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Yes, Bitcoin has many competitors but it is the only cryptocurrency to have achieved 'mass' adoption. When you think of the pinnacle digital currency, it's Bitcoin -- that has value to consumers and merchants, more than other currencies regardless of their features.
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Error in the article: auto insurers also have negotiated rates with service providers, including body shops and auto glass repairers.
Yeah, I bet ship-sized trains would be more efficient. I think there may be some practical difficulties in building such things though.
It can be pretty effectively shut down by devaluing it to the point of uselessness.

Governments could make it illegal to conduct trade using bit coins, and they could make it very difficult to convert by going after people doing the conversion. I think that would pretty effectively tank the value.

They could also buy or confiscate a large percentage of all existing bitcoin pretty easily, and then use that to manipulate the market.
There is way too much money in the current system for pricing to become legitimate. All the waste and overcharging is someone's profit. And the Republicans certainly won't do anything about this in the next years. Because "regulation" is bad.
I'd be super curious to hear about your experience using aframe!
It's also not a service people can easily "shop around" for in an emergency, or go without. Heck, the information asymmetry, alone, between the buyer of the service and the person offering it (that is, the information required to evaluate if they're getting the correct treatment at an appropriate cost) ensures the market will not be a fair one.

Anyone who's gone to a mechanic that's performed unnecessary work knows what that's like... and that's just a car.
"Not to mention that once it is perceived as more than just a nuisance by some major government it will be shut down in a heartbeat."

People keep saying that, and they keep being wrong. Think of all the illegal things that happen over bitcoin. There are lots of people who would want to shut it down if they could.
I would wager it is not true for any business.
If we ignore the unnecessary heat of the comment for a moment, there's an interesting developer experience misunderstanding in there. It may even be enough to just change the wording -- instead of "unstable", "proposed"? (Might sound too tentative.)
How long did it take you to actually know what you want? I'm neary 45. On one hand I want to work 3 days a week, on the other I want cash. What do I ask for? WHAT DO I ASK FOR!
I'm going to guess that the person also uses Google docs and or slides which is mostly web-based -- yes you can download it for offline use but that's a hassle.
His point is the codes require a certain stabilities so that they are "constructed to survive a natural disaster". Without the codes, people cut corners, and then later disaster strikes.
It would be interesting to see if Medium pivots into a model similar to Spotify or similar streaming music services that charge a subscription and work out some sort of revenue split with writers/publications. However, they would still need ads to supplement free users. Should be interesting...
The part quoted heavily implied that he was paid to evangelize. Yet he was heavily down-voted for saying something relatively innocuous. I thought it was noteworthy.
I believe 'Hydraulix989 is interpreting the following as such:

[T]he NYT is a traditional institution with strong publishing process and serious concern for "separation of church and state,

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13313026

I think they're saying that they can't be trusted to be honest about their own intent. I'm not sure if that's actually an fallacious appeal to authority, as I think that entails referencing some unqualified third party, but I may very well be mistaken.

Regardless, if 'Hydraulix989 doesn't trust the NYT, I can't imagine anything short of an audit by a trusted third-party would be convincing on this issue. To be fair, I would only be convinced that the Pearl Automation article is a marketing piece if there were some concrete evidence of unethical behavior along these lines.
I constantly feel like my doctors are hamstrung in providing me with the best medical care because of this. It's hard to recommend the best medical option for your patient when you have no idea at what point in time they will be able to afford it. It's fine to say a simple surgery will fix a problem for me but if you don't know how long I'll have to save to afford it it could snowball into a larger/more difficult surgery.
There are undoubtedly improvements that can be made to Bitcoin or adopted by its competitors. But you still have to have people using a currency. Anyway, my point is that this doesn't compromise the scarcity of Bitcoin. Scarcity of a currency does not refer to a lack of competing currencies.
White people are less than 10% of the world's population.
If you want a narrative portrayal of realistic death investigation in the US, read Homicide by David Simon.
That I completely agree with. And to be clear, while I disagree with some of what Tom Dale says sometimes, he's a very talented guy. LinkedIn is lucky to get him and I think it's entirely a good thing to see another prominent open source project get some corporate support.
They are downvoted for spreading misinformation. Steve is not a "hired Rust evangelist". Steve was hired to write docs, and that's what he does. He has always maintained a large online presence in the Rust community, before and after being hired; but this is not what he was hired for.

Disclaimer: I also work for Mozilla (on Servo). Not paid to do advocacy online.
It is the way that the licensed practice of medicine is so heavily regulated that creates the noncompetitive environment in the first place.

