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I think we're just experiencing the ultimate end game of the system. The ACA was nothing more than ointment on an infected wound. It worked for a time but it is becoming more and more obvious that this leg our economy needs to be amputated.

We need a single payer system or at the very least a single body that negotiates the price of all drugs and health care services on behalf of all Americans. Frankly I'm surprised that the insurance companies aren't lobbying for such a thing as it could be their only hope for continued existence very soon.

The pharmaceutical industry would practically go to war to prevent a single payer or a price-fixed system but they would lose if they're opponent was the insurance industry (and the American people; who have very low esteem for "big pharma").

A most interesting change resulting from an American single payer system would be the increase of drug prices for everyone else (other countries). As it stands right now the only reason drug companies can get away with some of their lower prices in single-payer countries is because the US can and will make up the cost. Lowering the cost of drugs in some countries really does result in higher costs for Americans.
Blaming the elderly for our problems is a bad move. Simply because the laws of the universe say we will become old too.

Now I agree with you on your other points that the insurance companies took this law and said fuck it we will just raise prices. That is what happens with corporations they want to make money. The fact that the government thought they could just force these folks to do the right thing and cover people with pre-existing conditions and all this other stuff without a single consequence was a really bad oversight.
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"We"?

Part of the issue is that Americans seem peculiarly unwilling to point their pitchforks in the right direction.
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That's nice but ...

Will this year be the year of the Linux Desktop ? Nop ...

How about next year ? Nop ...

When will the Year of the Linux Desktop occur ? At our current trajectory I estimate that will occur somewhere around the time* of:

a) The Apocalypse
b) The Heat Death of the Universe

*whichever comes first
I use Docker in production with Docker Compose for containers orchestration. Each service has its own Git repo with a compose file describing the orchestration. Swarm for distributed services and managing multiple servers.

Everything is a container and could be scaled, destroyed, restarted in a very simple way.

Machine creation is automated with Terraform and Ansible for provisioning, no matter the provider.
Ask HN: I automated my last job. What do I do now?
I screwed up in/after college and decided traveling was more important than building my CV.

In the last decade I earned money thanks to the languages I learned while traveling, and especially thanks to enjoying changing fields a lot. In the meantime I cultivated my passion for programming on my own, attending MOOCs and reading books. I studied Pythin, Ruby, Java and Haskell (the last two are the only ones that stuck in my head: Java being the most practical, and Haskell being in my opinion a pleasure to use, even at my very low level)

in the last two years, thanks to lucky circumstances, and thanks to Selenium and Java, I managed to almost fully automate my latest customer service job. I used the time to study more programming, but now it's over and I am back to an office job I now can hardly bear.

Is there a way for an old noob with not much practical knowledge to get a remote entry level programming job?
Only if you realize there's likely nothing you can do to ruin your reputation. Usually there are repercussions for failing badly.
That was in August.
Look up the broken window fallacy. There's no way perpetual warfare is sustainable.
There's also Mediatek [1] who are very big with Chinese phones and a couple of the cheaper Sony phones such as the XA [2].

There's also the Kirrin line that are owned by Huawei [3] and used in their newer phones.

1. http://www.mediatek.com/

2. http://www.sonymobile.com/gb/products/phones/xperia-xa/#spec...

3. https://www.cnet.com/news/huawei-unveils-blazing-fast-kirrin...
I'd be worried if it was a part of Twitter that wasn't the main product. There's a whole load of things they're doing that don't seem related, and that's probably where the cuts are going to be.

Your thing seems safe enough. In any case, you'll be in SF, so not a huge problem finding other work if it goes sour.
As an European, I sincerly hope that the Saudi regime collapse, for all the BS they are creating here and in the Middle-East.

Still, for Syria, they are not the sole guilty party.
Well, to extend the ship analogy: Twitter seems to believe that they're sinking because the ship is overloaded, so they're trying to improve things by tossing people overboard. I don't mean to make light of the situation; I truly feel for all of the people affected by this.

So, why would anyone want to join Twitter now? Well, the diminished share price could be one reason. If you believe the company can turn things around, and you believe that your contributions would help the company do so, then getting in now and hopefully acquiring some shares or options at the current market price could be a rational move. You'd probably want to make sure you've got a lifejacket (i.e. an emergency fund) handy just in case you find yourself thrown overboard in the future.
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> "throw shit at the wall and see what sticks" - Is this really a bad thing?

If you're one of the people who pay real money for a product that doesn't stick, yes.
Twitter employee here.

