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Opponents will hang that label on it, and then it doesn't matter whether or not the general populace would recognise it.

It's interesting that my comment is somehow controversial, because it's been down to -2, is now back to -1. I wonder whether they are objecting to my calling "universal healthcare funded by taxes on the general populace" socialism, or whether they are objecting to the claim that the USA populace would ever accept a socialist policy.

Indeed, while I've been editing this comment it's gone back down to -2. Interesting to watch, and I really do wonder what it is that's provoking people into downvoting it.

... and now back to -1. Fascinating!
I found the public toilets in Singapur amazing. I'm not sure about cheap labor, but they certainly have draconian penalties for making a mess.
We use docker and create a new copy for each demo request. This way there are no collisions between the demo users.
For many people these days their laptop is their only computer and they value the ability to work without cheap, fast connectivity, while traveling say. You know, the entire use case for portable computers existing at all.
> I'm transitioning who I can onto similar setups and moving away from the laptop-as-the-main-computer setup. They just aren't good enough for it.

Beefy desktops also have much better ergonomics (unless laptops are used on a riser with an external keyboard etc).

This should mean fewer computer-induced injuries and fewer courses of expensive physiotherapy in the future.

I've needed two courses, after foolishly working full-time on laptops. As a result, I've gone back to desktops. The superior performance, lower prices, and the fact that they last much longer are extra benefits...
As a matter of fact, I'm very surprised he had to pay anything at all. 1300 euro for hospital bed and food? This should be completely free.
Sounds like parts of my journey to and from work: one side is a drainage ditch backed by a rough granite cliff rising vertically, the other side a short drop into the fjord (short drop because I live on the east coast of Norway not the west).
I don't think "the cost skyrocketed out of control". The cost is simply reflective of the leverage the health care provider and all the middle men in between hold against the patient.

It's just that in other countries you have the government setting up a monopsony and dictating costs and salaries.

I don't see how charging $30k for a heart bypass is unreasonable for somebody making $50k/year.
Your compile times not being instantaneous is not a hardware problem and will never be solved by throwing hardware at it.

"Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster" -- With's Law.

I just ran some experiments with tcc: it compiled + ran 300KLOC in around 0.158 seconds. My system cc (clang+llvm) took 9.3 seconds, so roughly a factor 60 difference. And clang+llvm is considered fast by today's standards, languages such as Scala or Swift are typically at least an order of magnitude slower than that.

So compile times will improve when we make it a priority.
So, is this the version of Firefox that kills all existing add-ons?
Just curious relevant to this topic- who needs RAM over 16 GB in a thin, mid-range laptop whose processor ends with the letter "U"?

An advice for the multimedia pros- please stop whining about the RAM limitation of MBP 2016 and get a real workstation. a Mac pro (and some iMac) of any generation available in the market shall deliver several multiple of power that any MBP can do.
Jacques doesn't speak for all of Pivotal. Its of course his personal opinion that GCP is way ahead of AWS. And Jacques, personally, is entitled to his opinion. There might even be merits to his statement here but he hasn't backed it up at all with data.

Pls do not pass off his statement here as an official stand by Pivotal. Unless of course that's what Jacques here meant to do (I wouldn't know)...
This is normal on all western Europe states. However France has very high standards in general about health care and is regarded as one of the best systems. I think it's time for US citizens to accept that most of Europe has better life expectancy, lower infant mortality than US, and to be ill is not a financial tragedy. Moreover the treatment that a low-income and high-income citizen receives is very similar, so there is a lot less social discrimination. If this is not enough to show that the US system has issues, note that also in US, healthcare procedures are generally overpriced compared to their costs around the world. There is obviously a problem to fix and Obama was going in the right direction.
My town has in the past year eliminated raised sidewalks/pavements. All that happens now in those areas is that cars drive all over the pedestrian bits and park on them. It's called a "shared space" but car drivers, being rather selfish, just drive and park wherever they wish with scant regard for pedestrians.
Along that vein, The King's English. First edition 110 year ago (and therefore beyond copyright), last in 1931, so it's officially out of date, but well written and opinionated: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_King's_English
True. In Spain it would be 100% free.

Maybe he has some kind of private health insurance. Here it's very common when you have kids or you don't want to wait for your turn for non critical medical assistance.
I was hospitalised in France last year - and coming from the UK, which has a social healthcare system too, I was likewise blown away by the quality of care.

I was staying in a remote house, miles from the nearest village, an hour from the nearest hospital. After about four days of continuous vomiting in 40 degree heat I caved and called a doctor, in the hope of getting a prescription for antiemetics over the phone. It's Sunday. I figure it's a long shot but can't hurt.

