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Andrea Morello's devices are essentially quantum dots - isolated electrons that behave like they are bound to a single atom. Unfortunately, almost all quantum dots require dilution refrigerators. These things are past liquid nitrogen and even liquid helium - they use interesting phase change properties of a mix of helium-3 and helium-4 to lower the temperature to hundreds of millikelvin.

Really the only game in town currently for room-temperature quantum computing are impurity centers in diamond (most commonly nitrogen-vacancy centers). Unfortunately, there are still many difficulties there, especially since nanofabrication of diamond and precise implantation of the impurities is still a new field.
I set a goal to read 30 books this year and somehow achieved it: https://jonbake.com/blog/30-books-2016/
Just because something uses ARM doesn't mean it'll be easy to target, there's a hell of a lot more to getting something running on an embedded system than just what basic architecture it supports.
That's not a good characterization of the GIL. It doesn't prevent races or make multithreaded mylist.append safe. It makes sure that mylist.append doesn't cause a segfault as the bytes in RAM are in an inconsistent state during an update. Beyond that, it doesn't really protect you from your bad threaded code.
Actually, as pmorici notes, there are three relevant prices. Without insurance, you will be charged the "cash price", which is always far greater (maybe 3-4 times) the price that they have negotiated with your insurance company. For large insurance companies, that price can be close to the lowest price that they will accept.

Even if you have insurance, they may be able to bill you for the difference between the cash and negotiated prices. It depends on relevant law and terms negotiated with your insurance provider. It's prudent to ask. Also, providers will sometimes "accidentally" bill you for that difference, even if they're not permitted to.
"Bitcoin fails to satisfactorily answer von Mises' regression theorem."

Can you explain this for the non-economists here please?
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There is a lot of room between "it's okay" and "it's slavery".

In this case, if "as needed" means "during the occasional launches of our experimental rockets, because launch windows happen at sometimes awkward times", it's quite a bit more understandable than "pretty much every deliverable, because we poorly set arbitrary deadlines."

Your initial point was good - it does not happen at "pretty much every" software company. I am not sure it's a red flag here, depending on the actual intent.
To a certain extent all of them do. "devs who can't code" is hyperbole, but the whole point of a framework is to provide a framework that allows you to fill in the details without building all the plumbing underneath.

This is distinct from a reuse library where you write the plumbing while someone else has written the details of some functionality.

Often you get these super-frameworks that do all the plumbing for you and throw in veritable kitchen sinks of reuse libraries with the intent that you glue it all together to match your business logic. Very frequently this is the stated aim of these super-frameworks -- reason only about your business logic and leave all the details to us.

It is a compelling story, but usually one that doesn't have a happy ending. The devil is in the details. Your business logic usually requires you to hack something that the framework/library authors didn't anticipate. That hack leads to 10 more as you route around the "it isn't supposed to be done this way, but what could we do" mess. Over time it degenerates.

Then you hire old guys like me who are willing to accept money to grind out all the problems without quitting in a huff and running to the new shiny ;-) (only because our legs are tired from running after shinies when we were young).

There are lots of reuse libraries and even minimal frameworks who specifically say, "You're going to have to wire this up yourself. We're not going to make it easy for you. That's because we can't anticipate the problems you will run into and we are trying to give you as much space as possible to figure out how it should be done".

I like frameworks and libraries like that. I don't like the other ones, even though they generally pay my salary.
I think yours was broken. I have had 3 chromebooks and all of them worked well. I have never had to reinstall. These things can break as they were made by humans,but I think yours is defective. What brand was it?
If you can open items from Dropbox and edit them directly, there might be hope for the product. Saving even one click between Dropbox and my current collaborative tool (Google Docs, Slack, etc) can be meaningful.
Because it's well known by anyone interested in this area? There's been a barrage of "Windows 10 Telemetry/Privacy" related stories since its release. It's also publicly documented by Microsoft itself: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-au/itpro/windows/manage/con...

"Performance and reliability data, such as which programs are launched on a device, how long they run, how quickly they respond to input, how many problems are experienced with an app or device, and how quickly information is sent or received over a network connection."
That would be the Trump hotel in Las Vegas. There's a metal film on the windows that interferes with cell signals, or at least it did last time I was there a few years ago.
I have never used exec or eval in production Python, and I doubt I could get them past code review because of the possible security impact.
One example was having a skin lesion removed, a surgical procedure. I asked the dermatologist/surgeon, it was a procedure she did in her facility.

