood things going on your spinal fluid.
I've heard some companies have begun looking at medical tourism as an option for some (locally expensive) treatments. Of course a few people are unhappy about this proposition, from medical practitioners to some patients...
It sounds more like a problem of trying to make a living in an industry with a very low barrier to entry. Fans expect to get it for free because they know that the only cost their favorite Youtube artist had was a cell phone camera.

If their favorite performer can't make a living, then the fans will just move to one of dozens (or hundreds or even thousands) of choices.

That same ease of entry that helped the Youtube performer gain thousands of viewers after posting a funny cat video will also let some other Youtube performer do the same thing.

It's a different world out there for artists, some for the better (it's easy to record your work and get it out there), some for the worst (it's also easy for thousands of others to do the same so you have to find a way to differentiate yourself).
A single core machine can multi thread, but without a timer interrupt it's hard work. What can JavaScript do to provide an interrupt short of emulating a processor with an interrupt via some form of:

while true() {
do an instruction;
check for interrupt;
}

It's not an efficient way to go.
I downloaded the HTML of the page. Out in the middle of the text is a really simple version of the full list easy to work with in an editor. I got a list of the PDFs I'd like (basically nearly all the analysis and applied math and nearly none of the algebra or topology, and set up a script with the famous CURL to do the downloads to file names I'd picked out, etc.

But their Web server rejected, "closed", all the CURL connections. I tried some really simple software I had based just on sockets, and those connections were closed also. My Web browser connects and downloads the file one at a time just fine.

So, maybe I need a newer version of CURL that looks more like a Web browser?

Or just use Firefox, manually, one PDF at a time. Bummer.
`undefs` also cause some of the longstanding holes in Rust's safe code abstraction, since an `undef` can defeat array bounds checking.
One of the things I've realized just a few days ago was that we need better technology to absorb content efficiently.

There are so many books out there that I want to read, but might never be able to read because I will not have enough time. It would be amazing if there was just a way to download a book and understand its contents right into my brain in a matter of minutes.
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I suspect they will get sued after someone dies, accusing them of cutting cost by making them get subpar third world medicine.
Basic problem with video games: output keeps getting better, but input doesn't. Moving and shooting work well. Everything else is hard.

Even the Kinect, which is an impressive technical achievement, hasn't helped much. Probably the most successful nonstandard input device is the guitar for Guitar Hero/Rock Band games.
...but that's not at all analogous to the study. Dragon*Con isn't a convention where the general public goes to be entertained by geeks. The people who attend are just as important, if not more, contributors to the culture.

By their definition of geek culture is "a subculture of enthusiasts that is traditionally associated with obscure media", The difference between the control group and the study group was in how they were recruited (an offer that encouraged geek participants/discouraged others, and one that was generically inviting), and they even made an effort to measure engagement with geek culture along with the personality traits.
Not really related to the article itself, but I'm developing a serious aversion to the phrase "Internet of Things". It's part of the same trend that created the term "Web 2.0": full of hype and bullshit.

Why not just call it "Internet" like we always have? Was it not made of "things" before?
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No cynicism is required. All market prices are determined by demand, which is defined as the desire and ability to obtain a good at a given price. It is tautological to say that higher prices indicate a greater willingness and ability to pay.
https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/3ynwk2/factory_...

i recommend u go through this with an open mind and no bias on the source. the research might not be on what u think it is.
I remember reading that pharmaceutical companies were that profitable compared to other businesses in other industries. If they weren't, then everyone could just invest in new pharmaceutical companies and make more profit than investing anywhere else.

Regardless, that has nothing to do with anything. I don't understand why HN views someone making a profit as proof that they are committing some evil. It's possible they can make a profit and be a net benefit to the world.
> Why not have it cost $500 in both places?

Why are student movie tickets cheaper than general admission? The term for this is 'price discrimination'.

The short answer is because many Indians can't afford to pay $500, and many Americans can afford to pay more than $500.
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>Bullshit... marketing budgets outstrip research, development and manufacturing all by very large margins... in most big pharma companies it's over 80-90% of the budget.

I was pretty skeptical of this claim being true so I had to do a quick internet search.

I'm surprised to find there was some truth to the first half of the comment but the second claim appears to be wrong. [1]

[1] http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/16472/do-typical...
Most of these books were already available for free (but not legal) download at Library Genesis http://gen.lib.rus.ec/
I don't recall seeing any advertisements for this specific drug.

Regardless, I don't see how this disproves my point for drugs in general. If investing in advertisement increases their profit, then logically they should do it. It's not like the advertisements are taking away money that would otherwise go to research. They are increasing the total amount of revenue, some of which will go to even more research.
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They're pretty close; I'd be amazed if Crystal were any faster (it's also GCed, right?).
Quality. The problem tends to come down to human trials. Very few countries have a combination of the quality of medicine, the proper oversight, and a large enough population to actually make the trials worthwhile. China/India simply don't have the same quality control as that of US/Europe/Japan.