Though I wouldn't expect Republicans to ever admit that, at least congressional ones. If the regulation existed under Reagan its the best thing ever (see: if establishment corporations abuse it) and if wasn't its communism (see: donor corporations don't want to be regulated).
Late edit to the above: I was wrong and outdated about defaults. Someone just reminded me that Vim 8 now comes with better default config.
Sure yeah. For me I have a 64gb iPhone 6+ and 3gb/month data but I use about 1 or 2. Wifi at work and home. I don't use social media or a lot of other stuff either and don't really watch movies or tv shows on my phone (or at all). I have a lot of music, but since getting a subscription service I went from like 20gb of music stored on my phone to 4. It all depends on your habits. I also don't really play games other than hearthstone, but I'm rarely bored enough to even do that!

I'm not a typical case here though just mentioning my habits for fun.
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The Sundrop Farms approach pumps seawater through an evaporative structure to control the temperature inside a greenhouse in a desert climate. That way the salt doesn't get on the plants but you only need a little electricity to run the cooling system. In a desert far inland you need extra piping/pumping or a more expensive cooling system, but I still can't see a terrestrial scenario where artificial-illumination greenhouses provides calories at a lower environmental or financial cost than natural sunlight greenhouses or fields.

Artificial illumination farming of course does make sense for crewed deep space missions because there's not any other option. That's actually how I first started thinking about this problem -- "what if you wanted to feed a crewed nuclear powered outpost in orbit around Neptune?" It turns out that it takes a lot of electricity to feed people that way because our food crops suck at turning light-energy into human-edible energy. Having a rough idea of the enormous electricity expenditures, I started doing double-takes when vertical farm enthusiasm started spreading a few years ago.
Look, I am a pro big blocker myself (I think that the network would be perfectly fine with a 4-8x capacity increase). But Peter Todd has a point. (I would hope so. He is literally one of the experts)

Imagine if blocks were x Gigabytes. Thats X GigaBytes that have to be sent to every single miner in the world every 10 minutes!

There is a fundamental N squared problem in blockchains that you can't get around without using some very clever tricks that haven't been implemented yet.
We're entering a new bubble, this one being driven as the Yuan crashes: https://www.google.com/finance?chdnp=1&chdd=1&chds=1&chdv=1&...

Just because it's being repeated doesn't mean it's wrong.
Don't forget India!

http://www.cnbc.com/2016/11/15/india-rupee-restriction-boost...
> Granted, it would require writing a garbage collector in Rust...

Why would that be a problem? There are compilers written in C that implement garbage collectors.

Now, writing a garbage collector for Rust, that's another problem entirely
So you're asking why Christianity as opposed to Judaism or Hinduism. This is a much more nuanced question. I don't really think I can do it justice in a forum comment (nor do I know if I'm fully equipped epistemically), but I like what William Lane Craig has to say. He's a world-famous Christian apologist and has tons of debates on Youtube.
It is resistant to confiscation, but the IRS can still make you a fugitive in most of the developed world.
I am a pretty active observer of rust community as the language abilities and paradigms excite and suit me. Therefore I do see steveklabnik as well as several others frequent these avenues. In all my time reading Reddit/HN/etc. I've never seen steve or the others "advocate"; they're doing exactly what that description states which is explain and clarify. The tech community brings up rust as a discussion topic and they spend their own time (possibly some of Mozilla's) to make sure that the community understands the organization (not just Mozilla), drive, and tech behind rust.
Do you have a rough guess as to how compressed the outbound audio is?
for the first two, they are dealing with tons of data on people's interests, machine learning, spam algorithms, search infrastructure, not just the pageviews.

the only hard technical part of Medium is perhaps their content recommendations, but thats it. dealing with a ton of pageviews is hard, yes but nowhere near the complexity of dealing with what others are doing. you can solve that problem with more machines and money if need be. hard problems (ie google search) can only be solved with PHDs and thinking.
What makes you and thesmallestcat even more incorrect is that this blog post is about Steve Klabnik and Yehuda Katz joining the Rust core team. This is an unpaid position with the (informally organized) Rust project, not a paid position with Mozilla Research. Mozilla employs Steve (though I think it was just a part time contract in 2014), but doesn't employ Yehuda.
Humans are good at recognizing intent. They want to be. When you let them loose on a question, they will try to find an answer with intent, because the expectation is for there to be intent. Sheer complexity is hard to stomach for us.

We must be clear that the only things that make sense are we ourselves, plus the animals we're surrounded by. The animals too are trying hard to make sense of things. Most cannot afford the luxury of developing advanced brains like we did. We can try and calculate the possibility for other "sensible" things in the universe, but that is just idle speculation. We have not the slightest indication of them existing.

For our current physics, the question of what lies beyond the beginning of our universe is nonsensical, as we are limited to light-speed. We cannot leave the universe expanding outwards at light-speed. Our perception is limited to that bubble within.