Admittedly I work in a remote office and not in HQ, but I've noticed NO day-to-day changes. The work, the management, the atmosphere have all been remarkably consistent despite wild rumors and general craziness.

I can't speak to the financials, but this...

> Additional cuts, along with internal management turmoil, are likely to effect your day to day job there to some degree.

...is false (in my, and every employee I've spoken to about this, opinion).

I'm not saying you shouldn't consider these points, but if you turn down Twitter expressly because you imagine the madhouse inside, I'm here to report no such thing.
Insurance companies have to meet their quarterly earnings goals or investors will punish them. If their lobbying can't get the tax penalty raised, then it will continue to be a better deal for the young and healthy to take the penalty.
Neither is proposing something that could work.

Normalized pricing based on income with transparency on procedures and tests. Deductible + premiums + out of pocket should add up to no more than 8-10% of my income.

And out of pocket should be some fraction of real price based on income. It should always cost 3x to go to a hospital than a doctors office its just the amount should vary based on income.

Let private insurance compete in the supplemental market. And offer public option on exchange.
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Sara Soueidan's is pretty great - https://sarasoueidan.com/ - especially the speaking section. She's amazing generally though, so it's quite a high bar!

I had some good feedback on mine as well - https://tim.fyi - and I'm pretty happy with it (love to hear what other people think too though). After the intro though, it's more about highlighting recent specific projects and talks and articles, rather than acting as a full CV. Sounds like that might be what you're going for?

If I were you, I'd keep it simple. Go for a short simple intro that highlights what you're about, a two or three sentence summary of what you've done and what you're good at, and then keep the body as something that gives more of a feel of what you're about and up to right now. Links to blog articles, things you're tweeting about etc.

You can provide an actual CV for people who want to dig into the details of your list of achievements and research in more detail, but if this is the first place people hear about you and it's your personal site, then a sense of personality and active things going on is more important imo.
Maybe user-agent values from Android somehow leaked into the data (i.e. "desktop mode" in browsers)? It includes "Linux" in Chrome https://developer.chrome.com/multidevice/user-agent and builtin browser.
For another type of application, you can check brave browser source code https://github.com/brave/browser-laptop
reason.com isn't necessarily the kind of source I'd trust.
Twice? As in, it's twice the free market???
> Then they both pulled out for some reason

The reason is that it's too expensive. For the right price, those companies would still be interested.

The high stock price indicates investors think Twitter can still grow a lot. That isn't clear to me.
We need a single payer system or at the very least a single body that negotiates the price of all drugs and health care services on behalf of all Americans. Frankly I'm surprised that the insurance companies aren't lobbying for such a thing as it could be their only hope for continued existence very soon.

What role do insurance companies have if there is a national body fixing prices?
Faculty at most universities sign the rights to their inventions over to their host institution as part of their employment agreement. I believe MIT is the same way.

Yes, MIT does this quite explicitly, which while making some professors unhappy, has helped it avoid some notorious messes seen at other universities when they got greedy, e.g. the University of Pennsylvania going from #1 in computers (ENIAC) to nothing, or CalTech losing Steve Wolfram over his first symbolic math program.

Flip sides include giving professors 1 day a week to work on whatever they want that's not part of their MIT stuff.

Trivia: after decades of being one of the worst in the nation, averaging about one license per year (seriously, and we know of three of them, Symbolics, LMI, and Macsyma to the former), and infamously flubbing both 3D core memory and synthetic/semi-synthetic penicillin licencing, MIT realized they had a problem and supposedly fixed it, the official statement was wonderfully understated, said something about actually licencing the technology instead of focusing on the process of licensing....
That's utterly missing the point.
Want to fix healthcare?

- Mandatory price transparency. Health care is procedures and medicines, not a used car. Also all procedures signed off beforehand (with the exception of emergency ones, naturally). If Procedure A costs $100 for Health Insurance A, why should they charge a BS price for someone without Health Insurance?

- Zero drug advertisement (maybe for no-prescription drugs, still)

- Cut on incentives (briberies) by drug-companies
Here in the Netherlands: You can't pay for health insurance? Here is some subsidy to help you.

