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> I meant the returns to becoming a doctor, not general medical practice returns. (Was that not clear? The very next sentence, after I mentioned the monopoly, referred to the returns to becoming a doctor.)

I did my best to make it clear that these two things are intricately linked.

> If not, then you probably misunderstood the argument. Medicare doesn't somehow lower the return to becoming a doctor.

Medicare absolutely does lower the returns to becoming a doctor, just as any monopsony lowers the returns for suppliers in that market.

> The relevant buyer would be the passengers or the employers of doctors, neither of which is a monopsony

Until very recently (the last 2-5 years), the majority of doctors were self-employed, meaning that insurers were the direct purchasers of their services. And because of both its size and also various laws, Medicare has monopsony power in the insurance market. The recent employment of physicians by hospital groups doesn't really change those economic forces; it simply adds an extra layer of indirection when resolving them.

> you have not provided substantiation to address the point (that lucrative businesses can't be bottlenecked by subsidy caps), and at this point I don't think you understand the criticism, but prefer instead to dismiss any clarification of the relevant dynamics with "oh that's regulated"

I've stated pretty clearly that medical practice is not a particularly lucrative business (hence why private practices have been going bankrupt and being bought out by hospitals and insurers, and why so many hospitals have negative gross profit margins). That's not a 'dismissal' of your criticism; it's a refutation of the underlying premise.

> I request that you stop propagating your argument (and dismissing critics as having a "misconception") until you understand these criticisms better.

I could request that you stop dismissing me as 'misunderstand[ing] the argument' until you understand what I'm saying better.

Admittedly, this is a complex topic requiring both a detailed understanding of the ontology of the health insurance industry and a firm grasp of some economics concepts that are usually only covered at the graduate level. Most HN readers, understandably, have neither of these. I happen to have domain knowledge about both of these, and sometimes I share pieces of it in HN comments where relevant, and when I think it might be appreciated.

Neither one of these is particularly easy to convey in only a few hundred words, which is the amount of text I have written today on the topic. Sometimes I succeed, and sometimes I don't. Perhaps I have not succeeded in this particular instance. Perhaps I could if I spent more time, or elaborated more, I could convey these points better, and maybe then we could come to an agreement. But that's the amount of time and energy I have to spend today writing HN comments on the matter.
Why do you suppose your legs went from 60% to 2% so rapidly? Do you think your muscle really depleted in function that quickly, or did your brain cut off the electrical signals to the leg in order to protect it from permanent damage?

But you're correct in that there is more to it. Adrenaline masks fatigue. It allows you to temporarily exceed what your brain would normally allow you to do in order to save your life. You pay for it later, though.
You got that precisely backwards, heh.

During the X-Prize launches, I observed that what Burt Rutan had done was to build himself an X-15, and then build himself a B-52 to launch it.
Correct on all counts. Turning those remaining Saturn Vs into lawn ornaments was criminal.
Best I've found is winsplit revolution: http://winsplit-revolution.en.softonic.com/

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Exactly. The company I worked for was a huge customer support company that developed the firmware that went on most of the modems that rural internet companies used. Some of the smaller companies paid on per a call resolution basis. The other's just had large contracts for us to help them no matter how many calls we got. It was a major problem when customers called in for simple questions that were outside of what we were paid to answer. Nothing worse than turning down/playing dumb a super easy question because it is against your policies to help people. It led to some really interesting problems, where you couldn't tell the customer that you can't answer that question, but the customer was confused as why you couldn't answer it, thinking that you were dumb, and asking for the next level of support or something. It also made for some really odd tickets. "Couldn't help customer because question was outside scope of responsibility.(question goes here) Customer got angry, tried to calm customer down. Customer wanted to speak to supervisor. Transferred to supervisor Billy Bob."

I would later check those tickets and supervisors would just refer the customer to the customer support of the actual internet company. FFS how frustrating would that be. Call the tech support number 24/7. Then speak to a supervisor, who send you to a customer support for the local company, who pays you to solve peoples problems. It was one of the most confusing jobs on the planet.