When we say that our physical discoveries point to a fine-tuned universe, we're just being proud of our fine-tuned physics. We did figure out a few things about the universe after all. And we're trying really hard to understand something that happened far in the past. Then these intent-people come along and claim it theirs.

TLDR: Who created this fine-tuned universe? We did.
It's hard to overstate how bizarrely opaque healthcare pricing is in the US. Despite the quality of the care ranking favorably worldwide, medical bills are an after-the-fact surprise.

In the diplomatic, foreign exchange, and expat communities living in the US, a common advice is "don't get sick". Those who can afford to travel often get care "back home" or elsewhere in Europe or Asia, because the costs can be determined in advance -- not to mention almost always cheaper.

Meanwhile, Americans are subject to surprise pricing, supposedly-helpful "Explanation of Benefits" forms that itemize procedures into miniscule sub-steps costing several hundreds of dollars each, a complete inability to reconcile a bill with the corresponding insurance claim -- to say nothing about trying to correct a paperwork mistake should it occur, or even being able to detect it in the first place.
The "Rust Core Team" is not a Mozilla construct. Many of the folks on it are Mozilla employees, but the core team is not a paying job.

Mozilla hired Steve to work on docs.

Steve was invited to the Rust Core Team because of his online activities, among other things.

Neither wycats nor steve were being paid by Mozilla at the point that post was written IIRC. (I might be getting my timelines mixed up here. wycats has contracted for mozilla in the past for cargo and stuff, but I don't recall exactly when that happened)
> [Kernel] Recognize merge conflict markers in source and provide a readable error message

Great idea, having to track down a merge conflict that may have been committed can be a drag.
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Because if you read the article and their website they are focusing on USA first, with a couple of overseas experiments.
The current situation isn't like a mechanic at all. If a mechanic tells me I need some work done, I can call various mechanics and ask what they would charge to do that, and they'll tell me.

If you try that with a hospital, they'll tell you no. Go ahead and try asking your doctor what something will cost.

If I could ask for a price up front, then people who aren't in an emergency could shop around. That would force hospitals to actually compete, which would normally mean most providers would be within a range of the average market price.

So when an emergency does occur and you were taken to a random hospital, chances are that hospital would have prices close to the market price.
The problem with this thinking is you don't know what services you'll require (apart from routine checkups and specific treatments for already diagnosed problems). It does me no good to have a list of all the thousands of possible things a hospital might do along with a price for each one.
I like this. Perhaps "Proposed, nightly-only" would be even clearer?
Wow this got buried to page two within 15 minutes. Just so HackerNews knows people like me and oyjrrss
others have been mining the positions of article rankings and will be publishing the complete reverse engineered algorithm behind the article rankings on news.ycombinator.com very soon
The only reason you would ever need to churn cards is if you are buying things you can't afford. Pay the cards off and burn them. You dont need them, you sure dont need to waste your time juggling them - playing thier game.
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Most health care is not delivered in an emergency.

And even when it is an emergency, prices for everything could still be made available.

Hospitals do decide how much they are going to charge for everything before you get the particular procedure. It's just not published.
As others have pointed out, it's not true for some industries: auto repair, enterprise software and college tuition. Also, cell phone and Internet service "bundles".

All of these industries have at least one thing in common: they're kind of scammy.
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I love working. I love other things too, but I love working!
The methods of Medicare pricing were established by DeBakey's subordinates when Johnson pushed Medicare through. It's backroom deals all the way down.
Wow this story is already down to position 29 in the rankings so doubt we will get much insight
Violent tribal gang behavior is standard human protocol.
From my personal experience, not really. The Chrome dev channel is really nothing more than a more recent build that is considered stable enough to release into the wild to those that have opted into it. Things might break but in reality they rarely do.

I won't go as far as to say I've never encountered bugs that I've noticed in the dev channel release but anything that serious is usually fixed within a matter of hours and it's happened to me like maybe twice in all the years that I've been using it.
> Its decentralized nature means it's not part of any system

That... isn't true. The bitcoin blockchain is distributed, but the last two years have functionally proven that bitcoin core IS bitcoin, and that implementation (most of whoms developers are employed by Blockstream) is centralized control by a corporate entity.

They can change what they want about bitcoin, and even after they force controversial tech already in tree like RBF or proposals like Segwit there has never been even close - by an order of magnitude - close to enough consensus to transition away from bitcoin core by replacing it as the majority client, and thus the implementation that controls the blockchain - the implementation that controls the protocol.

That is where I lost faith in the bitcoin dream. It started out as a project of idealists but has turned in large part into a for profit venture to create a large exploitable fee machine for black market trading sites.