Another time I visited a neurologist, the woman behind the checkin front desk told me what it would cost. I said that sounded high, can I get a discount? She chirped sure, 30% off for cash on the spot.

Doctors routinely offer discounts for cash on the spot, because then they don't have to deal with patients who are slow payers or don't pay at all.

If they don't, find another doctor. They aren't rare. Heck, dentists are always advertising and offering discounts. They're businesses.

You can get at least 3% off just by using a check, because then they don't have to pay 3% tribute to the credit card company.

I don't recommend being an ass about it. Just be nice and ask for a discount.
There is no crapware. They comes with the google play store, the web browser, file browser. That's about it.
That's quite possible. And let's ignore insurance for a moment.

How is the doctor supposed to responsibly recommend treatment if they don't have the faintest idea of what it costs? If you need some kind of drug in the doctor can think of to that would probably work just fine, would it be really useful if the doctor knew that one was $1/pill in the other was $45/pill? If the difference in the price for the patient ends up being significant maybe that should be something to take into account.

However if you set up the system so that the doctors never actually know what it costs…
We defiantly should be paying more for healthcare.
There have already been many samsung chrome books, I was using mine this morning, and it had no crapware.
It's a material risk to investors?
How I went from Civil Engineer to CTO of a 300+ startup?
Bitcoin has to end some day, but what Black Swan will bring about its end? The end should be factored in to investors calculations, but how? It has proven to be quite reliable so far, but the block size issue and I think fee increases are a negative.
It got A LOT more people covered. It made it so you don't have to worry about losing coverage when you switch jobs due to pre-existing conditions.

No, it wasn't real reform. They could've allowed you to shop for plans offered in other states for example. But it was a truly useful step forward for TONS of people.
Can't reply for walter but...

I've had a few experiences over the last decade with healthcare services. Had a consultation, some bloodwork and a other bits and bobs - nothing serious. Got a bill a month later for.. $430. This was done through insurance from my employer at the time, but my portion was still ~$430. I went to their office and said this was a little more than I'd be able to pay quickly (not a total lie - would have hurt at the time). Office manager there said "if you can pay cash we can call it $300 and be done with it". I paid the $300 cash and it was fine. This was a small private dr office in a professional office plaza place. Looking back... they could wait another few months for $430... and maybe have to take me to collections, or take $300 cash on the spot. Whatever averages they saw on collections, this was probably not a bad deal.

Few years later, I have same insurance provider, but self-employed, so 'individual/family' plan. My wife got very sick, and we ended up in ER. X-rays, drips, sent home with medication, etc. Got a bill almost 3 months later for ~$3000. Called hospital and asked for some sort of discount. I got (same line from 3 different people on different tries) "this already is a discounted price, because you have insurance, these are the negotiated/discounted rates". Looking more closely at the paperwork, the 'retail' price was somewhere north of $5000, but the insurance company's 'negotiated' rate was ~$3000 ($2800 IIRC).

It never hurts to ask, and maybe ask a lot, but it's not some magic "you'll always pay half price by just asking for a discount". And the point many others have made before - when you're having to go to ER, you don't have the luxury of shopping around, and generally the majority of folks you're seeing there are in no way cognizant of billing/pricing stuff (especially on a sunday when we went).
By this measure, is there a more complex game than Go, but which is not as widely played?

(Question from someone who does not know anything about board games.)

I ask because a natural question arises: can one engineer a game specifically so that it is extremely difficult for a machine to master compared to a human -- due to some strategic complexity, or some approach that does not lend itself well for current AI models.

edit: looks like there's at least one http://arimaa.com/arimaa/
I'd really like to use clippy, but for production use I don't want to use anything but the stable Rust channel, whereas clippy apparently needs nightly Rust. Maybe I'm being overly cautious (OneSignal seems to do fine with just version pinning), but there's a reason nightly is separate from stable.

It would be cool if I could configure cargo to only use nightly Rust when invoking clippy, and use stable for all dev/test/prod builds. Do you happen to know if that's possible?
Insync is also very good.
Are scientific advances getting harder to achieve?
Right now you shop at the copay level as a function of insurance. PPOs were a great scam to force coinsurance onto the masses.
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TL;DR

According to the complaint from Anthony Pompliano:
When they were trying to hire him Snapchat said they would hire 40 people under Pompliano for his growth team. Based on this promise he left FB to join Snapchat. He then found the numbers they were touting were not accurate and they were not committed to what they told him.

When the complaint gets to what happened starting the day Pompliano was hired and more specifically what happened when working there, it is blacked out for the next 8 pages.