In the US: You can't pay for health insurance? Here is a fine of 700$

:s
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Price controls? We already have doctors willing to pull out of medicaid because it doesn't cover their costs. Price controls just reduce supply and give you situations like in China where medical scalpers sell places in line for doctor visits at up to $500 a pop.
An engineered lack of education and decades of indoctrination in pointless party politics will do that.
I was thinking 90%. Why can't Twitter operate with three or four hundred employees rather than three or four thousand employees?
What about regenerative braking?
Completely anecdotal, but my siblings and cousins that are teens don't have Facebook, and most of their classmates don't either. It's weird to imagine a world where not everyone has Facebook, but I don't think it's as ubiquitous for those who grew up where alternatives existed, such as Snapchat and Instagram (even Twitter as well).
It's not sustainable in perpetuity, but it's good profits for the next quarter.
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Their ip business is ridiculously profitable. Every cell phone sold whether they make it or not they get a cut. So no one would have issues lending to them.
At the risk of repeating the current top comment, does a 20-person layoff notice in a company is 34k with hundreds of open positions on their website really do anything to "completely destroy morale"?
You appear to have an agenda here.

Please read the original comment in its entirety, beyond the first half of the two sentences you misleadingly quote.

> municipalities own (most of) the networks and all the fiber cables, letting companies use them for a small(ish) fee.

> For example, I have 250/100 mbit/s for free. My rent pays for this.

He pays rent to the landlord, the landlord pays the broadband company for service to all the apartments, the broadband company pays the municipality to use the fibre network.

The fibre network might have used tax money initially, or it might have been laid with income from usage fees from other areas. There's no ongoing use of tax money for the network.
I think you're thinking of The Point:
https://web.archive.org/web/20110204114416/http://www.thepoi...

Their concept of the "campaign" became the cornerstone modeling concept for the Groupon platform.
The ACA was pretty much a terrible proposal from the start.

The logic that lead people from "insurance companies are the problem!" to "force everybody to buy insurance!" required a mind blowing level of cognitive dissonance.
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Kept it minimal :)
I don't think he was blaming the older folks. He was just pointing out why their insurance plan was horribly expensive.

There's no argument to be made, it's just a fact: Old(er) people have higher health care costs.

Everyone here should know by now that older systems are more expensive to maintain!
Kanban in marketing. Why not?
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Random, but the name "Zone Messenger" makes me think of zones from Everquest and other oldschool MMORPGs.

/shout DING!
Nice project. I'd suggest adding a like/ignore option to anonymous users.

Also, don't miss this comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12804222
I happen to like my own. Go figure. http://samsarajs.org

It's a UI library for animating 3D web stuff, so it should look pretty. Suggestions to improve are welcome!
> What makes you think we are not?

History. The direction past RedHat-led projects have taken.

> What use case would you like to be taken into account in bus1 that is not?

This is no time for me to make any suggestions. ;-) In the future, perhaps.
Well one of the points they bring up is that this type of scam works on a particular demographic because of their attitudes towards sex in general. So, I think Samir is really a victim and like all such victims he didn't see that people were using something very personal to exploit him.
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> I'm not so sure this should be allowed.

I agree. Competetive reasoning aside this would leave ST Micro as the last wholly European player in that market (and NXP already is the last major one in the EU, ST being based in Switzerland). In theory Infineon could re-enter the mobile processor and memory market, but I think they left that turf for good, 10 years ago.

So I think EU authorities might have a word in this.
Not really sure what I should think about that. One the one hand it sounds like a great idea and could really help solving the case. On the other hand, getting a court order for that much data so easily is worrying.

IMO, it would be better if the police sent the text and tower details to phone companies and they forward it. That way, no numbers have to be disclosed to the police. But I generally like the idea.
Is Watson Health[1] anything like the systems you're talking about?

[1] https://www.ibm.com/watson/health/
Even being pessimistic about solar power, it still has the greatest potential: http://energypost.eu/reality-check-renewable-energy-potentia...
Damn. I wish this was AMD instead. I guess they see IoT as a bigger/easier opportunity than fighting Intel.
You are missing Mediatek. Which is hitting Qualcomm hard in low to mid range SmartPhones.
> how likely are you to spot bugs in it?

Depends on what you methods are.
It depends on your industry, and to be honest, and how well your expectations of victory match the reality of a lengthy and gruesome slog.
It's a fact that older people on a small company plan will absolutely raise your rates.

Same with smokers. My old company didn't hire smokers and I'm sure it had to do with healthcare costs.

I'm not blaming them any more than I'm blaming the actuarial tables the rates are based on.

Also, I'm not making any comment towards them as far as their work. They all are very good at their jobs and I like working with them.
I'm also seeing something else here too, with the "screw you, raise price by *1000" executives, schrekli (sic) being one of many.

What many of these comes down to, is they own a right of patent on something that allows them to set the price at will. Or, if they choose, to not license or sell it at all.

Stated differently, why should someone or government tell me how much I should set my price on a patent I own?