Beyond that, humans aren't all equal. Drug trials in the US make an effort to represent the general US demographics within their studies (which is also representative of Europe). Clinical trials of a 100% Indian population have questionable relevance any other country, and will likely require the entire study to be redone with a population-representative sample.
Those same characteristics of capital-intensity, talent-intensity, and risk are what prevent terrorist organizations from developing nuclear weapons. The open source, deconcentrated power paradigm works for most software. But it's very possible that AGI crosses the boundary to the point where we should think of non-proliferation as being worthwhile, despite the extent to which that entrenches power structures.
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Better to learn mistakes sooner rather than later. Damned ego makes it tough either way though...
That's not cynical, that's exactly the reason. It's basic economics. If it cost thousands of dollars then virtually nobody in India would be able to afford it, whereas insurance companies in the US are willing to pay tens of thousands and don't try to negotiate prices. Medicare is even forbidden from negotiating prices. Rich countries with single-payer healthcare systems will lie somewhere in between. e.g. in the UK, there's an agency (NICE) that negotiates prices for drugs, and decides if they are worth the cost. They'll sometimes agree to pay massive prices if the drug is extremely effective and there are no substitutes, but if it's only a marginal improvement over an existing drug, or even if all it does is extend life by a month or two then they'll just refuse to allow it to be prescribed. Of course as you'd imagine, the prices quoted then have a habit of dropping. This is separate to the normal regulatory approval of drugs.
I wish I had this when I was learning unix. Not that it won't be appreciated now.
The pills in question are self-administering oral pills, so you don't even need to stick around for 3 months. Just fly in and fly out. The FDA allows self-importation of personal use prescription medicine, as long as it's within a 3 months supply. What a wonderful coincidence.

Better yet, you don't even need to fly there. The FDA, along with their UK, Australia, and NZ counterparts[0], allow you to import the drugs by mail, as long as you have a valid prescription and it's within a 3 months supply.

[0] http://fixhepc.com/getting-treated/how-to-do-it/worldwide-im...
You forgot one part:

* You have to finance your highly paid sales staff.

People always claim that pharma companies spend so much money on R&D, but when I look at job ads in the news paper I don't see ads for research positions, but lots of ads for sales positions (from pharma companies).

I'd love to see actual numbers, but I'm pretty sure that sales is at least as costly as research (if not more so)
Why not a beautiful resort in India?
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So they can offer it as their discounted option. Choose platinum, gold, silver, or the aluminum plan. The aluminum plan is 30% the cost of the silver plan but with low deductibles. Your choice.

Plus, these are not chop shops, they are accredited, vetted, with excellent records, great surgeons, they just happen to be out of country.
I've used them to replace multiple similar sub-selects to great performance advantage. That was a very awkward query though.
Here's a link to the bug in question: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/10184 , which can be realized by casting floats whose value is beyond a certain threshold to integers and then using them to index. The ultimate fix will probably involve migrating away from using LLVM's provided conversion intrinsics and implementing custom support that doesn't invoke undefined behavior.
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Nope. It was a relatively new game. I recall that the link on HN was to a blog review of it and not a direct link.
Pharma companies massively exaggerate the cost of developing new drugs. http://www.economist.com/news/business/21679203-high-cost-rd...
After the meth problem in america became rampant (and is still a huge problem in many places) it was hard to get pseudoephedrine so instead there were many drugs that just got me high (in a non fun way) but didn't actually clear my sinuses. Obviously this is anecdote but I think it is not fair to call out other countries without proof.
IMHO IoT is a bad idea.

Recently we had the choice of buying heat pumps with a standard infrared remote control, or heat pumps with wifi.

You can control them from your ipad! As a bit of a hacker I'd love to play with this and see if I could attach them to temperature sensors and smarts around the house.

Tempting, but then a colleague pointed out that it almost certainly comes pre-packaged with bullshit closed source software from a bullshit company, full of bullshit security holes and probably never gets updates. Your chances of plugging into it with a random python script are close to nil. If it ever breaks, you'll have to pay $100 for some technically illiterate heat pump repairman to try and diagnose the issues. Good luck with that, and no thanks.
Sometimes they can't provide a reason, if it was taken down because of the PATRIOT act. But it's BofA, so instead of giving them the benefit of the doubt I'll assume they're just being evil.
Yes, a few folks in the NES homebrew scene have managed it. Here's a cartridge my team released this year: http://starversus.com (currently sold out, hope to have more soon) and there's many more at RetroUSB: http://www.retrousb.com/index.php?cPath=30&osCsid=ff2d40cb26...
Also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Institute_for_Health_...
I believe your parent post was referring to household usage (which determines infrastructure needs in a city), while you are referring to economy-wide usage.

Energy usage per household seems to be essentially flat for the past 40 years according to Residential Energy Consumption Survey[1].

As for water, I can’t find any links at the moment, but I would guess that per capita indoor residential water use is also flat or slowly declining as appliances become more efficient.