Another side note, they rolled out a call center check list/call flow application that was developed in house. They required us to use it. I was one of the few who refused to do so. My supervisor came around and asked me what the issue was. I showed him all the problems it had and how it drastically slowed down and erased notes if the customer mislead you down the wrong path and you found out later it was a completely different issue, which happened all the time. (They literally developed this software without having a single person who answers calls on the team, not a single person...)

Supervisor said can you write it all down so I can give it to the tech department. I sat there that night(was on night shift this particular night) and wrote up a javascript(notepad) example version on my local machine that was probably 5x better than theirs. I didn't think they would understand what I was saying.

My supervisor flipped out and introduced me to the tech team, who now also hated me because I literally did what took them 4 months in a night while taking calls. Man I could go on and on about how bad tech companies and customer service companies are.

About a week later they hacked my javascript into their version of the app and rolled it out. My supervisor eventually left due to frustrations of how they ran things. He had no other skills and left a 65K a year job to do manual labor for half the amount per year. He was probably the best supervisor there. I think this is probably another reason customer service industry sucks. Good people don't like doing bad jobs.
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I believe that the apotheosis of human achievement was likely around 1974 or thereabouts.

The rest is just incrementalism which is more than cancelled out by serious backsliding all the way around.
The algorithms used to make musical recommendations do statistical analysis on numerical ratings given by different people to different songs. They typically know nothing about music, as musical knowledge is understood not to improve their results. I wouldn't call them AI - they're neither knowledge-based systems nor neural networks.
Thank you for posting! The work you put out is incredible. I was actually showing an intern the webgl viz last week.
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I subscribe to netflix once a year and binge watch all my favorite shows during the holidays. I tried staying subscribed to them, but their UI is so bad I never know what is new and what isn't. Why can't they have a list of newly added shows that isn't a huge picture. I don't enjoy horizontal scrolling.
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Funny as this is names are unique identifiers. There are certainly individual names that probably correspond to hundreds of individuals.
That's what everyone seems to say about the UK.
"Essentially free" isn't free at large enough scale.
People talk about this topic around the world. HN is just a small place.
It always bugged me EVERY time ANYONE every used the term "Information Superhighway" -- and still does.

Marketing people make me want to puke -- that's where terminology like that comes from. Just call it the internet and be done with it already!

Oh, and get off my lawn! xD
Wow. I was trying to be balanced about it. I didn't read the comments ( mea culpa ).

I generally read Sumner first. But I've caught that criticism of market monetarism from other sources. Now I wonder if it's valid.

I was talking about two things - nGDP and a 4% inflation target.

I wish we were talking about a 4% inflation target, although after watching the Yellen grilling a coupe of Mondays ago I wonder of we can even do that.
Why can't we ask people to give up their identity? Let's consider the possibility that arbitrary linguistic (and other tribal) divisions are harmful. Consider the possibility that giving the political sphere more levers to pull to manipulate us is not a good thing.

In much the same way, consider the step backwards we've taken in messaging. We had a lingua franca - XMPP. We gave it up so that various powerful actors (google, facebook) could lock us into their unintelligible dialect.

Was this a good thing?
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That's true haha. It rains a fair amount but it's definitely over exaggerated.
http://i.imgur.com/u69Qd6Y.png

Yellow dot is where we are right now, as you can see we are entering one of the black lines.

6 blue dots represent the known mass extinctions, they all lie on black lines.

5 orange dots represent proposed new mass extinction events proposed in the paper.
I understand it, it's just that I have to pick at it a while before I do again. Y'know what, though? I don't often have to look at it again.
This is dramatically overstated. It immediately predicts that British television would have no audience in the US and Australia.
The 'auto' in autopilot means automatic or autonomous.
"Your assumptions as to my familiarity or otherwise with Eno's works place you on the rather precarious precipice of a domain in which I am and insist privileged expertise of obvious nature."

That is one poorly formed run-on sentence. What does that even mean? That's sounds as though it came out of a babble generator. Is that an AI joke?

"You've also focused on the irrelevant element of my argument, though if anything, you're also undercutting your own criticism of me."