An answer, which I am not aware of being used, is eminent domain. We do as such for public good when it comes to roads, buildings, and similar. I know the Supreme Court had to rule back with Wilbur and Orville Wright because they kept avionics back for a decade whilst Europe was booming... because someone wouldn't sell the rights to do aircraft.

Of course, the underlying problem is public institutions pay for the research, and drug companies get access to this and extract. The drug co's aren't researching; the public institutions do; and we do.
I'm kind of on board with zero drug advertisements. But what rationale for banning drug advertisements doesn't also apply to banning other kinds of advertisements? I mean, I'd be on board with that too but I'm wondering if you see some distinction.
If you qualify for Medicaid based on income, I don't think you can buy from the exchanges (the option is a similar plan off exchange).
Looks like not much of a role at all. After all of my experiences with insurance companies I'm quite okay with that.

A NHS-style system would still need staff in order to function and I expect many rank-and-file insurance people would end up there. The executives can go to hell as far as I'm concerned.
Insurance companies have no choice but to continue to raise premiums. They have to keep investors happy.

It is about investors, not consumers. Always.
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I'm embarrassed to say can't find the legend on the graph [1]. What do the other colors mean?

[1]: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-26/the-goldma...
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A question for those with far more management experience than me at large companies - why cut 9%? Is it really twitter's management view that they are only slightly over staffed? Do they think that their employees are going to believe this is the last cut?

9% seems like a large enough number to destroy moral, but too small to make any material differences to the cost base.
For those who might be distracted by music, I bring earplugs to work. That you also have to take them out to talk means that you're also distracting less people. They should be giving them away at the front desk. Bright orange so people know not to disturb you unless necessary.
Hospitals don't even know how much somethings costs. They just start billing for this that and the other until their bottom line looks decent. This is likely an artifact of our current insurance system where the customer is the insurance company, not the actual patient, and the insurance company can profit at a fixed percentage of costs. So they're fine with spending as much as possible.
Its a personal choice more than many things. The more I do this, I realize why I prefer strong typing for a server stack or to build a platform base.
> We need a single payer system or at the very least a single body that negotiates the price of all drugs and health care services on behalf of all Americans. Frankly I'm surprised that the insurance companies aren't lobbying for such a thing as it could be their only hope for continued existence very soon.

Insurance companies are legally obligated to pay out 80-90% of their receipts for treatment. Since they can't become more profitable on a percentage basis, they have every economic incentive to drive the cost of medicine up. What's better than making $500/year/customer? Making $1000/year/customer because medicine costs twice as much. You don't even need to get more customers!

There's definitely a whole slew of market failures piled up on top of one another in the healthcare system here in the US.

There are people who are afraid of single payer for silly reasons, but there are also people who are scared of rationing. That's a legitimate fear! And it's not one that can really be assuaged because we've seen that while it's very difficult to get laws passed today, that's nothing compared to rolling them back. So everyone could go into single payer with the best of intentions but it only takes a few changes of administration for things to start to go off the rails, and then it'll be nearly impossible to get the mess sorted out.

I mean, look at the ACA! The whole thing was done with the best of intentions but even before it made it to being a law it got all messed up. And now that it is a law, it's maybe not necessarily having the intended effect.

Couple that with the idea that everyone in the US is about to "make it" or that everyone thinks they're middle class or upper middle class and fears about rationing can seem entirely well founded.

Anecdotally I had a prof who was from Vancouver who had a knee problem and needed an MRI to make sure it wasn't cancerous before they operated. 9 month wait list fo r the MRI or a half day excursion to Seattle and about a grand and he had his imaging. It doesn't prove that everyone in Canada experiences rationing the same way, but it does mean that fears aren't completely unfounded.
> by just using Kickstart, JumpStart(TM), or SDC, without any additional code. No Chef. No Puppet. No cfxengine. No Salt. No Ansible. No Docker. No KVM. No XEN. No Kubernetes. No Mesos.

Thank you for saying this!
Building OS packages and OS images and provisioning servers was done automatically 10 to 12 years ago with much less work.

It's still the preferred choice for many large tech companies and nobody talks about it because it just works and it's nothing new. Fast deployments, immutable infrastructure, modularity.
We switched from Windows to Ubuntu for nearly all desktops here earlier this year. The pain wasn't that great even for those that haven't used Linux before as the main development machine. Ubuntu is great (except for installing NVIDIA drivers [1]) and it leads to better and more robust development experiences for the cloud when using lxc rather than VirtualBox for encapsulated environments.

(Of course many of us still dual boot into Windows often for testing and for using special purpose applications.)

[1] https://www.google.ca/search?q=nvidia+ubuntu+black+screen