After those pages it says he was fired after 3 weeks and Snapchat told employees, media contacts, and a company looking to hire Pompliano he was fired for being incompetent. This misrepresentation has cost him his reputation, money, etc.
IRS code is the same way we got in to the nonsense of almost everyone getting their insurance through their employer, which led to the situation where there was almost no market for individual policies. That meant they were insanely expensive and the cost effective only way to get healthcare was to be employed by a big company. And that meant switching jobs could be insanely expensive. And that meant you could pay people less because you had a form of lock-in. Don't want to lose that pre-existing condition coverage.

One little text change, design to either give companies more compensation options or promote health insurance (I'm not sure which) had a really huge unintended effect on the way the entire employment system runs.
The market will, and has decided that what you're claiming is wrong. The point that other cryptocurrencies are better implementations is moot, bitcoin is 8 years old and still working very well.

I'm not saying Bitcoin is perfect and complete, it does need to scale, but to claim it has failed is ridiculous. Bitcoin development (or developers) will not implement something that isn't vigorously tested and could jeopardize the network. It isn't as simple as change 1mb to 8mb. If you can provide a technical case for why its so simple or that its safe to do so please post below! I'd be happy to review.
I've noticed that insurance pays at most 50% less, in many cases much less than that. And the medical provider accepts it.
yeah, good point. my list is not exhaustive. it's hard to find an exhaustive list of the billionaires and whom they supported. if you search for "billionaires for trump" and "bilionaires for clinton" and such things, it sure looks like nearly all of the wealthiest billionaires supported Clinton.

if we just add up the Buffett, Gates, Bloomberg and Soros fortunes, the number is awfully large though. it's about $225 billion. and you end up thinking "if Trump had equal support from the wealthiest billionaires, who are they? i can't seem to find them."
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The extra charges were bullshit, they were not the result of complications or other unforeseen circumstances.
This site is good for getting an idea about what coins are actually being used. Bitcoin is extremely dominate.

https://coinmarketcap.com/
Okay. Thank you for the advice.

My biggest program is like 100 lines of code maybe. So I will go ahead an switch now. But it's like 10pm where I'm at so here's hoping I don't play too much...
"You can get at least 3% off just by using a check, because then they don't have to pay 3% tribute to the credit card company."

Tried this by offering cash on some kitchen remodeling work we were doing. I was talking to the sales person and - we were already going to buy - but I asked if they offered cash discount. She got flustered - almost insulted - "these are our best prices!". I tried to explain running $4000 was going to cost them probably close to 4%, and I have more consumer rights re: chargebacks if I'm not happy. $100 off? $150 off? Nope... flat out refusal ("that's not the way we work!"), so we paid with the credit card. But they just lost that money anyway. :/
If they can send you a bill with a figure on it, they can produce a quote.
I don't see anything 'safe' about bitcoin ownership, it's quite volatile and risky, and not backed by any asset. So, not really safe in any classical sense.
Windows really needs a public psuedoconsole API.

For the uninitiated: cmd.exe is the shell, like bash. conhost.exe is the terminal emulator, like xterm. bash or cmd (the shell) talks to the terminal via its standard input, output, and error file handles. Terminal handles are like full-duplex pipes, but richer: they transmit all the information needed for interaction with the user. Each terminal handle has two ends: master* and slave. The slave is the terminal to which cmd or bash talks; it basically emulates a teletype. The master handle allows for reading both in-band and out-of-band information from the slave terminal handle and supports special APIs that allow anyone with access to the master handle to fully emulate a terminal.

POSIX systems allow anyone to create master and slave terminal handles. When you start xterm, xterm calls openpty, gets master and slave handles, starts your shell with the slave handle, and uses the master terminal to get the information needed to draw characters.

There's no equivalent for Windows. The only Windows program that can call the Windows equivalent of openpty is conhost, which ships with the operating system. It's not possible for a different program to make a master-side terminal handle. There are two workarounds, which both suck: 1) use pipes, not console handles, and 2) make a hidden conhost.exe and scrape it. The former causes programs to think they're being run non-interactively, with all sorts of negative side effects (like excessive buffering). The latter loses screen updates, is inefficient, and is generally awful.

Microsoft could easily make this situation much better by opening the protocol that conhost uses to communicate with the kernel. If any program can create a console handle, it's much easier to implement things like ssh daemons, Cygwin, and terminal emulators that suck less than conhost.

...