Really? So your inaccuracy is irrelevant? How convenient for you. And no I've not focused on that, I focused on elitism and now some strange sense of entitlement you seem to reserve for yourself.

Sorry I don't give a toss about your brand of pop-econmics? You should get over yourself. I am not alone in this view either:

"We and others have noted a discouraging tendency in the Freakonomics body of work to present speculative or even erroneous claims with an air of certainty."

Source:
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/pub/freakonomics-wha...

The fact that you're all bent out of shape over content on the Edge and yet you support your infallibility by citing a pop entertainment show on NPR is kind of laughable.
Yes, exactly. It is even pretty easy to find blogs from a gamut of different perspectives and aggregate them yourself. I don't know why anyone would get news from the likes of Facebook.
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I don't think (s)he has a 15 h/w job, they just work 15 hours per week. When you work for yourself you can do this. It takes some time to figure out what works but 15 h/w at $100/hr is ~$6,000/month.

If you do good work and find clients that are willing to work on retainer, it's not that hard. Lots of companies are willing to pay a decent amount to keep someone around that is responsible and does good work.

Also, if you work for yourself, you have to check the salary mentality at the door. You have to start with, "what do i need to make per month to live comfortably" instead of, "Developers usually make $100k a year, so I need to make that".
I don't know why I keep seeing this comment on HN, but Google has good support for all paid products.
It's crazy isn't it. Did your higher-ups think he was doing a better job because he was working more on calls all day, where you were off them quick? In my job as soon as you got off a call you got right back on another one with a new customer. So I would have like 2-3x the calls per day of another person. I think that is one of the reasons the other people took so long, they figured whats the point, this person is nice and old I will just stay with them over getting a rude person. Who knows the logic behind it all. I tell you what though, I have some incredible stories that I will never forget. Some insanely funny customers and some hilarious co-workers.

When I first got to my job I had quick call times right away. Several supervisors told me they were going to listen to all my calls because they thought I was just hanging up on people. After they listened to them all, they told me to slow down and take more time. I was like, but I am rewarded for doing a better job and having faster call times. Literally that is how bonuses are given. WTF... None of my customers ever said "slow down please to me." I think they didn't want to pay me more for doing a good job. I just needed to do average so I met their agreement numbers with the internet company.
They have pseudo-bones (basically just cartilage with minor mineralisation). These “bones” are nothing like they were like 40 years ago. This cartilage is of course tough, but try cracking a wishbone of a modern meat chicken - it just bends rather than snaps.

Interestingly the growth rate of modern meat chickens is limited to bone mineralisation rate. If you breed a chicken with faster growth rates (which you can do) they end up with broken legs as the bone can’t support the weight of the bird [1].

1. http://japr.oxfordjournals.org/content/16/1/138.full.pdf
You're right, Tesla mistakenly believed they could cash in on calling their system Autopilot™ and somehow sidestep the connotations with the name and the damage pushing a broken implementation on consumers is causing.

The unfortunate truth is, if I gave my mom a car with the autopilot feature, she'd end up eventually trusting it and not care about the implementation details that make Tesla's system not an automated driving feature. That's scary and dangerous to market to consumers.
When we look at the baby-in-a-birth-canal problem, you can obviously go two ways: smaller baby head (and torso) or wider birth canal.
Apparently Neanderthals had wider pelvis _and_ larger heads/brains. So they kind of picked the #2 route.
It makes me think of watching Zoom on PBS as a little kid. Ask your parents before going online!
I am aware that this is a troll comment (I hope), and that it is not in any way meant to refute the GP or earlier comments.

That said, the parent post was merely demonstrating that "morally right" or "best human rights" record is completely subjective.

In a democratic system, your notion of "right" and "wrong" is nonsensical and incorrect if it does not align with the majority, regardless of how "evil" or horrifying this may seem.

You either have democracy or you don't.
If you're interested in the dead end of space planes, Tom Wolfe's "The Right Stuff" covers how the program lost out to the Mercury system.
This is a easily repeatable failure.

Camera looks up from bumper, see a overhead sign, continues on.

