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> So, IPFS is explicitly censorable; if enough IPFS nodes refuse to carry some content, then that content is effectively unavailable.

This is not a definition of censorship I'm familiar with. If no one wants to host a file, there's nothing for the censor to do. There are currently no IPFS nodes willing to store a copy of the essay I wrote on plate tectonics in eight grade, but that's not because it's been censored.
I would really like to see a breakdown of the actual costs to provide a given service. Take something simple like removing an appendix or gall bladder. You have one surgeon, one or two surgical assistants (typically med students / interns), plus a couple nursing staff, and the anesthesiologist, for about an hour. 6 people, assume 200K per year, that's $100 per hour, so $600 in people salaries. (Throw in another couple hours total for prep time, consultation, planning, etc, still you are talking less than 2k).

Then you have amortization of the equipment and operating room, and some fraction of the hospital support staff during the prep and recovery stages. But even with that I still don't see where the $80,000 for the surgery cost comes from.
Depends on where you're at in the U. S.

Midwest: starting to wish my neighbors would leave me alone, what with all the casseroles on my doorstep and invitations to euchre night.

Seattle: I couldn't even tell you the race of some of my neighbors, as I never see them outside. I know they exist only because I see the car pull into the garage right before the garage door closes. Of the neighbors with whom I'm friendly, or at least talk to once in a while, the majority aren't from U. S. See also: "Seattle freeze".
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>it's better for both those kids and for everyone else to have education tailored to those kids' needs

OK so who provides that?
The US healthcare system consistently gets a mediocre ranking by the WHO for a reason: It's great when you have lots of money. For everyone else, almost every other developed country is an as good or better place to get healthcare.

As for your problem getting a GP, that sucks for you, but that is a local political problem and not a systemic problem with single payer. E.g. in Norway everyone has a legal right to a named GP, and gets one. I live in the UK now, and while there is no guarantee here I've never had a problem finding a GP.

I can afford private insurance here if I'd like it, but I've never had any issues with the NHS that'd justify it. On the contrary the treatment has always been stellar (I've not had to use it all that much myself apart from a "mystery infection" t

If you have the money, nothing stops you from getting supplemental private insurance in Canada either, so I wonder what you mean when you say you can't find a GP. Do you mean that you're unwilling to go private? Or that you actually can't find one either way?
Australia recently blocked a proposal to sell the largest power grid in the country to a Chinese bidder. Describing the Chinese reaction as hypocritcal would be charitable.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-08-17/china-call...
Not to mention that content filtering can imply liability for anything that does manage to slip through.
> G stands for giga, exactly 1000 units.

Actually that is the meaning of K, as in Kb or KB. Giga is not for "1000 units" but for 1 bilion "units" or, for the power of 2 approximation 2^30 = 1,073,741,824.

I was just trying to be nice to the person who wrote the post I responded to.

It seemed to me that their post needed to distinguish between Gb, gigabit, and GB, gigabyte. Not strictly, of course, because in principle the post could have been correct with either Gb or GB. But usually communications speeds are in terms of bits, and file sizes in terms of bytes. So, monthly download limits are commonly in terms of bits or bytes -- i can't say. But the file sizes downloaded for Windows 10 are likely usually in terms of bytes. So, if Windows 10 needs 10 billion bytes, then that is 10 GB. Then that would need communications of about 80 Gb (less in case of data compression; more for overhead for TCP/IP, etc.). Or 10 Gb would be only 1.25 GB which seems small for copy or full update of Windows 10.

So, net, I was guessing that the Windows 10 size would be about 10 GB, not 10 Gb. Then for the communications limit, that could be in Gb or GB.

That is, I was responding to

> My 4Gb per month download limit doesn't like secret 10Gb downloads, that's what.

So, for Windows 10, the 10Gb should likely be 10 GB? Right? For the 4Gb, that might be correct but then it is only about 0.5 GB.

Yes, currently and at least back to IBM System/360, on systems from IBM, DEC VAX, Prime, Data General, Intel, and AMD, nearly always a byte has been 8 bits.

Yes, the original ASCII character set needed only 7 bits; the DEC PDP 10 had 36 bit words, and DEC commonly stored 5 ASCII characters in each word.

Communications speeds are commonly in terms of bits per second, and maybe communications data limits are also in terms of bits. File sizes are commonly in terms of bytes. So, maybe for communications, say Gb, and for file sizes, say GB.

Giga abbreviates 1 billion or 2^30 = 1,073,741,824.

Apparently some reader got totally torqued at me for trying to be nice. I was not asking for a tutorial on Gb versus GB but was trying nicely to suggest to the writer of the post I responded to that maybe they were not fully careful in using Gb versus GB.