Well, I call and she says "sorry, can't give you a prescription over the phone - but the doctor will be with you in ten minutes". I was sat there expecting a call back when the doctor shows up at my house. Checks me over, says I need IV fluids pronto, do you want an ambulance for €20 or do you want to get yourself there.

Wife gives me a ride to the hospital an hour away. The place has recently undergone big budget cuts so they've mothballed a big chunk of it, and it looked a bit sad, but inside everything was new and clean, and I'm seen within a few minutes of arriving. By a consultant surgeon who was called in to arrive a few minutes before me. I'm given fluids, blood tests, a CT and an MRI, and about six hours later an functioning again, and they're saying I can stay or leave, my choice, and here's a folder of information for you to follow up on back home.

All of this cost less than €60, and I honestly felt like I had all of France mustered and rallied to my care.

I had a similar experience earlier this year in the U.K., and the contrast was significant - in the U.K. one feels like an irritation and an inconvenience. "Bloody hell, what's a patient doing here? This is a hospital!". I still got decent treatment, of course, but it was all with a grumbling, discontented overtone - and despite it being a new (15 yr) old hospital, unbelievable amounts of equipment didn't work. There was a diabetic guy on a sugar monitor/drip on my ward that kept crashing - so their solution was to have him wake up and reboot it every 20 minutes so he didn't die. They didn't have another one available.

It's just astonishing to see how two supposedly similar socialised healthcare systems can end up so very different in their output.
I-don't-want-to-pay-for-others != I will not insure my health.

US health system needs competition more than socialism [1].

[1] https://mises.org/blog/lack-epipen-competitors-fdas-fault

EDIT: A really good comment from link above.

Mark S - https://mises.org/blog/lack-epipen-competitors-fdas-fault#co...

The culprit in virtually all health care or drug price gouging outrages is insurance and "free" taxpayer money. Americans want someone else to pay for their health care -- the insurance pool, Medicare, Medicaid, the VA, the hospital (if they are indigent). Drug makers know that someone else (not the patient) is paying for the drug, that payee has no economic incentive to minimize costs, and so drug makers do not care or have an economic incentive to control their costs or limit their prices. Somebody else is paying, so who care what the drug costs. Insurance companies pass costs along in the form of escalating premiums, so they have no incentive to control costs (especially in the Obamacare environment where health insurance providers are exiting the market leaving the remaining firms with a monopoly); giverment health programs have virtually unlimited access to taxpayer money (and, in the end, money printed by the Fed), so they have no incentive to control costs; health care providers also know that the patient is not paying the bill, so they have no incentive to prescribe or investigate more afforadable alternatives.

People never ask "So, what does this drug/treatment cost?" but rather "Do you accept my insurance?"
>Are there any drawbacks with the PPT approach?

Cost efficiency.
That only covers income tax - social security contributions are heavy (but deductible from the income tax).
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I can't share a link because it's on a podcast, but when the retina Macbook came out in 2015 both co-hosts of the show Cortex (https://www.relay.fm/cortex) talked about how after traveling with it for one trip, going back to the MacBook Pro was like putting a brick in your backpack.

NOW. These two independent creators are also hardcore minimalists and invest heavily into optimizing their iPad-based workflow, so their use cases aren't particularly relevant to the developers on HackerNews. However I do think they are VERY representative of a substantial subset of the Apple user base.

And unlike us, they have podcasts with hundreds of thousands of users to project their influence.

Ultimately, I'm not defending the new MBP direction. I think even to this class of creatives it misses the mark. But size does matter to them all the same.
More like confusing React and Redux. Horizontal drilling (React) without fracking (Redux) is pretty common, but it's pretty rare to frack without horizontal drilling.
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And btw there is a very good reason for those tiered systems. Imagine people making 26k and paying 14%. They end up with 22,360. If they get a 5k pay rise they make 31k, pay 30% and end up with 21,700. Would they want that raise? No thanks, but a system preventing some pay raises would be insane.
Made this app to manage my stress
It uses the smartphone camera to read pulse, and calculate stress metrics (called Photoplethysmography). This is definitely a "rough draft", and my first android app, but I would love any and all constructive feedback. Also, because I originally built this as a personal utility, I will likely continue development for a long time coming. So anybody who finds it useful and helps me generalize its utility by providing feedback overtime will be my new best friend :)

Thanks!

P.S.
Part of my goal is to the the peak detection, and eventually motion artifact reduction algorithms very transparent. This is to say I want it to be very obvious how raw data turned into the higher level biomarkers. If you have ideas on how to achieve this, I'm all ears.

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Most of the difference between US and other OECD countries in infant mortality is that the US has a much lower standard for what's considered a viable birth. Basically, lots of what in France are classified as still births would be infant deaths in the US.
The "how do you know what the truth is" question is an old one.

