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That's the way it works now I live in Germany. It's very cheap an easy to go to the doctor here, and they are keen to do tests that get them early warning problems. This is all a way of clawing money back from the compulsory roughly "Obamacare" style insurers.

But it was much worse when in the UK. The providers get funding for you, but once you are registered, it seems actual service is a pure cost to them. My GPs practice in London only allowed same day-appointments and only pretended to allow them over the phone.

My cousin there got sicker and sicker for months in because instead of testing her, they just gave her the wrong medicine. In the end she flew to Sri Lanka where she got tested, rediagnosed and operated on within 48 hours.
So your defence of this uniquely American behaviour, is a quote, by an American. Congratulations, you've just won the Internet award for redundant commentary.

The U.S. is alone in the way it does a lot of things, which they claim are impossible/impractical, while a large percentage of the rest of the developed world, just does them.

- Gun Control

- Health Care

- The Metric system

- A political system that isn't completely corrupted and driven by money. A couple of million (dollars/pounds) is sort of average spending for a political party to spend on TV adverts for an election in Australia/UK. The US parties/candidates are expected to spend 4.4 BILLION dollars on adverts for this year's election. [1] [2] [3]

1: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-05-24/election-campaign-adve...

2: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-35687956

3: http://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2015/08/19/432759...
You seem to be interested in this subject. As an outsider, I've been wondering why there hasn't been more of a ruckus after the Royal Mail privatisation.

As I understood it, the shares turned out to be underpriced by about 80% and were primarily sold to a secret list of short time investors that made bank.

Have I misunderstood what went down? If not, how is this possible in the UK without any political repercussions?
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I read that article too, and it's just wrong [in that part].

They replace the coating with another one that works better than the original (the original needs to allow oxygen into the egg, the replacement does not).

The worry about condensation is nothing - otherwise every person why buys eggs and leaves them in their car or kitchen for an hour would have a problem - but they don't.

The natural coating is not magic, it's just some oil, it's not a big deal to wash it and replace it with something else.

As I said, the only real worry is salmonella.

> more vulnerable to spoilage if they are not refrigerated.

I have left US store bought eggs unrefrigerated in VERY hot (90-110F) weather for 2 months without having a single spoiled egg. (I had a deal on some cases of eggs.)

So no, it does not leave them vulnerable.

It's amazing just how ingrained Americans are that eggs have to be refrigerated, every person I tell this to, first refuses to believe me, then they do a google search and find that same inaccurate article you found, then they [sometimes] try it, and then they believe. (I used to be one of them too :)
I'm from Boston and I don't usually care too much about the western part of the Massachusetts but I'm in strong agreement with locals on this one. Rattlesnakes have no place in Massachusetts.

This is more about a conservationist that wants to re-establish a colony of these snakes in MA when there have been virtually none for a long long time. This isn't about fixing an unbalanced ecosystem, Western MA has a strong ecosystem that is well balanced already.
Wait, do you mean that in the US, driver's ed is part of the high school curriculum? That sounds positively bizarre to me as a German.
> but there's still regular customer support you can call. The forums are optional.

Maybe in the US and some other major countries, but not in the 'rest of the World' countries...
Yes, I have, so no, it's not a complete fairytale. I was quite clear on my views.
No, taxes fund those.
As a European who lives in Japan now, the regulated-private system also has a lot of pitfalls. Costs are regulated, so hospitals will drag out procedures over more visits than are required to milk extra money out of the public insurance to game the system (they're professional enough not to avoid important stuff, but it's especially pronounced in stuff like dental care where stuff can wait). I still prefer it over the completely fucked-up US system, but it has both advantages and downsides compared to the European systems that deserve to be debated.

I wouldn't say any country has healthcare "solved", but I don't know how anyone can look at the US system and say that it's a good situation for a developed country.
Because programmers are not typists? Translating a thought into a programming concept usually takes more time than typing it out, even in assembly.
Render them in Xvfb or equivalent on a proxy somewhere first?
This thread might help:
https://software.intel.com/en-us/forums/intel-isa-extensions...
Well taking that further, you could say the same with all keyboard shortcuts & they have nothing to test :)

Well, I'm free to install extensions on my own personal computer but not everywhere that I use Chrome.
I didn't realize it wasn't actually his.

Thanks for the link, unfortunately Google doesn't seem to want to show me the content. I wonder if they are implementing some kind of region coding (I'm in Norway).

I always wonder whether people advocating phonetic spelling have ever encountered someone who speaks a different dialect. In Twain's case it is pretty certain that he did as the Huckleberry Finn books include dialect dialogue. How did he think such people would use a phonetic script or worse a phonological one? Did he expect everyone to suddenly start speaking the American analogue of what in the UK we call Received Pronunciation (RP)? If not then surely another person's script would be even harder to read than it is already.
Some blame the rise of ticks and tick borne diseases like Lyme on the demise of predatory snakes.