Later it looks up from the bumper, and a trailer is down about the same area, continues on.

Nope... Need radar. Give me a break.
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> I have yet to come across any concept in any human language that can’t be expressed in English.

And all turing-complete programming languages are technically equivalent; what's your point?
My financial advisor was a friend (he suffered an undiagnosed heart attack a little over a year ago). I trusted him, with skepticism given his profession, but I was never really sure if I was getting the best advice.

- The advice for college financing in colorado is great assuming laws don't change in the next 15 years. You can move money between one account and a college account for a few days before cashing it out.

- The rest of our money is scattered between a number of funds I've never heard of.

I still think the best advice I've ignored is from my brother's FIL: put your money in a vanguard fund and forget about it;
It's interesting that the most likely explanation, that these CEOs are simply virtue-signaling to their bureaucratic masters in order to win favorable regulatory treatment, wasn't on the survey.
Dr. Noakes, the author of this paper, wrote the "Lore of Running", which may be descibed as the bible on running science:

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For precisely that reason. Loans aren't dischargeable via bankruptcy, but the lenders still want their money if the primary loan holder can't or won't pay. It's some insurance that they'll get their money back, especially when lending to people with no credit (like 18 year old college students).
Raw chicken bones are "chewy" and not brittle. Its cooked/dried bones that you shouldn't feed to dogs.
There's no way you could actually do this. Going an hour on a normal day you'd have a life time of material to learn so I agree yes it is madness. You can't learn thousands of years of engineering, math, science, etc.
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you mean the World Wide Web right? The internet is just the backbone.
The os.path is not a great example, but imagine a loop where inside the body you mutate some state of an instance and then directly access it. Compare the following with the os.path example:

for animal in circus.animals:
circus.next_free_clown.assign(animal)
# circus.next_free_clown changes in every iteration
Its not very many. My own package gets way more traffic than that months after I pulled out of NPM.

https://www.npmjs.com/package/prettydiff
Yes, I get this a lot as well.

My email is <first initial><last name>@... and another, actually multiple people, with the same first initial and last name, but different first name appear to be confused.

I receive real estate related emails for one person and credit card statements for another. I have attempted to report this to the CC company, but they require me to log in (to this user's account which I don't own with a company I don't have my own CC with) in order to create a ticket. It's been going on for over a year but I've been unable to get them to stop sending them to me. I guess they never considered this use case.

In first-time cases I often reply when it involves a third party to kindly let them know. I also filter aggressively.

That said, it seems too obvious a person could not know their own email address these days. Sometimes I wonder if these are stealthily designed target attacks of social engineering. One reason I never click the links.
As Tesla's sales mix shifts from mostly early adopters to more 'normal' consumers we are going to see a lot more complaints.

Normal consumers aren't interested in technical details or complicated explanations. They just want what the marketing promised them.
Agree. Culture is what makes the language more beautiful. When a small town turns into a big city, the language will gradually lose its power if everyone goes for profit without the culture carried forward.

Also, like what @gkya said, if the government aggressively enforce an official language on the people, other languages will die more quickly.
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The list is interesting. Jobs or Gates, of course. Lampson, HNers will probably know from his important CS research such as on distributed systems - he'll be mentioned in those sort of history books, although not generalized ones. Kapor: I have to think for a while before I can finally pin him as 'Mitch Kapor, inventor of the spreadsheet'. Extremely important to business and economics and the modern world, almost as important as double-entry bookkeeping, but I don't think Luca Pacoli or double-entry books are mentioned in most history books so probably not. 'Kaye', I have no idea, unless it's a typo for '[Alan] Kay', in which case he could well be in the history books. Finally, 'Roberts'; I had no idea and had to ask Google, and apparently he's the Altair guy, Ed Roberts. The Altair doesn't seem all that important so I could see history books skipping over it and him. So of the 6 (including Gates himself), 3 probably would be, 2 will be in more specialized histories, and all would be featured in the most detailed histories or encyclopedias (indeed, all of them have Wikipedia entries).
This solution would immediately be denounced as a forced labor camp.
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