However, given the preponderance of evidence, the mainstream media is very untrustworthy. Instead of just admitting that they're acting as a propaganda agent for their favorite politicians, they hypocritically claim to be providing unbiased reporting of facts. Consider the revolving door of partisans taking up residence in newsrooms. Consider the restrictions that so called reporters agree to in order to interview politicos that would have cost them their jobs back when we had real news organizations. Consider the wikileaks showing mainstream media vetting stories with their favorite politicians before release.

There's still a very few real journalists out there, such as Sharyl Attkisson:

https://sharylattkisson.com/campaign-2016-the-big-miss/

https://sharylattkisson.com/google-chief-eric-schmidts-plan-...

Real reporters report what they see instead of just getting quotes from sources they're comfortable with. Real reporters talk with people outside of their social circles.
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The French health system has its own problems.

There is little evaluation of physicians so picking a hospital is very much a lottery, unless you know insiders who will tell you where to go and not to go.

The system runs a massive financial deficit.

It is run in an administrative way which creates odds behaviors. For instance department allowances based on % of occupation of hospital beds, which lead them to keep people overnight unnecessarily to preserve their budgets.

The system is very liberal in term of allowing you to see specialists. That's great in certain ways. The UK suffers from the opposite, where generalists' job seem to be to prevent people from seeing a specialist. But it is also a paradise for hypochondriac patients who will do dozens of useless exams subsidised by the tax payer.

Like many centralised etatic system (and particularly in France), friends in the right places, political affiliation and freemasonry are more important drivers for a career than medecine.
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He says he used wifi, TV, telephone, and asked for a better room. If he didn't ask for this, I think he wouldn't have pay anything.
The French hospitals offer a lot of paid bonuses. I think it's a good thing, it allows to make the basic needs free.
I still giggle a bit every single time one of these EU healthcare stories pops up.

It highlights a core difference between one of the two most "advanced" places in the western world.

For us Europeans, we don't even think that free healthcare, free education ( university included ) , and free state support when things go wrong is a right.

It is a as essential as a core human function as breathing and blinking. We don't notice it, it's just there.

And most of us are more than happy to pay higher taxes in order for us ( or our fellow citizens ) to enjoy these.

Granted , our taxes could be better managed, institutions could be more efficient, and governments less corrupt. But until someone shows us - with long term data backing up these claims - that there is a better alternative , we will keep giggling .
No one doing over $100k per month is matching utilization perfectly with RIs. Either you are not utilizing some percent of RIs in which case you are overpaying through breakage, or else you are paying on-demand rates for the instances which are not under RI.

The calculus involved with matching RIs to forecSted demand in a dynamic growing workload is NP complete. And any inefficiency delta pays AWS. There's a small part of the curve where your savings is minimal if you don't match perfectly, it it easily goes to negative on the RI change.
Is there any actual evidence that computers were marketed to men and bots? Or rather marketed more to them? The commodore 64, one of the best selling computers in the early 80s was marketed to the girls as much as to the boys.
> Europe has better life expectancy,

Diet has a lot more to to about that than medical care.
Of note is that an immutable/noexec filesystem doesn't prevent code being downloaded to an environment var/typed out and run - tools like https://github.com/SafeBreach-Labs/pwndsh just pipe source to an interpreter (in that case BASH, which generally isn't installed in smaller base images).

Reducing the attack surface is important, but if a running container is compromised it's imperative a post-mortem is performed immediately - and the issue remediated - to prevent re-exploitation.
40% on all of your income? Or is it tiered? Where do you live?
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> free education ( university included )

La Fac is one of the worst places to get an education though.
I would recommend the book - Innovators by Walter Issacson. It contains the history for computing from Charles Babbage to the invention of the Internet by Tim Berners Lee. Though it has some factual errors, it was a very interesting book.
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There's a 45% tier and also super tax that kicks in at £100k due to having your £10k allowance removed (so from 100k to 120k you have to pay ~70%)
Different countries have wildly different tax strategies. Sales tax, property tax, corporate tax are some avenues that may make up the difference here. Belgium in particular IIRC draws a large portion of its tax revenue from income taxes
here in NZ I pay the high 30% marginal rate (that includes social security) and get mostly free health care. Drugs have a low co-pay, we have one organisation bulk buying for the entire country

The difference of course is I'm not paying for a bunch of cowboys who invade other countries at the drop of a hat
There's several taxes. The tax he talks about is what you pay based on your revenues (with several ties, like in the uk). In france we receive what we call a 'salaire brut' which is a salary on which the employer already payed some taxes (which are quite high if i'm not mistaken). On this 'salaire brut' some taxes are automaticaly taken (including some for healthcare), then you obtain what we call 'salaire net', which the money that you get into your account. On this 'salaire net' you still have to pay income taxes (the next year for the previous for the moment, it my change to be taken immediatly on your salary, like in the uk).