If true, the balance may not be ideal.
Agreed. Also, the author's need to call the locals xenophobic for not wanting poisonous snakes imported seemed a bit off
Approaching zero. It wasn't paperwork holding things back, but people who knew there was no problem with poor performance. The contractors knew it and would milk it as long as they could, and the permanent staff treat it like a sacred way of life. Trying to get them to work quicker through good practice was impossible.

Sorry, but that's the way it was.
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> Don't get me wrong, I love me some parametric polymorphism, but it's by no means a simple thing as far as I've seen.

I disagree. You should look at OCaml (and Standard ML, though the eqtypes in SML are a botch): generics are dead simple there. Much simpler than Go interfaces, in fact.

Sure, there's always "one more thing" you could add, but that's always true for anything in any language. Slippery slope is a fallacy for this reason.

> or else you force people to use dynamic checks/allocations/casts that reduce your type-safety and bog the code down relative to the "optimal" design

Which is what happens even more if you don't have generics!
Would you consider it difficult to pass? Are there any numbers what the failure rate is?

Just for comparison, here in Germany, you have to take a 14 hours of theory lessons and then do a theoretical test (which has a 25%+ failure rate). Once you passed that, you have to take 20 hours of mandatory driver training with a certified instructor. The instructor will decide if you need additional training hours (up to another 8 hours). The practical test then consists of 25-30 minutes of driving and parking (in a real parking spot, not cones). This practical test also has a 25%+ failure rate. Also, all that happens in a car with manual transmission.
The original essay is about War and Peace. Therefore read War and Peace first of all :)
> if everyone went through A&E, the system would probably collapse.

I don't understand how this is a bad thing about the system. Yes, if everyone went through the most expensive system designed for urgent things, the system would presumably collapse. But they don't, because the system includes something for less urgent cases, and thus doesn't collapse. Doesn't that just mean that aspect is well designed to avoid collapse that would apparently be inevitable if it were less well designed? Isn't that a good thing?
No ER in the US will turn you away if you have an emergency, regardless of financial status...
> I wish it would do away with nil/null.

I don't think that's possible to retrofit onto a language. Best you can do is to add non-nullable types. But zero values are so core to Go's semantics that I kind of doubt it's possible to even add those in a sensible way.
>Pretty interesting stuff! Exciting times we're coming to live in.

Exciting? Hardly. When you have everything you have nothing. How do you get over the asocial aspect of self learning?
correct. But when you get the bill later, you will probably end up in the ER again. Number one reason of bankrupties in the US is medical bills.
Driver's Ed isn't taught in schools either... it can be offered, but I've never heard of mandatory driver's ed at any High School in the US.
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I recently read an article that said that most podcasts don't use VBR encoding for MP3s because there are some players that don't handle it correctly; maybe 99% Invisible does and your car system is crashing because of it?
You know, that fixes the "May not be available for your operating system variant." disclaimer.

All the other still apply, and the GP forgot to tell you to check your HD model's documentation.
Sure, but won't you be in debt for possibly a few decades?
I am also looking for a computer to buy. Looks like the 13 Mac book pro with retina display is a better value for the money.

I found the dell xps 13 very expensive and heard some people with wi-fi issues.

Both Mac book pro and air seem to be close to change so it might be worth to wait for their next version.

I don't know other brands that people use with Linux.

At the moment I am using a Toshiba that I bought very cheap with i3 and 8gb of ram running Ubuntu 16 and everything just works... Damn marketing/consumer instinct making me want to buy a more powerful machine.
Of course, but there would still be many survivors (especially in the 50s and 60s) and good civil defense measures would have greatly increased that number.
You just replied to someone decrying anecdotes with more anecdotes
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You've never taken an Uber. For your own market education try it sometime.
This is just another disguise for racism.

There is less trust in relatively poor countries because there is more day-to-day crime.

There is more crime because the entire country is poor.

The country is poor because rich countries hog money and resources and use badly disguised racism to justify it.
Yes, absolutely. Different strategies can lead to vastly different results, often it's subtle things.

Good example: There was a bug I found in openssl that Libfuzzer was unable to find. The Libfuzzer developer was quite interested in this and has now adopted new mutation strategies:
https://github.com/google/sanitizers/issues/710
I understand that it's a volunteer effort, and volunteers don't have the hardware required for even 180 degree view, but most pictures are taken out of the front of the car, limiting its worth (2/3 of the picture is road, not the houses on the side).

It would be more useful if people stuck two phones (one on each side of the car) to take pictures of the passing buildings rather than road
The fun days of switching your new £300 graphics card to 16 or 24 bit mode, moving a window, and watching Windows redraw every line and icon. Step. By. Painful. Step.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure nowadays in any state, you need to either have a requisite number of hours behind the wheel or to pass an actual driving test.