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It wasn't Republicans that removed the "Public Option" or the Drug re-importation initiatives from the ACA. FWIW.
Regarding checkboxes/radio

<label>
<input type="checkbox" ... />
<span>Label Text</span>
</label>

This way the label magically works, similar to H2, also, the nested span is so that you can target `input[type=checkbox]` with `+ span` in order to do custmized glyphs for checkboxes without JS.

...

For fonts, have a base size for `html, body` then use `rem` everywhere else.
Elon Musk is on a league of its own.

Imagine a textbook 500 years in the future (there won't be physical textbooks of course, but whatever students are using as a learning tool then)... Who do you think will be profiled in that textbook? Bill Gates? Warren Buffet? Larry Ellison? Steve Jobs? Mark Zuckerberg? Maybe any or all of those people, but then again, maybe not, I bet Elon Musk will be there.
Galt doesn't need anyone to take care of him.
reading those now.
And yet the current front runner of that party has been strongly in favour of a single payer system over the years. (Though I'm guessing recently there's a shift away from that, publicly anyways.)
I fail to see how I as a consumer am personally benefitting. I have more expensive healthcare that covers less and it gets more expensive and covers less every year.

I'm sure there are a few very sick people out there who are benefitting. I'm glad that we as a society are able to help them out. But it's clear that I do not have choice in needing healthcare, whereas these providers do have a choice in providing healthcare.

I agree with you that the hybrid approach is not working.
Seeing if it runs is probably the absolute minimum of any testing methodology, but my point is that (passing) tests are always good.
If you autosign every commit then you aren't validating anything anyway. All that means is you have another mindless process running automatically in the background. So what's your point?
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Now you have to clean up 'a'. And decide whether /tmp or /var/tmp or a dir on some other filesystem has enough space to hold all of 'a' until 'bar' is finished. Is it a security problem that other processes could snoop the contents of 'a' or even tamper with it?
But why not integrate the phone cover with the phone itself? A phone ought to come with the right size cover (replaceable, durable) from the factory.

This sort of cover could be integrated (via screws or mechanical latches that would be unsightly on a bare phone) with the phone skeleton, making for a package which is both stronger and sleeker than, for example, iPhone + OtterBox.
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I really like this bundle! I think all previous book bundles were comics, so it's great to see tech literature represented.

Also, I think the choice languages is really good. F#, Clojure, R, Lisp, Haskell, Racket, Erlang... it's great to see all these paradigms represented. I can't speak for books themselves, but I think it's awesome that this book pack will reach the Humble bundles audience.
At the moment there are two steps if you want to view a Build Scan, one is to add the plugin and the other is to add -DScan to the command line. Data doesn't go anywhere unless you have explicitly done both of those things. If you're curious how this works look here https://gradle.com/whats-new-gradle/
>Try getting an MRI in Canada. Canada rations care via wait lists.

Exactly. Health care in Canada is a crap shoot. If you're in a major centre and are able to get a family physician I'm sure you think the system is great. Try being sick somewhere where the only option is an over-worked ER staffed by locums.
> Now, what happens if someone with an infant or developmentally challenged teenager signs up? Their needs present an entirely new set of problems, problems that could be solved by a startup but not necessarily by ours. Remember you don’t have to pivot your business because a customer needs something that you don’t offer.

Meanwhile on Tumblr:

"Startup says they don't want developmentally disabled people as customers."
If it is not clear, that is exactly what I suggest.

Specifically, I acknowledge the devastating impact of the mites, but believe because the patterns (I am aware of) suggest more.

I am thoroughly interested in the global data if it suggests the U.S. Honey Production Survey data is an anomaly in terms of net negative colonies after introduction Neonicotinoids.
Blame economics. An increased supply of uneducated labor drives creates more competition for jobs performed by the poor, uneducated and also drives down wage rates. Illegal immigrants, since they can't complain, will work in illegal conditions and even lower wage rates.

H1-B visa abuse is used by firms (see Disney World in Florida and Abbott Pharmacueticals in Illinois for example) to drive down IT and STEM labor rates.

You might dislike Trump, but he is against H1-B Visa Abuse and H2-A and H2-B (blue collar) Visa abuse. Meanwhile Hilary has used H1-B Visas in the Clinton Foundation (I love patriotism :-) ).

So, instead of being emotional about an issue, be analytical. I assume that most of the people reading HN are analytical and just don't emotionally lash out.
Our you can save all the trouble and just continue staying on http.
raising children is, itself, a form of work

This would be true if the child were the property of the company paying for its raising ;-)
> What are your thoughts on incentivizing constructive comments? I've seen publishers (The Guardian, if memory serves) select thoughtful comments and re-print them as micro-articles in their own right.