I don't know, altogether how much taxes we pay. It varies depending your salary, your job or location (farmers have a different healthcare for exemple). Including everything, If i remember well, an employee cost twice his salary to the employer. A salaire net is something like 2/3 of the salaire brut. Income taxes depends of your income. In comparison with european countries, I think that it's mainly the employer part of taxes that are high.
I similar, but much less medically severe, experience with a gallbladder infection due to stones. This was in Germany. The cost of the sonogram and and ultrasound was c.a. 100 euro. The blood test was a pittance. And, becuase my medical German was/is very poor I had an exensive private consultation with the director of the E.R. who spoke near-natively fluent English.

The total cost: 250 euro out-of-pocket
The cost of one sonogram in the US: $1500 (before insurance)

Healthcare in the US is a byzantine protection racket and very potentially a means to mass surveilance beyond the scope of public health.
Income tax, however, doesn't cover social security. That's covered by the taxes an employer pays, and those are larger than 23% (but also contain other taxes). It's all detailed on pay slips. https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulletin_de_salaire
> Does France really have that low tax rate

No, its much higher than 23% as claimed by the author. At least in the 30 or 40% depends on your level of income. Its also fair to say that there is a large amount of households in France that pay no taxes at all.
Competition in a socialized system exists, it is just at the individual practitioner level, rather than at the administrative level. So, could you explain why administrative (e.g. hospital, insurance, physician network) competition is needed in this field? Historically, it's been more expensive this way, not less.
Broken link. It looks like this is what you wanted:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/pei-cow-f...
Reducing cost is always good. Is not that mantra of free market and capitalism?
Curiously enough, the new MacBook Pro 15 isn't smaller and isn't lighter than, for example, the Dell XPS 15.

That's why Apple's launch compared it with previous MacBooks, not with the rest of the industry.

I think it's going to need a new idea....
The interesting thing is that many people believe it's that way, and it can be hard to convince them that it's not.
Healthcare professionals are expensive since they require significant preparation.

But there is fishy stuff going on too...

1 liter sterile bag of saltwater for intervenous use in American hospitals is charged at over $300, not considering the cost of the procedure, which can total $500.

The pharmaceutical industry also does some sort of disservice to society by inflating prices so much.

Then, some money stays at the insurance companies instead of going to actually improving healthcare itself.
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> The US spends more per capita on health care than other OECD countries, even ones with universal public health care:

Sure, but the French social security system (la secu) is completely bankrupt and survives only because France continues growing its national debt. NO matter how you look at it, all these health systems are not sustainable anywhere on Earth.
It is a strange question... but try ExifTool here:

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From command line:

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From output: "Encoding Process : Progressive DCT, Huffman coding"
One note, Remington has never, or at least not for a very long time, been a particularly high quality gun manufacturer, aside perhaps from their shotguns (and I don't know about their current quality, only that of the 870 in the '70s and '80s), e.g. see the Model 700 rifle safety debacle including how they handled it, so blaming all quality problems on any particular manager brought in from the outside is not accurate.

Besides well publicized stuff stuff like that, this opinion is based on my father and grandfather being lefties, and Remington being the most accommodating company for them for rifles for many decades.
There are different types of colliders, leptonic and hadronic colliders. Hadrons, usually protons, are composite particles so when you smash them together a wide range of output is produced. You can absolutely see unexpected things, and a lot of effort goes into analyzing and collecting data to explore many avenues for new physics. Leptonic colliders (usually electrons) involve point-like particles, so here you scan the energy and indeed it is much easier to find things when you know where to look.
It's not socialism, it's the normal way to do healthcare in a first world democratic society. Most first world countries are not socialist, but have a proper health system like this.
You don't live in urban centers like Paris with 50k revenue.
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I love how this article reminded me how I am apparently out of touch with reality and why I should never assume anything I do would be representative of the general public :)

> How many mobile phones have you owned in your lifetime? Given that we upgrade to a new smartphone on average every 11 months, it’s unlikely any of us could answer this question with any certainty.

Easy: Nokia, Siemens, Nokia, HTC, HTC, Nexus (current) - that's since 2001 with no gap

> The next question is likely to be even harder: what happened to all your old phones?

Also easy, they're all in a drawer, right here. Except the currently used one, of course.
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Haven't they been working with add-on makers to port things over?
Thats an interesting point, but it would be interesting to see it compared by regions. Southern Europe generally eats a lot healthier than Northern Europe.
I think the point is that many malls have toilets completely open to the public (no payment to keep out "undesirables") and manages to keep them nice and clean.
As if homeless people had a choice to become homeless or not.
What were the things?