Its replacement will require the diligence of its idealists to stay in charge and to not give the keys over to those whose objectives just involve profit.
i had the same problem as well and i just surrendered to the fact that i will simply initiate all the conversations myself. pick up the phone and call them even if they dont call you. then reveal the skeletons in your closet and be vulnerable.
on the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13321821
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> Which, again, is hippie logic. I don't know anyone who would be happy with a 25% cut in pay.

I feel very sad for you that you don't.

Although I have many friends into crass commercialisation I also have many that appreciate lifestyle over things.

I know many people who turn down 5 day work weeks and many who want to but are not allowed in their current jobs.

We don't need to work 5 days a week anymore in 1st world countries like Sweden.
The other day I went to the doctor and had a minor procedure done (I had two moles I wanted removed) and asked "How much will this cost if insurance doesn't cover it?"

The answer: "I don't know"

How can you not know what the cost of a routine procedure like that is? If a simple thing like that can't be give a cost what hope do we have?

Edit: If anyone is curious, $580 but my insurance covered it.
Not if they don't know that you own an account.
The standard excuse is there are no Japanese actors with good enough English skills. Why they can't draw from the Nisei population in Hawaii and the west coast is still baffling.
This is an important point. We're usually only tuned in to notice the propaganda of our "enemies", because to us they're evil and any attempt to appear otherwise is outrageous.

Another film example is Act of Valor (2012). An enjoyable demonstration of real military hardware, accompanied by god mode special forces operators, jumping in to any country, saving the world from super villains. This film provides a sense of security to the US and it's allies whilst simultaneously instilling fear in it's enemies.

All respect to the real heroes out there, military and otherwise.
The dream:

> they are looking into it

The reality:

> it's written in a ticket somewhere
My comment about mechanics was specifically with regards to information asymmetry.

That is, 99% of people do not know enough about cars to determine if they are being fleeced.

Now imagine dealing with the human body.

Information symmetry leads to market failures:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_asymmetry
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> garbage collector in Rust..

http://users.cecs.anu.edu.au/~steveb/downloads/pdf/rust-ismm...

> Now, writing a garbage collector for Rust,

http://manishearth.github.io/blog/2015/09/01/designing-a-gc-...

(mostly a toy GC, but some folks are using it)

In the future we may have http://manishearth.github.io/blog/2016/08/18/gc-support-in-r...
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Truth in billing, which is required of telephone carriers would be huge by itself in the medical field. Also, being able to opt out of a $600 gown, etc...
It's not even the same ballpark. At any reputable mechanic you can get a diagnosis done for free or low cost, and there exist books that estimate the time cost and replacement parts needed for pretty much every repair. There are some known unknowns going into it, like finding worn parts that need to be replaced, but I find that auto repair shops are pretty upfront about possible additional costs. I haven't had any similar experiences in healthcare; I don't think I've ever gotten an answer from a medical practitioner or office manager about the cost of a visit, procedure, lab work, or to what extent it would be covered by my insurance. Even for a vertically integrated HMO like Kaiser, simply no-one you can talk to knows.
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I know this is reference pricing rather than legitimate, but it seems likes a start:

https://www.mdsave.com
> Cmd is one of the most frequently run executables on Windows with a similar number of daily launches as File Explorer,
Edge and Internet Explorer!

Wait, they track that?
To reply to both of you at once, I was near the end of my first contract with Mozilla to write docs full-time when I was added to the core team; I then got a second contract, and finally, a "real job."

(I had to look this up in my email to remember myself, frankly.)
Imagine that you get charged for a $600 gown after the fact, but you can get that same exact gown from the manufacturer or any other company for $80 -- You should be able to reimburse the hospital to replace this item at that cost and a max of 20%... this would keep them from raping people on items of no importance.
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>...or, spend your best years slaving away for a (maybe) payoff at 40, 50 or 60, move into a retirement home and wait for death.

This sounds like somebody who doesn't enjoy working.

I love the idea that life is a song and you should dance around all day enjoying every moment, but what about if accomplishing things, making things, doing things, is what brings you that enjoyment.

If you song is to make things, you should find some friends and make things together! It will hardly seem like work at all.
Define "unfinished". You're being deliberately misleading with that word.

Oh I made up my own definition for "unfinished". Just like the rust team has for "stable". Give me time and I'll make a blog post explaining what my redefinition means, then I'll spend my time on hacker news and slashdot and reddit "correcting" everyone.

Your definitions of "stable" and "finished" exclude almost all the languages/compilers out there,

Changing the API of the standard library on minor release versions is stable now. Got it. Fearless concurrency, etc etc.
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So is it just a time issue, or are there compatibility reasons for why not all of you code is Python 3?

I ask because I started to learn to code with Python 2 because that's what was preloaded on my system. Is one over the other a big enough deal at a beginner level that I should switch to 3 now? How much of a learning curve am I in for?