I don't think you're correctly identifying the problem. In my experience, the problem with comments, especially on news sites, is a glut of bad comments, rather than a lack of good comments. This solution doesn't disincentivize bad comments.
So explain Germany and France then, neither of which are single payer, yet both of which are substantially cheaper than the US.
Likewise, we shouldn't conflate science and non-scientific solutions. We are confusing solutions we like with the science showing the problem.

Calling people irrational and unscientific for seeing that is unfair and, again, not in keeping with healthy scientific exploration.
Of the article isn't interesting, the article wouldn't have been voted up.

Marking down the comments indicates a desire by some to to enforce groupthink. Why? Because many people use votes to indicate agree-disagree instead of a quality metric.
> It is the opposite here. No one really uses the dash.

Who is no one? Where is here?
That doesn't seem like a reasonable liability. If I've got a spam filter that's pretty effective, but some false negatives still happen I don't see how I'd be liable for that. Filters like these are always heuristics, they're not omniscient so can't be 100% correct (false positives and false negatives will happen).
This is clearly a doc based on a hypothetical assumption that he can deploy 1000 nodes. If thats the case, why not go for a cool million?

Just a suggestion to the OP, it not hard to setup and share a 5 node vagrant cluster on your laptop. Give concrete examples that people can run locally and test your assertions themselves. Once that foundation is laid, you can extrapolate to 10 nodes, 100 nodes, 1000 nodes.

Anyone that has deployed a cluster of that size knows that the article is missing a bunch of items, not limited to the following:
- Overhead Instances (manager, service discorvery, loggging, etc.)
- Configuration Management
- Security Implications
- Monitoring
- Failure mitigation (its going to happen at that scale)
- Update strategy at this scale

For those that are interested, one official doc and a good place to start when leaning how to deploy a large docker 1.12 cluster is this guide by docker.

https://docs.docker.com/swarm/plan-for-production/
I agree entirely. I've found comments below the story to generally seem outmoded and often jarringly tacked-on.

Outsourcing to other communities seems great, but I could imagine NPR doing well with a Boing Boing BBS / Discourse model and effectively offering their own community board (subreddit, if you will) auto-threaded with their content. Then as somebody potentially having a serious thought in a comment you don't feel ghettoized to the bottom of the page, speaking to who, the author?

Rarely does the threading in on-page comments give great visual direction to feel like you can engage other commenters or the author you are responding to in any manner other than "broadcasting" (or maybe a better word is screaming).
Ever tried to contribute? Their trac is such a mess it's incredibly difficult to find something to work on, let alone someone sane to talk to about which tickets are actually open and need work. irc channels are pretty much dead except the newb-help channel, no matter what time of the day you log on. It's a weirdly cloistered project with little outside visibility, especially for an open source project and this crap has made me want to stay really, really far away. I'll stick to contributing other places where the public image isn't a disaster.
Don't switch. I got a VPS for my personal site and projects a year or two ago (after 15 years of shared hosting) and if you're not comfortable on the Linux command line your server will get owned and be part of a botnet before a week is up.
I find this funny now because HN used to be awful on mobile, due to an inflexible tables-for-layout design. One that couldn't easily be changed, either, because everyone's clients relied on the exact structure of the markup for screen scraping.
But if the parents in the office are more productive with their children close by,

I see that straw men can be used to argue both against an idea, and apparently for an idea as well.
Well, repeating buzzwords and pushing for early technology adoption for the sake of early technology adoption seems to be dumb, as the article implies.

But new technology is necessary and early adopters are necessary. Iteration is necessary. Don't punish it.
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Isn't @supports slightly redundant, though?

Unless you're avoiding a broken feature, CSS will simple cascade down with the first supported property by default.

It's how we've handled browser prefixing, background gradients, wonky flexbox and pretty much everything since forever.

Im sure it'll be an unpopular opinion, but whilst I can see some edge cases where you only want to apply certain ancillary css if your markup is going to be rendering in a certain way, I honestly can't think of many (any?) real world usecases where you're not pretty much frigging it to provide 2005-tier browser sniffing.
Wrong, it's exactly the world I want to live in and the Constitution happens to agree, which is why we've amended it many a time, because the governed decided it was outdated. The notion that we should still be living by the dictates of men long dead is simply absurd, every generation has a right to decide for itself how its government works as it should, and as we have done.
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that's the difference between rainloop and roundcube?
> Government is force - nothing more. The purpose of government is to protect our rights. "Single payer" (a euphemism for socialized medicine) by definition violates rights by forcing people to do things against their will.

"Rights" are basically just freedoms we've decided we like a whole lot and want the government to guarantee, so that's not exactly a static category. So on the one hand we can just decide whichever rights are being violated are—at least conditionally—not rights. Boom, done.