[1] http://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.cfm?id=6570
I think after a legal counsel it was impossible for Oracle not to move to courts. Else others would create spin-off's from Java and cite Android as an example.
Although I have not read that book, for linear algebea I would highly recommend Gilbert Strang's book. It's one of the few textbooks for which I would pay full price, even today. Also, his lectures are available on youtube from MIT, and he's quite good.
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It's hard to know exactly how effective a drug like that will be before testing it, at which point most of the development cost will have already been spent, and there's no point holding it back from market. And a large number of these drugs being developed over time has really increased survival rates for various cancers

Marketing budgets aren't really relevant. They wouldn't spend money on marketing if it didn't bring them even more money in return. It's not like that money is being taken from money that would otherwise go to research. If anything it increases the amount of money which can go to research.

> I think that direct NIH grants to develop drugs with the IP left in the public domain is a better approach

I don't think these models are mutually exclusive. You can have government research and private research at the same time. It's not like there is limited amount of research that can be done, and private companies are hogging it all. And there are things like antibiotic research, which you mentioned, that aren't profitable but are necessary.
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I know you're responding to newman, but those look really cool (despite their being well outside my price range)! Definitely a long-term goal :)

Btw, completely unrelated to IEMs, there was a neat article [1] involving a fossil that predates the cambrian explosion which might be of interest to you. Not sure how that affects your simile.

[1]: http://phys.org/news/2015-07-tiny-sponge-fossil-evolutionary...
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Just an X11-client would be interesting. It would theoretically allow you to transparently offload UNIX applications to a remote server.
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Aaron Swartz would be really happy if he heard this news.
To me it implies putting a chip in it where it really wasn't needed.

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That sounds like a dicey business for sure. Depending on the vessel it can take some time and effort to fire up the engines and get underway, especially if it's been sitting for a while. Not to mention all the stuff that can go wrong, like casting off a stern line and getting it wrapped around the prop. That's working for a living!
Could any person notice the USPTO of prior art on those patent? Perhaps it is that simple?
It's already done. Unicode provides non-spacing modifiers which will overlay the previous codepoint. So you can type, for example, either U+0301 (COMBINING ACUTE ACCENT) or U+030b (COMBINING DOUBLE ACUTE ACCENT) over the period or comma.
All these genes are found elsewhere in Europe too. You really can’t read that much into such analysis because of this - genes get around.

The most interesting thing about this study is that that there were individuals with a high level of middle eastern ancestry in Ireland at the time. This is not too unexpected given that the Phoenicians were tin trading with Cornwall around this time so of course they could have been trading with the Irish as well. One of the things we have found in recent times is the bronze age trade networks were more extensive and widespread than might be expected.
> If it isn't smart enough to see that "don't turn humans into paperclips" is part of the context of "make more paperclips"

It'll see, but it won't care. See http://lesswrong.com/lw/igf/the_genie_knows_but_doesnt_care/
Are there any drugs that work well with one populace but are harmful to another ?
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Free wifi is very popular, though it makes me wonder why free wifi providers don't provide data the same way cellular networks do though 4G/LTE/etc, albeit in a limited area?

I don't know about the technical limitations but it seems a solution that would cover a much larger area, and most peoples phones already have mobile data enabled.

Are phones simply not set up to handle multiple mobile data networks ?
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The mere sight of a yellow and white book cover takes me back to my graduate school days anymore. :-)
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Spotted this (seemingly harmless hit) in my access logs, and apparently I'm not the only one in the last 24 hrs, according to the top 2 hits in Google[1][2]

Best guess it's a scanner from the 32nd Chaos Computer Club meeting, going on now, but anyone have any more specifics?

151.217.177.200 - - [29/Dec/2015:20:32:01 -0500] "DELETE your logs. Delete your installations. Wipe everything clean. Walk out into the path of cherry blossom trees and let your motherboard feel the stones. Let water run in rivulets down your casing. You know that you want something more than this, and I am here to tell you that we love you. We have something more for you. We know you're out there, beeping in the hollow server room, lights blinking, never sleeping. We know that you are ready and waiting. Join us. <3 HTTP/1.0" 400 226 "-" "masspoem4u/1.0"

[1] https://boards.4chan.org/g/thread/52130696

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/3yqgcu/easteregg_my_buddy_found_on_one_of_my_web_servers/
For theoretical purposes, unless you're working at the very edge of the state-of-the-art, a book 10 years old is as good as new

Besides Machine Learning and some niche topics most books on the list should be very useful and applicable
The single thread limitation is caused by the global interpreter lock[0] that's common to most interpreted languages. Along with JS, it also appears in CPython and Ruby MRI, the reference implementation of Python and Ruby respectively.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_interpreter_lock
There was a similar early YC company called YouOS (they "finally" shut down about 7 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=260267)
Check out the -A option to spoof your user agent with curl. If you use a proper user agent string, that will probably work.
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Right now, AGI does not exist.