The driver's test is still easier in the US than in the UK.
How many US employers provide the kind of health insurance that you don't end up anyway paying over $1000 a year (for a family) in all kinds of fees and deductibles and whatever?
Rust is not an alternative to Go. Go is significantly easier to learn as it's very simple. Crystal and Nim come close but they do not have the backing of a large tech company and their ecosystems are not as mature.
Like I said in my other post, a lot of that is directly caused by sports with the exception of the brain injury concerns. I think that is a serious issue that should cause extensive rule changes in youth sports like football and soccer.

The other issues are just normal human problems that happen to occur in sports. Yes, subsidies are an issue, but as I addressed in my other reply you shouldn't blame sports for that, blame the politician that uses sports to placate the masses. Yes, some sports parents are too harsh on their kids, but I have seen just as many parents have a similar attitude towards their kids when it comes to other pursuits like music.

I also don't by that sports "aren't allowed to be criticized in our society." None of these issues should be news to anyone. One of the US's recent Olympic bids was squashed by public outcry over the cost it would take to fund it. The architect of the most recent deal to give public money to build a new stadium was just voted out at the first chance the public got. For the first time in my memory an NFL team just moved to a new city and is building a new stadium without any public money. The reason these things are happening is because we are starting to wake up to these issues exactly because people have been criticizing them for a decade plus.
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Yes, healthcare is "as long as a piece of string" in so many ways that I don't think it's a solvable problem, but definitely could do with a better level of debate than the sacred cow of the NHS vs the straw man of the US system.

I'm possibly moving to Japan soon, so I guess I'll get a better comparison soon enough.
"I would privatise it tomorrow."

How?

I mean what model of commercialisation would you use? And how do you propose to convince the electorate that your model would be an improvement?
Freedom of panorama is a term from copyright, rather than data protection. It's primarily about designed buildings - are you allowed to make/share a photo of a building where the architect (!) does not allow it... It sounds absurd like this, but the arguments against it are not that easily ignored. Public interest should outweigh it though. At EU level the issue is that the freedom of panorama does explicitly not exist in some countries, now the laws get a bit more harmonised at EU level and the new rules may/may not force some countries to re establish freedom of panorama. Let's hope the European Commission puts it's foot down and actually makes it obligatory, but chances are that whatever the commission proposes will be ripped apart when member states have to discuss & find a compromise.
Technically doesn't have to be a manual, if you're fine with not being allowed to drive a manual afterwards. So basically only done by people with medical conditions that can't drive a manual anyways.
If you turn up for an interview having learnt CS from Coursera and another candidate turns up with a degree from MIT I think we can all guess who is most likely to get the job.

In fact it's quite likely that only the MIT educated candidate would get as far as an interview.

This might change if employers see a benefit but at the moment a degree from a recognized institution will trump any amount of actual expertise for most jobs unless you can show decades of relevant experience.

Edit: s/Harvard/MIT/
"in schools" doesn't have to mean "compulsory"
Wait, that's how it worked? That's it? It was a trick?

That demo was my introduction to the Amiga. Whenever I met an Amiga fan later in life I would picture that demo in my head.

Adult, programmer me knows all too well that demos are marketing material, aka "lies you can't be sued for", but really faking 3D rendering is pretty low even by marketing standards. I am extremely disappointed.

This kind of screws with the memories of some interactions I've had with old fans over the years.
Its because Romania is poor, and capitalism is about taking advantage of people. Its just that in rich countries its much more subtle.
This is true, but if you have a chronic condition (unmanaged diabetes, mental illness, .. cancer) you'll just get enough to put you in a stable condition and out you go
You can also dunk eggs in some water. If they float, they're bad. If they sink, you're good to go. It's so easy to do that I always check before I eat an egg.
It is in Canada as well. It's the fact you can't work that bankrupts people, not the medical bills.
This is a classic tactic, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starve_the_beast
Frankly a lot of the developing world too.
I see this frequently in Edinburgh. I join a group at the pelican crossing and after waiting too long, realise that the button hasn't been pressed.

Many of our crossings do nothing if you don't press the button. And if the light has been green for road traffic for a while, pressing the button /immediately/ sets the traffic sequence towards red. I often let the odd car pass so the traffic looks clear before pressing, rather than force a poor driver to a stop.
> The reason people don't do this is that as wealth has increased, being a wage slave or welfare queen (the modern equivalent seems to be disability fraud king) has become vastly more attractive.