On the other hand, is there any such thing as a government that does not force people to do things they wouldn't voluntarily do? I'm pretty sure if you take that away what's left has lost the single most important trait of a government, and what's left is... I don't know, a non-profit begging for money on TV and utterly incapable of fulfilling any of the usual roles of a government? In that case, the fact that single-payer would force people to do things doesn't per se remove it from the realm of legitimate government activity.

As for the utility of the term "single payer", I believe it's distinct enough from the much broader "socialized medicine", which could include things like seizing hospitals and making doctors exclusively state employees, to make it substantially more than just a euphemism.
Freedom points are spent on housing, luxuries, and the opportunity costs of being with your children instead of at work.

You're seeing a consequence of not having enough freedom.
Even if you can't directly monetize the golden rule, a lot of accessibility work is super-simple thanks to the toolmakers giving it forethought. You can get to 80% of it in an iOS app by just making sure you've got descriptive text for each UI element in the storyboard. The few blind customers we've gotten as a result (some of whom helped enable it) have been extremely enthusiastic, which made my day.
The WHO ranking does not look at costs, but at overall health and treatment indicators.
Pumba repository: https://github.com/gaia-adm/pumba
Been through this at medium sized companies struggling to sell. This kind of customer is alluring but poisonous. Company: We sell Product X! Toxic Customer: I don't want Product X, I want Product Y. If you're willing to bolt Product Y onto one of your menus I will pay you this stack of money for it! Company: $$$!

Bam! The company just went from being a product company to a custom engineering service. You will have to drag Product Y along with your product forever as a big lump of technical debt. After a few repeat iterations of the above, you will have a franken-product with random features hanging off of all ends, confusing to general users and impossible to maintain.

If you're a Product X company and one customer wants Product Y, stand your ground and tell them to go find Product Y somewhere else. If tons of customers want Product Y, maybe pivot and become a Product Y company and ditch Product X.
The fact that people have been saying this about HN for many years suggests that the argument isn't as strong as it sounds. What you describe is indeed a danger, but there are many dangers. Effective moderation must protect against all of them.

HN's way of balancing this is to require that comments be civil and substantive. Adding the principle of charity is simply a clarification of what that means.

The 'principle of charity' is not primarily about ethics or tone. It's about intellectual substance. It simply says that people should respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of an argument (or comment or phenomenon). What reason could anyone have for insisting on reacting to a weaker interpretation than they need to? I can think of a few, but none apply to a site that wants civil, substantive discourse.
Because you'd have to advocate paying even more taxes, something Americans just do not want. Universal anything doesn't come out of thin air.
This is precisely why single payer is desperately needed. And proof that Obamacare is a Rube Goldberg machine. I remember listening to a Kentucky senator who said they were gobsmacked that no insurance company signed up in his state. The program is based on wishes, not good practices. Having Justice tinker with antitrust to keep it alive will never work. Insurance companies could give a F about their policy holders, their shareholders and profits are the only ones who count.
The US system has the same issue -- many people don't have a regular family doctor and rely on clinics. It's a more complicated problem than pay -- family medicine simply isn't an attractive speciality to many medical students. Money could move the needle a bit, but treating strep throat is never going to be a prestigious pursuit versus a lot of other specialties. And if it doesn't improve overall longterm outcomes, it's not worth spending the money to move that needle.

At any rate, it's rarely impossible to find a family doctor, but it can take some persistence to find one accepting new patients. Almost every provincial medical association maintains a list of family doctors accepting new patients. If you're in a small town it might be a challenge, though.

edit: to put some numbers on this, 15% of Canadians don't have a family doctor (http://www.ctvnews.ca/health/canada-ranked-last-among-oecd-c...). In the much higher spending US system, 20% of Americans don't have a family doctor (http://www.fiercehealthcare.com/healthcare/one-five-american...).
Only tangently related, but I strongly encourage anyone who has interest in learning more about the state of the industry and how technology relates to it read this book:
https://www.amazon.com/Digital-Doctor-Hope-Medicines-Compute...
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It's more about opposing their attempts to thwart antitrust law. After AT&T's merger failed, T-Mobile used the money and the public fallout as an opportunity to reinvent themselves as a company that caters to the public. I'm wondering if this could be a similar opportunity for Aetna's competitors.

If the government is unable to prevent monopolies, then consumers should step in by punishing companies that seek to monopolize.

Edit: Again, that's one of the concepts behind libertarianism, isn't? The idea that instead of relying upon government regulation, there's almost some economic reputation system in place which would cause consumers to reject doing business with bad actors. So in theory, the recourse here would be for the individual consumer to reject Aetna directly in response for their monopolistic practices.