* As an aside: when bash talks to xterm, it uses in-band signaling (mostly: see termios): it sends control code sequences, which xterm understands as "move cursor to 3,3" and "set color to green". By contrast, when cmd communicates to conhost, it uses out-of-band signaling: it uses special API functions to move the cursor and set the text color.
We definitely have plans to get clippy working on stable Rust; though I will say, with clippy, using nightly is less of a big deal, since it's not something you depend on, it's a tool you use.

> if I could configure cargo to only use nightly Rust when invoking clippy,

This is

rustup run nightly cargo clippy

or

cargo +nightly clippy

if you have rustup installed.
> I can't necessarily say whether they had inefficiencies in their company structure, but they certainly over hired.

Yep, we are seeing this time and time again with startups in the Bay Area who went on a landgrab for talent a few years ago and now realize they can't support them as the VC money dried up. I actually wonder if Medium was trying to raise more and they were unable to, therefore they have to do this and are trying to spin it positively.

I respect Ev a lot. He revolutionized blogging and publishing on the web. And I want Medium to do well. And maybe I'm too cynical about the startup and SV world (I moved away from SF in October), but this smells of the same old same old to me.
Same here. Every time I've completed a script I can't help but think I could have finished it so much faster in C# or just about any other language. I tried liking it. Maybe I'm just not finding the right useful examples.
The IRS got Switzerland to open up previously-confidential banking records.

You think they're not going to find a way to identify Bitcoin users? "It's on the internet, that makes it untraceable" is magical thinking that does not survive contact with sufficiently dedicated real-world agencies.
This is not an example of NIMBY — structures like halfway houses or homeless shelters are better examples of the phenomenon. In this case, the residents are not opposed to the idea of the museum per se (and it's impact on the surrounding neighbourhood) but rather the proposed use of unique and incredibly valuable public land.

EDIT: In fact, to further illustrate this isn't NIMBYism: In San Fran, they offered him a location 600 feet from the original proposed location after he wouldn't alter his non-conforming blueprints. If it was NIMBYism, they wouldn't have offered him land 600 feet away from the original site.
You are of course right, the Grand Canyon is vastly larger. The effect on my brain was still the same. I think maybe what happens is that some object break our ability to relate a thing back to human dimensions.

I don't get the same effect when looking at a skyscraper; maybe that's because each floor is usually visibly marked, so it can be related back to the self.
Agreed. In my experience, being out of a job six months after starting a new one is a net negative. I can spin a longer break between jobs a lot better than that.
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And even if it is, doesn't qualify for "manually modifies the result."
Exactly. Insurance companies don't care, because a lot of commercial clients are self-insured, and they just pass on the cost. If anything, they make more money off of administrative fee by selling higher ticket items.

The only true way to fix this is to set costs centrally.
"Competing cryptocurrencies won't be spendable on the Bitcoin block chain and vice versa, so Bitcoin's scarcity isn't compromised."

Because bitcoin is not backed by any assets, anyone could come along an invent something like bitcoin, claim it has value, and disrupt it.

So it's maybe the wrong wording for the argument, but the underlying premise - the actual underlying weakness of bitcoin as an asset, is the argument.

USD's are backed by TBills, Euros are backed by pretty good quality assets. I understand it's not like you can go and exchange your Euros for landholdings or gold, but there is integrity in that system.

Bitcoin is just an idea, worth whatever a group of random people decide it's worth, which makes it highly volatile and risky.

The USD will not go do 0 tommorow - its's needed for many things. Bitcoin could go to 0 tommorow.
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Bitcoin is basically a way to get money out of China. 97% of the trading is in yuan, as the article points out. All other uses are down in the noise.
I'm genuinely curious where and for what types of procedures you have had so much success in getting pricing/cost info up front for.

As most of the people in this thread have experienced its a maddening process. I've tried several times for routine procedures and its a huge headache that takes lots of time and lots of waiting on hold.
Do these documents ever get unredacted? Because I want to read this document so badly.
However much that is true - gold is still a physical product, impossible to reproduce, has some utility, it's a luxury item, and it has been established as a 'currency' for the last 5000 years. Which is a long time.

So aside from some nice properties, it's like the 'original bitcoin'. We really don't need another.
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If you buy a bitcoin without using cash or cash out your bitcoin then they can trace your bitcoin wallet to you. It's not really anonymous unless you keep all the transactions inside of bitcoin and never leave it. Which isn't really at all practical right now and has a high likelihood of not being practical in the near to medium term either.
Ok, that article linked was brilliant. It points out all the hypocrisy of being too analytical about pricing.

The real question is how can your customers pay for it.
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