Sure. Participating in the economy gives you access to the things this economy produces, which in the last century started to be really pretty cool. Why people don't move? I suspect that by the time people get in a bad enough situation to consider a move, they can no longer afford it. Secondly, trapping rabbits and waving your own cloth are both specialist, learned skills, which in the past were taught to the children as they grew. Again, for a typical westerner desperate enough to go primal, a city is much better bet than a wilderness - in cities, high-quality safe food tends to be concentrated in well-marked areas, and it's easier to get access to it than to hunt down an animal.
We are yet to be convinced a degree or GPA have any correlation with an actual abilities related to programming with regard to quality, performance, abstractions, languages, tools or anything.

By the way, http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/200732/google-admits-its-fam...
It's hard trying to answer this briefly. Hope it doesn't come out meaningless!

It's comparable with current CPU+GPU but on a vastly simpler scale. The copper only had 3 instructions! Blitter, well most things, were DMA controlled but the whole chispet had a ton of special registers that both CPU and copper could get at. You could set what got priority. Coders had to learn to wait on blits as anything else - OS as you moved a window, another app or screen could have got it first. Hence why many games just hit the hardware - keep it simple, and single threaded, and to hell with the OS. :)

About chip memory. Amigas had two types of memory Chip RAM and Fast RAM. Chip could be accessed by CPU and any of the chips, Fast RAM just the processor for programs and data. Modern CPU+GPU has two separate pools of RAM linked via the PCIe. If there were a similar architecture to the Amiga, but with modern complex silicon and design, I'm sure games coders would have dreamed up a few extra effects and tricks. Or maybe it wouldn't matter any more with the vast speeds we now reach, I don't know.

Incidentally that tight linking, display coprocessing, along with the DMA channels, and readily available genlock, is why it ended up a niche success in broadcast. Nothing else apart from £10,000+ dedicated things like a Quantel Paintbox (who bizarrely still exist) could touch it, especially after the Video Toaster came along.

The chipset needn't have been the achilles heel if Commodore had not been run by an asset stripping moron at the time. Designs were being done for follow on sets, but never made it, and we got AGA (a fraction of AAA) years late. I think they started on AAA in 87, and cancelled it or put it on hold probably a dozen times. The 3000+ was an astonishing prototype machine that only existed on Dave Haynie's desk, for ages. Commodore gave us the lousy cost cutting 4000 with IDE not SCSI as follow up.
You're talking about killing the primary income source for publishers. That's writers, bloggers, journalists, experts of all stripes who want to make a living from creating content.

Donations don't do it because nobody donates (tragedy of the commons). And most content creators are terrible at marketing and have no idea how to create their own products and sales funnels (and would be hard-pressed to expertly monetize them if they did).

We're left with ads. Without those, the web goes back to being abandoned by professional content creators, and instead becomes the domain of Tumblr/YouTube/Imgur, the new Usenet/Angelfire/Geocities.

The solution I suspect is most likely if ad blocking becomes too ubiquitous and publishing companies are finding it too hard to make money online is that publishing companies all get behind a locked (non-plug-in-able) browser that users cannot block the ads from. If you want to surf the New York Times or Wall Street Journal or the Economist or read the links on HN, Reddit, or Google News, you fire up your Media Browser and click the links and suck up the ads as a necessary evil. Click those links in a non-approved browser and you see a message saying, "Please install Media Browser to view this article." If you don't feel like looking at ads, you stick to your regular browser and surf Tumblr. But almost everyone will install Media Browser and watch the ads.

That said, I don't think the arms race ever ends. There will always be people who need to find a way to get paid to create content, and there will always be people who don't want to pay. That race goes on forever.
You've worked as a private outsourcer. The problems you see, this politicking, waste, gerrymandering is all because of forcing everything out to tender. Or having PFI interests.

The NHS needs to work hard to in-house more stuff. There's fat to be cut, for sure, but it's the existing private elements where most of the real waste comes.
This is a good reminder of how a ridiculous and outdated concept borders are.
"TSMC’s 10nm shrink would retain a 20nm minimum feature size, while its 7nm would deliver a 14nm minimum feature size (10/20 and 7/14, respectively)."[1]

Intel is the only company with a "true" 14nm and 10nm process.

[1] http://www.extremetech.com/computing/228806-arm-announces-ne...
"so much waste" is always the excuse for privitisation of public corporations. I fail to see why it matters when after privitisation you get the added profit motive and costs go up.

The Dutch health care system is a prime example. After partial privisation costs went up.
FYI in at least some European countries it's the same. In my recent stays at hotels in Spain and Belgium the situation is just as the article describes for American hotels: you get all kinds of situational or barely useful stuff like shower cap, shoehorn, conditioner, etc.; and no toothpaste. And I have always thought it doesn't makes sense and wondered about the reason, like the post's author.

I think it was the same in other European countries where I stayed, but my memory isn't good enough to be sure. In Asia I have always found toothpaste in hotels though.